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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 11External:
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
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
f461a28d 78* get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase() and related
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79 calls instead.
80
81* get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
82
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83* Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
84 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
85 libmount for something so trivial.
86
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87* drop set_free_free() and switch things over from string_hash_ops to
88 string_hash_ops_free everywhere, so that destruction is implicit rather than
89 explicit. Similar, for other special hashmap/set/ordered_hashmap destructors.
90
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91* generators sometimes apply C escaping and somethines specifier escaping to
92 paths and similar strings they write out. Sometimes both. We should clean
93 this up, and should probably always apply both, i.e. introduce
94 unit_file_escape() or so, which applies both.
95
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96Deprecations and removals:
97
98* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
99 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
100
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101* remove cgrouspv1 support EOY 2023. As per
102 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
103 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
104 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
105
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106* drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
107 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
9eb41aab 108 is only supported for such old kernels.
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110* drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
111 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
112
9eb41aab 113* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
3345802c 114 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
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115 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
116 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
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117 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
118
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119* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
120 baseline is 5.8.
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122* drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
123 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
124
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125* Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
126 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
127 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
128
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129* Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
130 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
131
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132* remove remaining tpm1.2 support from sd-stub
133
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134Features:
135
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136* networkd: controlled by build-time options install some of the
137 *.network.example files we install currently as regular files *.network. For
138 many cases it's what you want: just configure the damn network. Hopefully
139 this can be enabled on Fedora even, though into a separate sub-RPM, so that
140 we don't conflict with NM.
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141
142* add support for activating nvme-oF devices at boot automatically via kernel
143 cmdline, and maybe even support a syntax such as
144 root=nvme:<trtype>:<traddr>:<trsvcid>:<nqn>:<partition> to boot directly from
145 nvme-oF
146
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147* add a new systemd-project@.service that is very similar to user@.service but
148 uses DynamicUser=1 and no PAMName= to invoke an unprivileged somewhat
149 light-weight service manager. Use HOME=/var/lib/systemd/projects/%i as home
150 dir. Similar for $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. Start project@%i.target. Use LogField= to
151 add a field identifying the project.
152
153* logind: add a new dbus call Sleep() which automatically redirects to one of
154 Suspend(), Hibernate(), SuspendThenHibernate() depending on what is
155 available, and also subject to some local configuration in
156 logind.conf. Should default to SuspendThenHibernate() if available, and then
157 fallback to Suspend() and finally Hibernate() if not. Then expose this as
158 "systemctl sleep", and tell DEs to default to this.
159
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160* in sd-boot and sd-stub measure the SMBIOS vendor strings to some PCR (at
161 least some subset of them that look like systemd stuff), because apparently
162 some firmware does not, but systemd honours it. avoid duplicate measurement
163 by sd-boot and sd-stub by adding LoaderFeatures/StubFeatures flag for this,
164 so that sd-stub can avoid it if sd-boot already did it.
165
166* cryptsetup: a mechanism that allows signing a volume key with some key that
167 has to be present in the kernel keyring, or similar, to ensure that confext
168 DDIs can be encrypted against the local SRK but signed with the admin's key
169 and thus can authenticated locally before they are decrypted.
170
171* image policy should be extended to allow dictating *how* a disk is unlocked,
172 i.e. root=encrypted-tpm2+encrypted-fido2 would mean "root fs must be
173 encrypted and unlocked via fido2 or tpm2, but not otherwise"
174
175* systemd-repart: add support for formatting dm-crypt + dm-integrity file
176 systems.
177
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178* homed: use systemd-storagetm to expose home dirs via nvme-tcp. Then,
179 teach homed/pam_systemd_homed with a user name such as
180 lennart%nvme_tcp_192.168.100.77_8787 to log in from any linux host with the
181 same home dir. Similar maybe for nbd, iscsi? this should then first ask for
182 the local root pw, to authenticate that logging in like this is ok, and would
183 then be followed by another password prompt asking for the user's own
184 password. Also, do something similar for CIFS: if you log in via
0e9f2297 185 lennart%cifs-someserver_someshare, then set up the homed dir for it
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186 automatically. The PAM module should update the user name used for login to
187 the short version once it set up the user. Some care should be taken, so that
188 the long version can be still be resolved via NSS afterwards, to deal with
189 PAM clients that do not support PAM sessions where PAM_USER changes half-way.
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191* redefine /var/lib/extensions/ as the dir one can place all three of sysext,
192 confext as well is multi-modal DDIs that qualify as both. Then introduce
193 /var/lib/sysexts/ which can be used to place only DDIs that shall be used as
194 sysext
195
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196* in pid1: move out all cgroup state settings from Unit into a new object
197 CGroupState or so which is allocated when we realize the unit into a cgroup,
198 and then remains referenced by it. The new object should also carry an fd to
199 the realized cgroup, to pin it (and later execute all cgroup operations over,
200 once we drop cgroupv1 compat).
201
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202* add new "systemd-ssh-generator", which allows basic ssh config via
203 credentials (host key). It generates sshd.socket for IP, but also
204 sshd-vsock.socket for listening on AF_VSOCK when running in a VM, and
205 sshd-unix.socket on AF_UNIX when running in a container. It also generates a
206 matching sshd.service file with a host key passed in on the cmdline via
207 credentials. Then, add a ssh_config drop-in that matches some suitable
208 hostname pattern and has a ProxyCommand set that allows connecting to any
209 local VM/container that way without any networking configured.
210
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211* Varlinkification of the following command line tools, to open them up to
212 other programs via IPC:
213 - bootctl
214 - journalctl (allowing journal read access via IPC)
215 - coredumpcl
216 - systemd-bless-boot
217 - systemd-measure
218 - systemd-creds (allowing clients to encrypt credentials locally)
219 - systemd-cryptenroll (to allow UIs to enroll FIDO2 keys and such)
220 - systemd-dissect
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221 - systemd-sysupdate
222 - systemd-analyze
223 - kernel-install
224
225* Varlink: add glue code to allow varlink clients to be authenticated via
226 Polkit by passing client pidfd over.
227
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228* in the service manager, pick up ERRNO= + BUSERROR= + VARLINKERROR= error
229 identifiers, and store them along with the exit status of a server and report
230 via "systemctl status".
231
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232* enumerate virtiofs devices during boot-up in a generator, and synthesize
233 mounts for rootfs, /usr/, /home/, /srv/ and some others from it, depending on
02c9d62b 234 the "tag". (waits for: https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd/-/issues/128)
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236* automatically mount one virtiofs during early boot phase to /run/host/,
237 similar to how we do that for nspawn, based on some clear tag.
238
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239* add some service that makes an atomic snapshot of PCR state and event log up
240 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
241
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242* encode type1 entries in some UKI section to add additional entries to the
243 menu.
244
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245* Add ACL-based access management to .socket units. i.e. add AllowPeerUser= +
246 AllowPeerGroup= that installs additional user/group ACL entries on AF_UNIX
247 sockets.
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249* systemd-tpm2-setup should probably have a factory reset logic, i.e. when some
250 kernel command line option is set we reset the TPM (equivalent of tpm2_clear
251 -c owner?).
252
253* systemd-tpm2-setup should support a mode where we refuse booting if the SRK
254 changed. (Must be opt-in, to not break systems which are supposed to be
255 migratable between PCs)
256
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257* when systemd-sysext learns mutable /usr/ (and systemd-confext mutable /etc/)
258 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
259 snapshot logic
260
261* add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
262 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
263 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
fcdd21ec 264 i.e. without recompiling the kernel, taking an upstream OS' kernel and adding
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265 a local key to it.
266
a1f7cdc6 267* PidRef conversion work:
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268 - cg_pid_get_xyz()
269 - pid_from_same_root_fs()
270 - get_ctty_devnr()
1158b06b 271 - pid1: sd_notify() receiver should use SCM_PIDFD to authenticate client
4775b55d 272 - actually wait for POLLIN on pidref's pidfd in service logic
1158b06b 273 - exec_spawn() + safe_fork()
a1f7cdc6 274 - openpt_allocate_in_namespace()
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275 - sd_bus_creds
276 - unit_attach_pid_to_cgroup_via_bus()
277 - cg_attach() – requires new kernel feature
278 - varlink_get_peer_pid()
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280* ddi must be listed as block device fstype
281
282* measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
283 mode.
284
285* homed: add a basic form of of secrets management to homed, that stores
286 secrets in $HOME somewhere, is protected by the accounts own authentication
287 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
288 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
289 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
290 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
291 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
292
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293* use sd-event ratelimit feature optionally for journal stream clients that log
294 too much
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fcdd21ec 296* systemd-mount should only consider modern file systems when mounting, similar
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297 to systemd-dissect
298
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299* new "systemd-pcrlock" component for dealing with PCR4. Design idea:
300 1. define /{etc,usr,var/lib}/pcrlock.d/<component>/<version>.pcrlock
301 2. these files contain list of hashes that will be measured when component is
302 run, per PCR
303 3. each component involved in the boot that is deterministically measured can
304 place one or more of these files in those dirs (shim, sd-boot,
305 sd-stub/UKI, cryptsetup, pcrphase, pcrfs, …)
306 4. since each component has its own dir, with multiple files in them, package
307 such as kernels (of which there can be multiple installed at the same
308 time) can be grouped together: only one of them is measured at a time.
309 5. whenever a new component is added or an old one removed, or the PCR lock
310 shall be relaxed or tightened the systemd-pcrlock tool is invoked.
311 6. tool iterates through all these files, orders them alphabetically by
312 component, then matches them up with current measurements (as per uefi
313 event log), identifying by hash, accepting that the "beginning" of the
314 measurements might not be recognizable.
315 7. Then calculates expected PCR values starting with the "unrecognized
316 head" from the event log, then continuing with all of components
317 defined via the .pcrlock files (but dropping out the "recognized tail"
318 from the uefi event log). (This might mean combinatorial explosion, if
319 there are multiple shims, multiple sd-boot, and so on.)
320 8. Generates a public/private key pair on the TPM
321 9. Generates a counter object in the TPM, with a policy that allows only
322 one-by-one increase with signature policy by the public/private key pair.
323 10. now signs policies of all expected PCR values with the generated keypair,
324 using all combinations of components defined in the .pcrlock files
325 restricting it to the counter + 1.
326 11. locks down the keypair with a signed policy with its own public key
327 12. generates JSON file of all these policies with their signatures, drops
328 them as singleton in ESP
329 13. increases the counter by one.
330 14. after boot sd-stub picks JSON up from ESP, passes it to userspace via
331 .extra
332 15. JSON contained policies can now be used to unlock disk as well as the
333 public/key itself for signing further policies, as well as increment for
334 the counter
335 16. whenever any of the components above is added/removed new JSON file with
336 signatures for counter + 1 is generated, dropped in ESP, then counter
337 increased. (i.e. this means the "recognized tail" of the event log is
338 deterministically swapped out)
339 17. when firmware update is expected, relaxed signed policy is generated for
340 next boot only valid if counter is increased (this means the
341 "unrecognized head" for the event log can change without losing access)
342 18. on every boot checks if releaxed policy is in effect, if so, new strict
343 policy is generated and counter increased.
344 Net result: Removes downgrade attack surface + Locks OS to firmware + Allows
345 downgrades within bounds
346
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347* add another PE section ".fname" or so that encodes the intended filename for
348 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
349 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
350 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
351 control of the attacker.
352
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353* also include packaging metadata (á la
354 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
355 same JSON format.
356
357* make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
358 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
359 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
360 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
361 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
362 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
363 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
364 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
365 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
366 newer.
367
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368* in sd-stub: optionally add support for a new PE section .keyring or so that
369 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
370 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
371 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
372 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
373 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
374 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
375 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
376
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377* resolved: take possession of some IPv6 ULA address (let's say
378 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
379 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
380
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381* introduce a .microcode PE section for sd-stub which we'll pass as first initrd
382 to the kernel which will then upload it to the CPU. This should be distinct
383 from .initrd to guarantee right ordering. also, and maybe more importantly
384 support .microcode in PE add-ons, so that a microcode update can be shipped
9a27ef09 385 independently of any kernel.
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387* Maybe add SwitchRootEx() as new bus call that takes env vars to set for new
388 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
389 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
390 requested during switch root.
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392* introduce a .acpitable section for early ACPI table override
393
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394* add proper .osrel matching for PE addons. i.e. refuse applying an addon
395 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
396 matched against OS.
397
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398* figure out what to do about credentials sealed to PCRs in kexec + soft-reboot
399 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
400 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
401
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402* logind: when logging in, always take an fd to the home dir, to keep the dir
403 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
404 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
405 namespaces)
406
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407* mount most file systems with a restrictive uidmap. e.g. mount /usr/ with a
408 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
409
410* mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
411 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
412 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
413
f447b741 414* fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
94d82b59 415 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
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416 "*:foobar:*", to wildcard match both the start and the end of the string.
417 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
418 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
419 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
420
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421* mount /tmp/ and /var/tmp with a uidmap applied that blocks out "nobody" user
422 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
94d82b59 423 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
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424 used transiently, never persistently.
425
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426* rework loopback support in fstab: when "loop" option is used, then
427 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
428 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
429 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
430 based on lo_file_name.
431
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432* remove tomoyo support, it's obsolete and unmaintained apparently
433
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434* In .socket units, add ConnectStream=, ConnectDatagram=,
435 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
436 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
437 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
438 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
439 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
440 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
441 activation-by-message id and similar.
442
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443* .service with invalid Sockets= starts successfully.
444
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445* landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
446 ability to write anywehere else below /run/. Similar for
447 StateDirectory=. Benefit would be clear delegation via unit files: services
448 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
449
450* landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
451 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
452 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
453 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
454 similar behaviour for system services, too.
455
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456* Add systemd-mount@.service which is instantiated for a block device and
457 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
458 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
459
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460* udevd: extend memory pressure logic: also kill any idle worker processes
461
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462* udevadm: to make symlink querying with udevadm nicer:
463 - do not enable the pager for queries like 'udevadm info -q -r symlink'
464 - add mode with newlines instead of spaces (for grep)?
465
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466* SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
467 localed, oomd, timedated.
468
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469* in order to make binding to PCR 4 realistic:
470 - generate one keypair "U" and store it in a tpm2 nvindex.
471 - Generate another keypair "P" and store it in a second tpm2 nvindex.
472 - allocate a persistent counter object "C" in the tpm2
473 - Enroll all user objects (i.e. luks volumes, creds, …) to a tpm2 policy
474 signed by U.
475 - Lock both U and P down with a tpm2 policy signed by P (yes, P can only be
476 used if a signature by P itself can be provided)
477 - For regular reboots generate a signature for a restrictive PCR4 + counter C
478 based policy with key P. Place signature in EFI var, so it can be found on
479 next boot
480 - For reboots where a firmware update is expected generate a signature with a
481 more open policy against just counter C. Place signature in same EFI var.
482 - Increase C whenever switching between these two signature types.
483 - During early boot, use the signature from the EFI var to unlock U and P.
484 Use it to generate a signature for unlocking user objects given the current
485 PCR 4 value, store that away into /run somewhere, for user during the whole
486 later boot.
487 - When booting up automatically update the mentioned efi var so that it
488 contains the restrictive signature. But also generate a signature ahead of
489 time that could be used in case during the current boot we later detect we might
490 need to reboot for a firmware update. Store that in /run somewhere, so that
491 it can be placed in the EFI var, if needed.
492
493* repart/gpt-auto/DDIs: maybe introduce a concept of "extension" partitions,
494 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
495 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
496 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
497 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
498 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
627cdcc7 499 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
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501 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
502 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
503 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
504 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
505 access.
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508 that off via vfork(), and then let that executor do the hard work. Ultimately
509 the executor then gets replaced by the real binary sooner or later. Reason:
510 currently the intermediary "stub" process is a CoW trap that doubles memory
511 usage of PID 1 on each service start. Also, strictly speaking we are not
d09df6b9 512 allowed to do NSS from the stub process yet we do anyway. Next steps would
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514 need glibc anymore in the stub process then. Then, switch nspawn to just be a
515 frontend for this too, so that we have to ways into the executor: via unit
516 files/dbus/varlin through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI through nspawn.
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519 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
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522 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
523 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
524 for all umh processes.
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527 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
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530 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
531 resize.
532
533* homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
534 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
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537 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
538 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
539 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
540 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
541 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
542 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
543 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
544 system actually reset.
545
546* systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
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548 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
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551 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
552 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
553 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
554
4cb8a25b 555* sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
1c904337 556 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
fcdd21ec 557 is then useful for network boot, by embedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
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561 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
562 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
563 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
564 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
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567 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
568 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
569 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
570 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
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575 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
7227dd81 576 Use case: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
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578
084ecae5 579* maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
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582* systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
583 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
584 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
585
6d040d84 586* sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
4cb8a25b 587 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
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589* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
590 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
591 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
592 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
593 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
594 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
595 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
596 usual.
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599
600* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
601
602* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
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605 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
606 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
607 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
608 sockaddr.
609
610* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
611 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
612 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
613 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
614 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
615 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
616 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
617 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
618 try to use inode from there.
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621 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
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624 extensions
625
626* gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
627 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
628 for the root fs or /usr/.
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631 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
632 combination thereof.
633
634* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
635 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
636 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
637 ahead of time.
638
639* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
640 aforementioned purpose.
641
642* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
643 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
644
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646 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
647 to figure out:
648 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
649 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
650 subsequent boots?
651
dbc62e59 652* provide an API (probably IPC) to apps to encrypt/decrypt
7227dd81 653 credentials. use case: allow bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd
dbc62e59 654 that way, without shelling out to our tools.
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657 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
658 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
659 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
660 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
661 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
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663 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
664 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
665 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
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668 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
669 used)
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672 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
673 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
674 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
675 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
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678 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
679 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
680 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 681 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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683
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685 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
686 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
687
688* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
689 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
690
691* implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
692 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
693 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
694 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
695 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
696 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
697
698* add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
699 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
700 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
701
702* systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
703
704* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
705 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
7227dd81 706 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Use case: remove secondary OS
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708
709* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
710 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
711 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
712 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
713 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
714 only one for each OS.
715
716* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
717 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 718 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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720 boot, for the next.
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723 similar behind it, instead of http.
724
725* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
726 boot, or on first boot.
727
728* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
729 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
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732 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
733 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
734 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
735 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
736 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
737 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
738 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
739 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
740 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
741 until users are allowed to log in).
742
743* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
744 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
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747 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
748 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
7227dd81 749 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Use case: systemd-confext
b60e0f57 750 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
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752 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
753 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
b60e0f57 754 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
755 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
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757
758* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
759 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
760 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
761 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
7227dd81 762 enhanced remote attestation quote. Use case: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 763 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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765 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
b60e0f57 766 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
767 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
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769 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
770 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
b60e0f57 771 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
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773 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
774 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
775 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
b60e0f57 776 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
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778 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
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781 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
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784 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
785
786* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
787 instead of manual blocking.
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790 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
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793 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
794 supplied password.
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797 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
798 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
799 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
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802 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
803 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
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806* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
807 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
808 automatically derived from --private-key=).
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811 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
812 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
813
814* Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
815 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
816 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
7227dd81 817 use as additional search condition. Use case: images that combined a sysext
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819
820* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
821 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
822 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
823 modules
824
b60e0f57 825* for systemd-confext: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
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827 a new name with a built-in config?
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830 maybe on kernel command line:
831 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
832 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
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835 hash type, etc)
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839
f461a28d 840* chase(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
4e0ceefe 841 but final node is not a directory
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844 non-VFAT fs is used.
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849 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
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856 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
857 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
858 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
859 affect PCR values.
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862 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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865 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
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868 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
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871 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
872
873* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
874 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
875
9f3a3ac7 876* add small wrapper around qemu that implements sd_notify/AF_VSOCK + machined and
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878 equivalent to nspawn's. Maybe be called "systemd-vmspawn". Should imply good
879 settings, i.e. RNG + HyperV enlightenments. Should also result in swtpm
880 instance, plus virtiofsd instances. Translate credentials into smbios type
881 11 strings. Correctly translate SIGTERM into ACPI shutdown events.
882 Listen to logind suspend events and turn these into suspend key pressed +
883 ACPI resume events.
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887 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
888 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
889 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
890 use it.
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893 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
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896 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
897 what it was signed.
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900 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
901 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
902 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
903 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
904 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
905 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
906 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
907 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
908 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
909 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
910 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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913 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
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916 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
917 via the credentials logic.
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919 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
920 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
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922 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
923 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
924 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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926 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
927 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
928 file system paths to enable on start.
929 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
930 usr=
931 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
932 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
7227dd81 933 register if not registered yet. Use case: deploy a system, and add an
d1666bde 934 account one can directly log into.
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936 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
937 pre-built kernels.
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940 runtime state. Then, expose it:
941
942 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
943 about the unit.
944 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
945 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
946 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
947 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
948 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
949 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
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952 what to do if support ended
953
954* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
3ff1721c 955 login time, à la motd
81a96518 956
e1b45a75 957* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 958 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
7227dd81 959 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Use case: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 960 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 961 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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964 initrd transition. Specifically:
965 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
966 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
967 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
968
d486b26f 969* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 970 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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972 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
973 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
974 depending on desired level of persistency.
975
976* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
977 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
1c904337 978 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
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980 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
981 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
982 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
983 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
984
985* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
986 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
987 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
988 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
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991
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995 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
996 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
7227dd81 997 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Use case: container
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999 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
1000 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
1001 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
3881fd40 1002 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
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1004 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
1005 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
1006 not unprivileged code.
1007
1008* given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
02c914ef 1009 that hooks up userdbctl ssh-key stuff.
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1012 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
1013 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
1014 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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1017 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
1018 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
1019 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
30fd9a2d 1020 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
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1022 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
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1024 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
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1026* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
1027 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
1028 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
1029 order.
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1032 policies: policy probably must take some nvram based generation counter into
1033 account that can only monotonically increase and can be used to invalidate
1034 old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to old signed PCR sets
1035 whenever they want.
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1037* update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
1038 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
1039 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
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1042 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
1043 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
1044 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 1045 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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1047 IN_IGNORED again)
1048
5b06ad51 1049* for vendor-built signed initrds:
a4b329e6 1050 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
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1052 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
1053 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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1055 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
5b06ad51 1056 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
62471289 1057 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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1059 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
1060 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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1063 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
1064 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
2df2bb1f 1065
03ede612 1066* sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
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1068 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 1069 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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1071 directly to host service manager.
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1074 no api to query the device id
1075
1076* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1077 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1078 also be queried.
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1081 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1082 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1083 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
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1086 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1087 latter).
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1089* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1090
1091* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
1092
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1094 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
1095 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
1096 generated by GNU sha256sums.
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1099 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
02c914ef 1100 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
47a9f917 1101 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
7227dd81 1102 to the menu. Use case: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
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1104
1105* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
1106 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
1107 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
5bc9ea07 1108 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
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1110 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
1111 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
1112 hence cheap for enumeration.
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1117 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1118 words: show partition labels).
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1121 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
5bc9ea07 1122 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
7227dd81 1123 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. Use case:
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1125 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
1126 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
1127
e4f92a62 1128* deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
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1130* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
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1133 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1134 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1135 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1136 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1137 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1138 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1139 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1140 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1141 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
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1144 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
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1147 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
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1150 jobs, units
1151
a57d72ce 1152* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
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1154 userspace)
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1159 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1160
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1163
1164* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1165 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
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1168 internal clock.
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1170* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1171 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1172
1173* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1174 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1175 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1176 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
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1179 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1180 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1181
1182* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
1183 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
1184 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
1185 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
1186 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
1187 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
1188 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
1189 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
1190 thread:
1191 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
1192 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
1193 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
1194 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
1195 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
1196 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
1197
1198* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
1199 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
1200 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
1201
1202* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
1203 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
1204 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
1205 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
1206 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
1207 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
1208 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
1209 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
1210 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
1211 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
1212 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1213 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1214 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1215 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1216 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
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1219 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
7227dd81 1220 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Use case: drop a root user JSON record there,
bb5464ad 1221 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
7227dd81 1222 for debugging purposes. Other use case: boot into qemu with regular user
11b957b5 1223 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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1225* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
30fd9a2d 1226 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
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1228
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1230 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1231 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1232 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1233 on-disk storage.
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1236 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1237 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1238 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1239 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
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1242 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1243 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
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1246 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
1247 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
1248 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
1249 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
1250 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
1251 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
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1254 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1255 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1256 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1257
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1260 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1261 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1262 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1263 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1264 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1265 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1266 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1267 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1268 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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1271 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1272 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1275
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1279 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1280 that images cannot be misused.
1281
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1285 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1286 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
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1289 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1290 - support casync as download mechanism
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1292 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1293 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1294 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1295 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
1296 override the host's update files.)
1297 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1298 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1299 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1300 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
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1305 make dirs appear under right UID.
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1308 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1309
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1312 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1313 already have it.
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1316 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1317
1c904337 1318* Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
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1320* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1321 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1322 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1323 /proc/self/fd/3
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1326 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1327 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1328
1329* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
7227dd81 1330 that is deleted in the fs. Use case would be with ConnectSocket= above.
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1333 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
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1336 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1337 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1338 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1339 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
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1342
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199b097d 1344 - acquire from EFI variable?
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1347 - pass creds via keyring?
1348 - pass creds via memfd?
1349 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1350 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1351 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1352 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1353 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1354 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
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1355 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
1356 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
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1358* add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
1359 firmware indicates there is one.
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1361* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1362 and such
1363
1364* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
80670e74 1365
02c914ef 1366* cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
80670e74 1367
7d7c75f1 1368* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1369 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1370
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1371* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1372 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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1374* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1375
1376* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1377 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1378
1379* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1380 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1381
1382* cryptsetup:
1383 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1384 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1385
08d33656 1386* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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1388* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1389 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1390
f461a28d 1391* special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
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1392 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1393
f461a28d 1394* add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
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1395 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1396
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1397* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1398
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1399* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1400
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1401* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1402
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1403* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1404 when it exits
1405
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1406* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1407 o turn into dlopen() deps:
cdfd8537 1408 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 1409 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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1410 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1411 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1412 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1413 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
1414 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
1415
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1416* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1417 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1418 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1419
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1420* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1421 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1422
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1423* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1424
1425* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1426 specific service
1427
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1428* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1429 exists and responds.
1430
91fc013f 1431* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1432 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1433
7e8facb3 1434* unify on openssl:
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1435 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1436 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1437 gnutls
1438 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
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1440* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1441 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1442
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1443* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1444 realname substr searches in varlink API
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1446* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1447
2a4be3c5 1448* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1449
f1eb0ccd 1450* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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1452* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1453 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1454 initrd had set.
1455
173c7873 1456* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1457 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1458 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1459 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1460 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1461 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1462
1463* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1464 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1465 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1466
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1467* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1468 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1469 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1470 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1471 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1472 source.
1473
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1474* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1475 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1476 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1477
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1478* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1479
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1480* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1481 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1482 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1483 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1484 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1485 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1486 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1487 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1488 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1489 hibernation mode. (see
1490 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1491 section 10.2.2.8 and
1492 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1493 at the end).
1494
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1495* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1496 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1497
c6526b8d 1498* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
312dc153 1499
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1500* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1501 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1502 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1503 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1504 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1505 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1506 exec().
1507
1508* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1509
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1510* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1511 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1512
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1513* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1514 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1515
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1516* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1517 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1518 root.
1519
1520* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1521 is issued.
1522
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1523* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1524
1525* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1526
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1527* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1528 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1529 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1530
d238709c 1531* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1532 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1533 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1534
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1535* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1536
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1537* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1538 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1539
06898123 1540* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1541 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1542 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1543 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
06898123 1544
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1545* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1546
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1547* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1548
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1549* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1550 non-zero "tries done" count
1551
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1552* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1553 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1554 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1555 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1556 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1557 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1558 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1559 CODE_FILE.
1560
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1561* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1562 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1563 some explanatory text online.
1564
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1565* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1566
d1797c42 1567* hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
c633b0a6 1568
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1569* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1570 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1571
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1572* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1573 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1574 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1575 files and suchlike we operate on.
070d0ac9 1576
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1577* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1578
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1579* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1580
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1581* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1582 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1583
5da19043 1584* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1585 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
5da19043 1586
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1587* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1588 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1589 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1590 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1591 unlinked from any dir.
1592
bd1b3f75 1593* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
5da19043 1594
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1595* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1596
1597* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1598
53c70a27 1599* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1600 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1601 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1602 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1603 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1604
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1605* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1606
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1607* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1608 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1609
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1610* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1611 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1612 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1613 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1614 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
7227dd81 1615 different slice too by default. Use case: people who want to put resources on
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1616 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1617 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1618
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1619* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1620 for root, but only then.
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1622* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1623 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1624
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1625* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1626 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1627
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1628* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1629 only when used. Add unit tests.
1630
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1631* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1632 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1633
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1634* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1635 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1636 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1637 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1638 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1639
899feb72 1640* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
c6009ff0 1641
5f7ecd61 1642* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
5962e9db 1643
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1644* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1645 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1646
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1647* blog about fd store and restartable services
1648
1649* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1650
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1651* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1652 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1653
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1654* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1655 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1656 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1657 ID is available.
1658
1659* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1660 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1661 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1662
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1663* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1664 parameters
1665
63a185dc 1666* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1667 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1668 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1669 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1670 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1671 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1672 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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1674* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1675 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1676
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1677* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1678 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1679 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1680
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1681* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1682 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1683
1684 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1685
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1686* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1687 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1688 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1689
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1690* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1691 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1692
1693* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1694 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1695 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1696 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1697 natural habitat.
1698
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1699* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1700 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
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1702* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1703 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1704 relative to the configured default value.
1705
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1706* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1707
04397464 1708* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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1710* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1711
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1712* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1713
04397464 1714* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1715
04397464 1716* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1717
04397464 1718* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1719
8ce9b83a 1720* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1722* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1723 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1724 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1725
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1726* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1727 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1728
e40a326c 1729* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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1731* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1732 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1733 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1734 mapping to work.
1735
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1736* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1737
1738* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1739
1740* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1741
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1742* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1743 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1744
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1745* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1746 reload the unit file anyway
1747
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1748* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1749
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1750* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1751
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1752* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1753 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1754
f9bf1b8f 1755* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1756 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1757 specifications.
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1759* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1760
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1761* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1762
a2088fd0 1763* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1764 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1765 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1766 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
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1768* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1769
931bc195 1770* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
b18d23d7 1771
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1772* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1773 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1774 state.
41d6f3bf 1775 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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1777* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1778 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1779 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1780 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1781 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1782
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1783* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1784
d2f81fb0 1785* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1786 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1787
0a86c1a9 1788* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1789 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1790
e031c227 1791* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1792 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1793
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1794* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1795
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1796* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1797 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1798
25e773ee 1799* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1800
720652b3 1801* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1802
720652b3 1803* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1804
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1805* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1806 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1807
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1808* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1809
9d6db739 1810* resolved:
9d6db739 1811 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1812 - service registration
1813 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1814 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1815 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1816 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1817 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1818 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1819 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1820 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1821
e25b5a8d 1822* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1823
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1824* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1825
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1826* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1827
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1828* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1829
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1830* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1831
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1832* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1833 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1834
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1835* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1836
6a3f892a 1837* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1838 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1839 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1840
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1841* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1842 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1843 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1844
f9bf1b8f 1845* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1846
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1847* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1848 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1849 for ReusePort=
1850
f38afcd0 1851* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1852 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1853 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1854 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1855 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1856 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1857 the hierarchies of child processes
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1858 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1859 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1860
f38afcd0 1861* transient units:
f38afcd0 1862 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1863
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1864* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1865
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1866* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1867
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1868* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1869
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1870* 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
1871
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1872* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1873 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1874 path anyway.
1875
04397464 1876* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1877
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1878* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1879
1880* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1881
07eabc2b 1882* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1883
07eabc2b 1884* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1885
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1886* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1887
1888* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1889 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1890 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1891
1892* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1893 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1894
1895* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1896
1897* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1898
1899* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1900
1901* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1902 needs to be auto-respawned?
1903
1904* pid1:
1905 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1906 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1907 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1908 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1909 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
7227dd81 1910 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Use case:
41d6f3bf 1911 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
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1912 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1913 - move PAM code into its own binary
1914 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1915 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1916 - Support --test based on current system state
1917 - 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().
1918 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1919 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1920 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1921 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1922 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1923 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1924 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1925 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1926 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1927 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1928 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1929 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1930
1931* unit files:
1932 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1933 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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1934 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1935 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1936 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1937 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1938 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1939 - introduce Type=pid-file
1940 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1941 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1942 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1943
1944* timer units:
63a185dc 1945 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1946 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1947
1948* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1949
1950* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1951
1952* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1953
1954* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1955
07eabc2b 1956* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1957
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1958* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1959
1960* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1961
fff87a35 1962* test/:
20d52ab6 1963 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1964
b5c03638 1965* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1966 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1967 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1968 destination.
1969
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1970* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1971 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1972
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1973* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1974
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1975* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1976 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1977 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1978
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1979* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1980 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1981
7227dd81 1982* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? use case:
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1983 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1984 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1985 that automatically.
1986
e5ec62c5 1987* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1988
ccddd104 1989* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1990
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1991* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1992
356ce991 1993* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1994
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1995* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1996
1997* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1998
1999* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
2000
2001* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
2002
2003* sd-bus:
2004 - EBADSLT handling
2005 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
2006 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
2007 - 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
2008 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
2009 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
2010 - longer term: priority inheritance
2011 - dbus spec updates:
2012 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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2013 - path escaping
2014 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
2015
2016* sd-event
2017 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
2018 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
2019 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
2020 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
2021 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
2022 here:
2023 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
2024
2025* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
2026 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
2027
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2028* document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
2029
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2030* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
2031
2032* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
2033
2034* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
2035
b44be3ec 2036* EFI:
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2037 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
2038 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 2039 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 2040* bootctl
631427d6 2041 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 2042
07eabc2b 2043* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 2044
07eabc2b 2045* bootctl:
483091b0 2046 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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2047 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
2048 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
f620a368 2049
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2050* logind:
2051 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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2052 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
2053 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
2054 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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2055 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
2056 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
2057 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
2058 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
2059 needs setuid().
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2060 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
2061 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
2062 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
2063 complete.
2064 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2065 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2066 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 2067 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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2068 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2069 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2070 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2071 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2072 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2073 relogins
77b19caf 2074 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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2075 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
2076 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
2077 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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2078
2079* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2080
2081* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2082 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2083 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2084
2085* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2086 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2087
b44be3ec 2088* journal:
57f2a947 2089 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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2090 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2091 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2092 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 2093 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 2094 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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2095 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2096 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2097 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 2098 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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2099 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2100 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 2101 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
02c914ef 2102 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
b44be3ec 2103 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 2104 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 2105 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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2106 - 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.
2107 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2108 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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2109 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2110 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2111 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2112 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 2113 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 2114 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 2115 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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2116 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2117 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2118 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2119 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2120 to syslog when it works again.
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2121 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2122 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2123 journals in.
2124 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2125 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2126 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2127 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2128 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 2129 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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2130 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2131 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2132 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2133 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2134 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2135 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2136 operation.
2137 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
2138 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
2139 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2140 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 2141 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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2142 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2143 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2144 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2145 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 2146 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
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2148* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2149 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2150
2151* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2152 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2153 validated via TPM.
2154
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2156 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2157 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2158
2159* journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2160 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2161 cursors as they happen.
2162
2163* journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2164 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2165 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2166 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2167 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2168 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2169 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2170 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2171 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2172
2173* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2174 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2175 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2176 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
cbcf76b1 2177 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
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2179
2180* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2181 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2182 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2183 records, to be able to order them.
2184
2185* journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2186 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2187 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2188 be safely written to disk, then.
2189
2190* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2191 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2192 inspiration from IMA log)
2193
2194* sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2195 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2196 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2197
2198* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
2199 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
2200 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
2201 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2202 for doing that.
2203
2204* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2205 log.c and sd-journal-send
2206
2207* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2208 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2209 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2210 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2211 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2212 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2213 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2214 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2215 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2216 an NTP sync is acquired.
2217
2218* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
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2219
2220* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2221 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2222 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2223
2224* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2225 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2226 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2227 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2228 cgroup.
2229
2230* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2231 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2232 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2233 logging.
2234
2235* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2236
2237* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2238 from the SIGBUS handler
2239
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2240* add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
2241 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2242 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2243 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2244
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2245* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2246 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2247
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2248* homed:
2249 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2250 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2251 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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LB
2252 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2253 - create on activate?
2254 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2255 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2256 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2257 systemd --user is shut down.
2258 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2259 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2260 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2261 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2262 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2263 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2264 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2265 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2266 - query password from kernel keyring first
2267 - update even if record is "absent"
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2268 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2269 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2270 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2271 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2272 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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LB
2273 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2274 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2275 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 2276 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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LP
2277 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2278 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2279 signature
2280 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2281 and insert a local signature instead.
2282 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2283 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2284 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2285 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2286 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2287 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2288 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2289 easily?
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2290 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2291 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2292 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2293 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2294 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2295 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2296 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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LP
2297 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2298 can easily set overall quota for all users
2299 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2300 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 2301 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 2302 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
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LP
2303 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2304 large.
07eabc2b 2305
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2306* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2307 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2308 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2309
2df2bb1f 2310* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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LB
2311
2312* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2313 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2314 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2315 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2316
2317* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2318
2319* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2320 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2321 something goes wrong on the way.
2322
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LB
2323* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2324 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2325 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2326 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2327
2328* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2329 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2330 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2331 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2332 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2333 automatically.
2334
2335* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2336 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2337
2338* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2339 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2340 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2341 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2342 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2343 fails to apply use the latter.
2344
2345* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2346 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2347
2348* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2349 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2350
2351* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2352 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2353 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
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LB
2354
2355* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2356 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2357
92e72028 2358* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
d01d9197
ZJS
2359 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2360 during boot.
2361
2362* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2363
b44be3ec 2364* document:
8b8f2591 2365 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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LP
2366 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2367 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2368 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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LP
2369 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2370 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
f38afcd0
LP
2371 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2372 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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ZJS
2373 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2374 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2375 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2376 - document root=gpt-auto properly
b44be3ec
LP
2377
2378* systemctl:
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LP
2379 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2380 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2381 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2382 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2383 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2384 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2385 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2386 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2387 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 2388 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
f38afcd0 2389
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LB
2390* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2391 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2392 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2393
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2394* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2395 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2396 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2397
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LB
2398* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2399 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2400 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 2401
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LB
2402* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2403 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 2404
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LB
2405* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2406 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2407 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2408 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 2409
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LB
2410* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2411 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2412 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2413 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2414
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LB
2415* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2416
2417* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2418
2419* unit install:
2420 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2421 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 2422
b44be3ec 2423* nspawn:
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DH
2424 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2425 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2426 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2427 from the kernel's logs.
2428 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2429 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2430 interface be missing
e25b5a8d
DH
2431 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2432 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2433 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2434 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2435 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2436 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2437 PID 1...
e25b5a8d
DH
2438 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2439 running, remove them when shut down.
71b77f06
CB
2440 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2441 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2442 startup.
2443 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2444 or so, freeze the payload too.
2445 - support time namespaces
2446 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2447 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2448 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2449 "machinectl shell"
2450 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2451 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2452 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2453 - greater control over selinux label?
2454 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2455 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2456 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2457 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2458 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2459 host TPM.
2460 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2461 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2462 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2463 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2464 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2465 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2466 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2467 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
fdeabf57
CB
2468 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2469 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
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CB
2470 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2471 or two sockets.
3734fec7 2472 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
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LB
2473
2474* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2475 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2476 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2477 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2478 anything like that.
2479
e25b5a8d 2480* machined:
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DH
2481 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2482 removed or added to an existing machine
2483 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2484 difference host, via ssh
e25b5a8d
DH
2485 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2486 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2487 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2488 question
e25b5a8d
DH
2489 - "machinectl history"
2490 - "machinectl diff"
2491 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2492 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2493
abd55b16 2494* udev:
abd55b16 2495 - move to LGPL
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2496 - kill scsi_id
2497 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2498 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2499 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2500 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2501
e25b5a8d
DH
2502* coredump:
2503 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2504 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2505 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
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LP
2506
2507* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2508
f38afcd0 2509* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 2510 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
beca6b6e 2511 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
614cc34f 2512 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
e25b5a8d
DH
2513 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2514 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2515 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 2516 - add --test mode
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2517 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2518 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2519 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
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ZJS
2520 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2521 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
1258097c 2522
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TG
2523* udev-link-config:
2524 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2525 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2526 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2527
88e4d1d7 2528* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2529 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2530 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2531
0a4b9a07 2532* networkd:
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TG
2533 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2534 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2535 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2536 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2537 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2538 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
e25b5a8d
DH
2539 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2540 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2541 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2542 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2543 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
DH
2544 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2545 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2546 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2547 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2548 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2549 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2550 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2551
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LB
2552* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2553
d5e172d2
ZJS
2554* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2555
ac976532 2556* dhcp:
424a8732 2557 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2558
37d8b536
PF
2559* dhcp6:
2560 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2561 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2562 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2563 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 2564 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
37d8b536
PF
2565 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2566 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2567 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2568 or interface down
2569 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2570 this behavior
4a77c53d 2571 - RouteTable= ?
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2572
2573* shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2574 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2575 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)