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1 Bugfixes:
2
3 * Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
6
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.
10
11 External:
12
13 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
14
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=
24
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
34 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
35
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
59 Regularly:
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
73 Janitorial Clean-ups:
74
75 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
76 semantics, like we do for device.c now
77
78 * get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase() and related
79 calls instead.
80
81 * get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
82
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
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
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
96 Deprecations and removals:
97
98 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
99 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
100
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
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
108 is only supported for such old kernels.
109
110 * drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
111 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
112
113 * drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
114 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
115 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
116 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
117 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
118
119 * drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
120 baseline is 5.8.
121
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
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
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
132 * remove remaining tpm1.2 support from sd-stub
133
134 Features:
135
136 * sd-boot: allow synthesizing additional type1 entries via SMBIOS vendor strings
137
138 * storagetm:
139 - add USB mass storage device logic, so that all local disks are also exposed
140 as mass storage devices on systems that have a USB controller that can
141 operate in device mode
142 - add NVMe authentication
143 - show login details also via plymouth
144
145 * add support for activating nvme-oF devices at boot automatically via kernel
146 cmdline, and maybe even support a syntax such as
147 root=nvme:<trtype>:<traddr>:<trsvcid>:<nqn>:<partition> to boot directly from
148 nvme-oF
149
150 * pcrlock:
151 - make signed PCR work together with pcrlock
152 - add kernel-install plugin that automatically creates UKI .pcrlock file when
153 UKI is installed, and removes it when it is removed again
154 - automatically install PE measurement of sd-boot on "bootctl install"
155 - write generated pcrlock signature files to the ESP as credential, one for
156 each installed OS & pick up generated pcrlock signature file in sd-stub,
157 pass it via initrd to OS
158 - pre-calc sysext + kernel cmdline measurements
159 - pre-calc cryptsetup root key measurement
160 - maybe make systemd-repart generate .pcrlock for old and new GPT header in
161 /run?
162 - Add support for more than 8 branches per PCR OR
163 - add "systemd-pcrlock lock-kernel-current" or so which synthesizes .pcrlock
164 policy from currently booted kernel/event log, to close gap for first boot
165 for pre-built images
166
167 * add a new systemd-project@.service that is very similar to user@.service but
168 uses DynamicUser=1 and no PAMName= to invoke an unprivileged somewhat
169 light-weight service manager. Use HOME=/var/lib/systemd/projects/%i as home
170 dir. Similar for $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. Start project@%i.target. Use LogField= to
171 add a field identifying the project.
172
173 * logind: add a new dbus call Sleep() which automatically redirects to one of
174 Suspend(), Hibernate(), SuspendThenHibernate() depending on what is
175 available, and also subject to some local configuration in
176 logind.conf. Should default to SuspendThenHibernate() if available, and then
177 fallback to Suspend() and finally Hibernate() if not. Then expose this as
178 "systemctl sleep", and tell DEs to default to this.
179
180 * in sd-boot and sd-stub measure the SMBIOS vendor strings to some PCR (at
181 least some subset of them that look like systemd stuff), because apparently
182 some firmware does not, but systemd honours it. avoid duplicate measurement
183 by sd-boot and sd-stub by adding LoaderFeatures/StubFeatures flag for this,
184 so that sd-stub can avoid it if sd-boot already did it.
185
186 * cryptsetup: a mechanism that allows signing a volume key with some key that
187 has to be present in the kernel keyring, or similar, to ensure that confext
188 DDIs can be encrypted against the local SRK but signed with the admin's key
189 and thus can authenticated locally before they are decrypted.
190
191 * image policy should be extended to allow dictating *how* a disk is unlocked,
192 i.e. root=encrypted-tpm2+encrypted-fido2 would mean "root fs must be
193 encrypted and unlocked via fido2 or tpm2, but not otherwise"
194
195 * systemd-repart: add support for formatting dm-crypt + dm-integrity file
196 systems.
197
198 * homed: use systemd-storagetm to expose home dirs via nvme-tcp. Then,
199 teach homed/pam_systemd_homed with a user name such as
200 lennart%nvme_tcp_192.168.100.77_8787 to log in from any linux host with the
201 same home dir. Similar maybe for nbd, iscsi? this should then first ask for
202 the local root pw, to authenticate that logging in like this is ok, and would
203 then be followed by another password prompt asking for the user's own
204 password. Also, do something similar for CIFS: if you log in via
205 lennart%cifs-someserver_someshare, then set up the homed dir for it
206 automatically. The PAM module should update the user name used for login to
207 the short version once it set up the user. Some care should be taken, so that
208 the long version can be still be resolved via NSS afterwards, to deal with
209 PAM clients that do not support PAM sessions where PAM_USER changes half-way.
210
211 * redefine /var/lib/extensions/ as the dir one can place all three of sysext,
212 confext as well is multi-modal DDIs that qualify as both. Then introduce
213 /var/lib/sysexts/ which can be used to place only DDIs that shall be used as
214 sysext
215
216 * in pid1: move out all cgroup state settings from Unit into a new object
217 CGroupState or so which is allocated when we realize the unit into a cgroup,
218 and then remains referenced by it. The new object should also carry an fd to
219 the realized cgroup, to pin it (and later execute all cgroup operations over,
220 once we drop cgroupv1 compat).
221
222 * add new "systemd-ssh-generator", which allows basic ssh config via
223 credentials (host key). It generates sshd.socket for IP, but also
224 sshd-vsock.socket for listening on AF_VSOCK when running in a VM, and
225 sshd-unix.socket on AF_UNIX when running in a container. It also generates a
226 matching sshd.service file with a host key passed in on the cmdline via
227 credentials. Then, add a ssh_config drop-in that matches some suitable
228 hostname pattern and has a ProxyCommand set that allows connecting to any
229 local VM/container that way without any networking configured.
230
231 * Varlinkification of the following command line tools, to open them up to
232 other programs via IPC:
233 - bootctl
234 - journalctl (allowing journal read access via IPC)
235 - coredumpcl
236 - systemd-bless-boot
237 - systemd-measure
238 - systemd-creds (allowing clients to encrypt credentials locally)
239 - systemd-cryptenroll (to allow UIs to enroll FIDO2 keys and such)
240 - systemd-dissect
241 - systemd-sysupdate
242 - systemd-analyze
243 - kernel-install
244
245 * Varlink: add glue code to allow varlink clients to be authenticated via
246 Polkit by passing client pidfd over.
247
248 * in the service manager, pick up ERRNO= + BUSERROR= + VARLINKERROR= error
249 identifiers, and store them along with the exit status of a server and report
250 via "systemctl status".
251
252 * enumerate virtiofs devices during boot-up in a generator, and synthesize
253 mounts for rootfs, /usr/, /home/, /srv/ and some others from it, depending on
254 the "tag". (waits for: https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd/-/issues/128)
255
256 * automatically mount one virtiofs during early boot phase to /run/host/,
257 similar to how we do that for nspawn, based on some clear tag.
258
259 * add some service that makes an atomic snapshot of PCR state and event log up
260 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
261
262 * encode type1 entries in some UKI section to add additional entries to the
263 menu.
264
265 * Add ACL-based access management to .socket units. i.e. add AllowPeerUser= +
266 AllowPeerGroup= that installs additional user/group ACL entries on AF_UNIX
267 sockets.
268
269 * systemd-tpm2-setup should probably have a factory reset logic, i.e. when some
270 kernel command line option is set we reset the TPM (equivalent of tpm2_clear
271 -c owner?).
272
273 * systemd-tpm2-setup should support a mode where we refuse booting if the SRK
274 changed. (Must be opt-in, to not break systems which are supposed to be
275 migratable between PCs)
276
277 * when systemd-sysext learns mutable /usr/ (and systemd-confext mutable /etc/)
278 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
279 snapshot logic
280
281 * add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
282 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
283 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
284 i.e. without recompiling the kernel, taking an upstream OS' kernel and adding
285 a local key to it.
286
287 * PidRef conversion work:
288 - cg_pid_get_xyz()
289 - pid_from_same_root_fs()
290 - get_ctty_devnr()
291 - pid1: sd_notify() receiver should use SCM_PIDFD to authenticate client
292 - actually wait for POLLIN on pidref's pidfd in service logic
293 - exec_spawn() + safe_fork()
294 - openpt_allocate_in_namespace()
295 - sd_bus_creds
296 - unit_attach_pid_to_cgroup_via_bus()
297 - cg_attach() – requires new kernel feature
298 - varlink_get_peer_pid()
299
300 * ddi must be listed as block device fstype
301
302 * measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
303 mode.
304
305 * homed: add a basic form of of secrets management to homed, that stores
306 secrets in $HOME somewhere, is protected by the accounts own authentication
307 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
308 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
309 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
310 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
311 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
312
313 * use sd-event ratelimit feature optionally for journal stream clients that log
314 too much
315
316 * systemd-mount should only consider modern file systems when mounting, similar
317 to systemd-dissect
318
319 * add another PE section ".fname" or so that encodes the intended filename for
320 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
321 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
322 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
323 control of the attacker.
324
325 * also include packaging metadata (á la
326 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
327 same JSON format.
328
329 * make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
330 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
331 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
332 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
333 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
334 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
335 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
336 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
337 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
338 newer.
339
340 * in sd-stub: optionally add support for a new PE section .keyring or so that
341 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
342 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
343 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
344 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
345 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
346 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
347 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
348
349 * resolved: take possession of some IPv6 ULA address (let's say
350 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
351 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
352
353 * introduce a .microcode PE section for sd-stub which we'll pass as first initrd
354 to the kernel which will then upload it to the CPU. This should be distinct
355 from .initrd to guarantee right ordering. also, and maybe more importantly
356 support .microcode in PE add-ons, so that a microcode update can be shipped
357 independently of any kernel.
358
359 * Maybe add SwitchRootEx() as new bus call that takes env vars to set for new
360 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
361 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
362 requested during switch root.
363
364 * introduce a .acpitable section for early ACPI table override
365
366 * add proper .osrel matching for PE addons. i.e. refuse applying an addon
367 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
368 matched against OS.
369
370 * figure out what to do about credentials sealed to PCRs in kexec + soft-reboot
371 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
372 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
373
374 * logind: when logging in, always take an fd to the home dir, to keep the dir
375 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
376 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
377 namespaces)
378
379 * mount most file systems with a restrictive uidmap. e.g. mount /usr/ with a
380 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
381
382 * mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
383 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
384 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
385
386 * fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
387 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
388 "*:foobar:*", to wildcard match both the start and the end of the string.
389 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
390 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
391 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
392
393 * mount /tmp/ and /var/tmp with a uidmap applied that blocks out "nobody" user
394 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
395 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
396 used transiently, never persistently.
397
398 * rework loopback support in fstab: when "loop" option is used, then
399 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
400 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
401 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
402 based on lo_file_name.
403
404 * remove tomoyo support, it's obsolete and unmaintained apparently
405
406 * In .socket units, add ConnectStream=, ConnectDatagram=,
407 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
408 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
409 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
410 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
411 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
412 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
413 activation-by-message id and similar.
414
415 * .service with invalid Sockets= starts successfully.
416
417 * landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
418 ability to write anywehere else below /run/. Similar for
419 StateDirectory=. Benefit would be clear delegation via unit files: services
420 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
421
422 * landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
423 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
424 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
425 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
426 similar behaviour for system services, too.
427
428 * Add systemd-mount@.service which is instantiated for a block device and
429 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
430 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
431
432 * udevd: extend memory pressure logic: also kill any idle worker processes
433
434 * udevadm: to make symlink querying with udevadm nicer:
435 - do not enable the pager for queries like 'udevadm info -q -r symlink'
436 - add mode with newlines instead of spaces (for grep)?
437
438 * SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
439 localed, oomd, timedated.
440
441 * repart/gpt-auto/DDIs: maybe introduce a concept of "extension" partitions,
442 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
443 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
444 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
445 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
446 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
447 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
448 from the uuid of the original partition it extends. Inspiration for this is
449 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
450 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
451 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
452 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
453 access.
454
455 * Use CLONE_INTO_CGROUP to spawn systemd-executor, once glibc supports it in
456 posix_spawn().
457
458 * Make nspawn to a frontend for systemd-executor, so that we have to ways into
459 the executor: via unit files/dbus/varlink through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI
460 through nspawn.
461
462 * sd-stub: detect if we are running with uefi console output on serial, and if so
463 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
464
465 * add a utility that can be used with the kernel's
466 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
467 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
468 for all umh processes.
469
470 * systemd-shutdown: keep sending sd_notify() status updates immediately before
471 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
472
473 * homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
474 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
475 resize.
476
477 * homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
478 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
479
480 * timesyncd: when saving/restoring clock try to take boot time into account.
481 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
482 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
483 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
484 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
485 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
486 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
487 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
488 system actually reset.
489
490 * systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
491 userspace to allow ordering boots (for example in journalctl). The counter
492 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
493
494 * pam_systemd_home: add module parameter to control whether to only accept
495 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
496 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
497 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
498
499 * sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
500 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
501 is then useful for network boot, by embedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
502 in sd-boot, which reference remote kernels.
503
504 * maybe prohibit setuid() to the nobody user, to lock things down, via seccomp.
505 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
506 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
507 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
508 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
509
510 * sd-boot: add a new PE section .bls or so that carries a cpio with additional
511 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
512 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
513 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
514 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
515
516 * sd-boot: also allow passing in the cpio as in the previous item via SMBIOS
517
518 * add a new EFI tool "sd-fetch" or so. It looks in a PE section ".url" for an
519 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
520 Use case: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
521 binaries in place of UKIs, and download them on-the-fly.
522
523 * maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
524 cmdline. use case: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
525
526 * systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
527 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
528 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
529
530 * sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
531 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
532
533 * tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
534 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
535 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
536 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
537 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
538 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
539 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
540 usual.
541
542 * Lennart: big blog story about DDIs
543
544 * Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
545
546 * Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
547
548 * bpf: see if we can use BPF to solve the syslog message cgroup source problem:
549 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
550 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
551 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
552 sockaddr.
553
554 * bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
555 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
556 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
557 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
558 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
559 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
560 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
561 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
562 try to use inode from there.
563
564 * extend the verity signature partition to permit multiple signatures for the
565 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
566
567 * consider adding a new partition type, just for /opt/ for usage in system
568 extensions
569
570 * gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
571 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
572 for the root fs or /usr/.
573
574 * dissection policy should enforce that unlocking can only take place by
575 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
576 combination thereof.
577
578 * make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
579 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
580 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
581 ahead of time.
582
583 * systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
584 aforementioned purpose.
585
586 * in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
587 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
588
589 * Add systemd-sysupdate-initrd.service or so that runs systemd-sysupdate in the
590 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
591 to figure out:
592 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
593 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
594 subsequent boots?
595
596 * provide an API (probably IPC) to apps to encrypt/decrypt
597 credentials. use case: allow bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd
598 that way, without shelling out to our tools.
599
600 * revisit default PCR bindings in cryptenroll and systemd-creds. Currently they
601 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
602 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
603 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
604 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
605 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
606 default to PCR 15 at least if sd-stub is used (i.e. bind to system identity),
607 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
608 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
609 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
610
611 * To mimic the new tpm2-measure-pcr= crypttab option add the same to veritytab
612 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
613 used)
614
615 * We should start measuring all services, containers, and system extensions we
616 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
617 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
618 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
619 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
620
621 * bootspec: permit graceful "update" from type #2 to type #1. If both a type #1
622 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
623 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
624 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
625 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
626 should win over vendor defaults.
627
628 * write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
629 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
630 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
631
632 * automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
633 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
634
635 * implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
636 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
637 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
638 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
639 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
640 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
641
642 * add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
643 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
644 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
645
646 * systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
647
648 * systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
649 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
650 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Use case: remove secondary OS
651 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
652
653 * systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
654 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
655 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
656 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
657 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
658 only one for each OS.
659
660 * systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
661 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
662 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
663 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
664 boot, for the next.
665
666 * systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
667 similar behind it, instead of http.
668
669 * systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
670 boot, or on first boot.
671
672 * in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
673 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
674
675 * we probably needs .pcrpkeyrd or so as additional PE section in UKIs,
676 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
677 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
678 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
679 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
680 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
681 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
682 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
683 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
684 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
685 until users are allowed to log in).
686
687 * Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
688 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
689
690 * add support for asymmetric LUKS2 TPM based encryption. i.e. allow preparing
691 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
692 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
693 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Use case: systemd-confext
694 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
695 be activated on one specific host (which can be used for installing a bunch
696 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
697 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
698 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
699 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
700 automatically invalidated outside of it.
701
702 * maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
703 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
704 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
705 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
706 enhanced remote attestation quote. Use case: a simple orchestrator could use
707 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
708 have the orchestrator collect these reports centrally over a 3min time
709 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
710 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
711 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
712 proposed above, so that it can only be activated on the specific host, if the
713 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
714 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
715 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
716 config and collected reports in the last 3min time window only, and thus can
717 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
718 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
719 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
720 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
721 and via the time window TPM logic invalidated if node doesn't keep itself
722 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
723
724 * in the initrd, once the rootfs encryption key has been measured to PCR 15,
725 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
726
727 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to use sd_event_set_signal_exit(), instead
728 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
729
730 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
731 instead of manual blocking.
732
733 * sd-boot: for each installed OS, grey out older entries (i.e. all but the
734 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
735
736 * automatically propagate LUKS password credential into cryptsetup from host
737 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
738 supplied password.
739
740 * add ability to path_is_valid() to classify paths that refer to a dir from
741 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
742 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
743 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
744
745 * systemd-measure: allow operating with PEM certificates in addition to PEM
746 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
747 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
748 convenience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
749
750 * systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
751 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
752 automatically derived from --private-key=).
753
754 * push people to use ".sysext.raw" as suffix for sysext DDIs (DDI =
755 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
756 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
757
758 * Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
759 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
760 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
761 use as additional search condition. Use case: images that combined a sysext
762 partition with a portable service partition in one.
763
764 * On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
765 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
766 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
767 modules
768
769 * for systemd-confext: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
770 sig using squashfs-tools-ng's library. Maybe just systemd-repart called under
771 a new name with a built-in config?
772
773 * lock down acceptable encrypted credentials at boot, via simple allowlist,
774 maybe on kernel command line:
775 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
776 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
777
778 * Add support for extra verity configuration options to systemd-repart (FEC,
779 hash type, etc)
780
781 * chase(): take inspiration from path_extract_filename() and return
782 O_DIRECTORY if input path contains trailing slash.
783
784 * chase(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
785 but final node is not a directory
786
787 * document in boot loader spec that symlinks in XBOOTLDR/ESP are not OK even if
788 non-VFAT fs is used.
789
790 * measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
791
792 * measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
793 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
794
795 * pick up creds from EFI vars
796
797 * Add and pickup tpm2 metadata for creds structure.
798
799 * sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
800 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
801 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
802 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
803 affect PCR values.
804
805 * systemd-measure tool:
806 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
807
808 * in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
809 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
810
811 * sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
812 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
813
814 * sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
815 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
816
817 * sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
818 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
819
820 * add small wrapper around qemu that implements sd_notify/AF_VSOCK + machined and
821 maybe some other stuff and boots it. Should implement command line roughly
822 equivalent to nspawn's. Maybe be called "systemd-vmspawn". Should imply good
823 settings, i.e. RNG + HyperV enlightenments. Should also result in swtpm
824 instance, plus virtiofsd instances. Translate credentials into smbios type
825 11 strings. Correctly translate SIGTERM into ACPI shutdown events.
826 Listen to logind suspend events and turn these into suspend key pressed +
827 ACPI resume events.
828
829 * maybe add new flags to gpt partition tables for rootfs and usrfs indicating
830 purpose, i.e. whether something is supposed to be bootable in a VM, on
831 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
832 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
833 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
834 use it.
835
836 * sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
837 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
838
839 * add "systemd-sysext identify" verb, that you can point on any file in /usr/
840 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
841 what it was signed.
842
843 * systemd-creds: extend encryption logic to support asymmetric
844 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
845 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
846 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
847 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
848 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
849 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
850 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
851 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
852 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
853 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
854 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
855
856 * building on top of the above, the pub/priv key pair generated on the TPM2
857 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
858
859 * Process credentials in:
860 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
861 via the credentials logic.
862 • crypttab-generator: allow defining additional crypttab-like volumes via
863 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
864 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
865 • run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
866 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
867 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
868 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
869 • repart: allow defining additional partitions via credential
870 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
871 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
872 file system paths to enable on start.
873 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
874 usr=
875 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
876 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
877 register if not registered yet. Use case: deploy a system, and add an
878 account one can directly log into.
879 • in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
880 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
881 pre-built kernels.
882
883 * define a JSON format for units, separating out unit definitions from unit
884 runtime state. Then, expose it:
885
886 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
887 about the unit.
888 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
889 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
890 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
891 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
892 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
893 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
894
895 * Add SUPPORT_END_URL= field to os-release with more *actionable* information
896 what to do if support ended
897
898 * pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
899 login time, à la motd
900
901 * sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
902 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
903 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Use case: embed sd-boot in the
904 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
905 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
906
907 * mount /var/ from initrd, so that we can apply sysext and stuff before the
908 initrd transition. Specifically:
909 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
910 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
911 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
912
913 * make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
914 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
915 service restarts, hot reboot, cold reboots (depending on configuration): the
916 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
917 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
918 depending on desired level of persistency.
919
920 * sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
921 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
922 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
923 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
924 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
925 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
926 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
927 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
928
929 * if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
930 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
931 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
932 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
933
934 * add ability to set hostname with suffix derived from machine id at boot
935
936 * add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
937
938 * homed/userdb: maybe define a "companion" dir for home directories where apps
939 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
940 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
941 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Use case: container
942 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
943 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
944 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
945 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
946 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
947 by. Inform user code about path to this companion dir via env var, so that
948 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
949 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
950 not unprivileged code.
951
952 * given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
953 that hooks up userdbctl ssh-key stuff.
954
955 * maybe add support for binding and connecting AF_UNIX sockets in the file
956 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
957 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
958 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
959
960 * add a proper concept of a "developer" mode, i.e. where cryptographic
961 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
962 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
963 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
964 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
965 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
966 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
967 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is the only way to enter developer mode, by
968 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
969
970 * services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
971 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
972 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
973 order.
974
975 * update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
976 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
977 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
978
979 * sd-event: compat wd reuse in inotify code: keep a set of removed watch
980 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
981 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
982 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
983 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
984 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
985 IN_IGNORED again)
986
987 * for vendor-built signed initrds:
988 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
989 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
990 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
991 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
992 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
993 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
994 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
995 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
996 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
997 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
998 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
999
1000 * Maybe extend the service protocol to support handling of some specific SIGRT
1001 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
1002 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
1003
1004 * sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
1005 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
1006 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
1007 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
1008 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
1009 directly to host service manager.
1010
1011 * sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
1012 no api to query the device id
1013
1014 * sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1015 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1016 also be queried.
1017
1018 * sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
1019 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1020 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1021 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
1022
1023 * sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
1024 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1025 latter).
1026
1027 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1028
1029 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
1030
1031 * support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
1032 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
1033 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
1034 generated by GNU sha256sums.
1035
1036 * sd-boot: maybe add support for embedding the various auxiliary resources we
1037 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
1038 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
1039 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
1040 to the menu. Use case: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
1041 UEFI HTTP boot.
1042
1043 * maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
1044 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
1045 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
1046 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
1047 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
1048 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
1049 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
1050 hence cheap for enumeration.
1051
1052 * sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
1053
1054 * systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
1055 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1056 words: show partition labels).
1057
1058 * maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
1059 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
1060 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
1061 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. Use case:
1062 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
1063 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
1064 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
1065
1066 * deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
1067
1068 * systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
1069
1070 * per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1071 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1072 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1073 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1074 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1075 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1076 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1077 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1078 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1079 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1080
1081 * kernel-install:
1082 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
1083
1084 * doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
1085 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
1086
1087 * doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
1088 jobs, units
1089
1090 * bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
1091 sync, i.e. parse out architecture field in sd-boot (currently only done in
1092 userspace)
1093
1094 * automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
1095
1096 * add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
1097 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1098
1099 * Enable RestrictFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
1100 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
1101
1102 * Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1103 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
1104
1105 * cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
1106 internal clock.
1107
1108 * man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1109 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1110
1111 * sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1112 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1113 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1114 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
1115
1116 * userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
1117 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1118 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1119
1120 * maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
1121 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
1122 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
1123 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
1124 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
1125 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
1126 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
1127 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
1128 thread:
1129 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
1130 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
1131 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
1132 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
1133 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
1134 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
1135
1136 * if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
1137 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
1138 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
1139
1140 * homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
1141 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
1142 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
1143 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
1144 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
1145 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
1146 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
1147 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
1148 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
1149 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
1150 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1151 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1152 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1153 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1154 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
1155
1156 * add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
1157 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
1158 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Use case: drop a root user JSON record there,
1159 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
1160 for debugging purposes. Other use case: boot into qemu with regular user
1161 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
1162
1163 * drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
1164 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
1165 dep in the base OS image)
1166
1167 * add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
1168 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1169 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1170 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1171 on-disk storage.
1172
1173 * userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
1174 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1175 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1176 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1177 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1178
1179 * portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
1180 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1181 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
1182
1183 * logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
1184 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
1185 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
1186 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
1187 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
1188 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
1189 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
1190
1191 * /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
1192 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1193 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1194 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1195
1196 * we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
1197 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1198 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1199 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1200 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1201 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1202 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1203 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1204 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1205 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1206 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
1207
1208 * in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
1209 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1210 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
1211
1212 * rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
1213
1214 * PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
1215
1216 * when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1217 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1218 that images cannot be misused.
1219
1220 * New udev block device symlink names:
1221 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
1222 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1223 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1224 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1225
1226 * sysupdate:
1227 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1228 - support casync as download mechanism
1229 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1230 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1231 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1232 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1233 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
1234 override the host's update files.)
1235 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1236 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1237 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1238 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1239
1240 * in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1241
1242 * DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1243 make dirs appear under right UID.
1244
1245 * systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1246 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1247
1248 * introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
1249 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1250 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1251 already have it.
1252
1253 * whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1254 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1255
1256 * Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
1257
1258 * Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1259 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1260 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1261 /proc/self/fd/3
1262
1263 * add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1264 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1265 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1266
1267 * Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1268 that is deleted in the fs. Use case would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1269
1270 * importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1271 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1272
1273 * add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1274 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1275 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1276 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1277 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
1278
1279 * expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1280
1281 * credentials system:
1282 - acquire from EFI variable?
1283 - acquire via ask-password?
1284 - acquire creds via keyring?
1285 - pass creds via keyring?
1286 - pass creds via memfd?
1287 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1288 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1289 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1290 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1291 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1292 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
1293 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
1294 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
1295
1296 * add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
1297 firmware indicates there is one.
1298
1299 * TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1300 and such
1301
1302 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
1303
1304 * cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
1305
1306 * cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
1307 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1308
1309 * cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1310 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
1311
1312 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1313
1314 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1315 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1316
1317 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1318 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1319
1320 * cryptsetup:
1321 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1322 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1323
1324 * systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
1325
1326 * Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1327 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1328
1329 * special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
1330 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1331
1332 * add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
1333 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1334
1335 * make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1336
1337 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1338
1339 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1340
1341 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1342 when it exits
1343
1344 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1345 o turn into dlopen() deps:
1346 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
1347 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
1348 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1349 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1350 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1351
1352 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1353 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1354 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1355
1356 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1357 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1358
1359 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1360
1361 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1362 specific service
1363
1364 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1365 exists and responds.
1366
1367 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
1368 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
1369
1370 * unify on openssl:
1371 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1372 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1373 gnutls
1374 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
1375
1376 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1377 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1378
1379 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1380 realname substr searches in varlink API
1381
1382 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1383
1384 * userdb: allow existence checks
1385
1386 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
1387
1388 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1389 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1390 initrd had set.
1391
1392 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
1393 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
1394 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1395 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1396 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1397 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1398
1399 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1400 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1401 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1402
1403 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1404 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1405 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1406 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1407 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1408 source.
1409
1410 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1411 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1412 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1413
1414 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1415
1416 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1417 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1418 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1419 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1420 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1421 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1422 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1423 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1424 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1425 hibernation mode. (see
1426 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1427 section 10.2.2.8 and
1428 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1429 at the end).
1430
1431 * We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1432 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
1433
1434 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
1435
1436 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1437 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1438 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1439 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1440 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1441 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1442 exec().
1443
1444 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1445
1446 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1447 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1448
1449 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1450 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1451
1452 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1453 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1454 root.
1455
1456 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1457 is issued.
1458
1459 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1460
1461 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1462
1463 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1464 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1465 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
1466
1467 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
1468 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1469 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1470
1471 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1472
1473 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1474 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1475
1476 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
1477 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
1478 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
1479 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
1480
1481 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1482
1483 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1484
1485 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1486 non-zero "tries done" count
1487
1488 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1489 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1490 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1491 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1492 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1493 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1494 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1495 CODE_FILE.
1496
1497 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1498 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1499 some explanatory text online.
1500
1501 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1502
1503 * hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
1504
1505 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1506 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1507
1508 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1509 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1510 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1511 files and suchlike we operate on.
1512
1513 * importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1514
1515 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1516
1517 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1518 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1519
1520 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
1521 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
1522
1523 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1524 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1525 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1526 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1527 unlinked from any dir.
1528
1529 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
1530
1531 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1532
1533 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1534
1535 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
1536 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
1537 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1538 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
1539 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
1540
1541 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1542
1543 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1544 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1545
1546 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1547 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1548 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1549 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1550 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1551 different slice too by default. Use case: people who want to put resources on
1552 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1553 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1554
1555 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1556 for root, but only then.
1557
1558 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1559 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1560
1561 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1562 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1563
1564 * sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1565 only when used. Add unit tests.
1566
1567 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1568 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1569
1570 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1571 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1572 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1573 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1574 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1575
1576 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
1577
1578 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
1579
1580 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1581 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1582
1583 * blog about fd store and restartable services
1584
1585 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1586
1587 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1588 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1589
1590 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1591 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1592 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1593 ID is available.
1594
1595 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1596 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1597 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1598
1599 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1600 parameters
1601
1602 * maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
1603 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
1604 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1605 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1606 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1607 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1608 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
1609
1610 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1611 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1612
1613 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1614 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1615 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1616
1617 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1618 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1619
1620 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1621
1622 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1623 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1624 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1625
1626 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1627 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1628
1629 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1630 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1631 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1632 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1633 natural habitat.
1634
1635 * gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1636 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
1637
1638 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1639 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1640 relative to the configured default value.
1641
1642 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1643
1644 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
1645
1646 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1647
1648 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1649
1650 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
1651
1652 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
1653
1654 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
1655
1656 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
1657
1658 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1659 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1660 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1661
1662 * Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1663 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1664
1665 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
1666
1667 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1668 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1669 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1670 mapping to work.
1671
1672 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1673
1674 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1675
1676 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1677
1678 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1679 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1680
1681 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1682 reload the unit file anyway
1683
1684 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1685
1686 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1687
1688 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1689 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1690
1691 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
1692 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
1693 specifications.
1694
1695 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1696
1697 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1698
1699 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
1700 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
1701 prefixed with /sys generally special.
1702 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
1703
1704 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1705
1706 * docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
1707
1708 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1709 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1710 state.
1711 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
1712
1713 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1714 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1715 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1716 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1717 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1718
1719 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1720
1721 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
1722 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
1723
1724 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
1725 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
1726
1727 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
1728 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
1729
1730 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1731
1732 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1733 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1734
1735 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
1736
1737 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
1738
1739 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
1740
1741 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1742 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1743
1744 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1745
1746 * resolved:
1747 - mDNS/DNS-SD
1748 - service registration
1749 - service/domain/types browsing
1750 - avahi compat
1751 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
1752 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1753 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1754 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
1755 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
1756 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
1757
1758 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
1759
1760 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1761
1762 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1763
1764 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1765
1766 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1767
1768 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1769 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
1770
1771 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1772
1773 * gpt-auto-generator:
1774 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
1775 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
1776
1777 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1778 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1779 when it is otherwise off
1780
1781 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
1782
1783 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1784 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1785 for ReusePort=
1786
1787 * cgroups:
1788 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
1789 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1790 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1791 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1792 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1793 the hierarchies of child processes
1794 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1795 maybe use them for user@.service
1796
1797 * transient units:
1798 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
1799
1800 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1801
1802 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1803
1804 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1805
1806 * 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
1807
1808 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1809 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
1810 path anyway.
1811
1812 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
1813
1814 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1815
1816 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1817
1818 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1819
1820 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1821
1822 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1823
1824 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1825 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1826 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1827
1828 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1829 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1830
1831 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1832
1833 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1834
1835 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1836
1837 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1838 needs to be auto-respawned?
1839
1840 * pid1:
1841 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1842 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1843 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1844 that are not supported...
1845 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1846 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Use case:
1847 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1848 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1849 - move PAM code into its own binary
1850 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1851 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1852 - Support --test based on current system state
1853 - 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().
1854 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1855 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1856 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1857 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1858 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1859 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1860 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1861 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1862 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1863 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1864 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1865 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1866
1867 * unit files:
1868 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1869 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1870 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1871 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1872 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1873 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1874 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1875 - introduce Type=pid-file
1876 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1877 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1878 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1879
1880 * timer units:
1881 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
1882 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1883
1884 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1885
1886 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1887
1888 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1889
1890 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1891
1892 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1893
1894 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1895
1896 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1897
1898 * test/:
1899 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
1900
1901 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
1902 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
1903 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1904 destination.
1905
1906 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1907 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1908
1909 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1910
1911 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1912 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1913 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1914
1915 * BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1916 compliant boot loader is installed.
1917
1918 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? use case:
1919 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1920 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1921 that automatically.
1922
1923 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
1924
1925 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
1926
1927 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1928
1929 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
1930
1931 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1932
1933 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1934
1935 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1936
1937 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1938
1939 * sd-bus:
1940 - EBADSLT handling
1941 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1942 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1943 - 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
1944 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1945 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1946 - longer term: priority inheritance
1947 - dbus spec updates:
1948 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
1949 - path escaping
1950 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1951
1952 * sd-event
1953 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1954 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1955 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1956 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1957 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1958 here:
1959 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1960
1961 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1962 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1963
1964 * document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
1965
1966 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1967
1968 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1969
1970 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1971
1972 * EFI:
1973 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1974 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
1975 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
1976 * bootctl
1977 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
1978
1979 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
1980
1981 * bootctl:
1982 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
1983 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1984 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
1985
1986 * logind:
1987 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
1988 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1989 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1990 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
1991 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1992 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1993 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1994 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1995 needs setuid().
1996 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1997 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1998 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1999 complete.
2000 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2001 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2002 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
2003 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
2004 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2005 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2006 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2007 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2008 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2009 relogins
2010 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
2011 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
2012 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
2013 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
2014
2015 * move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2016
2017 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2018 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2019 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2020
2021 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2022 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2023
2024 * journal:
2025 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
2026 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2027 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2028 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2029 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
2030 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
2031 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2032 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2033 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
2034 message that works, but already after a short timeout
2035 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2036 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
2037 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
2038 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
2039 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
2040 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
2041 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
2042 - 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.
2043 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2044 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
2045 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2046 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2047 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2048 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
2049 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
2050 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
2051 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
2052 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2053 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2054 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2055 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2056 to syslog when it works again.
2057 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2058 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2059 journals in.
2060 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2061 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2062 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2063 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2064 the most common operations.
2065 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
2066 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2067 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2068 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2069 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2070 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2071 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2072 operation.
2073 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
2074 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
2075 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2076 binary logs data
2077 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
2078 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2079 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2080 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2081 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
2082 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
2083
2084 * journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2085 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2086
2087 * Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2088 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2089 validated via TPM.
2090
2091 * rework journalctl -M to be based on a machined method that generates a mount
2092 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2093 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2094
2095 * journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2096 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2097 cursors as they happen.
2098
2099 * journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2100 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2101 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2102 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2103 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2104 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2105 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2106 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2107 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2108
2109 * in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2110 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2111 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2112 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
2113 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
2114 log record, adjusted by the delta declared in the structured log record.
2115
2116 * in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2117 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2118 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2119 records, to be able to order them.
2120
2121 * journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2122 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2123 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2124 be safely written to disk, then.
2125
2126 * hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2127 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2128 inspiration from IMA log)
2129
2130 * sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2131 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2132 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2133
2134 * maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
2135 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
2136 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
2137 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2138 for doing that.
2139
2140 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2141 log.c and sd-journal-send
2142
2143 * journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2144 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2145 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2146 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2147 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2148 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2149 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2150 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2151 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2152 an NTP sync is acquired.
2153
2154 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
2155
2156 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2157 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2158 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2159
2160 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2161 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2162 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2163 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2164 cgroup.
2165
2166 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2167 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2168 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2169 logging.
2170
2171 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2172
2173 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2174 from the SIGBUS handler
2175
2176 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
2177 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2178 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2179 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2180
2181 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2182 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2183
2184 * homed:
2185 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2186 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2187 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
2188 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2189 - create on activate?
2190 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2191 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2192 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2193 systemd --user is shut down.
2194 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2195 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2196 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2197 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2198 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2199 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2200 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2201 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2202 - query password from kernel keyring first
2203 - update even if record is "absent"
2204 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2205 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2206 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2207 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2208 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
2209 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2210 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2211 doesn't mean user B sees it
2212 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
2213 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2214 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2215 signature
2216 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2217 and insert a local signature instead.
2218 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2219 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2220 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2221 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2222 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2223 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2224 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2225 easily?
2226 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2227 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2228 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2229 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2230 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2231 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2232 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
2233 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2234 can easily set overall quota for all users
2235 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2236 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
2237 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
2238 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
2239 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2240 large.
2241
2242 * add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2243 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2244 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2245
2246 * systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
2247
2248 * systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2249 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2250 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2251 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2252
2253 * systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2254
2255 * systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2256 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2257 something goes wrong on the way.
2258
2259 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2260 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2261 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2262 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2263
2264 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2265 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2266 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2267 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2268 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2269 automatically.
2270
2271 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2272 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2273
2274 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2275 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2276 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2277 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2278 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2279 fails to apply use the latter.
2280
2281 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2282 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2283
2284 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2285 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2286
2287 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2288 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
2289 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
2290
2291 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2292 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2293
2294 * systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
2295 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2296 during boot.
2297
2298 * systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2299
2300 * document:
2301 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
2302 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2303 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
2304 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
2305 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2306 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
2307 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2308 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
2309 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2310 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
2311 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
2312 - document root=gpt-auto properly
2313
2314 * systemctl:
2315 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2316 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2317 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2318 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2319 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2320 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2321 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
2322 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
2323 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
2324 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
2325
2326 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2327 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2328 it should skip the variant type string though.
2329
2330 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2331 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2332 the slices, and the units attached to them.
2333
2334 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2335 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2336 wait to retrieve their exit data.
2337
2338 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2339 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
2340
2341 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2342 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2343 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2344 do, for example)
2345
2346 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2347 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2348 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2349 returning from the "systemctl stop".
2350
2351 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2352
2353 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2354
2355 * unit install:
2356 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2357 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
2358
2359 * nspawn:
2360 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2361 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2362 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2363 from the kernel's logs.
2364 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2365 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2366 interface be missing
2367 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2368 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2369 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2370 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2371 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2372 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2373 PID 1...
2374 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2375 running, remove them when shut down.
2376 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2377 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2378 startup.
2379 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2380 or so, freeze the payload too.
2381 - support time namespaces
2382 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2383 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2384 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2385 "machinectl shell"
2386 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2387 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2388 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2389 - greater control over selinux label?
2390 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2391 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2392 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2393 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2394 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2395 host TPM.
2396 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2397 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2398 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2399 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2400 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2401 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2402 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2403 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
2404 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2405 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
2406 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2407 or two sockets.
2408 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
2409
2410 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2411 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2412 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2413 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2414 anything like that.
2415
2416 * machined:
2417 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2418 removed or added to an existing machine
2419 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2420 difference host, via ssh
2421 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2422 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2423 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2424 question
2425 - "machinectl history"
2426 - "machinectl diff"
2427 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2428 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2429
2430 * udev:
2431 - move to LGPL
2432 - kill scsi_id
2433 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
2434 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
2435 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
2436 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
2437
2438 * coredump:
2439 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
2440 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
2441 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
2442
2443 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2444
2445 * tmpfiles:
2446 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
2447 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
2448 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
2449 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2450 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2451 calls follow symlinks.
2452 - add --test mode
2453 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2454 project quota
2455 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
2456 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2457 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
2458
2459 * udev-link-config:
2460 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2461 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2462 on Path= matching
2463
2464 * sd-rtnl:
2465 - add support for more attribute types
2466 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
2467
2468 * networkd:
2469 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2470 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
2471 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
2472 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
2473 - work with non-Ethernet devices
2474 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
2475 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2476 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2477 - expose in the API the following bits:
2478 - option 15, domain name
2479 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
2480 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2481 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2482 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2483 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2484 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2485 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
2486 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
2487
2488 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2489
2490 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2491
2492 * dhcp:
2493 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
2494
2495 * dhcp6:
2496 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2497 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2498 - write more test cases
2499 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
2500 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
2501 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2502 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2503 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2504 or interface down
2505 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2506 this behavior
2507 - RouteTable= ?
2508
2509 * shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2510 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2511 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)