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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 * 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=
20
21 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
22
23 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
24
25 * register catalog database signature as file magic
26
27 * zsh shell completion:
28 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
29 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
30 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
31
32 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
33 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
34 after being started.
35
36 * write blog stories about:
37 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
38 - enabling dbus services
39 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
40 - remote access
41 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
42 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
43 - auto-restart
44 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
45 - the journal HTTP iface
46 - non-cgroup resource management
47 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
48 - refreshed, longer missions statement
49 - calendar time events
50 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
51 - how to create your own target
52 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
53 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/early boot
54
55 Regularly:
56
57 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
58
59 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
60
61 * pahole
62
63 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
64
65 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
66
67 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
68
69 Janitorial Clean-ups:
70
71 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
72 semantics, like we do for device.c now
73
74 * get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase() and related
75 calls instead.
76
77 * get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
78
79 * Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
80 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
81 libmount for something so trivial.
82
83 * drop set_free_free() and switch things over from string_hash_ops to
84 string_hash_ops_free everywhere, so that destruction is implicit rather than
85 explicit. Similar, for other special hashmap/set/ordered_hashmap destructors.
86
87 * generators sometimes apply C escaping and sometimes specifier escaping to
88 paths and similar strings they write out. Sometimes both. We should clean
89 this up, and should probably always apply both, i.e. introduce
90 unit_file_escape() or so, which applies both.
91
92 * xopenat() should pin the parent dir of the inode it creates before doing its
93 thing, so that it can create, open, label somewhat atomically.
94
95 Deprecations and removals:
96
97 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
98 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
99
100 * remove cgroups v1 support EOY 2023. As per
101 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
102 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
103 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
104
105 * drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
106 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
107 is only supported for such old kernels.
108
109 * drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
110 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
111
112 * drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
113 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
114 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
115 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
116 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
117
118 * drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
119 baseline is 5.8.
120
121 * drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
122 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
123
124 * Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
125 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
126 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
127
128 * Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
129 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
130
131 * remove remaining tpm1.2 support from sd-stub
132
133 Features:
134
135 * Get rid of the symlinks in /run/systemd/units/* and exclusively use cgroupfs
136 xattrs to convey info about invocation ids, logging settings and so on.
137 support for cgroupfs xattrs in the "trusted." namespace was added in linux
138 3.7, i.e. which we don't pretend to support anymore.
139
140 * rewrite bpf-devices in libbpf/C code, rather than home-grown BPF assembly, to
141 match bpf-restrict-fs, bpf-restrict-ifaces, bpf-socket-bind
142
143 * ditto: rewrite bpf-firewall in libbpf/C code
144
145 * credentials: if we ever acquire a secure way to derive cgroup id of socket
146 peers (i.e. SO_PEERCGROUPID), then extend the "scoped" credential logic to
147 allow cgroup-scoped (i.e. app or service scoped) credentials. Then, as next
148 step use this to implement per-app/per-service encrypted directories, where
149 we set up fscrypt on the StateDirectory= with a randomized key which is
150 stored as xattr on the directory, encrypted as a credential.
151
152 * credentials: optionally include a per-user secret in scoped user-credential
153 encryption keys. should come from homed in some way, derived from the luks
154 volume key or fscrypt directory key.
155
156 * credentials: add a flag to the scoped credentials that if set require PK
157 reauthentication when unlocking a secret.
158
159 * teach systemd --user to properly load credentials off disk, with
160 /etc/credstore equivalent and similar. Make sure that $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY=
161 actually works too when run with user privs.
162
163 * extend the smbios11 logic for passing credentials so that instead of passing
164 the credential data literally it can also just reference an AF_VSOCK CID/port
165 to read them from. This way the data doesn't remain in the SMBIOS blob during
166 runtime, but only in the credentials fs.
167
168 * machined: make machine registration available via varlink to simplify
169 nspawn/vmspawn, and to have an extensible way to register VM/machine metadata
170
171 * ssh-proxy: add support for "ssh machine/foobar" to automatically connect to
172 machined registered machine "foobar". Requires updating machined to track CID
173 and unix-export dir of containers.
174
175 * add a new ExecStart= flag that inserts the configured user's shell as first
176 word in the command line. (maybe use character '.'). Usecase: tool such as
177 uid0 can use that to spawn the target user's default shell.
178
179 * varlink: figure out how to do docs for our varlink interfaces. Idea: install
180 interface files augmented with docs in /usr/share/ somewhere. And have
181 functionality in varlinkctl to merge interface info extracted from binaries
182 with interface info on disk. And store the doc strings only in the latter.
183
184 * introduce mntid_t, and make it 64bit, as apparently the kernel switched to
185 64bit mount ids
186
187 * use udev rule networkd ownership property to take ownership of network
188 interfaces nspawn creates
189
190 * add a kernel cmdline switch (and cred?) for marking a system to be
191 "headless", in which case we never open /dev/console for reading, only for
192 writing. This would then mean: systemd-firstboot would process creds but not
193 ask interactively, getty would not be started and so on.
194
195 * cryptsetup: new crypttab option to auto-grow a luks device to its backing
196 partition size. new crypttab option to reencrypt a luks device with a new
197 volume key.
198
199 * we probably should have some infrastructure to acquire sysexts with
200 drivers/firmware for local hardware automatically. Idea: reuse the modalias
201 logic of the kernel for this: make the main OS image install a hwdb file
202 that matches against local modalias strings, and adds properties to relevant
203 devices listing names of sysexts needed to support the hw. Then provide some
204 tool that goes through all devices and tries to acquire/download the
205 specified images.
206
207 * repart + cryptsetup: support file systems that are encrypted and use verity
208 on top. Usecase: confexts that shall be signed by the admin but also be
209 confidential. Then, add a new --make-ddi=confext-encrypted for this.
210
211 * tmpfiles: add new line type for moving files from some source dir to some
212 target dir. then use that to move sysexts/confexts and stuff from initrd
213 tmpfs to /run/, so that host can pick things up.
214
215 * tiny varlink service that takes a fd passed in and serves it via http. Then
216 make use of that in networkd, and expose some EFI binary of choice for
217 DHCP/HTTP base EFI boot.
218
219 * bootctl: add reboot-to-disk which takes a block device name, and
220 automatically sets things up so that system reboots into that device next.
221
222 * maybe: in PID1, when we detect we run in an initrd, make superblock read-only
223 early on, but provide opt-out via kernel cmdline.
224
225 * systemd-pcrextend:
226 - support measuring to nvindex with PCR update semantics ("fake PCRs")
227 - add api for "allocating" such an nvindex
228 - once we have that start measuring every sysext we apply, every confext,
229 every RootImage= we apply, every nspawn and so on. All in separate fake
230 PCRs.
231
232 * vmspawn:
233 - enable hyperv extension by default (https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/i386/hyperv.html)
234 - register with machined
235 - run in scope unit when invoked from command line, and machined registration is off
236 - support --directory= via virtiofs
237 - sd_notify support
238 - --ephemeral support
239 - --read-only support
240 - automatically suspend/resume the VM if the host suspends. Use logind
241 suspend inhibitor to implement this. request clean suspend by generating
242 suspend key presses.
243 - support for "real" networking via "-n" and --network-bridge=
244 - automatically run service "at the side" for swtpm
245 - translate SIGTERM to clean ACPI shutdown event
246
247 * systemd-pcrmachine should probably also measure the SMBIOS system UUID.
248
249 * sd-boot: allow synthesizing additional type1 entries via SMBIOS vendor strings
250
251 * storagetm:
252 - add USB mass storage device logic, so that all local disks are also exposed
253 as mass storage devices on systems that have a USB controller that can
254 operate in device mode
255 - add NVMe authentication
256
257 * add support for activating nvme-oF devices at boot automatically via kernel
258 cmdline, and maybe even support a syntax such as
259 root=nvme:<trtype>:<traddr>:<trsvcid>:<nqn>:<partition> to boot directly from
260 nvme-oF
261
262 * pcrlock:
263 - make signed PCR work together with pcrlock
264 - add kernel-install plugin that automatically creates UKI .pcrlock file when
265 UKI is installed, and removes it when it is removed again
266 - automatically install PE measurement of sd-boot on "bootctl install"
267 - write generated pcrlock signature files to the ESP as credential, one for
268 each installed OS & pick up generated pcrlock signature file in sd-stub,
269 pass it via initrd to OS
270 - pre-calc sysext + kernel cmdline measurements
271 - pre-calc cryptsetup root key measurement
272 - maybe make systemd-repart generate .pcrlock for old and new GPT header in
273 /run?
274 - Add support for more than 8 branches per PCR OR
275 - add "systemd-pcrlock lock-kernel-current" or so which synthesizes .pcrlock
276 policy from currently booted kernel/event log, to close gap for first boot
277 for pre-built images
278
279 * add a new systemd-project@.service that is very similar to user@.service but
280 uses DynamicUser=1 and no PAMName= to invoke an unprivileged somewhat
281 light-weight service manager. Use HOME=/var/lib/systemd/projects/%i as home
282 dir. Similar for $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. Start project@%i.target. Use LogField= to
283 add a field identifying the project.
284
285 * in sd-boot and sd-stub measure the SMBIOS vendor strings to some PCR (at
286 least some subset of them that look like systemd stuff), because apparently
287 some firmware does not, but systemd honours it. avoid duplicate measurement
288 by sd-boot and sd-stub by adding LoaderFeatures/StubFeatures flag for this,
289 so that sd-stub can avoid it if sd-boot already did it.
290
291 * cryptsetup: a mechanism that allows signing a volume key with some key that
292 has to be present in the kernel keyring, or similar, to ensure that confext
293 DDIs can be encrypted against the local SRK but signed with the admin's key
294 and thus can authenticated locally before they are decrypted.
295
296 * image policy should be extended to allow dictating *how* a disk is unlocked,
297 i.e. root=encrypted-tpm2+encrypted-fido2 would mean "root fs must be
298 encrypted and unlocked via fido2 or tpm2, but not otherwise"
299
300 * systemd-repart: add support for formatting dm-crypt + dm-integrity file
301 systems.
302
303 * homed: use systemd-storagetm to expose home dirs via nvme-tcp. Then,
304 teach homed/pam_systemd_homed with a user name such as
305 lennart%nvme_tcp_192.168.100.77_8787 to log in from any linux host with the
306 same home dir. Similar maybe for nbd, iscsi? this should then first ask for
307 the local root pw, to authenticate that logging in like this is ok, and would
308 then be followed by another password prompt asking for the user's own
309 password. Also, do something similar for CIFS: if you log in via
310 lennart%cifs-someserver_someshare, then set up the homed dir for it
311 automatically. The PAM module should update the user name used for login to
312 the short version once it set up the user. Some care should be taken, so that
313 the long version can be still be resolved via NSS afterwards, to deal with
314 PAM clients that do not support PAM sessions where PAM_USER changes half-way.
315
316 * redefine /var/lib/extensions/ as the dir one can place all three of sysext,
317 confext as well is multi-modal DDIs that qualify as both. Then introduce
318 /var/lib/sysexts/ which can be used to place only DDIs that shall be used as
319 sysext
320
321 * in pid1: move out all cgroup state settings from Unit into a new object
322 CGroupState or so which is allocated when we realize the unit into a cgroup,
323 and then remains referenced by it. The new object should also carry an fd to
324 the realized cgroup, to pin it (and later execute all cgroup operations over,
325 once we drop cgroupv1 compat).
326
327 * Varlinkification of the following command line tools, to open them up to
328 other programs via IPC:
329 - bootctl
330 - journalctl (allowing journal read access via IPC)
331 - coredumpcl
332 - systemd-bless-boot
333 - systemd-measure
334 - systemd-cryptenroll (to allow UIs to enroll FIDO2 keys and such)
335 - systemd-dissect
336 - systemd-sysupdate
337 - systemd-analyze
338 - systemd-pcrlock (to allow fwupd to relax policy)
339 - kernel-install
340 - systemd-mount (with PK so that desktop environments could use it to mount disks)
341
342 * in the service manager, pick up ERRNO= + BUSERROR= + VARLINKERROR= error
343 identifiers, and store them along with the exit status of a server and report
344 via "systemctl status".
345
346 * enumerate virtiofs devices during boot-up in a generator, and synthesize
347 mounts for rootfs, /usr/, /home/, /srv/ and some others from it, depending on
348 the "tag". (waits for: https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd/-/issues/128)
349
350 * automatically mount one virtiofs during early boot phase to /run/host/,
351 similar to how we do that for nspawn, based on some clear tag.
352
353 * add some service that makes an atomic snapshot of PCR state and event log up
354 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
355
356 * encode type1 entries in some UKI section to add additional entries to the
357 menu.
358
359 * Add ACL-based access management to .socket units. i.e. add AllowPeerUser= +
360 AllowPeerGroup= that installs additional user/group ACL entries on AF_UNIX
361 sockets.
362
363 * systemd-tpm2-setup should probably have a factory reset logic, i.e. when some
364 kernel command line option is set we reset the TPM (equivalent of tpm2_clear
365 -c owner?).
366
367 * systemd-tpm2-setup should support a mode where we refuse booting if the SRK
368 changed. (Must be opt-in, to not break systems which are supposed to be
369 migratable between PCs)
370
371 * when systemd-sysext learns mutable /usr/ (and systemd-confext mutable /etc/)
372 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
373 snapshot logic
374
375 * add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
376 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
377 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
378 i.e. without recompiling the kernel, taking an upstream OS' kernel and adding
379 a local key to it.
380
381 * PidRef conversion work:
382 - cg_pid_get_xyz()
383 - pid_from_same_root_fs()
384 - get_ctty_devnr()
385 - pid1: sd_notify() receiver should use SCM_PIDFD to authenticate client
386 - actually wait for POLLIN on pidref's pidfd in service logic
387 - exec_spawn() + safe_fork()
388 - openpt_allocate_in_namespace()
389 - unit_attach_pid_to_cgroup_via_bus()
390 - cg_attach() – requires new kernel feature
391
392 * ddi must be listed as block device fstype
393
394 * measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
395 mode.
396
397 * homed: add a basic form of secrets management to homed, that stores
398 secrets in $HOME somewhere, is protected by the accounts own authentication
399 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
400 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
401 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
402 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
403 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
404
405 * use sd-event ratelimit feature optionally for journal stream clients that log
406 too much
407
408 * systemd-mount should only consider modern file systems when mounting, similar
409 to systemd-dissect
410
411 * add another PE section ".fname" or so that encodes the intended filename for
412 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
413 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
414 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
415 control of the attacker.
416
417 * also include packaging metadata (á la
418 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
419 same JSON format.
420
421 * make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
422 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
423 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
424 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
425 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
426 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
427 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
428 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
429 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
430 newer.
431
432 * in sd-stub: optionally add support for a new PE section .keyring or so that
433 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
434 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
435 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
436 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
437 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
438 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
439 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
440
441 * resolved: take possession of some IPv6 ULA address (let's say
442 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
443 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
444
445 * introduce a .microcode PE section for sd-stub which we'll pass as first initrd
446 to the kernel which will then upload it to the CPU. This should be distinct
447 from .initrd to guarantee right ordering. also, and maybe more importantly
448 support .microcode in PE add-ons, so that a microcode update can be shipped
449 independently of any kernel.
450
451 * Maybe add SwitchRootEx() as new bus call that takes env vars to set for new
452 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
453 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
454 requested during switch root.
455
456 * introduce a .acpitable section for early ACPI table override
457
458 * add proper .osrel matching for PE addons. i.e. refuse applying an addon
459 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
460 matched against OS.
461
462 * figure out what to do about credentials sealed to PCRs in kexec + soft-reboot
463 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
464 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
465
466 * logind: when logging in, always take an fd to the home dir, to keep the dir
467 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
468 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
469 namespaces)
470
471 * mount most file systems with a restrictive uidmap. e.g. mount /usr/ with a
472 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
473
474 * mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
475 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
476 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
477
478 * fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
479 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
480 "*:foobar:*", to wildcard match both the start and the end of the string.
481 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
482 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
483 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
484
485 * mount /tmp/ and /var/tmp with a uidmap applied that blocks out "nobody" user
486 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
487 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
488 used transiently, never persistently.
489
490 * rework loopback support in fstab: when "loop" option is used, then
491 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
492 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
493 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
494 based on lo_file_name.
495
496 * teach systemd-nspawn the boot assessment logic: hook up vpick's try counters
497 with success notifications from nspawn payloads. When this is enabled,
498 automatically support reverting back to older OS version images if newer ones
499 fail to boot.
500
501 * implement new "systemd-fsrebind" tool that works like gpt-auto-generator but
502 looks at a root dir and then applies vpick on various dirs/images to pick a
503 root tree, a /usr/ tree, a /home/, a /srv/, a /var/ tree and so on. Dirs
504 could also be btrfs subvols (combine with btrfs auto-snapshort approach for
505 creating versions like these automatically).
506
507 * remove tomoyo support, it's obsolete and unmaintained apparently
508
509 * In .socket units, add ConnectStream=, ConnectDatagram=,
510 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
511 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
512 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
513 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
514 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
515 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
516 activation-by-message id and similar.
517
518 * .service with invalid Sockets= starts successfully.
519
520 * landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
521 ability to write anywhere else below /run/. Similar for
522 StateDirectory=. Benefit would be clear delegation via unit files: services
523 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
524
525 * landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
526 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
527 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
528 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
529 similar behaviour for system services, too.
530
531 * Add systemd-mount@.service which is instantiated for a block device and
532 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
533 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
534
535 * udevd: extend memory pressure logic: also kill any idle worker processes
536
537 * udevadm: to make symlink querying with udevadm nicer:
538 - do not enable the pager for queries like 'udevadm info -q -r symlink'
539 - add mode with newlines instead of spaces (for grep)?
540
541 * SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
542 localed, oomd, timedated.
543
544 * repart/gpt-auto/DDIs: maybe introduce a concept of "extension" partitions,
545 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
546 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
547 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
548 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
549 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
550 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
551 from the uuid of the original partition it extends. Inspiration for this is
552 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
553 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
554 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
555 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
556 access.
557
558 * Use CLONE_INTO_CGROUP to spawn systemd-executor, once glibc supports it in
559 posix_spawn().
560
561 * Make nspawn to a frontend for systemd-executor, so that we have to ways into
562 the executor: via unit files/dbus/varlink through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI
563 through nspawn.
564
565 * sd-stub: detect if we are running with uefi console output on serial, and if so
566 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
567
568 * add a utility that can be used with the kernel's
569 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
570 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
571 for all umh processes.
572
573 * systemd-shutdown: keep sending sd_notify() status updates immediately before
574 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
575
576 * homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
577 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
578 resize.
579
580 * homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
581 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
582
583 * timesyncd: when saving/restoring clock try to take boot time into account.
584 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
585 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
586 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
587 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
588 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
589 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
590 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
591 system actually reset.
592
593 * systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
594 userspace to allow ordering boots (for example in journalctl). The counter
595 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
596
597 * pam_systemd_home: add module parameter to control whether to only accept
598 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
599 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
600 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
601
602 * sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
603 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
604 is then useful for network boot, by embedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
605 in sd-boot, which reference remote kernels.
606
607 * maybe prohibit setuid() to the nobody user, to lock things down, via seccomp.
608 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
609 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
610 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
611 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
612
613 * sd-boot: add a new PE section .bls or so that carries a cpio with additional
614 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
615 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
616 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
617 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
618
619 * sd-boot: also allow passing in the cpio as in the previous item via SMBIOS
620
621 * add a new EFI tool "sd-fetch" or so. It looks in a PE section ".url" for an
622 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
623 Use case: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
624 binaries in place of UKIs, and download them on-the-fly.
625
626 * maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
627 cmdline. use case: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
628
629 * systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
630 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
631 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
632
633 * sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
634 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
635
636 * tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
637 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
638 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
639 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
640 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
641 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
642 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
643 usual.
644
645 * Lennart: big blog story about DDIs
646
647 * Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
648
649 * Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
650
651 * bpf: see if we can use BPF to solve the syslog message cgroup source problem:
652 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
653 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
654 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
655 sockaddr.
656
657 * bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
658 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
659 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
660 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
661 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
662 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
663 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
664 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
665 try to use inode from there.
666
667 * extend the verity signature partition to permit multiple signatures for the
668 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
669
670 * consider adding a new partition type, just for /opt/ for usage in system
671 extensions
672
673 * gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
674 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
675 for the root fs or /usr/.
676
677 * dissection policy should enforce that unlocking can only take place by
678 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
679 combination thereof.
680
681 * make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
682 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
683 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
684 ahead of time.
685
686 * systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
687 aforementioned purpose.
688
689 * in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
690 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
691
692 * Add systemd-sysupdate-initrd.service or so that runs systemd-sysupdate in the
693 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
694 to figure out:
695 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
696 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
697 subsequent boots?
698
699 * revisit default PCR bindings in cryptenroll and systemd-creds. Currently they
700 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
701 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
702 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
703 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
704 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
705 default to PCR 15 at least if sd-stub is used (i.e. bind to system identity),
706 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
707 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
708 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
709
710 * To mimic the new tpm2-measure-pcr= crypttab option add the same to veritytab
711 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
712 used)
713
714 * We should start measuring all services, containers, and system extensions we
715 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
716 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
717 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
718 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
719
720 * bootspec: permit graceful "update" from type #2 to type #1. If both a type #1
721 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
722 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
723 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
724 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
725 should win over vendor defaults.
726
727 * write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
728 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
729 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
730
731 * automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
732 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
733
734 * systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
735
736 * systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
737 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
738 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Use case: remove secondary OS
739 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
740
741 * systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
742 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
743 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
744 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
745 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
746 only one for each OS.
747
748 * systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
749 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
750 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
751 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
752 boot, for the next.
753
754 * systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
755 similar behind it, instead of http.
756
757 * systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
758 boot, or on first boot.
759
760 * in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
761 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
762
763 * we probably needs .pcrpkeyrd or so as additional PE section in UKIs,
764 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
765 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
766 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
767 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
768 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
769 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
770 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
771 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
772 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
773 until users are allowed to log in).
774
775 * Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
776 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
777
778 * add support for asymmetric LUKS2 TPM based encryption. i.e. allow preparing
779 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
780 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
781 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Use case: systemd-confext
782 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
783 be activated on one specific host (which can be used for installing a bunch
784 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
785 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
786 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
787 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
788 automatically invalidated outside of it.
789
790 * maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
791 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
792 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
793 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
794 enhanced remote attestation quote. Use case: a simple orchestrator could use
795 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
796 have the orchestrator collect these reports centrally over a 3min time
797 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
798 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
799 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
800 proposed above, so that it can only be activated on the specific host, if the
801 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
802 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
803 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
804 config and collected reports in the last 3min time window only, and thus can
805 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
806 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
807 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
808 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
809 and via the time window TPM logic invalidated if node doesn't keep itself
810 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
811
812 * in the initrd, once the rootfs encryption key has been measured to PCR 15,
813 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
814
815 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to use sd_event_set_signal_exit(), instead
816 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
817
818 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
819 instead of manual blocking.
820
821 * sd-boot: for each installed OS, grey out older entries (i.e. all but the
822 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
823
824 * automatically propagate LUKS password credential into cryptsetup from host
825 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
826 supplied password.
827
828 * add ability to path_is_valid() to classify paths that refer to a dir from
829 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
830 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
831 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
832
833 * systemd-measure: allow operating with PEM certificates in addition to PEM
834 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
835 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
836 convenience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
837
838 * systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
839 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
840 automatically derived from --private-key=).
841
842 * Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
843 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
844 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
845 use as additional search condition. Use case: images that combined a sysext
846 partition with a portable service partition in one.
847
848 * On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
849 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
850 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
851 modules
852
853 * for systemd-confext: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
854 sig using squashfs-tools-ng's library. Maybe just systemd-repart called under
855 a new name with a built-in config?
856
857 * lock down acceptable encrypted credentials at boot, via simple allowlist,
858 maybe on kernel command line:
859 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
860 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
861
862 * Add support for extra verity configuration options to systemd-repart (FEC,
863 hash type, etc)
864
865 * chase(): take inspiration from path_extract_filename() and return
866 O_DIRECTORY if input path contains trailing slash.
867
868 * chase(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
869 but final node is not a directory
870
871 * document in boot loader spec that symlinks in XBOOTLDR/ESP are not OK even if
872 non-VFAT fs is used.
873
874 * measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
875
876 * measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
877 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
878
879 * pick up creds from EFI vars
880
881 * Add and pickup tpm2 metadata for creds structure.
882
883 * sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
884 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
885 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
886 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
887 affect PCR values.
888
889 * systemd-measure tool:
890 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
891
892 * in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
893 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
894
895 * sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
896 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
897
898 * sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
899 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
900
901 * sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
902 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
903
904 * maybe add new flags to gpt partition tables for rootfs and usrfs indicating
905 purpose, i.e. whether something is supposed to be bootable in a VM, on
906 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
907 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
908 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
909 use it.
910
911 * sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
912 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
913
914 * add "systemd-sysext identify" verb, that you can point on any file in /usr/
915 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
916 what it was signed.
917
918 * systemd-creds: extend encryption logic to support asymmetric
919 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
920 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
921 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
922 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
923 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
924 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
925 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
926 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
927 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
928 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
929 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
930
931 * building on top of the above, the pub/priv key pair generated on the TPM2
932 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
933
934 * Process credentials in:
935 • crypttab-generator: allow defining additional crypttab-like volumes via
936 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
937 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
938 • run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
939 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
940 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
941 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
942 • repart: allow defining additional partitions via credential
943 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
944 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
945 file system paths to enable on start.
946 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
947 usr=
948 • in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
949 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
950 pre-built kernels.
951
952 * define a JSON format for units, separating out unit definitions from unit
953 runtime state. Then, expose it:
954
955 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
956 about the unit.
957 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
958 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
959 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
960 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
961 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
962 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
963
964 * Add SUPPORT_END_URL= field to os-release with more *actionable* information
965 what to do if support ended
966
967 * pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
968 login time, à la motd
969
970 * sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
971 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
972 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Use case: embed sd-boot in the
973 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
974 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
975
976 * mount /var/ from initrd, so that we can apply sysext and stuff before the
977 initrd transition. Specifically:
978 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
979 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
980 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
981
982 * make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
983 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
984 service restarts, hot reboot, cold reboots (depending on configuration): the
985 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
986 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
987 depending on desired level of persistency.
988
989 * sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
990 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
991 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
992 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
993 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
994 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
995 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
996 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
997
998 * if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
999 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
1000 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
1001 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
1002
1003 * add ability to set hostname with suffix derived from machine id at boot
1004
1005 * add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
1006
1007 * homed/userdb: maybe define a "companion" dir for home directories where apps
1008 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
1009 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
1010 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Use case: container
1011 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
1012 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
1013 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
1014 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
1015 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
1016 by. Inform user code about path to this companion dir via env var, so that
1017 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
1018 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
1019 not unprivileged code.
1020
1021 * maybe add support for binding and connecting AF_UNIX sockets in the file
1022 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
1023 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
1024 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
1025
1026 * add a proper concept of a "developer" mode, i.e. where cryptographic
1027 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
1028 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
1029 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
1030 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
1031 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
1032 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
1033 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is the only way to enter developer mode, by
1034 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
1035
1036 * services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
1037 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
1038 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
1039 order.
1040
1041 * update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
1042 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
1043 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
1044
1045 * sd-event: compat wd reuse in inotify code: keep a set of removed watch
1046 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
1047 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
1048 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
1049 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
1050 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
1051 IN_IGNORED again)
1052
1053 * for vendor-built signed initrds:
1054 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
1055 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
1056 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
1057 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
1058 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
1059 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
1060 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
1061 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
1062 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
1063 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
1064 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
1065
1066 * Maybe extend the service protocol to support handling of some specific SIGRT
1067 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
1068 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
1069
1070 * sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
1071 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
1072 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
1073 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
1074 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
1075 directly to host service manager.
1076
1077 * sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
1078 no api to query the device id
1079
1080 * sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1081 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1082 also be queried.
1083
1084 * sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
1085 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1086 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1087 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
1088
1089 * sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
1090 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1091 latter).
1092
1093 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1094
1095 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
1096
1097 * support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
1098 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
1099 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
1100 generated by GNU sha256sums.
1101
1102 * sd-boot: maybe add support for embedding the various auxiliary resources we
1103 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
1104 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
1105 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
1106 to the menu. Use case: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
1107 UEFI HTTP boot.
1108
1109 * maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
1110 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
1111 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
1112 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
1113 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
1114 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
1115 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
1116 hence cheap for enumeration.
1117
1118 * sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
1119
1120 * systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
1121 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1122 words: show partition labels).
1123
1124 * maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
1125 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
1126 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
1127 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. Use case:
1128 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
1129 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
1130 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
1131
1132 * deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
1133
1134 * systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
1135
1136 * per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1137 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1138 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1139 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1140 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1141 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1142 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1143 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1144 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1145 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1146
1147 * doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
1148 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
1149
1150 * doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
1151 jobs, units
1152
1153 * bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
1154 sync, i.e. parse out architecture field in sd-boot (currently only done in
1155 userspace)
1156
1157 * automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
1158
1159 * add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
1160 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1161
1162 * Enable RestrictFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
1163 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
1164
1165 * Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1166 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
1167
1168 * cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
1169 internal clock.
1170
1171 * man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1172 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1173
1174 * sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1175 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1176 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1177 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
1178
1179 * userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
1180 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1181 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1182
1183 * homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
1184 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
1185 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
1186 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
1187 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
1188 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
1189 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
1190 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
1191 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
1192 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
1193 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1194 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1195 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1196 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1197 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
1198
1199 * add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
1200 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
1201 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Use case: drop a root user JSON record there,
1202 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
1203 for debugging purposes. Other use case: boot into qemu with regular user
1204 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
1205
1206 * drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
1207 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
1208 dep in the base OS image)
1209
1210 * add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
1211 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1212 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1213 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1214 on-disk storage.
1215
1216 * userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
1217 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1218 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1219 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1220 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1221
1222 * portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
1223 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1224 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
1225
1226 * /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
1227 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1228 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1229 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1230
1231 * we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
1232 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1233 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1234 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1235 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1236 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1237 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1238 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1239 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1240 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1241 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
1242
1243 * in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
1244 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1245 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
1246
1247 * rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
1248
1249 * PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
1250
1251 * when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1252 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1253 that images cannot be misused.
1254
1255 * New udev block device symlink names:
1256 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
1257 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1258 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1259 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1260
1261 * sysupdate:
1262 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1263 - support casync as download mechanism
1264 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1265 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1266 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1267 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1268 update component, since otherwise sysupdate.d/ files would override the
1269 host's update files.)
1270 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1271 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1272 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1273 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1274
1275 * in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1276
1277 * DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1278 make dirs appear under right UID.
1279
1280 * systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1281 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1282
1283 * introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
1284 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1285 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1286 already have it.
1287
1288 * whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1289 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1290
1291 * Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
1292
1293 * Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1294 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1295 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1296 /proc/self/fd/3
1297
1298 * add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1299 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1300 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1301
1302 * Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1303 that is deleted in the fs. Use case would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1304
1305 * importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1306 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1307
1308 * add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1309 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1310 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1311 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1312 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
1313
1314 * expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1315
1316 * credentials system:
1317 - acquire from EFI variable?
1318 - acquire via ask-password?
1319 - acquire creds via keyring?
1320 - pass creds via keyring?
1321 - pass creds via memfd?
1322 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1323 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1324 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1325 - make macsec code in networkd read key via creds logic (copy logic from
1326 wireguard)
1327 - make gatewayd/remote read key via creds logic
1328 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
1329
1330 * TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1331 and such
1332
1333 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
1334
1335 * cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
1336
1337 * cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
1338 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1339
1340 * cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1341 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
1342
1343 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1344
1345 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1346 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1347
1348 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1349 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1350
1351 * cryptsetup:
1352 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1353 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1354
1355 * systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
1356
1357 * Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1358 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1359
1360 * special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
1361 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1362
1363 * add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
1364 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1365
1366 * make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1367
1368 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1369
1370 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1371 when it exits
1372
1373 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1374 o turn into dlopen() deps:
1375 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
1376 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
1377 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1378 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1379 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1380
1381 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1382 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1383 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1384
1385 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1386 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1387
1388 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1389
1390 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1391 specific service
1392
1393 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1394 exists and responds.
1395
1396 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
1397 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
1398
1399 * unify on openssl:
1400 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1401 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1402 gnutls
1403 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
1404
1405 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1406 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1407
1408 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1409 realname substr searches in varlink API
1410
1411 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1412
1413 * userdb: allow existence checks
1414
1415 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
1416
1417 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1418 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1419 initrd had set.
1420
1421 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
1422 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
1423 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1424 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1425 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1426 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1427
1428 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1429 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1430 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1431
1432 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1433 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1434 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1435 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1436 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1437 source.
1438
1439 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1440 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1441 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1442
1443 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1444
1445 * We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1446 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
1447
1448 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
1449
1450 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1451 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1452 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1453 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1454 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1455 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1456 exec().
1457
1458 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1459
1460 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1461 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1462
1463 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1464 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1465
1466 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1467 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1468 root.
1469
1470 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1471 is issued.
1472
1473 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1474
1475 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1476
1477 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1478 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1479 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
1480
1481 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
1482 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1483 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1484
1485 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1486
1487 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1488 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1489
1490 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
1491 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
1492 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
1493 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
1494
1495 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1496
1497 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1498
1499 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1500 non-zero "tries done" count
1501
1502 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1503 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1504 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1505 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1506 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1507 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1508 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1509 CODE_FILE.
1510
1511 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1512 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1513 some explanatory text online.
1514
1515 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1516
1517 * hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
1518
1519 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1520 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1521
1522 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1523 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1524 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1525 files and suchlike we operate on.
1526
1527 * importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1528
1529 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1530
1531 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1532 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1533
1534 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
1535 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
1536
1537 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1538 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1539 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1540 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1541 unlinked from any dir.
1542
1543 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
1544
1545 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1546
1547 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1548
1549 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
1550 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
1551 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1552 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
1553 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
1554
1555 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1556
1557 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1558 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1559
1560 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1561 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1562 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1563 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1564 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1565 different slice too by default. Use case: people who want to put resources on
1566 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1567 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1568
1569 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1570 for root, but only then.
1571
1572 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1573 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1574
1575 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1576 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1577
1578 * sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1579 only when used. Add unit tests.
1580
1581 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1582 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1583
1584 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1585 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1586 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1587 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1588 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1589
1590 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
1591
1592 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
1593
1594 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1595 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1596
1597 * blog about fd store and restartable services
1598
1599 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1600
1601 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1602 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1603
1604 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1605 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1606 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1607 ID is available.
1608
1609 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1610 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1611 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1612
1613 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1614 parameters
1615
1616 * maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
1617 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
1618 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1619 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1620 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1621 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1622 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
1623
1624 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1625 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1626
1627 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1628 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1629 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1630
1631 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1632 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1633
1634 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1635
1636 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1637 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1638 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1639
1640 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1641 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1642
1643 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1644 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1645 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1646 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1647 natural habitat.
1648
1649 * gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1650 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
1651
1652 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1653 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1654 relative to the configured default value.
1655
1656 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1657
1658 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
1659
1660 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1661
1662 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1663
1664 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
1665
1666 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
1667
1668 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
1669
1670 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
1671
1672 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1673 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1674 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1675
1676 * Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1677 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1678
1679 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
1680
1681 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1682 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1683 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1684 mapping to work.
1685
1686 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1687
1688 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1689
1690 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1691
1692 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1693 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1694
1695 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1696 reload the unit file anyway
1697
1698 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1699
1700 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1701
1702 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1703 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1704
1705 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
1706 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
1707 specifications.
1708
1709 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1710
1711 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1712
1713 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
1714 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
1715 prefixed with /sys generally special.
1716 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
1717
1718 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1719
1720 * docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
1721
1722 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1723 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1724 state.
1725 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
1726
1727 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1728 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1729 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1730 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1731 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1732
1733 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1734
1735 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
1736 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
1737
1738 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
1739 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
1740
1741 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
1742 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
1743
1744 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1745
1746 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1747 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1748
1749 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
1750
1751 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
1752
1753 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
1754
1755 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1756 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1757
1758 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1759
1760 * resolved:
1761 - mDNS/DNS-SD
1762 - service registration
1763 - service/domain/types browsing
1764 - avahi compat
1765 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
1766 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1767 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1768 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
1769 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
1770 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
1771
1772 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
1773
1774 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1775
1776 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1777
1778 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1779
1780 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1781
1782 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1783 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
1784
1785 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1786
1787 * gpt-auto-generator:
1788 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
1789 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
1790
1791 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1792 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1793 when it is otherwise off
1794
1795 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
1796
1797 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1798 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1799 for ReusePort=
1800
1801 * cgroups:
1802 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
1803 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1804 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1805 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1806 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1807 the hierarchies of child processes
1808 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1809 maybe use them for user@.service
1810
1811 * transient units:
1812 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
1813
1814 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1815
1816 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1817
1818 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1819
1820 * 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
1821
1822 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1823 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
1824 path anyway.
1825
1826 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
1827
1828 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1829
1830 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1831
1832 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1833
1834 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1835
1836 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1837 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1838 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1839
1840 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1841 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1842
1843 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1844
1845 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1846
1847 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1848
1849 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1850 needs to be auto-respawned?
1851
1852 * pid1:
1853 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1854 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1855 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1856 that are not supported...
1857 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1858 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1859 - move PAM code into its own binary
1860 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1861 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1862 - Support --test based on current system state
1863 - 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().
1864 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1865 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1866 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1867 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1868 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1869 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1870 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1871 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1872 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1873 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1874 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1875 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1876
1877 * unit files:
1878 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1879 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1880 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1881 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1882 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1883 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1884 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1885 - introduce Type=pid-file
1886 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1887 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1888 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1889
1890 * timer units:
1891 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
1892 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1893
1894 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1895
1896 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1897
1898 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1899
1900 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1901
1902 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1903
1904 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1905
1906 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1907
1908 * test/:
1909 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
1910
1911 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
1912 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
1913 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1914 destination.
1915
1916 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1917 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1918
1919 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1920
1921 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1922 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1923 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1924
1925 * BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1926 compliant boot loader is installed.
1927
1928 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? use case:
1929 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1930 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1931 that automatically.
1932
1933 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
1934
1935 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
1936
1937 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1938
1939 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
1940
1941 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1942
1943 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1944
1945 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1946
1947 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1948
1949 * sd-bus:
1950 - EBADSLT handling
1951 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1952 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1953 - 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
1954 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1955 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1956 - longer term: priority inheritance
1957 - dbus spec updates:
1958 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
1959 - path escaping
1960 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1961
1962 * sd-event
1963 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1964 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1965 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1966 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1967 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1968 here:
1969 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1970
1971 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1972 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1973
1974 * document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
1975
1976 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1977
1978 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1979
1980 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1981
1982 * EFI:
1983 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1984 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
1985 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
1986 * bootctl
1987 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
1988
1989 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
1990
1991 * bootctl:
1992 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
1993 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1994 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
1995
1996 * logind:
1997 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
1998 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1999 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
2000 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
2001 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
2002 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
2003 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
2004 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
2005 needs setuid().
2006 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
2007 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
2008 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
2009 complete.
2010 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2011 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2012 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
2013 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
2014 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2015 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2016 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2017 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2018 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2019 relogins
2020 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
2021 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
2022 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
2023 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
2024
2025 * move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2026
2027 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2028 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2029 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2030
2031 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2032 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2033
2034 * journal:
2035 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
2036 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2037 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2038 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2039 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
2040 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
2041 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2042 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2043 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
2044 message that works, but already after a short timeout
2045 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2046 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
2047 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
2048 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
2049 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
2050 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
2051 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
2052 - 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.
2053 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2054 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
2055 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2056 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2057 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2058 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
2059 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
2060 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
2061 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
2062 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2063 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2064 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2065 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2066 to syslog when it works again.
2067 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2068 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2069 journals in.
2070 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2071 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2072 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2073 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2074 the most common operations.
2075 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
2076 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2077 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2078 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2079 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2080 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2081 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2082 operation.
2083 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
2084 written to as FAIL, but instead show that they are being written to.
2085 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2086 binary logs data
2087 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
2088 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2089 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2090 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2091 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
2092 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
2093
2094 * journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2095 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2096
2097 * Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2098 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2099 validated via TPM.
2100
2101 * rework journalctl -M to be based on a machined method that generates a mount
2102 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2103 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2104
2105 * journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2106 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2107 cursors as they happen.
2108
2109 * journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2110 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2111 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2112 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2113 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2114 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2115 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2116 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2117 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2118
2119 * in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2120 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2121 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2122 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
2123 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
2124 log record, adjusted by the delta declared in the structured log record.
2125
2126 * in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2127 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2128 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2129 records, to be able to order them.
2130
2131 * journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2132 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2133 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2134 be safely written to disk, then.
2135
2136 * hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2137 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2138 inspiration from IMA log)
2139
2140 * sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2141 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2142 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2143
2144 * maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
2145 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
2146 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
2147 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2148 for doing that.
2149
2150 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2151 log.c and sd-journal-send
2152
2153 * journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2154 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2155 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2156 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2157 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2158 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2159 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2160 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2161 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2162 an NTP sync is acquired.
2163
2164 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
2165
2166 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2167 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2168 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2169
2170 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2171 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2172 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2173 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2174 cgroup.
2175
2176 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2177 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2178 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2179 logging.
2180
2181 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2182
2183 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2184 from the SIGBUS handler
2185
2186 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
2187 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2188 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2189 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2190
2191 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2192 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2193
2194 * homed:
2195 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2196 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2197 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
2198 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2199 - create on activate?
2200 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2201 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2202 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2203 systemd --user is shut down.
2204 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2205 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2206 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2207 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2208 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2209 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2210 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2211 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2212 - query password from kernel keyring first
2213 - update even if record is "absent"
2214 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2215 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2216 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2217 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2218 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
2219 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2220 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2221 doesn't mean user B sees it
2222 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
2223 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2224 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2225 signature
2226 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2227 and insert a local signature instead.
2228 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2229 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2230 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2231 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2232 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2233 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2234 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2235 easily?
2236 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2237 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
2238 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2239 can easily set overall quota for all users
2240 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2241 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
2242 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
2243 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
2244 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2245 large.
2246 - add "homectl unbind" command to remove local user record of an inactive
2247 home dir
2248
2249 * add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2250 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2251 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2252
2253 * systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
2254
2255 * systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2256 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2257 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2258 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2259
2260 * systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2261
2262 * systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2263 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2264 something goes wrong on the way.
2265
2266 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2267 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2268 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2269 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2270
2271 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2272 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2273 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2274 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2275 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2276 automatically.
2277
2278 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2279 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2280
2281 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2282 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2283 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2284 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2285 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2286 fails to apply use the latter.
2287
2288 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2289 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2290
2291 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2292 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2293
2294 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2295 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
2296 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
2297
2298 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2299 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2300
2301 * systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
2302 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2303 during boot.
2304
2305 * systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2306
2307 * document:
2308 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
2309 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2310 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
2311 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
2312 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2313 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
2314 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2315 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
2316 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2317 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
2318 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
2319 - document root=gpt-auto properly
2320
2321 * systemctl:
2322 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2323 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2324 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2325 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
2326 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
2327 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
2328
2329 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2330 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2331 it should skip the variant type string though.
2332
2333 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2334 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2335 the slices, and the units attached to them.
2336
2337 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2338 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2339 wait to retrieve their exit data.
2340
2341 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2342 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
2343
2344 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2345 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2346 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2347 do, for example)
2348
2349 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2350 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2351 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2352 returning from the "systemctl stop".
2353
2354 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2355
2356 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2357
2358 * unit install:
2359 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2360 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
2361
2362 * nspawn:
2363 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2364 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2365 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2366 from the kernel's logs.
2367 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2368 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2369 interface be missing
2370 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2371 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2372 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2373 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2374 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2375 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2376 PID 1...
2377 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2378 running, remove them when shut down.
2379 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2380 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2381 startup.
2382 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2383 or so, freeze the payload too.
2384 - support time namespaces
2385 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2386 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2387 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2388 "machinectl shell"
2389 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2390 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2391 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2392 - greater control over selinux label?
2393 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2394 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2395 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2396 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2397 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2398 host TPM.
2399 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2400 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2401 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2402 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2403 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2404 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2405 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2406 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
2407 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2408 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
2409 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2410 or two sockets.
2411 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
2412
2413 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2414 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2415 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2416 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2417 anything like that.
2418
2419 * machined:
2420 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2421 removed or added to an existing machine
2422 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2423 difference host, via ssh
2424 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2425 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2426 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2427 question
2428 - "machinectl history"
2429 - "machinectl diff"
2430 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2431 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2432
2433 * udev:
2434 - move to LGPL
2435 - kill scsi_id
2436 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
2437 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
2438 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
2439 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
2440
2441 * coredump:
2442 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
2443 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
2444 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
2445
2446 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2447
2448 * tmpfiles:
2449 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
2450 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
2451 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
2452 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2453 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2454 calls follow symlinks.
2455 - add --test mode
2456 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2457 project quota
2458 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
2459 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2460 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
2461
2462 * udev-link-config:
2463 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2464 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2465 on Path= matching
2466
2467 * sd-rtnl:
2468 - add support for more attribute types
2469 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
2470
2471 * networkd:
2472 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2473 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
2474 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
2475 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
2476 - work with non-Ethernet devices
2477 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
2478 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2479 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2480 - expose in the API the following bits:
2481 - option 15, domain name
2482 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
2483 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2484 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2485 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2486 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2487 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2488 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
2489 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
2490
2491 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2492
2493 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2494
2495 * dhcp:
2496 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
2497
2498 * dhcp6:
2499 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2500 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2501 - write more test cases
2502 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
2503 - implement support for temporary addresses (IA_TA)
2504 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2505 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2506 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2507 or interface down
2508 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2509 this behavior
2510 - RouteTable= ?
2511
2512 * shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2513 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2514 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)