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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 11External:
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
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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=
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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
76c068b7 30 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
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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
3a9e659a 53 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/early boot
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55Regularly:
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
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69Janitorial Clean-ups:
70
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71* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
72 semantics, like we do for device.c now
73
f461a28d 74* get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase() and related
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75 calls instead.
76
77* get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
78
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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
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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
b3e199ce 87* generators sometimes apply C escaping and sometimes specifier escaping to
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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
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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
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95Deprecations and removals:
96
97* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
98 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
99
b3e199ce 100* remove cgroups v1 support EOY 2023. As per
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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
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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
9eb41aab 107 is only supported for such old kernels.
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109* drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
110 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
111
9eb41aab 112* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
3345802c 113 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
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114 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
115 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
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116 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
117
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118* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
119 baseline is 5.8.
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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
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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.
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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
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131Features:
132
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133* systemd-nspawn should get the same SSH key support that vmspawn now has.
134
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135* insert the new pidfs inode number as a third field into PidRef, so that
136 PidRef are reasonably serializable without having to pass around fds.
137
138* systemd-analyze smbios11 to dump smbios type 11 vendor strings
139
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140* move documentation about our common env vars (SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL,
141 SYSTEMD_PAGER, …) into a man page of its own, and just link it from our
fcaa5105 142 various man pages that so far embed the whole list again and again, in an
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143 attempt to reduce clutter and noise a bid.
144
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145* vmspawn switch default swtpm PCR bank to SHA384-only (away from SHA256), at
146 least on 64bit archs, simply because SHA384 is typically double the hashing
147 speed than SHA256 on 64bit archs (since based on 64bit words unlike SHA256
148 which uses 32bit words).
149
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150* In vmspawn/nspawn/machined wait for X_SYSTEMD_UNIT_ACTIVE=ssh-active.target
151 and X_SYSTEMD_SIGNAL_LEVEL=2 as indication whether/when SSH and the POSIX
152 signals are available. Similar for D-Bus (but just use sockets.target for
153 that). Report as property for the machine.
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155* teach nspawn/machined a new bus call/verb that gets you a
156 shell in containers that have no sensible pid1, via joining the container,
157 and invoking a shell directly. Then provide another new bus call/vern that is
158 somewhat automatic: if we detect that pid1 is running and fully booted up we
159 provide a proper login shell, otherwise just a joined shell. Then expose that
160 as primary way into the container.
161
162* make vmspawn/nspawn/importd/machined a bit more usable in a WSL-like
163 fashion. i.e. teach unpriv systemd-vmspawn/systemd-nspawn a reasonable
164 --bind-user= behaviour that mounts the calling user through into the
165 machine. Then, ship importd with a small database of well known distro images
166 along with their pinned signature keys. Then add some minimal glue that binds
167 this together: downloads a suitable image if not done so yet, starts it in
168 the bg via vmspawn/nspawn if not done so yet and then requests a shell inside
169 it for the invoking user.
170
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171* make varlink.h a public API, i.e. give all symbols an sd_ prefix, and rename
172 header file to sd-varlink.h. This of course also means we have to make json.h
173 public the same way. Convert the function param checks from assert() to
174 assert_ret(). Only export the stuff we are sure about, and keep some symbols
175 internally where things are not clear whether we want other projects to use.
176
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177* machined: allow running in a per-user instance too, to allow unpriv
178 systemd-nspawn and systemd-vmspawn do something useful. (Alternatively: open
179 up system machined to unpriv client's registering their machines, and enforce
180 they come with some prefix or suffix that clarifies they are the
181 user's. i.e. when a user registers a machine it must be called
182 foobar.<username> or so.).
183
184* importd/…: define per-user dirs for container/VM images too.
185
666a348d 186* add a new specifier to unit files that figures out the DDI the unit file is
630023e2 187 from, tracing through overlayfs, DM, loopback block device.
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189* importd/importctl
190 - import generator
191 - port tar handling to libarchive
192 - add varlink interface
193 - download images into .v/ dirs
194
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195* in os-release define a field that can be initialized at build time from
196 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (maybe even under that name?). Would then be used to
197 initialize the timestamp logic of ConditionNeedsUpdate=.
198
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199* nspawn/vmspawn/pid1: add ability to easily insert fully booted VMs/FOSC into
200 shell pipelines, i.e. add easy to use switch that turns off console status
201 output, and generates the right credentials for systemd-run-generator so that
202 a program is invoked, and its output captured, with correct EOF handling and
203 exit code propagation
204
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205* new systemd-analyze "join" verb or so, for debugging services. Would be
206 nsenter on steroids, i.e invoke a shell or command line in an environment as
207 close as we can make it for the MainPID of a service. Should be built around
208 pidfd, so that we can reasonably robustly do this. Would only cover the
209 execution environment like namespaces, but not the privilege settings.
210
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211* varlink: extend varlink IDL macros to include documentation strings
212
10e3f15a 213* Introduce a CGroupRef structure, inspired by PidRef. Should contain cgroup
ff509772 214 path, cgroup id, and cgroup fd. Use it to continuously pin all v2 cgroups via
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215 a cgroup_ref field in the CGroupRuntime structure. Eventually switch things
216 over to do all cgroupfs access only via that structure's fd.
217
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218* Get rid of the symlinks in /run/systemd/units/* and exclusively use cgroupfs
219 xattrs to convey info about invocation ids, logging settings and so on.
220 support for cgroupfs xattrs in the "trusted." namespace was added in linux
221 3.7, i.e. which we don't pretend to support anymore.
222
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223* rewrite bpf-devices in libbpf/C code, rather than home-grown BPF assembly, to
224 match bpf-restrict-fs, bpf-restrict-ifaces, bpf-socket-bind
225
226* ditto: rewrite bpf-firewall in libbpf/C code
227
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228* credentials: if we ever acquire a secure way to derive cgroup id of socket
229 peers (i.e. SO_PEERCGROUPID), then extend the "scoped" credential logic to
230 allow cgroup-scoped (i.e. app or service scoped) credentials. Then, as next
231 step use this to implement per-app/per-service encrypted directories, where
232 we set up fscrypt on the StateDirectory= with a randomized key which is
233 stored as xattr on the directory, encrypted as a credential.
234
235* credentials: optionally include a per-user secret in scoped user-credential
236 encryption keys. should come from homed in some way, derived from the luks
237 volume key or fscrypt directory key.
238
239* credentials: add a flag to the scoped credentials that if set require PK
240 reauthentication when unlocking a secret.
241
242* teach systemd --user to properly load credentials off disk, with
3600b0f4 243 /etc/credstore equivalent and similar. Make sure that $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY=
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244 actually works too when run with user privs.
245
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246* extend the smbios11 logic for passing credentials so that instead of passing
247 the credential data literally it can also just reference an AF_VSOCK CID/port
248 to read them from. This way the data doesn't remain in the SMBIOS blob during
249 runtime, but only in the credentials fs.
250
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251* machined: make machine registration available via varlink to simplify
252 nspawn/vmspawn, and to have an extensible way to register VM/machine metadata
253
254* ssh-proxy: add support for "ssh machine/foobar" to automatically connect to
255 machined registered machine "foobar". Requires updating machined to track CID
256 and unix-export dir of containers.
257
73d8041c 258* add a new ExecStart= flag that inserts the configured user's shell as first
bdc79e5f 259 word in the command line. (maybe use character '.'). Usecase: tool such as
7aed4343 260 run0 can use that to spawn the target user's default shell.
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262* varlink: figure out how to do docs for our varlink interfaces. Idea: install
263 interface files augmented with docs in /usr/share/ somewhere. And have
264 functionality in varlinkctl to merge interface info extracted from binaries
265 with interface info on disk. And store the doc strings only in the latter.
266
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267* introduce mntid_t, and make it 64bit, as apparently the kernel switched to
268 64bit mount ids
269
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270* use udev rule networkd ownership property to take ownership of network
271 interfaces nspawn creates
272
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273* mountfsd/nsresourced
274 - userdb: maybe allow callers to map one uid to their own uid
275 - bpflsm: allow writes if resulting UID on disk would be userns' owner UID
276 - make encrypted DDIs work (password…)
277 - add API for creating a new file system from scratch (together with some
278 dm-integrity/HMAC key). Should probably work using systemd-repart (access
279 via varlink).
280 - add api to make an existing file "trusted" via dm-integry/HMAC key
281 - port: portabled
282 - port: tmpfiles, sysusers and similar
283 - lets see if we can make runtime bind mounts into unpriv nspawn work
284
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285* add a kernel cmdline switch (and cred?) for marking a system to be
286 "headless", in which case we never open /dev/console for reading, only for
287 writing. This would then mean: systemd-firstboot would process creds but not
288 ask interactively, getty would not be started and so on.
289
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290* cryptsetup: new crypttab option to auto-grow a luks device to its backing
291 partition size. new crypttab option to reencrypt a luks device with a new
292 volume key.
293
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294* we probably should have some infrastructure to acquire sysexts with
295 drivers/firmware for local hardware automatically. Idea: reuse the modalias
296 logic of the kernel for this: make the main OS image install a hwdb file
297 that matches against local modalias strings, and adds properties to relevant
298 devices listing names of sysexts needed to support the hw. Then provide some
299 tool that goes through all devices and tries to acquire/download the
300 specified images.
301
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302* repart + cryptsetup: support file systems that are encrypted and use verity
303 on top. Usecase: confexts that shall be signed by the admin but also be
304 confidential. Then, add a new --make-ddi=confext-encrypted for this.
305
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306* tmpfiles: add new line type for moving files from some source dir to some
307 target dir. then use that to move sysexts/confexts and stuff from initrd
308 tmpfs to /run/, so that host can pick things up.
309
310* tiny varlink service that takes a fd passed in and serves it via http. Then
311 make use of that in networkd, and expose some EFI binary of choice for
312 DHCP/HTTP base EFI boot.
313
314* bootctl: add reboot-to-disk which takes a block device name, and
315 automatically sets things up so that system reboots into that device next.
316
317* maybe: in PID1, when we detect we run in an initrd, make superblock read-only
318 early on, but provide opt-out via kernel cmdline.
319
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320* systemd-pcrextend:
321 - support measuring to nvindex with PCR update semantics ("fake PCRs")
322 - add api for "allocating" such an nvindex
323 - once we have that start measuring every sysext we apply, every confext,
620788da 324 every RootImage= we apply, every nspawn and so on. All in separate fake
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325 PCRs.
326
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327* vmspawn:
328 - enable hyperv extension by default (https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/i386/hyperv.html)
329 - register with machined
330 - run in scope unit when invoked from command line, and machined registration is off
331 - support --directory= via virtiofs
332 - sd_notify support
333 - --ephemeral support
334 - --read-only support
335 - automatically suspend/resume the VM if the host suspends. Use logind
336 suspend inhibitor to implement this. request clean suspend by generating
337 suspend key presses.
338 - support for "real" networking via "-n" and --network-bridge=
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339 - translate SIGTERM to clean ACPI shutdown event
340
341* systemd-pcrmachine should probably also measure the SMBIOS system UUID.
342
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343* sd-boot: allow synthesizing additional type1 entries via SMBIOS vendor strings
344
345* storagetm:
346 - add USB mass storage device logic, so that all local disks are also exposed
347 as mass storage devices on systems that have a USB controller that can
348 operate in device mode
349 - add NVMe authentication
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351* add support for activating nvme-oF devices at boot automatically via kernel
352 cmdline, and maybe even support a syntax such as
353 root=nvme:<trtype>:<traddr>:<trsvcid>:<nqn>:<partition> to boot directly from
354 nvme-oF
355
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356* pcrlock:
357 - make signed PCR work together with pcrlock
358 - add kernel-install plugin that automatically creates UKI .pcrlock file when
359 UKI is installed, and removes it when it is removed again
360 - automatically install PE measurement of sd-boot on "bootctl install"
361 - write generated pcrlock signature files to the ESP as credential, one for
362 each installed OS & pick up generated pcrlock signature file in sd-stub,
363 pass it via initrd to OS
364 - pre-calc sysext + kernel cmdline measurements
365 - pre-calc cryptsetup root key measurement
366 - maybe make systemd-repart generate .pcrlock for old and new GPT header in
367 /run?
368 - Add support for more than 8 branches per PCR OR
369 - add "systemd-pcrlock lock-kernel-current" or so which synthesizes .pcrlock
370 policy from currently booted kernel/event log, to close gap for first boot
371 for pre-built images
372
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373* in sd-boot and sd-stub measure the SMBIOS vendor strings to some PCR (at
374 least some subset of them that look like systemd stuff), because apparently
375 some firmware does not, but systemd honours it. avoid duplicate measurement
376 by sd-boot and sd-stub by adding LoaderFeatures/StubFeatures flag for this,
377 so that sd-stub can avoid it if sd-boot already did it.
378
379* cryptsetup: a mechanism that allows signing a volume key with some key that
380 has to be present in the kernel keyring, or similar, to ensure that confext
381 DDIs can be encrypted against the local SRK but signed with the admin's key
382 and thus can authenticated locally before they are decrypted.
383
384* image policy should be extended to allow dictating *how* a disk is unlocked,
385 i.e. root=encrypted-tpm2+encrypted-fido2 would mean "root fs must be
386 encrypted and unlocked via fido2 or tpm2, but not otherwise"
387
388* systemd-repart: add support for formatting dm-crypt + dm-integrity file
389 systems.
390
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391* homed: use systemd-storagetm to expose home dirs via nvme-tcp. Then,
392 teach homed/pam_systemd_homed with a user name such as
393 lennart%nvme_tcp_192.168.100.77_8787 to log in from any linux host with the
394 same home dir. Similar maybe for nbd, iscsi? this should then first ask for
395 the local root pw, to authenticate that logging in like this is ok, and would
396 then be followed by another password prompt asking for the user's own
397 password. Also, do something similar for CIFS: if you log in via
0e9f2297 398 lennart%cifs-someserver_someshare, then set up the homed dir for it
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399 automatically. The PAM module should update the user name used for login to
400 the short version once it set up the user. Some care should be taken, so that
401 the long version can be still be resolved via NSS afterwards, to deal with
402 PAM clients that do not support PAM sessions where PAM_USER changes half-way.
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404* redefine /var/lib/extensions/ as the dir one can place all three of sysext,
405 confext as well is multi-modal DDIs that qualify as both. Then introduce
406 /var/lib/sysexts/ which can be used to place only DDIs that shall be used as
407 sysext
408
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409* Varlinkification of the following command line tools, to open them up to
410 other programs via IPC:
411 - bootctl
412 - journalctl (allowing journal read access via IPC)
413 - coredumpcl
414 - systemd-bless-boot
415 - systemd-measure
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416 - systemd-cryptenroll (to allow UIs to enroll FIDO2 keys and such)
417 - systemd-dissect
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418 - systemd-sysupdate
419 - systemd-analyze
420 - kernel-install
f277d99c 421 - systemd-mount (with PK so that desktop environments could use it to mount disks)
3d1831b9 422
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423* in the service manager, pick up ERRNO= + BUSERROR= + VARLINKERROR= error
424 identifiers, and store them along with the exit status of a server and report
425 via "systemctl status".
426
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427* enumerate virtiofs devices during boot-up in a generator, and synthesize
428 mounts for rootfs, /usr/, /home/, /srv/ and some others from it, depending on
02c9d62b 429 the "tag". (waits for: https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd/-/issues/128)
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431* automatically mount one virtiofs during early boot phase to /run/host/,
432 similar to how we do that for nspawn, based on some clear tag.
433
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434* add some service that makes an atomic snapshot of PCR state and event log up
435 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
436
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437* encode type1 entries in some UKI section to add additional entries to the
438 menu.
439
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440* Add ACL-based access management to .socket units. i.e. add AllowPeerUser= +
441 AllowPeerGroup= that installs additional user/group ACL entries on AF_UNIX
442 sockets.
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444* systemd-tpm2-setup should probably have a factory reset logic, i.e. when some
445 kernel command line option is set we reset the TPM (equivalent of tpm2_clear
eb9b95f9 446 -c owner? or rather echo 5 >/sys/class/tpm/tpm0/ppi/request?).
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448* systemd-tpm2-setup should support a mode where we refuse booting if the SRK
449 changed. (Must be opt-in, to not break systems which are supposed to be
450 migratable between PCs)
451
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452* when systemd-sysext learns mutable /usr/ (and systemd-confext mutable /etc/)
453 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
454 snapshot logic
455
456* add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
457 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
458 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
fcdd21ec 459 i.e. without recompiling the kernel, taking an upstream OS' kernel and adding
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460 a local key to it.
461
a1f7cdc6 462* PidRef conversion work:
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463 - cg_pid_get_xyz()
464 - pid_from_same_root_fs()
465 - get_ctty_devnr()
1158b06b 466 - pid1: sd_notify() receiver should use SCM_PIDFD to authenticate client
4775b55d 467 - actually wait for POLLIN on pidref's pidfd in service logic
1158b06b 468 - exec_spawn() + safe_fork()
a1f7cdc6 469 - openpt_allocate_in_namespace()
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470 - unit_attach_pid_to_cgroup_via_bus()
471 - cg_attach() – requires new kernel feature
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473* ddi must be listed as block device fstype
474
475* measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
476 mode.
477
3a9e659a 478* homed: add a basic form of secrets management to homed, that stores
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479 secrets in $HOME somewhere, is protected by the accounts own authentication
480 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
481 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
482 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
483 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
484 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
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487 too much
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fcdd21ec 489* systemd-mount should only consider modern file systems when mounting, similar
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493 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
494 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
495 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
496 control of the attacker.
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499 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
500 same JSON format.
501
502* make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
503 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
504 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
505 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
506 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
507 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
508 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
509 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
510 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
511 newer.
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514 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
515 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
516 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
517 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
518 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
519 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
520 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
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523 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
524 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
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527 to the kernel which will then upload it to the CPU. This should be distinct
528 from .initrd to guarantee right ordering. also, and maybe more importantly
529 support .microcode in PE add-ons, so that a microcode update can be shipped
9a27ef09 530 independently of any kernel.
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533 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
534 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
535 requested during switch root.
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538
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540 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
541 matched against OS.
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544 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
545 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
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548 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
549 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
550 namespaces)
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553 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
554
555* mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
556 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
557 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
558
f447b741 559* fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
94d82b59 560 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
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562 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
563 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
564 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
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567 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
94d82b59 568 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
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572 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
573 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
574 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
575 based on lo_file_name.
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578 with success notifications from nspawn payloads. When this is enabled,
56a89426 579 automatically support reverting back to older OS version images if newer ones
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581
582* implement new "systemd-fsrebind" tool that works like gpt-auto-generator but
583 looks at a root dir and then applies vpick on various dirs/images to pick a
584 root tree, a /usr/ tree, a /home/, a /srv/, a /var/ tree and so on. Dirs
585 could also be btrfs subvols (combine with btrfs auto-snapshort approach for
586 creating versions like these automatically).
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591 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
592 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
593 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
594 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
595 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
596 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
597 activation-by-message id and similar.
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600
512f2da5 601* landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
3a9e659a 602 ability to write anywhere else below /run/. Similar for
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604 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
605
606* landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
607 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
608 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
609 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
610 similar behaviour for system services, too.
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613 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
614 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
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617
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619 - do not enable the pager for queries like 'udevadm info -q -r symlink'
620 - add mode with newlines instead of spaces (for grep)?
621
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623 localed, oomd, timedated.
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626 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
627 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
628 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
629 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
630 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
627cdcc7 631 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
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633 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
634 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
635 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
636 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
637 access.
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640 posix_spawn().
641
642* Make nspawn to a frontend for systemd-executor, so that we have to ways into
643 the executor: via unit files/dbus/varlink through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI
644 through nspawn.
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647 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
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650 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
651 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
652 for all umh processes.
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655 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
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658 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
659 resize.
660
661* homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
662 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
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665 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
666 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
667 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
668 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
669 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
670 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
671 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
672 system actually reset.
673
674* systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
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676 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
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679 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
680 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
681 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
682
4cb8a25b 683* sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
1c904337 684 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
fcdd21ec 685 is then useful for network boot, by embedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
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689 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
690 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
691 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
692 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
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695 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
696 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
697 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
698 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
699
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703 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
7227dd81 704 Use case: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
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706
084ecae5 707* maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
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710* systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
711 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
712 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
713
6d040d84 714* sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
4cb8a25b 715 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
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717* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
718 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
719 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
720 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
721 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
722 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
723 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
724 usual.
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727
728* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
729
730* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
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733 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
734 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
735 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
736 sockaddr.
737
738* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
739 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
740 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
741 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
742 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
743 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
744 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
745 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
746 try to use inode from there.
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749 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
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752 extensions
753
754* gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
755 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
756 for the root fs or /usr/.
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759 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
760 combination thereof.
761
762* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
763 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
764 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
765 ahead of time.
766
767* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
768 aforementioned purpose.
769
770* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
771 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
772
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774 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
775 to figure out:
776 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
777 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
778 subsequent boots?
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781 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
782 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
783 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
784 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
785 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
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787 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
788 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
789 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
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792 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
793 used)
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796 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
797 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
798 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
799 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
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802 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
803 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
804 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 805 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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807
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809 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
810 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
811
812* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
813 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
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816
817* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
818 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
7227dd81 819 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Use case: remove secondary OS
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821
822* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
823 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
824 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
825 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
826 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
827 only one for each OS.
828
829* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
830 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 831 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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832 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
833 boot, for the next.
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836 similar behind it, instead of http.
837
838* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
839 boot, or on first boot.
840
841* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
842 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
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845 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
846 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
847 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
848 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
849 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
850 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
851 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
852 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
853 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
854 until users are allowed to log in).
855
856* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
857 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
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860 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
861 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
7227dd81 862 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Use case: systemd-confext
b60e0f57 863 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
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865 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
866 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
b60e0f57 867 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
868 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
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870
871* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
872 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
873 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
874 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
7227dd81 875 enhanced remote attestation quote. Use case: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 876 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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878 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
b60e0f57 879 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
880 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
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882 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
883 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
b60e0f57 884 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
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886 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
887 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
888 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
b60e0f57 889 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
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891 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
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894 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
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897 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
898
899* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
900 instead of manual blocking.
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903 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
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906 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
907 supplied password.
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910 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
911 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
912 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
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915 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
916 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
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919* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
920 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
921 automatically derived from --private-key=).
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924 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
925 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
7227dd81 926 use as additional search condition. Use case: images that combined a sysext
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928
929* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
930 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
931 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
932 modules
933
b60e0f57 934* for systemd-confext: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
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936 a new name with a built-in config?
937
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938* lock down acceptable encrypted credentials at boot, via simple allowlist,
939 maybe on kernel command line:
940 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
941 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
942
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944
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946 hash type, etc)
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950
f461a28d 951* chase(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
4e0ceefe 952 but final node is not a directory
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954* document in boot loader spec that symlinks in XBOOTLDR/ESP are not OK even if
955 non-VFAT fs is used.
956
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957* measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
958
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959* measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
960 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
961
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962* pick up creds from EFI vars
963
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965
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966* sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
967 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
968 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
969 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
970 affect PCR values.
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973 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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976 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
977
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978* sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
979 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
980
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982 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
983
984* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
985 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
986
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989 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
990 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
991 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
992 use it.
993
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995 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
996
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998 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
999 what it was signed.
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1002 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
1003 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
1004 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
1005 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
1006 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
1007 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
1008 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
1009 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
1010 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
1011 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
1012 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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1015 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
1016
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1019 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
1020 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
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1022 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
1023 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
1024 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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1026 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
1027 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
1028 file system paths to enable on start.
1029 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
1030 usr=
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1032 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
1033 pre-built kernels.
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1036 runtime state. Then, expose it:
1037
1038 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
1039 about the unit.
1040 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
1041 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
1042 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
1043 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
1044 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
1045 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
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1048 what to do if support ended
1049
1050* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
3ff1721c 1051 login time, à la motd
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e1b45a75 1053* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 1054 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
7227dd81 1055 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Use case: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 1056 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 1057 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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1060 initrd transition. Specifically:
1061 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
1062 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
1063 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
1064
d486b26f 1065* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 1066 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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1068 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
1069 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
1070 depending on desired level of persistency.
1071
1072* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
1073 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
1c904337 1074 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
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1076 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
1077 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
1078 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
1079 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
1080
1081* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
1082 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
1083 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
1084 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
1085
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1087
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1088* add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
1089
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1091 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
1092 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
7227dd81 1093 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Use case: container
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1095 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
1096 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
1097 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
3881fd40 1098 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
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1099 by. Inform user code about path to this companion dir via env var, so that
1100 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
1101 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
1102 not unprivileged code.
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1105 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
1106 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
1107 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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1110 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
1111 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
1112 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
30fd9a2d 1113 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
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1115 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
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1117 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
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1119* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
1120 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
1121 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
1122 order.
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1125 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
1126 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
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1129 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
1130 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
1131 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 1132 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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1134 IN_IGNORED again)
1135
5b06ad51 1136* for vendor-built signed initrds:
a4b329e6 1137 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
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1139 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
1140 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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1141 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
1142 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
5b06ad51 1143 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
62471289 1144 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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1146 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
1147 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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1150 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
1151 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
2df2bb1f 1152
03ede612 1153* sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
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1155 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 1156 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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1157 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
1158 directly to host service manager.
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1160* sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
1161 no api to query the device id
1162
1163* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1164 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1165 also be queried.
1166
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1167* sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
1168 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1169 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1170 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
1171
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1172* sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
1173 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1174 latter).
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1176* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1177
1178* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
1179
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1180* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
1181 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
1182 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
1183 generated by GNU sha256sums.
1184
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1186 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
02c914ef 1187 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
47a9f917 1188 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
7227dd81 1189 to the menu. Use case: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
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1191
1192* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
1193 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
1194 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
5bc9ea07 1195 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
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1197 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
1198 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
1199 hence cheap for enumeration.
1200
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1201* sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
1202
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1203* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
1204 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1205 words: show partition labels).
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1207* maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
1208 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
5bc9ea07 1209 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
7227dd81 1210 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. Use case:
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1212 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
1213 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
1214
e4f92a62 1215* deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
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1217* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
1218
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1219* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1220 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1221 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1222 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1223 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1224 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1225 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1226 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1227 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1228 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1229
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1230* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
1231 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
1232
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1233* doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
1234 jobs, units
1235
a57d72ce 1236* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
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1238 userspace)
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1241
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1243 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1244
d1666bde 1245* Enable RestrictFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
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1247
1248* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1249 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
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1251* cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
1252 internal clock.
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1254* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1255 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1256
1257* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1258 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1259 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1260 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
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1262* userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
1263 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1264 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1265
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1267 use it to unlock home dir (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled). We
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1269 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1270 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1271 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1272 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
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1275 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
7227dd81 1276 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Use case: drop a root user JSON record there,
bb5464ad 1277 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
7227dd81 1278 for debugging purposes. Other use case: boot into qemu with regular user
11b957b5 1279 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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1281* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
30fd9a2d 1282 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
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1284
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1286 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1287 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1288 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1289 on-disk storage.
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1292 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1293 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1294 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1295 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1296
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1298 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1299 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
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1302 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1303 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1304 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1305
3fc0688d 1306* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
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1308 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1309 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1310 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1311 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1312 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1313 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1314 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1315 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1316 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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1319 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1320 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1323
63a185dc 1324* PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
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1327 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1328 that images cannot be misused.
1329
aca8ecc3 1330* New udev block device symlink names:
178d3ff2 1331 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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1333 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1334 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1335
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1337 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1338 - support casync as download mechanism
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1340 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1341 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1342 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
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1344 host's update files.)
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1346 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1347 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1348 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
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1351
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1353 make dirs appear under right UID.
1354
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1356 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1357
24063ba1 1358* introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
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1359 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1360 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1361 already have it.
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1363* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1364 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1365
1c904337 1366* Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
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1368* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1369 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1370 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1371 /proc/self/fd/3
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1373* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1374 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1375 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1376
1377* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
7227dd81 1378 that is deleted in the fs. Use case would be with ConnectSocket= above.
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1380* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1381 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1382
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1383* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1384 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1385 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1386 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1387 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
1388
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1390
199b097d 1391* credentials system:
199b097d 1392 - acquire from EFI variable?
30fd9a2d 1393 - acquire via ask-password?
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1394 - acquire creds via keyring?
1395 - pass creds via keyring?
1396 - pass creds via memfd?
1397 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1398 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1399 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
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1400 - make macsec code in networkd read key via creds logic (copy logic from
1401 wireguard)
1402 - make gatewayd/remote read key via creds logic
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1403 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
1404
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1405* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1406 and such
1407
1408* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
80670e74 1409
02c914ef 1410* cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
80670e74 1411
7d7c75f1 1412* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1414
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1415* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1416 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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1418* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1419
1420* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1421 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1422
1423* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1424 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1425
1426* cryptsetup:
1427 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1428 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1429
08d33656 1430* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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1432* Figure out naming of verbs in systemd-analyze: we have (singular) capability,
1433 exit-status, but (plural) filesystems, architectures.
1434
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1435* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1436 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1437
f461a28d 1438* special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
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1439 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1440
f461a28d 1441* add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
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1442 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1443
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1444* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1445
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1446* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1447
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1448* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1449 when it exits
1450
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1451* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1452 o turn into dlopen() deps:
a52dc0b6 1453 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
cdfd8537 1454 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
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1456* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1457 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1458 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1459
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1460* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1461 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1462
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1463* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1464
1465* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1466 specific service
1467
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1468* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1469 exists and responds.
1470
91fc013f 1471* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1472 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1473
7e8facb3 1474* unify on openssl:
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1475 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1476 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1477 gnutls
1478 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
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1480* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1481 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1482
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1483* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1484 realname substr searches in varlink API
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1486* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1487
2a4be3c5 1488* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1489
f1eb0ccd 1490* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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1492* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1493 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1494 initrd had set.
1495
173c7873 1496* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1497 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1498 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1499 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1500 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1501 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1502
1503* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1504 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1505 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1506
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1507* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1508 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1509 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1510 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1511 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1512 source.
1513
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1514* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1515 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1516 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1517
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1518* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1519
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1520* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1521 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1522
c6526b8d 1523* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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1525* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1526 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1527 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1528 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1529 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1530 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1531 exec().
1532
1533* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1534
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1535* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1536 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1537
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1538* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1539 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1540
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1541* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1542 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1543 root.
1544
1545* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1546 is issued.
1547
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1548* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1549
1550* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1551
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1552* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1553 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1554 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1555
d238709c 1556* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1557 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1558 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1559
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1560* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1561
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1562* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1563 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1564
06898123 1565* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1566 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1567 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1568 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
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1570* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1571
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1572* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1573
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1574* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1575 non-zero "tries done" count
1576
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1577* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1578 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1579 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1580 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1581 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1582 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1583 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1584 CODE_FILE.
1585
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1586* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1587 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1588 some explanatory text online.
1589
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1590* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1591
d1797c42 1592* hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
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1594* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1595 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1596
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1597* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1598 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1599 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1600 files and suchlike we operate on.
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1602* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1603
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1604* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1605 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1606
5da19043 1607* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1608 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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1610* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1611 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1612 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1613 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1614 unlinked from any dir.
1615
bd1b3f75 1616* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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1618* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1619
1620* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1621
53c70a27 1622* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1623 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1624 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1625 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1626 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1627
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1628* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1629
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1630* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1631 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1632
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1633* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1634 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1635 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1636 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1637 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
7227dd81 1638 different slice too by default. Use case: people who want to put resources on
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1639 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1640 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1641
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1642* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1643 for root, but only then.
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1645* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1646 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1647
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1648* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1649 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1650
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1651* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1652 only when used. Add unit tests.
1653
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1654* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1655 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1656
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1657* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1658 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1659 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1660 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1661 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1662
899feb72 1663* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
c6009ff0 1664
5f7ecd61 1665* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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1667* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1668 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1669
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1670* blog about fd store and restartable services
1671
1672* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1673
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1674* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1675 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1676
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1677* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1678 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1679 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1680 ID is available.
1681
1682* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1683 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1684 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1685
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1686* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1687 parameters
1688
63a185dc 1689* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1690 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1691 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1692 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1693 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1694 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1695 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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1697* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1698 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1699
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1700* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1701 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1702 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1703
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1704* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1705 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1706
1707 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1708
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1709* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1710 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1711 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1712
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1713* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1714 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1715
1716* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1717 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1718 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1719 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1720 natural habitat.
1721
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1722* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1723 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
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1725* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1726 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1727 relative to the configured default value.
1728
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1729* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1730
04397464 1731* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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1733* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1734
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1735* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1736
04397464 1737* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1738
04397464 1739* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1740
04397464 1741* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1742
8ce9b83a 1743* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1745* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1746 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1747 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1748
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1749* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1750 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1751
e40a326c 1752* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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1754* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1755 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1756 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1757 mapping to work.
1758
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1759* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1760
1761* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1762
1763* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1764
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1765* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1766 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1767
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1768* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1769 reload the unit file anyway
1770
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1771* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1772
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1773* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1774
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1775* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1776 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1777
f9bf1b8f 1778* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1779 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1780 specifications.
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1782* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1783
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1784* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1785
a2088fd0 1786* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1787 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1788 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1789 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
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1791* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1792
931bc195 1793* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
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1795* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1796 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1797 state.
41d6f3bf 1798 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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1800* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1801 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1802 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1803 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1804 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
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1806* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1807
d2f81fb0 1808* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1809 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1810
0a86c1a9 1811* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1812 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1813
e031c227 1814* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1815 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1816
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1817* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1818
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1819* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1820 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1821
25e773ee 1822* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1823
720652b3 1824* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1825
720652b3 1826* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1827
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1828* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1829 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1830
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1831* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1832
9d6db739 1833* resolved:
9d6db739 1834 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1835 - service registration
1836 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1837 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1838 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1839 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1840 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1841 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1842 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1843 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1844
e25b5a8d 1845* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1846
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1847* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1848
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1849* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1850
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1851* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1852
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1853* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1854
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1855* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1856 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1857
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1858* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1859
6a3f892a 1860* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1861 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1862 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1863
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1864* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1865 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1866 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1867
f9bf1b8f 1868* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1869
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1870* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1871 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1872 for ReusePort=
1873
f38afcd0 1874* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1875 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1876 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1877 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1878 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1879 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1880 the hierarchies of child processes
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1881 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1882 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1883
f38afcd0 1884* transient units:
f38afcd0 1885 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1886
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1887* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1888
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1889* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1890
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1891* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1892
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1893* 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
1894
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1895* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1896 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1897 path anyway.
1898
04397464 1899* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1900
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1901* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1902
07eabc2b 1903* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1904
07eabc2b 1905* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1906
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1907* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1908
1909* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1910 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1911 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1912
1913* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1914 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1915
1916* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1917
1918* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1919
1920* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1921
1922* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1923 needs to be auto-respawned?
1924
1925* pid1:
1926 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1927 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1928 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1929 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1930 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
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1931 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1932 - move PAM code into its own binary
1933 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1934 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1935 - Support --test based on current system state
1936 - 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().
1937 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1938 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1939 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1940 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1941 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1942 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1943 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1944 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1945 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1946 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1947 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1948 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1949
1950* unit files:
1951 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1952 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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1953 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1954 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1955 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1956 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1957 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1958 - introduce Type=pid-file
1959 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1960 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1961 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1962
1963* timer units:
63a185dc 1964 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1965 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1966
1967* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1968
1969* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1970
1971* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1972
1973* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1974
07eabc2b 1975* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1976
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1977* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1978
1979* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1980
fff87a35 1981* test/:
20d52ab6 1982 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1983
b5c03638 1984* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1985 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1986 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1987 destination.
1988
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1989* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1990 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1991
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1992* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1993
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1994* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1995 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1996 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1997
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1998* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1999 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 2000
7227dd81 2001* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? use case:
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2002 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
2003 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
2004 that automatically.
2005
e5ec62c5 2006* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 2007
ccddd104 2008* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 2009
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2010* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
2011
356ce991 2012* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 2013
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2014* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
2015
2016* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
2017
2018* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
2019
2020* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
2021
2022* sd-bus:
2023 - EBADSLT handling
2024 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
2025 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
2026 - 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
2027 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
2028 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
2029 - longer term: priority inheritance
2030 - dbus spec updates:
2031 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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2032 - path escaping
2033 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
2034
2035* sd-event
2036 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
2037 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
2038 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
2039 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
2040 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
2041 here:
2042 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
2043
2044* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
2045 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
2046
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2047* document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
2048
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2049* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
2050
2051* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
2052
2053* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
2054
b44be3ec 2055* EFI:
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2056 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
2057 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 2058 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 2059* bootctl
631427d6 2060 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 2061
07eabc2b 2062* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 2063
07eabc2b 2064* bootctl:
483091b0 2065 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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2066 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
2067 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
f620a368 2068
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2069* logind:
2070 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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2071 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
2072 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
2073 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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2074 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
2075 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
2076 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
2077 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
2078 needs setuid().
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2079 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
2080 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
2081 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
2082 complete.
2083 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2084 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2085 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 2086 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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2087 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2088 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2089 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2090 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2091 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2092 relogins
77b19caf 2093 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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2094 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
2095 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
2096 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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2097
2098* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2099
2100* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2101 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2102 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2103
2104* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2105 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2106
b44be3ec 2107* journal:
57f2a947 2108 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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2109 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2110 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2111 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 2112 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 2113 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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2114 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2115 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2116 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 2117 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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2118 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2119 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 2120 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
02c914ef 2121 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
b44be3ec 2122 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 2123 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 2124 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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2125 - 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.
2126 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2127 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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2128 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2129 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2130 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2131 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 2132 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 2133 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 2134 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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2135 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2136 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2137 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2138 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2139 to syslog when it works again.
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2140 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2141 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2142 journals in.
2143 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2144 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2145 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2146 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2147 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 2148 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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2149 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2150 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2151 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2152 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2153 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2154 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2155 operation.
2156 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
b3e199ce 2157 written to as FAIL, but instead show that they are being written to.
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2158 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2159 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 2160 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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2161 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2162 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2163 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2164 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 2165 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
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2167* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2168 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2169
2170* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2171 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2172 validated via TPM.
2173
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2174* rework journalctl -M to be based on a machined method that generates a mount
2175 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2176 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2177
2178* journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2179 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2180 cursors as they happen.
2181
2182* journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2183 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2184 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2185 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2186 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2187 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2188 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2189 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2190 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2191
2192* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2193 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2194 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2195 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
cbcf76b1 2196 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
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2197 log record, adjusted by the delta declared in the structured log record.
2198
2199* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2200 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2201 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2202 records, to be able to order them.
2203
2204* journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2205 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2206 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2207 be safely written to disk, then.
2208
2209* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2210 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2211 inspiration from IMA log)
2212
2213* sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2214 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2215 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2216
2217* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
2218 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
2219 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
2220 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2221 for doing that.
2222
2223* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2224 log.c and sd-journal-send
2225
2226* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2227 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2228 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2229 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2230 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2231 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2232 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2233 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2234 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2235 an NTP sync is acquired.
2236
2237* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
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2238
2239* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2240 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2241 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2242
2243* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2244 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2245 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2246 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2247 cgroup.
2248
2249* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2250 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2251 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2252 logging.
2253
2254* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2255
2256* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2257 from the SIGBUS handler
2258
590171d1
ZJS
2259* add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
2260 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2261 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2262 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2263
0134afe3
ZJS
2264* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2265 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2266
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LB
2267* homed:
2268 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2269 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2270 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
07eabc2b
LB
2271 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2272 - create on activate?
2273 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2274 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2275 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2276 systemd --user is shut down.
2277 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2278 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2279 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2280 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2281 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2282 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2283 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2284 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
07eabc2b
LB
2285 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2286 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2287 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2288 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2289 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
a11e7c0b
LB
2290 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2291 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2292 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 2293 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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LP
2294 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2295 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2296 signature
2297 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2298 and insert a local signature instead.
2299 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2300 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2301 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2302 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2303 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2304 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2305 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2306 easily?
9c53de8b
LP
2307 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2308 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
6d975fe7
LP
2309 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2310 can easily set overall quota for all users
2311 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2312 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
cff559ec
LP
2313 - add "homectl unbind" command to remove local user record of an inactive
2314 home dir
07eabc2b 2315
07eabc2b
LB
2316* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2317 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2318 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2319
2df2bb1f 2320* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
07eabc2b
LB
2321
2322* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2323 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2324 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2325 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2326
2327* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2328
2329* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2330 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2331 something goes wrong on the way.
2332
07eabc2b
LB
2333* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2334 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2335 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2336 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2337
2338* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2339 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2340 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2341 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2342 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2343 automatically.
2344
2345* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2346 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2347
2348* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2349 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2350 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2351 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2352 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2353 fails to apply use the latter.
2354
2355* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2356 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2357
2358* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2359 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2360
2361* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2362 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2363 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
07eabc2b
LB
2364
2365* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2366 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2367
92e72028 2368* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
d01d9197
ZJS
2369 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2370 during boot.
2371
2372* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2373
b44be3ec 2374* document:
8b8f2591 2375 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
b44be3ec
LP
2376 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2377 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2378 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
f38afcd0
LP
2379 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2380 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
f38afcd0
LP
2381 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2382 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
5cf821ac
ZJS
2383 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2384 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2385 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2386 - document root=gpt-auto properly
b44be3ec
LP
2387
2388* systemctl:
b44be3ec
LP
2389 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2390 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
b44be3ec
LP
2391 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2392 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2393 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2394 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
f38afcd0 2395
07eabc2b
LB
2396* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2397 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2398 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2399
07eabc2b
LB
2400* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2401 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2402 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2403
07eabc2b
LB
2404* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2405 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2406 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 2407
07eabc2b
LB
2408* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2409 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 2410
07eabc2b
LB
2411* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2412 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2413 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2414 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 2415
07eabc2b
LB
2416* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2417 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2418 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2419 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2420
07eabc2b
LB
2421* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2422
2423* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2424
2425* unit install:
2426 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2427 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 2428
b44be3ec 2429* nspawn:
e25b5a8d
DH
2430 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2431 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2432 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2433 from the kernel's logs.
2434 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2435 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2436 interface be missing
e25b5a8d
DH
2437 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2438 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2439 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2440 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2441 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2442 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2443 PID 1...
e25b5a8d
DH
2444 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2445 running, remove them when shut down.
71b77f06
CB
2446 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2447 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2448 startup.
2449 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2450 or so, freeze the payload too.
2451 - support time namespaces
2452 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2453 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2454 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2455 "machinectl shell"
2456 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2457 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2458 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2459 - greater control over selinux label?
2460 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2461 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2462 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2463 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2464 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2465 host TPM.
2466 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2467 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2468 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2469 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2470 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2471 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2472 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2473 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
fdeabf57
CB
2474 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2475 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
3922f982
CB
2476 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2477 or two sockets.
3734fec7 2478 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
07eabc2b
LB
2479
2480* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2481 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2482 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2483 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2484 anything like that.
2485
e25b5a8d 2486* machined:
e25b5a8d
DH
2487 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2488 removed or added to an existing machine
2489 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2490 difference host, via ssh
e25b5a8d
DH
2491 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2492 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2493 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2494 question
e25b5a8d
DH
2495 - "machinectl history"
2496 - "machinectl diff"
2497 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2498 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2499
abd55b16 2500* udev:
abd55b16 2501 - move to LGPL
abd55b16
KS
2502 - kill scsi_id
2503 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2504 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2505 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2506 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2507
e25b5a8d
DH
2508* coredump:
2509 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2510 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2511 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
87a8baa3
LP
2512
2513* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2514
f38afcd0 2515* tmpfiles:
beca6b6e 2516 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
614cc34f 2517 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
e25b5a8d
DH
2518 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2519 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2520 calls follow symlinks.
ba405b22
ZJS
2521 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2522 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2523 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
beca6b6e
ZJS
2524 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2525 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
2479f0bb 2526 - add -n as shortcut for --dry-run in tmpfiles & sysusers & possibly other places
1258097c 2527
af6f0d42
TG
2528* udev-link-config:
2529 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2530 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2531 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2532
88e4d1d7 2533* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2534 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2535 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2536
0a4b9a07 2537* networkd:
c74ecd71
TG
2538 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2539 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2540 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2541 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2542 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2543 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
e25b5a8d
DH
2544 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2545 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2546 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2547 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2548 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
DH
2549 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2550 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2551 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2552 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2553 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2554 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2555 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2556
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LB
2557* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2558
d5e172d2
ZJS
2559* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2560
ac976532 2561* dhcp:
424a8732 2562 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2563
37d8b536
PF
2564* dhcp6:
2565 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2566 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2567 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2568 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
b3e199ce 2569 - implement support for temporary addresses (IA_TA)
37d8b536
PF
2570 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2571 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2572 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2573 or interface down
2574 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2575 this behavior
4a77c53d 2576 - RouteTable= ?
7af442cf
MY
2577
2578* shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2579 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2580 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)