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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
6
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
19* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
20
21* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
22
23* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
24
25* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
26
27* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
28
29* register catalog database signature as file magic
30
31* zsh shell completion:
32 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
33 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
76c068b7 34 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
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36* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
37* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
38 after being started.
39
40* write blog stories about:
41 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
42 - enabling dbus services
43 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
44 - remote access
45 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
46 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
47 - auto-restart
48 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
49 - the journal HTTP iface
50 - non-cgroup resource management
51 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
52 - refreshed, longer missions statement
53 - calendar time events
54 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
55 - how to create your own target
56 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
57 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
58
59Regularly:
60
61* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
62
63* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
64
65* pahole
66
67* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
68
69* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
70
71* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
72
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73Janitorial Clean-ups:
74
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75* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
76
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77* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
78 semantics, like we do for device.c now
79
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80* get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase_symlinks() and related
81 calls instead.
82
83* get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
84
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85Deprecations and removals:
86
87* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
88 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
89
90* 2019-10 – Remove POINTINGSTICK_CONST_ACCEL references from the hwdb, see #9573
c6407108 91
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92* remove cgrouspv1 support EOY 2023. As per
93 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
94 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
95 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
96
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97* drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
98 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
9eb41aab 99 is only supported for such old kernels.
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9eb41aab 101* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
3345802c 102 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
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103 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
104 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
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105 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
106
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107* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
108 baseline is 5.8.
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110* drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
111 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
112
3345802c 113* rework our PID tracking in services and so on, to be strictly based on pidfd,
9eb41aab 114 once kernel baseline is 5.13.
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116* ~2023: remove support for TPM_PCR_INDEX_KERNEL_PARAMETERS_COMPAT
117
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118* H2 2023: remove support for unmerged-usr
119
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120Features:
121
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122* systemd-measure: only require private key to be set when signing. iiuc we can
123 generate the public key from it anyway.
124
125* automatically propagate LUKS password credential into cryptsetup from host,
126 so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor supplied password.
127
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128* add ability to path_is_valid() to classify paths that refer to a dir from
129 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
130 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
131 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
132
133* push people to use ".sysext.raw" as suffix for sysext DDIs (DDI =
134 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
135 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
136
137* Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
138 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
139 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
140 use as additional search condition. Usecase: images that combined a sysext
141 partition with a portable service partition in one.
142
143* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
144 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
145 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
146 modules
147
148* for systemd-syscfg: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
149 sig using squashfs-tools-ng's library. Maybe just systemd-repart called under
150 a new name with a built-in config?
151
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152* gpt-auto: generate mount units that reference partitions via
153 /dev/disk/by-diskseq/… so that they can't be swapped out behind our back.
154
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155* lock down acceptable encrypted credentials at boot, via simple allowlist,
156 maybe on kernel command line:
157 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
158 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
159
160* tmpfiles: currently if we fail to create an inode, we stat it first, and only
161 then O_PATH open it. Reverse that.
162
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163* Add support for extra verity configuration options to systemd-repart (FEC,
164 hash type, etc)
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166* chase_symlinks(): take inspiraton from path_extract_filename() and return
167 O_DIRECTORY if input path contains trailing slash.
168
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169* chase_symlinks(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
170 but final node is not a directory
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171
172* chase_symlinks(): add new flag that simply refuses all symlink use in a path,
173 then use that for accessing XBOOTLDR/ESP
174
175* document in boot loader spec that symlinks in XBOOTLDR/ESP are not OK even if
176 non-VFAT fs is used.
177
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178* measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
179
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180* measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
181 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
182
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183* pick up creds from EFI vars
184
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185* sd-stub/sd-boot: write RNG seed to LINUX_EFI_RANDOM_SEED_TABLE_GUID config
186 table as well. (and possibly drop our efi var). Current kernels will pick up
187 the seed from there already, if EFI_RNG_PROTOCOL is not implemented by
188 firmware.
189
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190* sd-boot: include domain specific hash string in hash function for random seed
191 plus sizes of everything. also include DMI/SMBIOS blob
192
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193* sd-stub: invoke random seed logic the same way as in sd-boot, except if
194 random seed EFI variable is already set. That way, the variable set will be
195 set in all cases: if you just use sd-stub, or just sd-boot, or both.
196
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197* sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
198 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
199 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
200 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
201 affect PCR values.
202
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203* systemd-measure tool:
204 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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206* in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
207 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
208
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209* sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
210 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
211
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212* sd-device: add an API for opening a child device, given a device object
213
214* sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
215 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
216
217* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
218 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
219
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220* add small wrapper around qemu that implements sd_notify/AF_VSOCK + machined and
221 maybe some other stuff and boots it
222
e1b45a75 223* maybe add new flags to gpt partition tables for rootfs and usrfs indicating
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224 purpose, i.e. whether something is supposed to be bootable in a VM, on
225 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
226 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
227 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
228 use it.
229
230* portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
231 file system paths to enable on start.
232
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233* sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
234 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
235
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236* PID 1 should look for an SMBIOS variable that encodes an AF_VSOCK address it
237 should send sd_notify() ready notifications to. That way a VMM can boot up a
238 system, and generically know when it finished booting.
239
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240* add "systemd-sysext identify" verb, that you can point on any file in /usr/
241 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
242 what it was signed.
243
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244* journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
245 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
246 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
247 be safely written to disk, then.
248
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249* systemd-creds: extend encryption logic to support asymmetric
250 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
251 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
252 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
253 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
254 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
255 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
256 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
257 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
258 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
259 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
260 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
261
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262* building on top of the above, the pub/priv key pair generated on the TPM2
263 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
264
8c776523 265* bootctl: add "gc" verb that loads all type #1 .conf files, and then removes
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266 all files from the set of files from the ESP/XBOOTLDR matching the entry
267 token that are not referenced by any. Then, change kernel-install to use only
268 this to remove auxiliary files, and never remove them explicitly. Benefit:
269 resources such as initrds/kernels/dtb can be shared between entries.
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270
271* networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
272 via the credentials logic.
273
e1b45a75 274* fstab-generator: allow defining additional fstab-like mounts via
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275 credentials (similar: crypttab-generator, verity-generator,
276 integrity-generator)
277
278* getty-generator: allow defining additional getty instances via a credential
279
280* run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
281
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282* resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
283 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
284 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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285 Similar, allow picking up DNS server IP addresses from credential.
286
287* repart: allow defining additional partitions via credential
288
1d5f14ef 289* tmpfiles: add snippet that provisions /root/.ssh/authorized_keys from credential
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291* timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
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293* define a JSON format for units, separating out unit definitions from unit
294 runtime state. Then, expose it:
295
296 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
297 about the unit.
298 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
299 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
300 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
301 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
302 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
303 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
304
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305* show SUPPORT_END= data in "hostnamectl" output (and thus also expose a prop
306 for this on dbus)
307
308* Add SUPPORT_END_URL= field to os-release with more *actionable* information
309 what to do if support ended
310
311* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
312 login time, á la motd
313
e1b45a75 314* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 315 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
e1b45a75 316 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Usecase: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 317 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 318 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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320* make tmpfiles read lines from creds, so that we can provision SSH host keys
321 via creds. Similar: sysusers, sysctl, homed
322
323* mount /var/ from initrd, so that we can apply sysext and stuff before the
324 initrd transition. Specifically:
325 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
326 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
327 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
328
329* implement varlink introspection
330
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331* we should probably drop all use of prefix_roota() and friends, and use
332 chase_symlinks() instead
333
d486b26f 334* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 335 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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336 service restarts, hot reboot, cold reboots (depending on configuration): the
337 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
338 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
339 depending on desired level of persistency.
340
341* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
342 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
343 in oneshit mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
344 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
345 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
346 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
347 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
348 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
349
350* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
351 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
352 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
353 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
354
355* make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
356 usr=
357
358* add ability to set hostname with suffix derived from machine id at boot
359
360* ask dracut to generate usr= on the kernel cmdline so that we don't need to
361 read /etc/fstab from the root fs from the initrd and do daemon-reload
362
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363* add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
364
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365* homed/userdb: maybe define a "companion" dir for home directories where apps
366 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
367 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
368 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Usecase: container
369 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
370 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
371 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
372 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
3881fd40 373 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
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374 by. Inform user code about path to this companion dir via env var, so that
375 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
376 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
377 not unprivileged code.
378
379* given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
380 that hooks up userbdctl ssh-key stuff.
381
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382* maybe add support for binding and connecting AF_UNIX sockets in the file
383 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
384 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
385 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
386
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387* systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential sysemd.homed.register
388 or so with JSON user records to automatically register if not registered yet.
389 Usecase: deploy a system, and add an account one can directly log into.
390
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391* add a proper concept of a "developer" mode, i.e. where cryptographic
392 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
393 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
394 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
395 it. when developer mode is entered generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
396 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
397 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
398 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is only way to enter developer mode, by
399 binding it to locality/PCRs so that that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
400
401* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
402 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
403 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
404 order.
405
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406* TPM2: extend unlock policy to protect against version downgrades in signed
407 policies: policy probably must take some nvram based generation counter into
408 account that can only monotonically increase and can be used to invalidate
409 old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to old signed PCR sets
410 whenever they want.
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412* update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
413 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
414 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
415
416* add a clear concept how the initrd can make up credentials on their own to
417 pass to the system when transitioning into the host OS. usecase: things like
418 cloud-init/ignitation and similar can parameterize the host with data they
419 acquire.
420
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421* sd-event: compat wd reuse in inotify code: keep a set of removed watch
422 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
423 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
424 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 425 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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426 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
427 IN_IGNORED again)
428
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429* systemd-fstab-generator: support addition mount specifications via kernel
430 cmdline. Usecase: invoke a VM, and mount a host homedir into it via
431 virtio-fs.
432
433* for vendor-built signed initrds:
62471289 434 - make sysext run in the initrd
5b06ad51 435 - sysext should pick up sysext images from /.extra/ in the initrd, and insist
62471289 436 on verification if in secureboot mode
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437 - kernel-install should be able to install pre-built unified kernel images in
438 type #2 drop-in dir in the ESP.
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439 - kernel-install should be able install encrypted creds automatically for
440 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
441 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
442 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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443 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
444 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
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445 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
446 - pid 1 should look for machine ID in creds
62471289 447 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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448 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
449 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
450 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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452* Add a new service type very similar to Type=notify, that goes one step
453 further and extends the protocol to cover reloads. Specifically, SIGHUP will
454 become the official way to reload, and daemon has to respond with sd_notify()
455 to report when it starts reloading, and when it is complete reloading. Care
456 must be taken to remove races from this model. I.e. PID 1 needs to take
457 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, then send SIGHUP, then wait for at least one RELOADING=1
458 message that comes with a newer timestamp, then wait for a READY=1 message.
459 while we are at it, also maybe extend the logic to require handling of some
460 specific SIGRT signal for setting debug log level, that carries the level via
461 the sigqueue() data parameter. With that we extended with minimal logic the
462 service runtime logic quite substantially.
463
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464* firstboot: maybe just default to C.UTF-8 locale if nothing is set, so that we
465 don't query this unnecessarily in entirely uninitialized
466 containers. (i.e. containers with empty /etc).
467
598e4315 468* beef up sd_notify() to support AV_VSOCK in $NOTIFY_SOCKET, so that VM
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469 managers can get ready notifications from VMs, just like container managers
470 from their payload. Also pick up address from qemu/fw_cfg if set there.
471 (which has benefits, given SecureBoot and kernel cmdline are not necessarily
472 friends.)
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474* mirroring this: maybe support binding to AV_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
475 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
476 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 477 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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478 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
479 directly to host service manager.
480
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481* maybe write a tool that binds an AF_VFSOCK socket, then invokes qemu,
482 extending the command line to enable vsock on the VM, and using fw_cfg to
483 configure socket address.
484
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485* sd-boot: rework random seed handling following recent kernel changes: always
486 pass seed to kernel, but credit only if secure boot is used
487
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488* sd-boot: also include the hyperv "vm generation id" in the random seed hash,
489 to cover nicely for machine clones. It's found in the ACPI tables, which
490 should be easily accessible from UEFI.
491
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492* sd-boot: add menu item for shutdown? or hotkey?
493
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494* sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
495 no api to query the device id
496
497* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
498 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
499 also be queried.
500
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501* sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
502 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
503 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
504 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
505
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506* sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
507 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
508 latter).
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510* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
511
512* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
513
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514* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
515 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
516 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
517 generated by GNU sha256sums.
518
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519* sd-boot: maybe add support for embedding the various auxiliary resources we
520 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
521 logic: allow combining sd-boot via objcopy with kernels to enumerate, .conf
522 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
523 to the menu. Usecase: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
524 UEFI HTTP boot.
525
526* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
527 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
528 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
529 binary with some minimal info about an URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
530 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
531 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
532 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
533 hence cheap for enumeration.
534
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535* initialize machine ID from systemd credential picked up from the ESP via
536 sd-stub, so that machine ID is stable even on systems where unified kernels
537 are used, and hence kernel cmdline cannot be modified locally
538
539* in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
540 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
541 pre-built kernels.
542
543* sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
544
545* maybe add a "syscfg" concept, that is almost entirely identical to "sysext",
546 but operates on /etc/ instead of /usr/ and /opt/. Use case would be: trusted,
547 authenticated, atomic, additive configuration management primitive: drop in a
548 configuration bundle, and activate it, so that it is instantly visible,
549 comprehensively.
550
551* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
552 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
553 words: show partition labels).
554
555* systemd-nspawn: make boot assessment do something sensible in a
556 container. i.e send an sd_notify() from payload to container manager once
557 boot-up is completed successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with
558 boot counting, implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
559
560* maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
561 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
562 that take an URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
b17a681b 563 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. usecase:
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565 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
566 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
567
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569
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572* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
573
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574* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
575 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
576 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
577 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
578 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
579 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
580 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
581 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
582 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
583 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
584
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585* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
586 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
587 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
588 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
589 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
590 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
591 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
592 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
593 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
594 an NTP sync is acquired.
595
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597 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
598 - maybe add env var that shortcuts kernel-install for installers that want to
599 call it at the end only
600
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601* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
602 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
603
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604* doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
605 jobs, units
606
a57d72ce 607* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
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608 sync, i.e. parse out architecture field in sd-boot (currently only done in
609 userspace)
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611* automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
612
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613* add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
614 json package metadata, and use that when logging
615
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616* systemd-dissect: show GPT disk UUID in output
617
618* Enable RestricFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
619 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
620
621* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
622 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
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624* cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
625 internal clock.
626
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630* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
631 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
632
633* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
634 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
635 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
636 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
637
638* sysext: ensure one can build a sysext that can safely apply to *any* system
639 (because it contains only static go binaries in /opt/ or so)
640
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641* userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
642 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
643 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
644
645* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
646 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
647 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
648 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
649 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
650 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
651 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
652 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
653 thread:
654 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
655 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
656 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
657 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
658 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
659 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
660
661* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
662 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
663 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
664
665* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
666 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
667 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
668 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
669 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
670 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
671 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
672 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
673 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
674 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
675 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
676 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
677 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
678 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
679 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
680
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681* add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
682 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
683 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
684 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
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685 for debugging purposes. Other usecase: boot into qemu with regular user
686 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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688* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
689 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us drop drop libcap
690 dep in the base OS image)
691
692* sysext: automatically activate sysext images dropped in via new sd-stub
c0a74f62 693 sysext pickup logic. (must insist on verity + signature on those though)
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695* add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
696 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
697 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
698 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
699 on-disk storage.
700
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701* userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
702 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
703 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
704 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
705 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
706
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707* logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
708 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
709 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
710 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
711 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
712 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
713 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
714
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715* /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
716 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
717 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
718 externally and provide to us on demand only.
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720* add high-level lockdown level for GPT dissection logic: e.g. an enum that can
721 be ANY (to mount anything), TRUSTED (to require that /usr is on signed
722 verity, but rest doesn't matter), LOCKEDDOWN (to require that everything is
723 on signed verity, except for ESP), SUPERLOCKDOWN (like LOCKEDDOWN but ESP not
724 allowed). And then maybe some flavours of that that declare what is expected
725 from home/srv/var… Then, add a new cmdline flag to all tools that parse such
726 images, to configure this. Also, add a kernel cmdline option for this, to be
727 honoured by the gpt auto generator.
728
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730 only mount root dir, /home/ dir, /var/ and /srv/, but nothing else. And then
731 minor extension to this, insisting on encryption, for example
af3d3873 732 "systemd.gpt_auto_policy=r+v+h" to require encryption for root and var but not
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733 for /home/, and similar. Similar add --image-dissect-policy= to tools that
734 take --image= that take the same short string.
735
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736* nspawn: maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so
737 that such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as
738 one.
739
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741 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
742 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
743 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
744 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
745 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
746 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
747 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
748 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
749 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
750 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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752* add a "policy" to the dissection logic. i.e. a bit mask what is OK to mount,
753 what must be read-only, what requires encryption, and what requires
754 authentication.
755
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756* in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
757 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
758 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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760* rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
761
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764* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
765 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
766 that images cannot be misused.
767
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178d3ff2 769 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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770 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
771 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
772 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
773
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774* sysupdate:
775 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
776 - support casync as download mechanism
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777 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
778 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
779 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
780 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
781 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
782 override the host's update files.)
783 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
784 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
785 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
786 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
787
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789
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790* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
791 make dirs appear under right UID.
792
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793* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
794 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
795
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796* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
797 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
798 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
799 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
800 for doing that.
801
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803 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
804 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
805 already have it.
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807* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
808 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
809
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810* add an Open= setting to service unit files that can open arbitrary file
811 system paths at service startup time and pass them to the service process via
812 our usual socket activation protocol. If passed path refers to AF_UNIX
813 socket: connect() to it.
814
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816
817* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
818 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
819 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
820 /proc/self/fd/3
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823 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
824 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
825
826* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
827 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
828
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829* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
830 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
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832* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
833 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
834 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
835 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
836 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
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838* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
839
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842 - acquire via via ask-password?
843 - acquire creds via keyring?
844 - pass creds via keyring?
845 - pass creds via memfd?
846 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
847 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
848 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
849 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
850 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
851 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
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852 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
853 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
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855* add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
856 firmware indicates there is one.
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858* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
859 and such
860
861* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
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863* cyptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
864
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866 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
867
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868* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
869 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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872
873* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
874 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
875
876* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
877 systemd-makefs.service instead.
878
879* cryptsetup:
880 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
881 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
882
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883* when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
884 it happens to be set up alright already.
885
886* at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
887
888* userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
889 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
890 default.
891
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892* sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
893 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
894 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
895 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
896 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
897
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900* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
901 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
902
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903* change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
904 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
905 temporary dir.
906
907* special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
908 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
909
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910* add a new flag to chase_symlinks() that stops chasing once the first missing
911 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
912
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913* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
914
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915* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
916
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917* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
918
919* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
920
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921* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
922 when it exits
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924* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
925 o turn into dlopen() deps:
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927 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
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930 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
931 since they are so basic and our defaults)
932 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
933 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
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936 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
937 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
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939* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
940 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
941
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943 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: systemctl, coredumpctl.
944 (Already done: bootctl, systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
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947* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
948
949* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
950 specific service
951
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952* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
953 exists and responds.
954
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955* Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
956 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
957 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
958
91fc013f 959* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 960 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 961
7e8facb3 962* unify on openssl:
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963 - kill gnutls support in resolved
964 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
965 gnutls
966 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
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968* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
969 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
970
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971* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
972 realname substr searches in varlink API
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974* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
975
2a4be3c5 976* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 977
f1eb0ccd 978* pid1: activation by journal search expression
006c44c1 979
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980* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
981 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
982 initrd had set.
983
173c7873 984* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 985 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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986 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
987 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
988 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
989 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
990
991* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
992 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
993 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
994
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995* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
996 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
997 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
998 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
999 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1000 source.
1001
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1002* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1003 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1004 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1005
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1006* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1007
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1008* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
1009 the hibernation
1010
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1011* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1012 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1013 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1014 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1015 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1016 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1017 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1018 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1019 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1020 hibernation mode. (see
1021 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1022 section 10.2.2.8 and
1023 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1024 at the end).
1025
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1026* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1027 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1028
c6526b8d 1029* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
312dc153 1030
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1031* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1032 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1033 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1034 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1035 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1036 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1037 exec().
1038
1039* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1040
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1041* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1042 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1043
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1044* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1045 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1046
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1047* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1048 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1049 root.
1050
1051* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1052 is issued.
1053
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1054* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1055
1056* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1057
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1058* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1059 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1060 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1061
d238709c 1062* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1063 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1064 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1065
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1066* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1067
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1068* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1069 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1070
06898123 1071* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1072 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1073 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1074 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
06898123 1075
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1076* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1077
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1078* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
1079 log.c and sd-journal-send
1080
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1081* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1082
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1083* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
1084
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1085* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1086 non-zero "tries done" count
1087
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1088* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1089 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1090 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1091 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1092 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1093 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1094 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1095 CODE_FILE.
1096
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1097* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1098 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1099 some explanatory text online.
1100
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1101* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1102
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1103* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1104 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1105
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1106* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
1107 Specifically:
1108
1109 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
1110 properly)
e83419d0 1111 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 1112 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
c633b0a6 1113
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1114* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1115 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1116
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1117* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1118 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1119 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1120 files and suchlike we operate on.
070d0ac9 1121
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1122* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1123
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1124* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1125
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1126* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1127 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1128
5da19043 1129* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1130 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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1132* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1133 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1134 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1135 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1136 unlinked from any dir.
1137
bd1b3f75 1138* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
5da19043 1139
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1140* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1141
1142* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1143
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1144* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
1145 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
1146 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
1147 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
1148 should reflink the image file itself.
1149
1150 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
1151 specific paths only like this.
1152
53c70a27 1153* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1154 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1155 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1156 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1157 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1158
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1159* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1160
1161* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1162
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1163* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1164 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1165
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1166* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1167 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1168 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1169 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1170 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1171 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
1172 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1173 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1174
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1175* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1176 for root, but only then.
586a8e93 1177
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1178* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
1179
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1180* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1181 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1182
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1183* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1184 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1185
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1186* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1187 only when used. Add unit tests.
1188
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1189* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1190 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1191
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1192* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1193 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1194 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1195 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1196 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1197
899feb72 1198* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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1200* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
1201 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
1202 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
1203
5f7ecd61 1204* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
5962e9db 1205
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1206* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1207 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1208
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1209* blog about fd store and restartable services
1210
1211* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1212
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1213* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1214 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1215
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1216* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1217 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1218 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1219 ID is available.
1220
1221* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1222 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1223 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1224
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1225* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1226 parameters
1227
63a185dc 1228* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1229 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1230 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1231 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1232 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1233 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1234 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
6fc373ee 1235
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1236* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1237 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1238
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1239* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1240 about it in the resource log message
1241
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1242* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1243 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1244 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1245
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1246* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1247 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1248
1249 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1250
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1251* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1252 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1253 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1254
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1255* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1256 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1257
1258* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1259 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1260 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1261 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1262 natural habitat.
1263
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1264* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
1265
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1266* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1267 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1268 relative to the configured default value.
1269
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1270* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1271
04397464 1272* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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1274* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1275
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1276* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1277
04397464 1278* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1279
04397464 1280* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1281
04397464 1282* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1283
8ce9b83a 1284* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1285
1286* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1287 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1288 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1289
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1290* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1291 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1292
e40a326c 1293* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 1294
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1295* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1296 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1297 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1298 mapping to work.
1299
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1300* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1301
1302* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1303
1304* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1305
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1306* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1307 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1308
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1309* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1310 reload the unit file anyway
1311
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1312* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1313
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1314* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1315
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1316* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1317 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1318
f9bf1b8f 1319* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1320 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1321 specifications.
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1323* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1324
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1325* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1326
a2088fd0 1327* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1328 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1329 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1330 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
a2088fd0 1331
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1332* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1333
931bc195 1334* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
b18d23d7 1335
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1336* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1337 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1338 state.
41d6f3bf 1339 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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1341* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1342 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1343 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1344 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1345 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1346
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1347* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1348
d2f81fb0 1349* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1350 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1351
0a86c1a9 1352* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1353 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1354
e031c227 1355* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1356 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1357
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1358* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1359
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1360* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1361 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1362
25e773ee 1363* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1364
720652b3 1365* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1366
720652b3 1367* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1368
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1369* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
1370
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1371* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1372 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1373
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1374* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1375
9d6db739 1376* resolved:
9d6db739 1377 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1378 - service registration
1379 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1380 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1381 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1382 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1383 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1384 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1385 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1386 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1387
e25b5a8d 1388* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1389
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1390* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1391
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1392* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1393
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1394* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1395
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1396* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1397
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1398* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1399 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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1401* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1402
6a3f892a 1403* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1404 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1405 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1406
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1407* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1408 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1409 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1410
f9bf1b8f 1411* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1412
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1413* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1414 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1415 for ReusePort=
1416
f38afcd0 1417* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1418 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1419 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1420 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1421 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1422 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1423 the hierarchies of child processes
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1424- add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1425 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1426
f38afcd0 1427* transient units:
f38afcd0 1428 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1429
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1430* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1431
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1432* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1433
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1434* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1435
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1436* 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
1437
7f79cd71 1438* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 1439
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1440* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1441 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1442 path anyway.
1443
04397464 1444* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1445
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1446* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1447
1448* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1449
07eabc2b 1450* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1451
07eabc2b 1452* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1453
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1454* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1455
1456* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1457 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1458 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1459
1460* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1461 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1462
1463* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1464
1465* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1466
1467* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1468
1469* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1470 needs to be auto-respawned?
1471
1472* pid1:
1473 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1474 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1475 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1476 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1477 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
07eabc2b 1478 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
41d6f3bf 1479 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
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1480 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1481 - move PAM code into its own binary
1482 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1483 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1484 - Support --test based on current system state
1485 - 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().
1486 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1487 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1488 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1489 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1490 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1491 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1492 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1493 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1494 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1495 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1496 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1497 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1498
1499* unit files:
1500 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1501 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1502 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1503 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1504 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1505 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1506 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1507 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1508 - introduce Type=pid-file
1509 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1510 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1511 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1512
1513* timer units:
63a185dc 1514 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1515 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1516
1517* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1518
1519* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1520
1521* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1522
1523* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1524
07eabc2b 1525* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1526
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1527* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1528
1529* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1530
fff87a35 1531* test/:
20d52ab6 1532 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1533
b5c03638 1534* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1535 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1536 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1537 destination.
1538
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1539* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1540 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1541
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1542* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1543
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1544* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1545 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1546 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1547
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1548* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1549 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1550
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1551* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1552 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1553 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1554 that automatically.
1555
e5ec62c5 1556* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1557
ccddd104 1558* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1559
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1560* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1561
356ce991 1562* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1563
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1564* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1565
1566* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1567
1568* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1569
1570* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1571
1572* sd-bus:
1573 - EBADSLT handling
1574 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1575 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1576 - 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
1577 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1578 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1579 - longer term: priority inheritance
1580 - dbus spec updates:
1581 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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1582 - path escaping
1583 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1584
1585* sd-event
1586 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1587 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1588 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1589 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1590 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1591 here:
1592 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1593
1594* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1595 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1596
1597* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1598
1599* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1600
1601* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1602
1603* firstboot: allow provisioning of /etc/hosts entries, so that we can via the
1604 credentials logic insert host name to resolve into containers/hosts. Usecase:
1605 fork a container, and make it ping some specific address which is defined by
1606 the host on invocation
1607
1608* systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
1609 reading/writing files
1610
1611* firstboot: make it useful to be run immediately after yum --installroot to set up a machine. (most specifically, make --copy-root-password work even if /etc/passwd already exists
1612
b44be3ec 1613* EFI:
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1614 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1615 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1616 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1617* bootctl
631427d6 1618 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1619
07eabc2b 1620* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 1621
07eabc2b 1622* bootctl:
483091b0 1623 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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1624 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1625 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
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1626
1627* kernel-install:
1628 - optionally, support generating type #2 entries instead of type #1, including signing them
e6c6e7af 1629
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1630* logind:
1631 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1632 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1633 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1634 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1635 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1636 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1637 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1638 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1639 needs setuid().
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1640 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1641 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1642 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1643 complete.
1644 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1645 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1646 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 1647 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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1648 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1649 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1650 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1651 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1652 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1653 relogins
77b19caf 1654 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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1655 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
1656 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
1657 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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1658
1659* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1660
1661* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1662 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1663 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1664
1665* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1666 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1667
b44be3ec 1668* journal:
57f2a947 1669 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1670 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1671 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1672 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 1673 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1674 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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1675 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1676 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1677 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 1678 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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1679 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1680 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 1681 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
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1682 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1683 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 1684 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 1685 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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1686 - 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.
1687 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1688 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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1689 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1690 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1691 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1692 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 1693 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 1694 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 1695 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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1696 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1697 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1698 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1699 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1700 to syslog when it works again.
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1701 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1702 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1703 journals in.
1704 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1705 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1706 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1707 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1708 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 1709 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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1710 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1711 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1712 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1713 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1714 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1715 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1716 operation.
1717 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1718 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1719 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1720 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 1721 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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1722 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1723 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1724 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1725 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 1726 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
b44be3ec 1727
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1728* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
1729 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
1730
1731* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
1732 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
1733 validated via TPM.
1734
1735* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
1736 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
1737
1738* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
1739 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
1740 user's journal stream down but not the others.
1741
1742* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
1743 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
1744 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
1745 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
1746 cgroup.
1747
1748* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
1749 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
1750 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
1751 logging.
1752
1753* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
1754
1755* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
1756 from the SIGBUS handler
1757
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1758* add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1759 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1760 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1761 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1762
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1763* homed:
1764 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
1765 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
1766 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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1767 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
1768 - create on activate?
1769 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
1770 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
1771 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
1772 systemd --user is shut down.
1773 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
1774 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
1775 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
1776 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
1777 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
1778 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
1779 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
1780 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
1781 - query password from kernel keyring first
1782 - update even if record is "absent"
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1783 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
1784 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
1785 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
1786 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
1787 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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1788 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
1789 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
1790 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 1791 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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1792 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
1793 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
1794 signature
1795 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
1796 and insert a local signature instead.
1797 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
1798 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
1799 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
1800 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
1801 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
1802 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
1803 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
1804 easily?
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1805 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
1806 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
1807 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
1808 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
1809 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
1810 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
1811 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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1812 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
1813 can easily set overall quota for all users
1814 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
1815 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 1816 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 1817 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
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1818 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
1819 large.
07eabc2b 1820
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1821* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
1822 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
1823 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
1824
2df2bb1f 1825* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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1827* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
1828 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
1829 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
1830 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
1831
1832* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
1833
1834* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
1835 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
1836 something goes wrong on the way.
1837
1838* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
1839
1840* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
1841 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
1842 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
1843 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
1844
1845* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
1846 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
1847 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
1848 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
1849 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
1850 automatically.
1851
1852* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
1853 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
1854
1855* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
1856 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
1857 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
1858 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
1859 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
1860 fails to apply use the latter.
1861
1862* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
1863 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
1864
1865* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
1866 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
1867
1868* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
1869 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 1870 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
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1872* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
1873 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
1874
92e72028 1875* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
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1876 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
1877 during boot.
1878
1879* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
1880
b44be3ec 1881* document:
8b8f2591 1882 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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1883 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1884 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 1885 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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1886 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1887 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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1888 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1889 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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1890 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1891 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 1892 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 1893 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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1895* systemctl:
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1896 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1897 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1898 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1899 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1900 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1901 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1902 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 1903 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 1904 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 1905 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
f38afcd0 1906
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1908 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
1909 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 1910
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1911* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
1912 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
1913 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
1914 output for them.
d2e83c23 1915
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1917 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
1918 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 1919
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1920* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
1921 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
1922 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 1923
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1924* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
1925 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 1926
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1928 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
1929 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
1930 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 1931
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1932* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
1933 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
1934 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
1935 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 1936
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1937* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
1938
1939* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
1940
1941* unit install:
1942 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1943 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
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b44be3ec 1945* nspawn:
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1946 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1947 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1948 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1949 from the kernel's logs.
1950 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1951 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1952 interface be missing
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1953 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1954 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1955 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1956 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1957 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1958 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1959 PID 1...
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1960 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1961 running, remove them when shut down.
e25b5a8d 1962
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1963* nspawn: add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension=
1964 switch that takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already
1965 during startup.
1966
1967* when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
1968 so, freeze the payload too.
1969
1970* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
1971 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
1972 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
1973 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
1974 anything like that.
1975
1976* nspawn: support time namespaces
1977
1978* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
1979 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
1980
1981* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
1982 fallback in "machinectl shell"
1983
1984* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
1985 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
1986 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
1987
1988* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
1989
1990* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
1991
e25b5a8d 1992* machined:
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1993 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1994 removed or added to an existing machine
1995 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1996 difference host, via ssh
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1997 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1998 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1999 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2000 question
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2001 - "machinectl history"
2002 - "machinectl diff"
2003 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2004 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2005
abd55b16 2006* udev:
abd55b16 2007 - move to LGPL
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2008 - kill scsi_id
2009 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2010 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
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2011 - re-enable ProtectClock= or set CapabilityBoundingSet= to drop CAP_SYS_TIME
2012 and CAP_WAKE_ALARM (and possibly other unnecessary capabilities?).
2013 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2014
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2015* coredump:
2016 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2017 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
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2018 - when using package notes, compact output to one-line-per-module:
2019 libfoo.so, build-id DEADF12340, foo-libs-33.4-1.fc12
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2021* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2022
f38afcd0 2023* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 2024 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 2025 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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2026 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2027 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2028 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 2029 - add --test mode
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2030 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2031 project quota
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2033* udev-link-config:
2034 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2035 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2036 on Path= matching
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88e4d1d7 2038* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2039 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2040 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2041
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2043 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2044 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2045 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2046 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2047 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2048 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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2049 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2050 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2051 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2052 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2053 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
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2054 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2055 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2056 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2057 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2058 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2059 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2060 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
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2062* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2063
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2064* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2065
ac976532 2066* dhcp:
424a8732 2067 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2068
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2069* dhcp6:
2070 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2071 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2072 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2073 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 2074 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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2075 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2076 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2077 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2078 or interface down
2079 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2080 this behavior
4a77c53d 2081 - RouteTable= ?