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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
19* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
20
21* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
22
23* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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25* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
26
27* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
28
29* register catalog database signature as file magic
30
31* zsh shell completion:
32 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
33 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
76c068b7 34 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
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36* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
37* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
38 after being started.
39
40* write blog stories about:
41 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
42 - enabling dbus services
43 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
44 - remote access
45 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
46 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
47 - auto-restart
48 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
49 - the journal HTTP iface
50 - non-cgroup resource management
51 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
52 - refreshed, longer missions statement
53 - calendar time events
54 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
55 - how to create your own target
56 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
57 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
58
59Regularly:
60
61* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
62
63* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
64
65* pahole
66
67* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
68
69* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
70
71* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
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73Janitorial Clean-ups:
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75* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
76 semantics, like we do for device.c now
77
f461a28d 78* get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase() and related
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79 calls instead.
80
81* get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
82
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83* Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
84 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
85 libmount for something so trivial.
86
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87Deprecations and removals:
88
89* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
90 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
91
92* 2019-10 – Remove POINTINGSTICK_CONST_ACCEL references from the hwdb, see #9573
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94* remove cgrouspv1 support EOY 2023. As per
95 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
96 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
97 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
98
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99* drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
100 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
9eb41aab 101 is only supported for such old kernels.
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103* drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
104 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
105
9eb41aab 106* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
3345802c 107 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
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108 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
109 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
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110 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
111
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112* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
113 baseline is 5.8.
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115* drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
116 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
117
3345802c 118* rework our PID tracking in services and so on, to be strictly based on pidfd,
9eb41aab 119 once kernel baseline is 5.13.
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121* H2 2023: remove support for unmerged-usr
122
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123* Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
124 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
125 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
126
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127* Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
128 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
129
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130Features:
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132* fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
133 that hwdb patters can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
134 "*:foobar:*", to wildcard match both the start and the end of the string.
135 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
136 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
137 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
138
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139* Add a bus API to enumerate contents of the fdstore of a service,
140 handle/display similar to querying the process tree. Should probably just an
141 array of inode/devnum of fd, plus fd_get_name() data
142
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143* mount /tmp/ and /var/tmp with a uidmap applied that blocks out "nobody" user
144 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
145 way noone can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
146 used transiently, never persistently.
147
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148* set MS_NOSYMFOLLOW for ESP and XBOOTLDR mounts both in gpt-generator and in
149 dissect.c
150
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151* rework loopback support in fstab: when "loop" option is used, then
152 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
153 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
154 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
155 based on lo_file_name.
156
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157* remove tomoyo support, it's obsolete and unmaintained apparently
158
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159* journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
160 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
161 cursors as they happen.
162
163* In .socket units, add ConnectStream=, ConnectDatagram=,
164 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
165 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
166 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
167 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
168 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
169 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
170 activation-by-message id and similar.
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172* landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
173 ability to write anywehere else below /run/. Similar for
174 StateDirectory=. Benefit would be clear delegation via unit files: services
175 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
176
177* landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
178 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
179 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
180 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
181 similar behaviour for system services, too.
182
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183* Add systemd-mount@.service which is instantiated for a block device and
184 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
185 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
186
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187* udevd: extend memory pressure logic: also kill any idle worker processes
188
189* SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
190 localed, oomd, timedated.
191
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192* journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
193 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
194 info of the newest entry of the specificy boot (as identified by the boot
195 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
196 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
197 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
198 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
199 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
200 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
201
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202* sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
203 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
204 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
205
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206* in order to make binding to PCR 4 realistic:
207 - generate one keypair "U" and store it in a tpm2 nvindex.
208 - Generate another keypair "P" and store it in a second tpm2 nvindex.
209 - allocate a persistent counter object "C" in the tpm2
210 - Enroll all user objects (i.e. luks volumes, creds, …) to a tpm2 policy
211 signed by U.
212 - Lock both U and P down with a tpm2 policy signed by P (yes, P can only be
213 used if a signature by P itself can be provided)
214 - For regular reboots generate a signature for a restrictive PCR4 + counter C
215 based policy with key P. Place signature in EFI var, so it can be found on
216 next boot
217 - For reboots where a firmware update is expected generate a signature with a
218 more open policy against just counter C. Place signature in same EFI var.
219 - Increase C whenever switching between these two signature types.
220 - During early boot, use the signature from the EFI var to unlock U and P.
221 Use it to generate a signature for unlocking user objects given the current
222 PCR 4 value, store that away into /run somewhere, for user during the whole
223 later boot.
224 - When booting up automatically update the mentioned efi var so that it
225 contains the restrictive signature. But also generate a signature ahead of
226 time that could be used in case during the current boot we later detect we might
227 need to reboot for a firmware update. Store that in /run somewhere, so that
228 it can be placed in the EFI var, if needed.
229
230* repart/gpt-auto/DDIs: maybe introduce a concept of "extension" partitions,
231 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
232 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
233 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
234 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
235 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
236 identifiying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
237 from the uuid of the original partition it extends. Inspiration for this is
238 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
239 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
240 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
241 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
242 access.
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244* split out execute.c into new "systemd-executor" binary. Then make PID 1 fork
245 that off via vfork(), and then let that executor do the hard work. Ultimately
246 the executor then gets replaced by the real binary sooner or later. Reason:
247 currently the intermediary "stub" process is a CoW trap that doubles memory
248 usage of PID 1 on each service start. Also, strictly speaking we are not
d09df6b9 249 allowed to do NSS from the stub process yet we do anyway. Next steps would
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250 then be maybe use CLONE_INTO_CGROUP for the executor, given that we don't
251 need glibc anymore in the stub process then. Then, switch nspawn to just be a
252 frontend for this too, so that we have to ways into the executor: via unit
253 files/dbus/varlin through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI through nspawn.
254
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255* sd-stub: detect if we are running with uefi console output on serial, and if so
256 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
257
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258* add a utility that can be used with the kernel's
259 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
260 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
261 for all umh processes.
262
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263* systemd-shutdown: keep sending sd_notify() status updates immediately before
264 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
265
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266* homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
267 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
268 resize.
269
270* homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
271 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
272
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273* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
274 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
275 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
276 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
277 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculted from the monotonic timestamp in the
278 log record, adjusted by the delta declared in the structured log record.
279
280* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
281 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
30fd9a2d 282 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
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283 records, to be able to order them.
284
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285* timesyncd: when saving/restoring clock try to take boot time into account.
286 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
287 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
288 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
289 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
290 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
291 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
292 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
293 system actually reset.
294
295* systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
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296 userspace to allow ordering boots (for example in journalctl). The counter
297 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
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299* systemd-sysext: for sysext DDIs picked up via EFI stub, set much stricter
300 image policy by default
301
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302* pam_systemd_home: add module parameter to control whether to only accept
303 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
304 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
305 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
306
4cb8a25b 307* sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
1c904337 308 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
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309 is then useful for network boot, by embdedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
310 in sd-boot, which reference remote kernels.
311
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312* fix systemd-gpt-auto-generator in case a UKI is spawned from XBOOTLDR without
313 sd-boot. In that case LoaderDevicePartUUID will point to the XBOOTLDR, and we
314 should then derive the root disk from that, and then the ESP/XBOOTLDR from
315 that. Right now we will only mount ESP if it matches LoaderDEvicePartUUID
316 which isn't quite the same.
317
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318* maybe prohibit setuid() to the nobody user, to lock things down, via seccomp.
319 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
320 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
321 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
322 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
323
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324* sd-boot: add a new PE section .bls or so that carries a cpio with additional
325 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
326 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
327 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
328 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
329
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330* sd-boot: also allow passing in the cpio as in the previous item via SMBIOS
331
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332* add a new EFI tool "sd-fetch" or so. It looks in a PE section ".url" for an
333 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
334 Usecase: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
335 binaries in place of UKIs, and download them on-the-fly.
336
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337* bootctl: warn if ESP is mounted world-readable (and in particular the seed).
338
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339* maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
340 cmdline. usecase: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
341
342* systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
343 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
344 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
345
6d040d84 346* sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
4cb8a25b 347 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
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349* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
350 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
351 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
352 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
353 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
354 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
355 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
356 usual.
357
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358* Lennart: big blog story about DDIs
359
360* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
361
362* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
363
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364* bpf: see if we can use BPF to solve the syslog message cgroup source problem:
365 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
366 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
367 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
368 sockaddr.
369
370* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
371 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
372 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
373 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
374 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
375 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
376 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
377 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
378 try to use inode from there.
379
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380* extend the verity signature partition to permit multiple signatures for the
381 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
382
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383* consider adding a new partition type, just for /opt/ for usage in system
384 extensions
385
386* gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
387 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
388 for the root fs or /usr/.
389
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390* dissection policy should enforce that unlocking can only take place by
391 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
392 combination thereof.
393
394* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
395 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
396 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
397 ahead of time.
398
399* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
400 aforementioned purpose.
401
402* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
403 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
404
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405* Add systemd-sysupdate-initrd.service or so that runs systemd-sysupdate in the
406 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
407 to figure out:
408 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
409 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
410 subsequent boots?
411
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412* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
413 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
414 inspiration from IMA log)
415
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416* provide an API to apps to encrypt/decrypt credentials. usecase: allow
417 bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd that way, without shelling
418 out to our tools.
419
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420* revisit default PCR bindings in cryptenroll and systemd-creds. Currently they
421 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
422 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
423 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
424 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
425 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
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426 default to PCR 15 at least if sd-stub is used (i.e. bind to system identity),
427 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
428 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
429 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
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431* To mimic the new tpm2-measure-pcr= crypttab option add the same to veritytab
432 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
433 used)
434
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435* We should start measuring all services, containers, and system extensions we
436 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
437 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
438 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
439 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
440
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441* whenever we measure something into a TPM PCR from userspace, write a record in
442 TCG's "Canonical Event Log" format to some file, so that we can reason about
443 how PCR values we manage came to
444 be. https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/canonical-event-log-format/
445
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446* bootspec: permit graceful "update" from type #2 to type #1. If both a type #1
447 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
448 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
449 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 450 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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451 should win over vendor defaults.
452
453* sd-stub: optionally allow users to configure manual kernel command line even
454 in SecureBoot by authenticating it via shim's APIs, integrating with MOK and
455 similar: instead of authenticating just PE code shim should be capable of
456 authenticating any kind of data for us, including files containing kernel
457 command lines.
458
459* write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
460 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
461 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
462
463* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
464 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
465
466* implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
467 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
468 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
469 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
470 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
471 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
472
473* add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
474 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
475 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
476
477* systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
478
479* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
480 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
481 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Usecase: remove secondary OS
482 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
483
484* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
485 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
486 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
487 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
488 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
489 only one for each OS.
490
491* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
492 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 493 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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495 boot, for the next.
496
497* figure out a sane way when building UKIs how to extract SBAT data from inner
498 kernel, extend it with component info, and add to outer kernel.
499
500* systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
501 similar behind it, instead of http.
502
503* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
504 boot, or on first boot.
505
506* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
507 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
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510 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
511 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
512 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
513 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
514 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
515 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
516 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
517 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
518 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
519 until users are allowed to log in).
520
521* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
522 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
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525 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
526 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
527 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Usecase: systemd-syscfg
528 for a central orchestrator to generate syscfg images securely that can only
529 be activated on one specific host (which can be used for installing a bunch
530 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
531 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
532 prepare a syscfg image that can only be activated on a specific host that
533 runs a specific software in a specific time window. syscfg would be
534 automatically invalidated outside of it.
535
536* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
537 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
538 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
539 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
540 enhanced remote attestation quote. Usecase: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 541 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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543 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
544 and generate a small syscfg for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
545 on each node. The syscfg would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
546 proposed above, so that it can only be activated on the specific host, if the
547 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
548 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
549 update syscfg. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
550 config and collected reports in the last 3min time window only, and thus can
551 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
552 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
553 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
554 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via syscfg updates,
555 and via the time window TPM logic invalidated if node doesn't keep itself
556 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
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559 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
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562 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
563
564* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
565 instead of manual blocking.
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567* sd-boot: for each installed OS, grey out older entries (i.e. all but the
568 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
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571 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
572 supplied password.
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575 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
576 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
577 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
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580 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
581 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
582 convencience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
583
584* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
585 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
586 automatically derived from --private-key=).
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589 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
590 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
591
592* Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
593 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
594 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
595 use as additional search condition. Usecase: images that combined a sysext
596 partition with a portable service partition in one.
597
598* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
599 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
600 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
601 modules
602
603* for systemd-syscfg: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
604 sig using squashfs-tools-ng's library. Maybe just systemd-repart called under
605 a new name with a built-in config?
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608 /dev/disk/by-diskseq/… so that they can't be swapped out behind our back.
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611 maybe on kernel command line:
612 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
613 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
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616 hash type, etc)
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f461a28d 618* chase(): take inspiration from path_extract_filename() and return
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620
f461a28d 621* chase(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
4e0ceefe 622 but final node is not a directory
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f461a28d 624* chase(): add new flag that simply refuses all symlink use in a path,
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626
627* document in boot loader spec that symlinks in XBOOTLDR/ESP are not OK even if
628 non-VFAT fs is used.
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631
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633 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
634
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636
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638 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
639 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
640 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
641 affect PCR values.
642
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644 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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647 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
648
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650 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
651
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653 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
654
655* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
656 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
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659 maybe some other stuff and boots it
660
e1b45a75 661* maybe add new flags to gpt partition tables for rootfs and usrfs indicating
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663 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
664 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
665 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
666 use it.
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669 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
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672 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
673 what it was signed.
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676 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
677 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
678 be safely written to disk, then.
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681 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
682 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
683 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
684 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
685 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
686 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
687 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
688 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
689 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
690 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
691 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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694 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
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697 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
698 via the credentials logic.
699 • fstab-generator: allow defining additional fstab-like mounts via
700 credentials (similar: crypttab-generator, verity-generator,
701 integrity-generator)
702 • getty-generator: allow defining additional getty instances via a credential
703 • run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
704 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
705 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
706 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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708 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
709 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
710 file system paths to enable on start.
711 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
712 usr=
713 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
714 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
715 register if not registered yet. Usecase: deploy a system, and add an
716 account one can directly log into.
717 • initialize machine ID from systemd credential picked up from the ESP via
718 sd-stub, so that machine ID is stable even on systems where unified kernels
719 are used, and hence kernel cmdline cannot be modified locally
720 • in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
721 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
722 pre-built kernels.
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725 runtime state. Then, expose it:
726
727 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
728 about the unit.
729 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
730 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
731 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
732 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
733 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
734 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
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737 what to do if support ended
738
739* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
3ff1721c 740 login time, à la motd
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e1b45a75 742* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 743 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
e1b45a75 744 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Usecase: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 745 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 746 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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749 initrd transition. Specifically:
750 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
751 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
752 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
753
754* implement varlink introspection
755
2df264e6 756* we should probably drop all use of prefix_roota() and friends, and use
f461a28d 757 chase() instead
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d486b26f 759* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 760 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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762 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
763 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
764 depending on desired level of persistency.
765
766* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
767 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
1c904337 768 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
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770 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
771 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
772 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
773 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
774
775* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
776 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
777 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
778 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
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781
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785 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
786 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
787 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Usecase: container
788 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
789 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
790 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
791 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
3881fd40 792 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
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794 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
795 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
796 not unprivileged code.
797
798* given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
799 that hooks up userbdctl ssh-key stuff.
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802 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
803 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
804 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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807 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
808 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
809 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
30fd9a2d 810 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
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812 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
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814 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
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816* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
817 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
818 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
819 order.
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822 policies: policy probably must take some nvram based generation counter into
823 account that can only monotonically increase and can be used to invalidate
824 old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to old signed PCR sets
825 whenever they want.
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827* update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
828 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
829 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
830
831* add a clear concept how the initrd can make up credentials on their own to
832 pass to the system when transitioning into the host OS. usecase: things like
833 cloud-init/ignitation and similar can parameterize the host with data they
834 acquire.
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837 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
838 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
839 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 840 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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842 IN_IGNORED again)
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845 cmdline. Usecase: invoke a VM, and mount a host homedir into it via
846 virtio-fs.
847
848* for vendor-built signed initrds:
62471289 849 - make sysext run in the initrd
5b06ad51 850 - sysext should pick up sysext images from /.extra/ in the initrd, and insist
62471289 851 on verification if in secureboot mode
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853 type #2 drop-in dir in the ESP.
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855 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
856 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
857 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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859 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
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861 - pid 1 should look for machine ID in creds
62471289 862 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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864 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
865 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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868 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
869 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
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872 don't query this unnecessarily in entirely uninitialized
873 containers. (i.e. containers with empty /etc).
874
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877 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
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880 directly to host service manager.
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883 extending the command line to enable vsock on the VM, and using fw_cfg to
884 configure socket address.
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889 no api to query the device id
890
891* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
892 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
893 also be queried.
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896 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
897 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
898 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
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901 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
902 latter).
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904* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
905
906* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
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909 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
910 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
911 generated by GNU sha256sums.
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914 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
915 logic: allow combining sd-boot via objcopy with kernels to enumerate, .conf
916 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
917 to the menu. Usecase: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
918 UEFI HTTP boot.
919
920* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
921 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
922 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
923 binary with some minimal info about an URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
924 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
925 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
926 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
927 hence cheap for enumeration.
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930
931* maybe add a "syscfg" concept, that is almost entirely identical to "sysext",
932 but operates on /etc/ instead of /usr/ and /opt/. Use case would be: trusted,
933 authenticated, atomic, additive configuration management primitive: drop in a
934 configuration bundle, and activate it, so that it is instantly visible,
935 comprehensively.
936
937* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
938 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
939 words: show partition labels).
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942 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
943 that take an URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
b17a681b 944 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. usecase:
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946 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
947 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
948
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950
e4f92a62 951* deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
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953* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
954
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955* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
956 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
957 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
958 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
959 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
960 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
961 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
962 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
963 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
964 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
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967 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
968 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
969 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
970 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
971 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
972 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
973 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
974 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
975 an NTP sync is acquired.
976
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978 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
979 - maybe add env var that shortcuts kernel-install for installers that want to
980 call it at the end only
981
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982* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
983 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
984
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985* doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
986 jobs, units
987
a57d72ce 988* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
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989 sync, i.e. parse out architecture field in sd-boot (currently only done in
990 userspace)
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992* automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
993
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994* add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
995 json package metadata, and use that when logging
996
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998 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
999
1000* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1001 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
1002
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1003* cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
1004 internal clock.
1005
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1006* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1007 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1008
1009* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1010 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1011 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1012 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
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1015 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1016 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1017
1018* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
1019 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
1020 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
1021 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
1022 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
1023 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
1024 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
1025 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
1026 thread:
1027 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
1028 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
1029 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
1030 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
1031 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
1032 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
1033
1034* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
1035 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
1036 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
1037
1038* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
1039 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
1040 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
1041 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
1042 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
1043 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
1044 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
1045 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
1046 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
1047 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
1048 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1049 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1050 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1051 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1052 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
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1055 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
1056 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
1057 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
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1058 for debugging purposes. Other usecase: boot into qemu with regular user
1059 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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1061* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
30fd9a2d 1062 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
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1064
1065* sysext: automatically activate sysext images dropped in via new sd-stub
c0a74f62 1066 sysext pickup logic. (must insist on verity + signature on those though)
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1068* add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
1069 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1070 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1071 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1072 on-disk storage.
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1075 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1076 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1077 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1078 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1079
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1080* portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
1081 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1082 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
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1084* logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
1085 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
1086 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
1087 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
1088 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
1089 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
1090 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
1091
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1092* /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
1093 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1094 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1095 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1096
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1097* add high-level lockdown level for GPT dissection logic: e.g. an enum that can
1098 be ANY (to mount anything), TRUSTED (to require that /usr is on signed
1099 verity, but rest doesn't matter), LOCKEDDOWN (to require that everything is
1100 on signed verity, except for ESP), SUPERLOCKDOWN (like LOCKEDDOWN but ESP not
1101 allowed). And then maybe some flavours of that that declare what is expected
1102 from home/srv/var… Then, add a new cmdline flag to all tools that parse such
1103 images, to configure this. Also, add a kernel cmdline option for this, to be
1104 honoured by the gpt auto generator.
1105
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1107 only mount root dir, /home/ dir, /var/ and /srv/, but nothing else. And then
1108 minor extension to this, insisting on encryption, for example
af3d3873 1109 "systemd.gpt_auto_policy=r+v+h" to require encryption for root and var but not
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1110 for /home/, and similar. Similar add --image-dissect-policy= to tools that
1111 take --image= that take the same short string.
1112
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1114 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1115 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1116 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1117 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1118 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1119 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1120 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1121 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1122 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1123 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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1125* add a "policy" to the dissection logic. i.e. a bit mask what is OK to mount,
1126 what must be read-only, what requires encryption, and what requires
1127 authentication.
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1130 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1131 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1134
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1137* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1138 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1139 that images cannot be misused.
1140
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178d3ff2 1142 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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1143 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1144 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1145 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1146
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1148 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1149 - support casync as download mechanism
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1150 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1151 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1152 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1153 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1154 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
1155 override the host's update files.)
1156 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1157 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1158 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1159 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
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1162
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1163* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1164 make dirs appear under right UID.
1165
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1166* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1167 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
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1169* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
1170 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
1171 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
1172 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
1173 for doing that.
1174
24063ba1 1175* introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
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1177 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1178 already have it.
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1180* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1181 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1182
1c904337 1183* Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
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1185* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1186 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1187 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1188 /proc/self/fd/3
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1190* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1191 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1192 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1193
1194* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1195 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1196
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1197* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1198 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1199
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1200* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1201 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1202 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1203 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1204 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
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1206* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1207
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199b097d 1209 - acquire from EFI variable?
30fd9a2d 1210 - acquire via ask-password?
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1212 - pass creds via keyring?
1213 - pass creds via memfd?
1214 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1215 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1216 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1217 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1218 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1219 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
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1220 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
1221 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
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1224 firmware indicates there is one.
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1226* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1227 and such
1228
1229* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
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1231* cyptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
1232
7d7c75f1 1233* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1235
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1236* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1237 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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1239* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1240
1241* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1242 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1243
1244* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1245 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1246
1247* cryptsetup:
1248 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1249 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1250
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1251* when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
1252 it happens to be set up alright already.
1253
1254* at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
1255
1256* userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
1257 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
1258 default.
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1260* sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
1261 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
1262 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
1263 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
1264 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
1265
08d33656 1266* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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1268* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1269 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
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1271* change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
1272 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
1273 temporary dir.
1274
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1276 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1277
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1279 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1280
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1281* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1282
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1283* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1284
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1285* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
1286
1287* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1288
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1289* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1290 when it exits
1291
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1292* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1293 o turn into dlopen() deps:
cdfd8537 1294 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 1295 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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1297 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1298 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1299 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
1300 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
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1302* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1303 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1304 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
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1306* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1307 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
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1309* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1310
1311* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1312 specific service
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1314* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1315 exists and responds.
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1317* Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
1318 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
1319 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
1320
91fc013f 1321* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1322 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1323
7e8facb3 1324* unify on openssl:
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1325 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1326 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1327 gnutls
1328 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
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1330* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1331 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1332
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1333* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1334 realname substr searches in varlink API
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1336* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1337
2a4be3c5 1338* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1339
f1eb0ccd 1340* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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1342* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1343 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1344 initrd had set.
1345
173c7873 1346* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1347 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1348 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1349 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1350 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1351 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1352
1353* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1354 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1355 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1356
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1357* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1358 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1359 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1360 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1361 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1362 source.
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1364* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1365 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1366 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1367
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1368* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1369
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1370* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
1371 the hibernation
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1373* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1374 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1375 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1376 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1377 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1378 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1379 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1380 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1381 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1382 hibernation mode. (see
1383 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1384 section 10.2.2.8 and
1385 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1386 at the end).
1387
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1388* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1389 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1390
c6526b8d 1391* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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1393* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1394 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1395 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1396 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1397 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1398 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1399 exec().
1400
1401* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1402
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1403* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1404 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1405
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1406* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1407 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1408
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1409* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1410 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1411 root.
1412
1413* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1414 is issued.
1415
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1416* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1417
1418* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1419
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1420* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1421 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1422 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1423
d238709c 1424* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1425 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1426 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1427
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1428* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1429
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1430* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1431 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1432
06898123 1433* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1434 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1435 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1436 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
06898123 1437
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1438* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1439
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1440* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
1441 log.c and sd-journal-send
1442
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1443* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1444
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1445* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
1446
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1447* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1448 non-zero "tries done" count
1449
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1450* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1451 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1452 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1453 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1454 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1455 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1456 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1457 CODE_FILE.
1458
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1459* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1460 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1461 some explanatory text online.
1462
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1463* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1464
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1465* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1466 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1467
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1468* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
1469 Specifically:
1470
1471 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
1472 properly)
e83419d0 1473 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 1474 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
c633b0a6 1475
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1476* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1477 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1478
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1479* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1480 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1481 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1482 files and suchlike we operate on.
070d0ac9 1483
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1484* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1485
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1486* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1487
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1488* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1489 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1490
5da19043 1491* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1492 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
5da19043 1493
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1494* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1495 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1496 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1497 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1498 unlinked from any dir.
1499
bd1b3f75 1500* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
5da19043 1501
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1502* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1503
1504* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1505
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1506* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
1507 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
1508 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
1509 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
1510 should reflink the image file itself.
1511
1512 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
1513 specific paths only like this.
1514
53c70a27 1515* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1516 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1517 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1518 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1519 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1520
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1521* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1522
1523* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1524
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1525* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1526 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1527
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1528* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1529 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1530 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1531 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1532 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1533 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
1534 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1535 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1536
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1537* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1538 for root, but only then.
586a8e93 1539
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1540* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
1541
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1542* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1543 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1544
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1545* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1546 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1547
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1548* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1549 only when used. Add unit tests.
1550
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1551* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1552 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1553
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1554* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1555 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1556 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1557 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1558 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1559
899feb72 1560* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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1562* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
1563 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
1564 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
1565
5f7ecd61 1566* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
5962e9db 1567
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1568* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1569 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1570
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1571* blog about fd store and restartable services
1572
1573* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1574
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1575* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1576 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1577
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1578* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1579 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1580 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1581 ID is available.
1582
1583* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1584 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1585 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1586
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1587* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1588 parameters
1589
63a185dc 1590* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1591 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1592 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1593 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1594 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1595 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1596 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
6fc373ee 1597
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1598* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1599 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1600
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1601* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1602 about it in the resource log message
1603
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1604* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1605 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1606 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1607
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1608* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1609 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1610
1611 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1612
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1613* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1614 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1615 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1616
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1617* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1618 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1619
1620* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1621 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1622 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1623 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1624 natural habitat.
1625
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1626* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1627 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
8eb7383b 1628
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1629* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1630 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1631 relative to the configured default value.
1632
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1633* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1634
04397464 1635* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
d82047be 1636
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1637* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1638
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1639* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1640
04397464 1641* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1642
04397464 1643* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1644
04397464 1645* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1646
8ce9b83a 1647* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1648
1649* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1650 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1651 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1652
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1653* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1654 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1655
e40a326c 1656* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 1657
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1658* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1659 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1660 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1661 mapping to work.
1662
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1663* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1664
1665* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1666
1667* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1668
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1669* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1670 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1671
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1672* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1673 reload the unit file anyway
1674
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1675* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1676
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1677* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1678
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1679* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1680 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1681
f9bf1b8f 1682* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1683 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1684 specifications.
de7399eb 1685
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1686* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1687
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1688* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1689
a2088fd0 1690* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1691 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1692 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1693 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
a2088fd0 1694
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1695* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1696
931bc195 1697* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
b18d23d7 1698
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1699* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1700 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1701 state.
41d6f3bf 1702 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
60d17b74 1703
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1704* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1705 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1706 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1707 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1708 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1709
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1710* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1711
d2f81fb0 1712* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1713 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1714
0a86c1a9 1715* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1716 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1717
e031c227 1718* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1719 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1720
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1721* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1722
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1723* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1724 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1725
25e773ee 1726* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1727
720652b3 1728* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1729
720652b3 1730* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1731
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1732* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
1733
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1734* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1735 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1736
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1737* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1738
9d6db739 1739* resolved:
9d6db739 1740 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1741 - service registration
1742 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1743 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1744 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1745 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1746 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1747 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1748 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1749 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1750
e25b5a8d 1751* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1752
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1753* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1754
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1755* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1756
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1757* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1758
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1759* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1760
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1761* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1762 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1763
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1764* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1765
6a3f892a 1766* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1767 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1768 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1769
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1770* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1771 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1772 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1773
f9bf1b8f 1774* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1775
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1776* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1777 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1778 for ReusePort=
1779
f38afcd0 1780* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1781 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1782 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1783 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1784 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1785 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1786 the hierarchies of child processes
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1787- add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1788 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1789
f38afcd0 1790* transient units:
f38afcd0 1791 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1792
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1793* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1794
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1795* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1796
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1797* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1798
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1799* 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
1800
7f79cd71 1801* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 1802
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1803* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1804 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1805 path anyway.
1806
04397464 1807* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1808
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1809* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1810
1811* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1812
07eabc2b 1813* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1814
07eabc2b 1815* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1816
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1817* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1818
1819* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1820 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1821 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1822
1823* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1824 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1825
1826* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1827
1828* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1829
1830* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1831
1832* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1833 needs to be auto-respawned?
1834
1835* pid1:
1836 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1837 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1838 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1839 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1840 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
07eabc2b 1841 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
41d6f3bf 1842 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
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1843 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1844 - move PAM code into its own binary
1845 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1846 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1847 - Support --test based on current system state
1848 - 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().
1849 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1850 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1851 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1852 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1853 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1854 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1855 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1856 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1857 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1858 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1859 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1860 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1861
1862* unit files:
1863 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1864 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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1865 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1866 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1867 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1868 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1869 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1870 - introduce Type=pid-file
1871 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1872 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1873 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1874
1875* timer units:
63a185dc 1876 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1877 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1878
1879* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1880
1881* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1882
1883* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1884
1885* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1886
07eabc2b 1887* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1888
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1889* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1890
1891* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1892
fff87a35 1893* test/:
20d52ab6 1894 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1895
b5c03638 1896* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1897 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1898 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1899 destination.
1900
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1901* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1902 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1903
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1904* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1905
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1906* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1907 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1908 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1909
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1910* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1911 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1912
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1913* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1914 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1915 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1916 that automatically.
1917
e5ec62c5 1918* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1919
ccddd104 1920* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1921
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1922* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1923
356ce991 1924* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1925
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1926* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1927
1928* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1929
1930* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1931
1932* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1933
1934* sd-bus:
1935 - EBADSLT handling
1936 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1937 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1938 - 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
1939 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1940 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1941 - longer term: priority inheritance
1942 - dbus spec updates:
1943 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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1944 - path escaping
1945 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1946
1947* sd-event
1948 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1949 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1950 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1951 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1952 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1953 here:
1954 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1955
1956* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1957 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1958
1959* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1960
1961* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1962
1963* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1964
f461a28d 1965* systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase() before
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1966 reading/writing files
1967
1968* 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
1969
b44be3ec 1970* EFI:
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1971 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1972 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1973 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1974* bootctl
631427d6 1975 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1976
07eabc2b 1977* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 1978
07eabc2b 1979* bootctl:
483091b0 1980 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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1981 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1982 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
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1983
1984* kernel-install:
1985 - optionally, support generating type #2 entries instead of type #1, including signing them
e6c6e7af 1986
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1987* logind:
1988 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1989 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1990 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1991 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1992 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1993 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1994 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1995 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1996 needs setuid().
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1997 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1998 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1999 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
2000 complete.
2001 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2002 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2003 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 2004 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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2005 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2006 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2007 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2008 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2009 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2010 relogins
77b19caf 2011 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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2012 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
2013 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
2014 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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2016* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2017
2018* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2019 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2020 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2021
2022* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2023 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2024
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57f2a947 2026 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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2027 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2028 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2029 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 2030 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 2031 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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2032 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2033 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2034 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 2035 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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2036 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2037 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 2038 - 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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2039 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
2040 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 2041 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 2042 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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2043 - 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.
2044 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2045 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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2046 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2047 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2048 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2049 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 2050 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 2051 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 2052 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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2053 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2054 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2055 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2056 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2057 to syslog when it works again.
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2058 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2059 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2060 journals in.
2061 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2062 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2063 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2064 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2065 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 2066 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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2067 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2068 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2069 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2070 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2071 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2072 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2073 operation.
2074 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
2075 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
2076 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2077 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 2078 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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2079 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2080 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2081 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2082 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 2083 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
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2085* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2086 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2087
2088* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2089 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2090 validated via TPM.
2091
2092* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2093 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2094
2095* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2096 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2097 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2098
2099* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2100 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2101 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2102 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2103 cgroup.
2104
2105* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2106 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2107 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2108 logging.
2109
2110* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2111
2112* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2113 from the SIGBUS handler
2114
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2116 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2117 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2118 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2119
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2120* homed:
2121 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2122 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2123 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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2124 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2125 - create on activate?
2126 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2127 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2128 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2129 systemd --user is shut down.
2130 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2131 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2132 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2133 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2134 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2135 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2136 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2137 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2138 - query password from kernel keyring first
2139 - update even if record is "absent"
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2140 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2141 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2142 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2143 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2144 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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2145 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2146 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2147 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 2148 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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2149 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2150 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2151 signature
2152 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2153 and insert a local signature instead.
2154 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2155 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2156 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2157 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2158 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2159 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2160 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2161 easily?
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2162 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2163 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2164 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2165 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2166 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2167 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2168 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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2169 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2170 can easily set overall quota for all users
2171 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2172 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 2173 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 2174 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
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2175 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2176 large.
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2178* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2179 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2180 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2181
2df2bb1f 2182* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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2183
2184* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2185 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2186 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2187 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2188
2189* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2190
2191* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2192 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2193 something goes wrong on the way.
2194
2195* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
2196
2197* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2198 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2199 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2200 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2201
2202* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2203 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2204 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2205 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2206 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2207 automatically.
2208
2209* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2210 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2211
2212* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2213 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2214 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2215 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2216 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2217 fails to apply use the latter.
2218
2219* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2220 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2221
2222* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2223 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2224
2225* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2226 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2227 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
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2229* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2230 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2231
92e72028 2232* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
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2233 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2234 during boot.
2235
2236* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2237
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8b8f2591 2239 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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2240 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2241 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2242 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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2243 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2244 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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2245 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2246 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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2247 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2248 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2249 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2250 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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2251
2252* systemctl:
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2253 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2254 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2255 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2256 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2257 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2258 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2259 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2260 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2261 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 2262 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
f38afcd0 2263
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LB
2264* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2265 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2266 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2267
07eabc2b
LB
2268* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
2269 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
2270 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
2271 output for them.
d2e83c23 2272
07eabc2b
LB
2273* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2274 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2275 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2276
07eabc2b
LB
2277* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2278 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2279 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 2280
07eabc2b
LB
2281* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2282 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 2283
07eabc2b
LB
2284* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2285 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2286 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2287 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 2288
07eabc2b
LB
2289* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2290 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2291 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2292 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2293
07eabc2b
LB
2294* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2295
2296* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2297
2298* unit install:
2299 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2300 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 2301
b44be3ec 2302* nspawn:
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DH
2303 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2304 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2305 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2306 from the kernel's logs.
2307 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2308 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2309 interface be missing
e25b5a8d
DH
2310 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2311 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2312 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2313 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2314 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2315 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2316 PID 1...
e25b5a8d
DH
2317 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2318 running, remove them when shut down.
71b77f06
CB
2319 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2320 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2321 startup.
2322 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2323 or so, freeze the payload too.
2324 - support time namespaces
2325 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2326 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2327 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2328 "machinectl shell"
2329 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2330 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2331 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2332 - greater control over selinux label?
2333 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2334 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2335 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2336 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2337 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2338 host TPM.
2339 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2340 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2341 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2342 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2343 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2344 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2345 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2346 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
fdeabf57
CB
2347 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2348 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
3922f982
CB
2349 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2350 or two sockets.
3734fec7 2351 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
07eabc2b
LB
2352
2353* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2354 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2355 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2356 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2357 anything like that.
2358
e25b5a8d 2359* machined:
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DH
2360 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2361 removed or added to an existing machine
2362 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2363 difference host, via ssh
e25b5a8d
DH
2364 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2365 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2366 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2367 question
e25b5a8d
DH
2368 - "machinectl history"
2369 - "machinectl diff"
2370 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2371 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2372
abd55b16 2373* udev:
abd55b16 2374 - move to LGPL
abd55b16
KS
2375 - kill scsi_id
2376 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2377 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2378 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2379 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2380
e25b5a8d
DH
2381* coredump:
2382 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2383 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2384 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
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LP
2385
2386* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2387
f38afcd0 2388* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 2389 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
beca6b6e 2390 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
614cc34f 2391 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
e25b5a8d
DH
2392 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2393 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2394 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 2395 - add --test mode
ba405b22
ZJS
2396 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2397 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2398 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
beca6b6e
ZJS
2399 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2400 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
1258097c 2401
af6f0d42
TG
2402* udev-link-config:
2403 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2404 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2405 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2406
88e4d1d7 2407* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2408 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2409 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2410
0a4b9a07 2411* networkd:
c74ecd71
TG
2412 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2413 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2414 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2415 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2416 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2417 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
e25b5a8d
DH
2418 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2419 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2420 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2421 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2422 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
DH
2423 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2424 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2425 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2426 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2427 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2428 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2429 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2430
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LB
2431* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2432
d5e172d2
ZJS
2433* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2434
ac976532 2435* dhcp:
424a8732 2436 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2437
37d8b536
PF
2438* dhcp6:
2439 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2440 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2441 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2442 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 2443 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
37d8b536
PF
2444 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2445 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2446 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2447 or interface down
2448 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2449 this behavior
4a77c53d 2450 - RouteTable= ?