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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
c6407108 93
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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:
131
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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* mount /tmp/ and /var/tmp with a uidmap applied that blocks out "nobody" user
140 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
141 way noone can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
142 used transiently, never persistently.
143
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144* rework loopback support in fstab: when "loop" option is used, then
145 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
146 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
147 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
148 based on lo_file_name.
149
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150* remove tomoyo support, it's obsolete and unmaintained apparently
151
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152* journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
153 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
154 cursors as they happen.
155
156* In .socket units, add ConnectStream=, ConnectDatagram=,
157 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
158 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
159 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
160 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
161 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
162 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
163 activation-by-message id and similar.
164
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165* landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
166 ability to write anywehere else below /run/. Similar for
167 StateDirectory=. Benefit would be clear delegation via unit files: services
168 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
169
170* landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
171 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
172 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
173 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
174 similar behaviour for system services, too.
175
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176* Add systemd-mount@.service which is instantiated for a block device and
177 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
178 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
179
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180* udevd: extend memory pressure logic: also kill any idle worker processes
181
182* SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
183 localed, oomd, timedated.
184
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185* journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
186 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
187 info of the newest entry of the specificy boot (as identified by the boot
188 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
189 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
190 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
191 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
192 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
193 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
194
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195* sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
196 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
197 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
198
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199* in order to make binding to PCR 4 realistic:
200 - generate one keypair "U" and store it in a tpm2 nvindex.
201 - Generate another keypair "P" and store it in a second tpm2 nvindex.
202 - allocate a persistent counter object "C" in the tpm2
203 - Enroll all user objects (i.e. luks volumes, creds, …) to a tpm2 policy
204 signed by U.
205 - Lock both U and P down with a tpm2 policy signed by P (yes, P can only be
206 used if a signature by P itself can be provided)
207 - For regular reboots generate a signature for a restrictive PCR4 + counter C
208 based policy with key P. Place signature in EFI var, so it can be found on
209 next boot
210 - For reboots where a firmware update is expected generate a signature with a
211 more open policy against just counter C. Place signature in same EFI var.
212 - Increase C whenever switching between these two signature types.
213 - During early boot, use the signature from the EFI var to unlock U and P.
214 Use it to generate a signature for unlocking user objects given the current
215 PCR 4 value, store that away into /run somewhere, for user during the whole
216 later boot.
217 - When booting up automatically update the mentioned efi var so that it
218 contains the restrictive signature. But also generate a signature ahead of
219 time that could be used in case during the current boot we later detect we might
220 need to reboot for a firmware update. Store that in /run somewhere, so that
221 it can be placed in the EFI var, if needed.
222
223* repart/gpt-auto/DDIs: maybe introduce a concept of "extension" partitions,
224 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
225 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
226 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
227 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
228 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
229 identifiying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
230 from the uuid of the original partition it extends. Inspiration for this is
231 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
232 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
233 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
234 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
235 access.
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237* split out execute.c into new "systemd-executor" binary. Then make PID 1 fork
238 that off via vfork(), and then let that executor do the hard work. Ultimately
239 the executor then gets replaced by the real binary sooner or later. Reason:
240 currently the intermediary "stub" process is a CoW trap that doubles memory
241 usage of PID 1 on each service start. Also, strictly speaking we are not
d09df6b9 242 allowed to do NSS from the stub process yet we do anyway. Next steps would
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243 then be maybe use CLONE_INTO_CGROUP for the executor, given that we don't
244 need glibc anymore in the stub process then. Then, switch nspawn to just be a
245 frontend for this too, so that we have to ways into the executor: via unit
246 files/dbus/varlin through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI through nspawn.
247
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248* sd-stub: detect if we are running with uefi console output on serial, and if so
249 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
250
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251* add a utility that can be used with the kernel's
252 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
253 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
254 for all umh processes.
255
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256* systemd-shutdown: keep sending sd_notify() status updates immediately before
257 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
258
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259* homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
260 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
261 resize.
262
263* homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
264 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
265
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266* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
267 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
268 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
269 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
270 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculted from the monotonic timestamp in the
271 log record, adjusted by the delta declared in the structured log record.
272
273* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
274 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
30fd9a2d 275 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
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276 records, to be able to order them.
277
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278* timesyncd: when saving/restoring clock try to take boot time into account.
279 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
280 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
281 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
282 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
283 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
284 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
285 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
286 system actually reset.
287
288* systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
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289 userspace to allow ordering boots (for example in journalctl). The counter
290 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
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292* systemd-sysext: for sysext DDIs picked up via EFI stub, set much stricter
293 image policy by default
294
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295* pam_systemd_home: add module parameter to control whether to only accept
296 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
297 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
298 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
299
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1c904337 301 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
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302 is then useful for network boot, by embdedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
303 in sd-boot, which reference remote kernels.
304
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305* fix systemd-gpt-auto-generator in case a UKI is spawned from XBOOTLDR without
306 sd-boot. In that case LoaderDevicePartUUID will point to the XBOOTLDR, and we
307 should then derive the root disk from that, and then the ESP/XBOOTLDR from
308 that. Right now we will only mount ESP if it matches LoaderDEvicePartUUID
309 which isn't quite the same.
310
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311* maybe prohibit setuid() to the nobody user, to lock things down, via seccomp.
312 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
313 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
314 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
315 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
316
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317* sd-boot: add a new PE section .bls or so that carries a cpio with additional
318 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
319 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
320 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
321 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
322
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323* sd-boot: also allow passing in the cpio as in the previous item via SMBIOS
324
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325* add a new EFI tool "sd-fetch" or so. It looks in a PE section ".url" for an
326 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
327 Usecase: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
328 binaries in place of UKIs, and download them on-the-fly.
329
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330* bootctl: warn if ESP is mounted world-readable (and in particular the seed).
331
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332* maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
333 cmdline. usecase: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
334
335* systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
336 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
337 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
338
6d040d84 339* sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
4cb8a25b 340 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
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342* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
343 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
344 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
345 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
346 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
347 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
348 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
349 usual.
350
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351* Lennart: big blog story about DDIs
352
353* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
354
355* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
356
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357* bpf: see if we can use BPF to solve the syslog message cgroup source problem:
358 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
359 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
360 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
361 sockaddr.
362
363* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
364 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
365 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
366 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
367 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
368 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
369 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
370 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
371 try to use inode from there.
372
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373* extend the verity signature partition to permit multiple signatures for the
374 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
375
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376* consider adding a new partition type, just for /opt/ for usage in system
377 extensions
378
379* gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
380 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
381 for the root fs or /usr/.
382
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383* dissection policy should enforce that unlocking can only take place by
384 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
385 combination thereof.
386
387* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
388 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
389 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
390 ahead of time.
391
392* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
393 aforementioned purpose.
394
395* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
396 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
397
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398* Add systemd-sysupdate-initrd.service or so that runs systemd-sysupdate in the
399 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
400 to figure out:
401 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
402 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
403 subsequent boots?
404
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405* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
406 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
407 inspiration from IMA log)
408
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409* provide an API to apps to encrypt/decrypt credentials. usecase: allow
410 bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd that way, without shelling
411 out to our tools.
412
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413* revisit default PCR bindings in cryptenroll and systemd-creds. Currently they
414 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
415 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
416 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
417 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
418 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
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419 default to PCR 15 at least if sd-stub is used (i.e. bind to system identity),
420 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
421 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
422 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
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424* To mimic the new tpm2-measure-pcr= crypttab option add the same to veritytab
425 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
426 used)
427
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428* We should start measuring all services, containers, and system extensions we
429 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
430 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
431 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
432 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
433
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434* whenever we measure something into a TPM PCR from userspace, write a record in
435 TCG's "Canonical Event Log" format to some file, so that we can reason about
436 how PCR values we manage came to
437 be. https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/canonical-event-log-format/
438
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439* bootspec: permit graceful "update" from type #2 to type #1. If both a type #1
440 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
441 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
442 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 443 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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444 should win over vendor defaults.
445
446* sd-stub: optionally allow users to configure manual kernel command line even
447 in SecureBoot by authenticating it via shim's APIs, integrating with MOK and
448 similar: instead of authenticating just PE code shim should be capable of
449 authenticating any kind of data for us, including files containing kernel
450 command lines.
451
452* write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
453 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
454 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
455
456* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
457 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
458
459* implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
460 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
461 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
462 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
463 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
464 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
465
466* add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
467 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
468 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
469
470* systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
471
472* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
473 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
474 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Usecase: remove secondary OS
475 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
476
477* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
478 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
479 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
480 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
481 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
482 only one for each OS.
483
484* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
485 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 486 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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488 boot, for the next.
489
490* figure out a sane way when building UKIs how to extract SBAT data from inner
491 kernel, extend it with component info, and add to outer kernel.
492
493* systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
494 similar behind it, instead of http.
495
496* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
497 boot, or on first boot.
498
499* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
500 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
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503 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
504 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
505 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
506 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
507 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
508 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
509 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
510 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
511 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
512 until users are allowed to log in).
513
514* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
515 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
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518 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
519 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
520 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Usecase: systemd-syscfg
521 for a central orchestrator to generate syscfg images securely that can only
522 be activated on one specific host (which can be used for installing a bunch
523 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
524 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
525 prepare a syscfg image that can only be activated on a specific host that
526 runs a specific software in a specific time window. syscfg would be
527 automatically invalidated outside of it.
528
529* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
530 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
531 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
532 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
533 enhanced remote attestation quote. Usecase: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 534 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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536 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
537 and generate a small syscfg for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
538 on each node. The syscfg would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
539 proposed above, so that it can only be activated on the specific host, if the
540 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
541 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
542 update syscfg. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
543 config and collected reports in the last 3min time window only, and thus can
544 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
545 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
546 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
547 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via syscfg updates,
548 and via the time window TPM logic invalidated if node doesn't keep itself
549 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
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552 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
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555 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
556
557* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
558 instead of manual blocking.
559
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561 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
562
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564 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
565 supplied password.
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568 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
569 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
570 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
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573 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
574 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
575 convencience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
576
577* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
578 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
579 automatically derived from --private-key=).
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582 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
583 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
584
585* Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
586 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
587 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
588 use as additional search condition. Usecase: images that combined a sysext
589 partition with a portable service partition in one.
590
591* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
592 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
593 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
594 modules
595
596* for systemd-syscfg: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
597 sig using squashfs-tools-ng's library. Maybe just systemd-repart called under
598 a new name with a built-in config?
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601 maybe on kernel command line:
602 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
603 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
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606 hash type, etc)
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610
f461a28d 611* chase(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
4e0ceefe 612 but final node is not a directory
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615 non-VFAT fs is used.
616
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617* measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
618
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620 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
621
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625 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
626 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
627 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
628 affect PCR values.
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631 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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634 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
635
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636* sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
637 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
638
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640 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
641
642* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
643 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
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646 maybe some other stuff and boots it
647
e1b45a75 648* maybe add new flags to gpt partition tables for rootfs and usrfs indicating
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650 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
651 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
652 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
653 use it.
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656 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
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659 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
660 what it was signed.
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663 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
664 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
665 be safely written to disk, then.
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668 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
669 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
670 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
671 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
672 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
673 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
674 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
675 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
676 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
677 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
678 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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680* building on top of the above, the pub/priv key pair generated on the TPM2
681 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
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684 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
685 via the credentials logic.
686 • fstab-generator: allow defining additional fstab-like mounts via
687 credentials (similar: crypttab-generator, verity-generator,
688 integrity-generator)
689 • getty-generator: allow defining additional getty instances via a credential
690 • run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
691 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
692 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
693 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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695 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
696 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
697 file system paths to enable on start.
698 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
699 usr=
700 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
701 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
702 register if not registered yet. Usecase: deploy a system, and add an
703 account one can directly log into.
704 • initialize machine ID from systemd credential picked up from the ESP via
705 sd-stub, so that machine ID is stable even on systems where unified kernels
706 are used, and hence kernel cmdline cannot be modified locally
707 • in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
708 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
709 pre-built kernels.
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712 runtime state. Then, expose it:
713
714 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
715 about the unit.
716 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
717 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
718 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
719 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
720 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
721 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
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724 what to do if support ended
725
726* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
3ff1721c 727 login time, à la motd
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e1b45a75 729* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 730 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
e1b45a75 731 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Usecase: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 732 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 733 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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736 initrd transition. Specifically:
737 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
738 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
739 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
740
741* implement varlink introspection
742
d486b26f 743* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 744 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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746 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
747 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
748 depending on desired level of persistency.
749
750* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
751 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
1c904337 752 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
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754 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
755 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
756 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
757 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
758
759* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
760 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
761 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
762 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
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765
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769 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
770 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
771 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Usecase: container
772 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
773 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
774 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
775 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
3881fd40 776 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
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777 by. Inform user code about path to this companion dir via env var, so that
778 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
779 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
780 not unprivileged code.
781
782* given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
02c914ef 783 that hooks up userdbctl ssh-key stuff.
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786 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
787 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
788 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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791 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
792 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
793 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
30fd9a2d 794 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
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796 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
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798 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
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800* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
801 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
802 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
803 order.
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805* TPM2: extend unlock policy to protect against version downgrades in signed
806 policies: policy probably must take some nvram based generation counter into
807 account that can only monotonically increase and can be used to invalidate
808 old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to old signed PCR sets
809 whenever they want.
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811* update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
812 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
813 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
814
815* add a clear concept how the initrd can make up credentials on their own to
816 pass to the system when transitioning into the host OS. usecase: things like
817 cloud-init/ignitation and similar can parameterize the host with data they
818 acquire.
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821 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
822 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
823 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 824 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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826 IN_IGNORED again)
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829 cmdline. Usecase: invoke a VM, and mount a host homedir into it via
830 virtio-fs.
831
832* for vendor-built signed initrds:
62471289 833 - make sysext run in the initrd
5b06ad51 834 - sysext should pick up sysext images from /.extra/ in the initrd, and insist
62471289 835 on verification if in secureboot mode
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837 type #2 drop-in dir in the ESP.
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839 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
840 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
841 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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842 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
843 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
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845 - pid 1 should look for machine ID in creds
62471289 846 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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848 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
849 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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852 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
853 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
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857 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
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860 directly to host service manager.
861
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864 credentials to configure socket address.
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869 no api to query the device id
870
871* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
872 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
873 also be queried.
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876 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
877 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
878 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
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880* sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
881 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
882 latter).
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884* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
885
886* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
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888* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
889 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
890 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
891 generated by GNU sha256sums.
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894 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
02c914ef 895 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
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897 to the menu. Usecase: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
898 UEFI HTTP boot.
899
900* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
901 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
902 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
903 binary with some minimal info about an URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
904 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
905 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
906 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
907 hence cheap for enumeration.
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910
911* maybe add a "syscfg" concept, that is almost entirely identical to "sysext",
912 but operates on /etc/ instead of /usr/ and /opt/. Use case would be: trusted,
913 authenticated, atomic, additive configuration management primitive: drop in a
914 configuration bundle, and activate it, so that it is instantly visible,
915 comprehensively.
916
917* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
918 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
919 words: show partition labels).
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922 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
923 that take an URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
b17a681b 924 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. usecase:
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926 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
927 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
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930
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933* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
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936 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
937 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
938 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
939 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
940 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
941 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
942 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
943 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
944 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
945
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947 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
948 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
949 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
950 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
951 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
952 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
953 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
954 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
955 an NTP sync is acquired.
956
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958 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
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960* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
961 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
962
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963* doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
964 jobs, units
965
a57d72ce 966* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
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967 sync, i.e. parse out architecture field in sd-boot (currently only done in
968 userspace)
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970* automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
971
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972* add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
973 json package metadata, and use that when logging
974
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977
978* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
979 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
980
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981* cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
982 internal clock.
983
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984* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
985 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
986
987* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
988 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
989 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
990 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
991
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993 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
994 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
995
996* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
997 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
998 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
999 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
1000 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
1001 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
1002 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
1003 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
1004 thread:
1005 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
1006 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
1007 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
1008 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
1009 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
1010 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
1011
1012* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
1013 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
1014 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
1015
1016* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
1017 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
1018 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
1019 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
1020 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
1021 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
1022 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
1023 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
1024 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
1025 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
1026 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1027 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1028 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1029 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1030 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
1031
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1033 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
1034 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
1035 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
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1036 for debugging purposes. Other usecase: boot into qemu with regular user
1037 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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1039* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
30fd9a2d 1040 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
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1042
1043* sysext: automatically activate sysext images dropped in via new sd-stub
c0a74f62 1044 sysext pickup logic. (must insist on verity + signature on those though)
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1046* add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
1047 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1048 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1049 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1050 on-disk storage.
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1053 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1054 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1055 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1056 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1057
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1058* portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
1059 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1060 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
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1062* logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
1063 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
1064 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
1065 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
1066 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
1067 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
1068 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
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1070* /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
1071 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1072 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1073 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1074
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1075* add high-level lockdown level for GPT dissection logic: e.g. an enum that can
1076 be ANY (to mount anything), TRUSTED (to require that /usr is on signed
1077 verity, but rest doesn't matter), LOCKEDDOWN (to require that everything is
1078 on signed verity, except for ESP), SUPERLOCKDOWN (like LOCKEDDOWN but ESP not
1079 allowed). And then maybe some flavours of that that declare what is expected
1080 from home/srv/var… Then, add a new cmdline flag to all tools that parse such
1081 images, to configure this. Also, add a kernel cmdline option for this, to be
1082 honoured by the gpt auto generator.
1083
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1084 Alternative idea: add "systemd.gpt_auto_policy=rhvs" to allow gpt-auto to
1085 only mount root dir, /home/ dir, /var/ and /srv/, but nothing else. And then
1086 minor extension to this, insisting on encryption, for example
af3d3873 1087 "systemd.gpt_auto_policy=r+v+h" to require encryption for root and var but not
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1088 for /home/, and similar. Similar add --image-dissect-policy= to tools that
1089 take --image= that take the same short string.
1090
3fc0688d 1091* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
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1092 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1093 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1094 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1095 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1096 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1097 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1098 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1099 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1100 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1101 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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1103* add a "policy" to the dissection logic. i.e. a bit mask what is OK to mount,
1104 what must be read-only, what requires encryption, and what requires
1105 authentication.
1106
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1108 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1109 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1112
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1115* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1116 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1117 that images cannot be misused.
1118
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178d3ff2 1120 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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1121 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1122 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1123 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1124
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1126 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1127 - support casync as download mechanism
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1128 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1129 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1130 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1131 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1132 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
1133 override the host's update files.)
1134 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1135 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1136 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1137 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1138
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1140
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1141* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1142 make dirs appear under right UID.
1143
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1144* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1145 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1146
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1147* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
1148 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
1149 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
1150 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
1151 for doing that.
1152
24063ba1 1153* introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
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1154 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1155 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1156 already have it.
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1158* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1159 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1160
1c904337 1161* Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
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1163* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1164 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1165 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1166 /proc/self/fd/3
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1169 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1170 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1171
1172* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1173 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1174
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1175* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1176 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1177
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1178* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1179 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1180 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1181 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1182 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
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1185
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199b097d 1187 - acquire from EFI variable?
30fd9a2d 1188 - acquire via ask-password?
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1190 - pass creds via keyring?
1191 - pass creds via memfd?
1192 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1193 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1194 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1195 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1196 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1197 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
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1198 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
1199 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
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1201* add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
1202 firmware indicates there is one.
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1204* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1205 and such
1206
1207* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
80670e74 1208
02c914ef 1209* cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
80670e74 1210
7d7c75f1 1211* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1212 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1213
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1214* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1215 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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1217* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1218
1219* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1220 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1221
1222* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1223 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1224
1225* cryptsetup:
1226 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1227 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1228
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1229* when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
1230 it happens to be set up alright already.
1231
1232* at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
1233
1234* userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
1235 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
1236 default.
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1238* sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
1239 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
1240 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
1241 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
1242 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
1243
08d33656 1244* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
d775d8e6 1245
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1246* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1247 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1248
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1249* change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
1250 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
1251 temporary dir.
1252
f461a28d 1253* special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
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1254 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1255
f461a28d 1256* add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
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1257 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1258
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1259* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1260
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1261* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1262
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1263* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
1264
1265* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1266
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1267* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1268 when it exits
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1270* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1271 o turn into dlopen() deps:
cdfd8537 1272 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 1273 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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1274 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1275 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1276 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1277 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
1278 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
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1280* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1281 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1282 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1283
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1284* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1285 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1286
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1287* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1288
1289* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1290 specific service
1291
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1292* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1293 exists and responds.
1294
91fc013f 1295* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1296 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1297
7e8facb3 1298* unify on openssl:
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1299 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1300 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1301 gnutls
1302 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
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1304* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1305 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1306
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1307* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1308 realname substr searches in varlink API
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1310* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1311
2a4be3c5 1312* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1313
f1eb0ccd 1314* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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1316* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1317 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1318 initrd had set.
1319
173c7873 1320* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1321 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1322 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1323 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1324 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1325 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1326
1327* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1328 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1329 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1330
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1331* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1332 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1333 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1334 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1335 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1336 source.
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1338* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1339 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1340 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1341
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1342* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1343
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1344* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1345 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1346 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1347 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1348 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1349 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1350 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1351 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1352 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1353 hibernation mode. (see
1354 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1355 section 10.2.2.8 and
1356 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1357 at the end).
1358
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1359* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1360 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1361
c6526b8d 1362* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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1364* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1365 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1366 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1367 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1368 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1369 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1370 exec().
1371
1372* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1373
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1374* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1375 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1376
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1377* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1378 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1379
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1380* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1381 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1382 root.
1383
1384* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1385 is issued.
1386
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1387* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1388
1389* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1390
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1391* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1392 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1393 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1394
d238709c 1395* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1396 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1397 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1398
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1399* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1400
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1401* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1402 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1403
06898123 1404* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1405 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1406 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1407 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
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1409* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1410
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1411* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
1412 log.c and sd-journal-send
1413
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1414* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1415
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1416* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
1417
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1418* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1419 non-zero "tries done" count
1420
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1421* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1422 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1423 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1424 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1425 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1426 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1427 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1428 CODE_FILE.
1429
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1430* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1431 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1432 some explanatory text online.
1433
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1434* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1435
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1436* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1437 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1438
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1439* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
1440 Specifically:
1441
1442 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
1443 properly)
e83419d0 1444 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 1445 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
c633b0a6 1446
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1447* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1448 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1449
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1450* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1451 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1452 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1453 files and suchlike we operate on.
070d0ac9 1454
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1455* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1456
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1457* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1458
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1459* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1460 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1461
5da19043 1462* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1463 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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1465* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1466 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1467 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1468 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1469 unlinked from any dir.
1470
bd1b3f75 1471* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
5da19043 1472
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1473* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1474
1475* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1476
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1477* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
1478 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
1479 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
1480 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
1481 should reflink the image file itself.
1482
1483 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
1484 specific paths only like this.
1485
53c70a27 1486* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1487 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1488 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1489 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1490 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1491
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1492* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1493
1494* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1495
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1496* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1497 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1498
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1499* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1500 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1501 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1502 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1503 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1504 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
1505 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1506 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1507
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1508* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1509 for root, but only then.
586a8e93 1510
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1511* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
1512
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1513* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1514 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1515
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1516* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1517 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1518
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1519* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1520 only when used. Add unit tests.
1521
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1522* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1523 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1524
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1525* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1526 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1527 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1528 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1529 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1530
899feb72 1531* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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1533* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
1534 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
1535 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
1536
5f7ecd61 1537* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
5962e9db 1538
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1539* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1540 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1541
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1542* blog about fd store and restartable services
1543
1544* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1545
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1546* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1547 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1548
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1549* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1550 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1551 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1552 ID is available.
1553
1554* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1555 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1556 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1557
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1558* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1559 parameters
1560
63a185dc 1561* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1562 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1563 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1564 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1565 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1566 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1567 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
6fc373ee 1568
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1569* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1570 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1571
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1572* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1573 about it in the resource log message
1574
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1575* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1576 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1577 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1578
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1579* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1580 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1581
1582 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1583
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1584* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1585 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1586 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1587
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1588* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1589 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1590
1591* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1592 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1593 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1594 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1595 natural habitat.
1596
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1597* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1598 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
8eb7383b 1599
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1600* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1601 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1602 relative to the configured default value.
1603
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1604* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1605
04397464 1606* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
d82047be 1607
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1608* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1609
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1610* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1611
04397464 1612* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1613
04397464 1614* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1615
04397464 1616* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1617
8ce9b83a 1618* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1619
1620* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1621 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1622 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1623
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1624* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1625 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1626
e40a326c 1627* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 1628
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1629* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1630 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1631 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1632 mapping to work.
1633
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1634* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1635
1636* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1637
1638* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1639
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1640* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1641 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1642
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1643* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1644 reload the unit file anyway
1645
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1646* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1647
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1648* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1649
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1650* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1651 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1652
f9bf1b8f 1653* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1654 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1655 specifications.
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1657* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1658
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1659* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1660
a2088fd0 1661* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1662 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1663 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1664 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
a2088fd0 1665
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1666* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1667
931bc195 1668* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
b18d23d7 1669
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1670* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1671 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1672 state.
41d6f3bf 1673 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
60d17b74 1674
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1675* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1676 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1677 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1678 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1679 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1680
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1681* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1682
d2f81fb0 1683* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1684 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1685
0a86c1a9 1686* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1687 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1688
e031c227 1689* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1690 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1691
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1692* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1693
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1694* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1695 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1696
25e773ee 1697* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1698
720652b3 1699* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1700
720652b3 1701* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1702
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1703* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
1704
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1705* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1706 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1707
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1708* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1709
9d6db739 1710* resolved:
9d6db739 1711 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1712 - service registration
1713 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1714 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1715 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1716 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1717 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1718 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1719 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1720 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1721
e25b5a8d 1722* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1723
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1724* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1725
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1726* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1727
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1728* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1729
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1730* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1731
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1732* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1733 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1734
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1735* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1736
6a3f892a 1737* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1738 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1739 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1740
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1741* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1742 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1743 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1744
f9bf1b8f 1745* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1746
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1747* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1748 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1749 for ReusePort=
1750
f38afcd0 1751* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1752 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1753 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1754 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1755 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1756 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1757 the hierarchies of child processes
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1758- add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1759 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1760
f38afcd0 1761* transient units:
f38afcd0 1762 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1763
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1764* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1765
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1766* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1767
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1768* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1769
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1770* 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
1771
7f79cd71 1772* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 1773
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1774* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1775 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1776 path anyway.
1777
04397464 1778* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1779
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1780* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1781
1782* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1783
07eabc2b 1784* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1785
07eabc2b 1786* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1787
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1788* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1789
1790* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1791 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1792 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1793
1794* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1795 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1796
1797* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1798
1799* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1800
1801* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1802
1803* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1804 needs to be auto-respawned?
1805
1806* pid1:
1807 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1808 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1809 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1810 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1811 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
07eabc2b 1812 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
41d6f3bf 1813 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
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1814 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1815 - move PAM code into its own binary
1816 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1817 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1818 - Support --test based on current system state
1819 - 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().
1820 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1821 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1822 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1823 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1824 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1825 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1826 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1827 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1828 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1829 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1830 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1831 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1832
1833* unit files:
1834 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1835 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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1836 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1837 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1838 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1839 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1840 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1841 - introduce Type=pid-file
1842 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1843 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1844 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1845
1846* timer units:
63a185dc 1847 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1848 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1849
1850* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1851
1852* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1853
1854* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1855
1856* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1857
07eabc2b 1858* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1859
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1860* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1861
1862* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1863
fff87a35 1864* test/:
20d52ab6 1865 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1866
b5c03638 1867* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1868 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1869 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1870 destination.
1871
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1872* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1873 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1874
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1875* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1876
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1877* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1878 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1879 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1880
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1881* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1882 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1883
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1884* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1885 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1886 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1887 that automatically.
1888
e5ec62c5 1889* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1890
ccddd104 1891* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1892
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1893* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1894
356ce991 1895* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1896
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1897* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1898
1899* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1900
1901* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1902
1903* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1904
1905* sd-bus:
1906 - EBADSLT handling
1907 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1908 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1909 - 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
1910 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1911 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1912 - longer term: priority inheritance
1913 - dbus spec updates:
1914 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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1915 - path escaping
1916 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1917
1918* sd-event
1919 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1920 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1921 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1922 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1923 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1924 here:
1925 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1926
1927* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1928 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1929
1930* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1931
1932* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1933
1934* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1935
b44be3ec 1936* EFI:
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1937 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1938 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1939 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1940* bootctl
631427d6 1941 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1942
07eabc2b 1943* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 1944
07eabc2b 1945* bootctl:
483091b0 1946 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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1947 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1948 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
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1949
1950* kernel-install:
1951 - optionally, support generating type #2 entries instead of type #1, including signing them
e6c6e7af 1952
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1953* logind:
1954 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1955 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1956 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1957 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1958 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1959 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1960 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1961 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1962 needs setuid().
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1963 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1964 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1965 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1966 complete.
1967 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1968 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1969 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 1970 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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1971 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1972 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1973 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1974 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1975 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1976 relogins
77b19caf 1977 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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1978 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
1979 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
1980 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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1982* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1983
1984* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1985 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1986 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1987
1988* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1989 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1990
b44be3ec 1991* journal:
57f2a947 1992 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1993 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1994 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1995 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 1996 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1997 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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1998 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1999 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2000 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 2001 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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2002 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2003 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 2004 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
02c914ef 2005 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
b44be3ec 2006 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 2007 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 2008 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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2009 - 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.
2010 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2011 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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2012 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2013 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2014 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2015 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 2016 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 2017 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 2018 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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2019 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2020 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2021 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2022 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2023 to syslog when it works again.
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2024 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2025 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2026 journals in.
2027 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2028 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2029 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2030 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2031 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 2032 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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2033 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2034 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2035 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2036 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2037 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2038 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2039 operation.
2040 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
2041 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
2042 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2043 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 2044 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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2045 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2046 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2047 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2048 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 2049 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
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2051* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2052 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2053
2054* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2055 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2056 validated via TPM.
2057
2058* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2059 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2060
2061* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2062 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2063 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2064
2065* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2066 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2067 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2068 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2069 cgroup.
2070
2071* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2072 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2073 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2074 logging.
2075
2076* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2077
2078* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2079 from the SIGBUS handler
2080
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2082 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2083 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2084 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2085
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2086* homed:
2087 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2088 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2089 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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2090 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2091 - create on activate?
2092 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2093 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2094 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2095 systemd --user is shut down.
2096 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2097 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2098 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2099 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2100 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2101 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2102 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2103 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2104 - query password from kernel keyring first
2105 - update even if record is "absent"
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2106 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2107 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2108 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2109 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2110 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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2111 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2112 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2113 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 2114 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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2115 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2116 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2117 signature
2118 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2119 and insert a local signature instead.
2120 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2121 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2122 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2123 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2124 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2125 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2126 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2127 easily?
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2128 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2129 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2130 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2131 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2132 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2133 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2134 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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2135 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2136 can easily set overall quota for all users
2137 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2138 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 2139 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 2140 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
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2141 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2142 large.
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2144* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2145 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2146 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2147
2df2bb1f 2148* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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2149
2150* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2151 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2152 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2153 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2154
2155* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2156
2157* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2158 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2159 something goes wrong on the way.
2160
2161* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
2162
2163* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2164 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2165 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2166 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2167
2168* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2169 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2170 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2171 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2172 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2173 automatically.
2174
2175* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2176 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2177
2178* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2179 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2180 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2181 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2182 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2183 fails to apply use the latter.
2184
2185* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2186 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2187
2188* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2189 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2190
2191* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2192 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2193 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
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2194
2195* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2196 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2197
92e72028 2198* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
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2199 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2200 during boot.
2201
2202* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2203
b44be3ec 2204* document:
8b8f2591 2205 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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2206 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2207 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2208 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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2209 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2210 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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2211 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2212 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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2213 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2214 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2215 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2216 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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2217
2218* systemctl:
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2219 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2220 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2221 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2222 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2223 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2224 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2225 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2226 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2227 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 2228 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
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2230* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2231 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2232 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2233
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2234* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2235 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2236 the slices, and the units attached to them.
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2238* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2239 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2240 wait to retrieve their exit data.
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2242* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2243 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
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2245* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2246 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2247 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2248 do, for example)
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2250* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2251 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2252 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2253 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2254
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2255* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2256
2257* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2258
2259* unit install:
2260 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2261 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 2262
b44be3ec 2263* nspawn:
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DH
2264 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2265 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2266 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2267 from the kernel's logs.
2268 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2269 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2270 interface be missing
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DH
2271 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2272 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2273 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2274 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2275 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2276 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2277 PID 1...
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DH
2278 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2279 running, remove them when shut down.
71b77f06
CB
2280 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2281 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2282 startup.
2283 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2284 or so, freeze the payload too.
2285 - support time namespaces
2286 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2287 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2288 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2289 "machinectl shell"
2290 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2291 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2292 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2293 - greater control over selinux label?
2294 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2295 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2296 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2297 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2298 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2299 host TPM.
2300 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2301 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2302 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2303 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2304 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2305 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2306 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2307 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
fdeabf57
CB
2308 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2309 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
3922f982
CB
2310 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2311 or two sockets.
3734fec7 2312 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
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LB
2313
2314* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2315 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2316 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2317 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2318 anything like that.
2319
e25b5a8d 2320* machined:
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DH
2321 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2322 removed or added to an existing machine
2323 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2324 difference host, via ssh
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DH
2325 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2326 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2327 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2328 question
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DH
2329 - "machinectl history"
2330 - "machinectl diff"
2331 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2332 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2333
abd55b16 2334* udev:
abd55b16 2335 - move to LGPL
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KS
2336 - kill scsi_id
2337 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2338 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2339 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2340 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2341
e25b5a8d
DH
2342* coredump:
2343 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2344 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2345 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
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LP
2346
2347* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2348
f38afcd0 2349* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 2350 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
beca6b6e 2351 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
614cc34f 2352 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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DH
2353 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2354 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2355 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 2356 - add --test mode
ba405b22
ZJS
2357 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2358 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2359 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
beca6b6e
ZJS
2360 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2361 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
1258097c 2362
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TG
2363* udev-link-config:
2364 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2365 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2366 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2367
88e4d1d7 2368* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2369 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2370 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2371
0a4b9a07 2372* networkd:
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TG
2373 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2374 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2375 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2376 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2377 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2378 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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DH
2379 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2380 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2381 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2382 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2383 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
DH
2384 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2385 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2386 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2387 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2388 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2389 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2390 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2391
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LB
2392* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2393
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ZJS
2394* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2395
ac976532 2396* dhcp:
424a8732 2397 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2398
37d8b536
PF
2399* dhcp6:
2400 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2401 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2402 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2403 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 2404 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
37d8b536
PF
2405 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2406 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2407 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2408 or interface down
2409 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2410 this behavior
4a77c53d 2411 - RouteTable= ?