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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
6
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 11External:
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
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19* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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21* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
22
23* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
24
25* register catalog database signature as file magic
26
27* zsh shell completion:
28 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
29 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
76c068b7 30 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
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32* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
33* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
34 after being started.
35
36* write blog stories about:
37 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
38 - enabling dbus services
39 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
40 - remote access
41 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
42 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
43 - auto-restart
44 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
45 - the journal HTTP iface
46 - non-cgroup resource management
47 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
48 - refreshed, longer missions statement
49 - calendar time events
50 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
51 - how to create your own target
52 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
3a9e659a 53 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/early boot
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55Regularly:
56
57* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
58
59* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
60
61* pahole
62
63* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
64
65* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
66
67* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
68
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69Janitorial Clean-ups:
70
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71* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
72 semantics, like we do for device.c now
73
f461a28d 74* get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase() and related
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75 calls instead.
76
77* get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
78
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79* Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
80 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
81 libmount for something so trivial.
82
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83* drop set_free_free() and switch things over from string_hash_ops to
84 string_hash_ops_free everywhere, so that destruction is implicit rather than
85 explicit. Similar, for other special hashmap/set/ordered_hashmap destructors.
86
b3e199ce 87* generators sometimes apply C escaping and sometimes specifier escaping to
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88 paths and similar strings they write out. Sometimes both. We should clean
89 this up, and should probably always apply both, i.e. introduce
90 unit_file_escape() or so, which applies both.
91
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92* xopenat() should pin the parent dir of the inode it creates before doing its
93 thing, so that it can create, open, label somewhat atomically.
94
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95Deprecations and removals:
96
97* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
98 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
99
b3e199ce 100* remove cgroups v1 support EOY 2023. As per
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101 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
102 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
103 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
104
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105* drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
106 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
9eb41aab 107 is only supported for such old kernels.
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109* drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
110 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
111
9eb41aab 112* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
3345802c 113 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
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114 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
115 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
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116 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
117
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118* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
119 baseline is 5.8.
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121* drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
122 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
123
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124* Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
125 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
126 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
127
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128* Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
129 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
130
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131* remove remaining tpm1.2 support from sd-stub
132
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133Features:
134
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135* vmspawn: to speed up boot let's disable all PCR banks in swtpm except for
136 SHA256. Probably means running swtpm_setup --state-dir … --tpm2 --pcr-banks
137 sha256.
138
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139* in os-release define a field that can be initialized at build time from
140 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (maybe even under that name?). Would then be used to
141 initialize the timestamp logic of ConditionNeedsUpdate=.
142
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143* new systemd-analyze "join" verb or so, for debugging services. Would be
144 nsenter on steroids, i.e invoke a shell or command line in an environment as
145 close as we can make it for the MainPID of a service. Should be built around
146 pidfd, so that we can reasonably robustly do this. Would only cover the
147 execution environment like namespaces, but not the privilege settings.
148
149* add a generic client to importd called importctl, then make machinectl just
150 chain-exec() it. Make sure importd/importctl can be used for sysext images,
151 portable images too.
152
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153* varlink: extend varlink IDL macros to include documentation strings
154
10e3f15a 155* Introduce a CGroupRef structure, inspired by PidRef. Should contain cgroup
ff509772 156 path, cgroup id, and cgroup fd. Use it to continuously pin all v2 cgroups via
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157 a cgroup_ref field in the CGroupRuntime structure. Eventually switch things
158 over to do all cgroupfs access only via that structure's fd.
159
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160* Get rid of the symlinks in /run/systemd/units/* and exclusively use cgroupfs
161 xattrs to convey info about invocation ids, logging settings and so on.
162 support for cgroupfs xattrs in the "trusted." namespace was added in linux
163 3.7, i.e. which we don't pretend to support anymore.
164
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165* rewrite bpf-devices in libbpf/C code, rather than home-grown BPF assembly, to
166 match bpf-restrict-fs, bpf-restrict-ifaces, bpf-socket-bind
167
168* ditto: rewrite bpf-firewall in libbpf/C code
169
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170* credentials: if we ever acquire a secure way to derive cgroup id of socket
171 peers (i.e. SO_PEERCGROUPID), then extend the "scoped" credential logic to
172 allow cgroup-scoped (i.e. app or service scoped) credentials. Then, as next
173 step use this to implement per-app/per-service encrypted directories, where
174 we set up fscrypt on the StateDirectory= with a randomized key which is
175 stored as xattr on the directory, encrypted as a credential.
176
177* credentials: optionally include a per-user secret in scoped user-credential
178 encryption keys. should come from homed in some way, derived from the luks
179 volume key or fscrypt directory key.
180
181* credentials: add a flag to the scoped credentials that if set require PK
182 reauthentication when unlocking a secret.
183
184* teach systemd --user to properly load credentials off disk, with
3600b0f4 185 /etc/credstore equivalent and similar. Make sure that $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY=
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186 actually works too when run with user privs.
187
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188* extend the smbios11 logic for passing credentials so that instead of passing
189 the credential data literally it can also just reference an AF_VSOCK CID/port
190 to read them from. This way the data doesn't remain in the SMBIOS blob during
191 runtime, but only in the credentials fs.
192
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193* machined: make machine registration available via varlink to simplify
194 nspawn/vmspawn, and to have an extensible way to register VM/machine metadata
195
196* ssh-proxy: add support for "ssh machine/foobar" to automatically connect to
197 machined registered machine "foobar". Requires updating machined to track CID
198 and unix-export dir of containers.
199
73d8041c 200* add a new ExecStart= flag that inserts the configured user's shell as first
bdc79e5f 201 word in the command line. (maybe use character '.'). Usecase: tool such as
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202 uid0 can use that to spawn the target user's default shell.
203
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204* varlink: figure out how to do docs for our varlink interfaces. Idea: install
205 interface files augmented with docs in /usr/share/ somewhere. And have
206 functionality in varlinkctl to merge interface info extracted from binaries
207 with interface info on disk. And store the doc strings only in the latter.
208
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209* introduce mntid_t, and make it 64bit, as apparently the kernel switched to
210 64bit mount ids
211
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212* use udev rule networkd ownership property to take ownership of network
213 interfaces nspawn creates
214
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215* add a kernel cmdline switch (and cred?) for marking a system to be
216 "headless", in which case we never open /dev/console for reading, only for
217 writing. This would then mean: systemd-firstboot would process creds but not
218 ask interactively, getty would not be started and so on.
219
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220* cryptsetup: new crypttab option to auto-grow a luks device to its backing
221 partition size. new crypttab option to reencrypt a luks device with a new
222 volume key.
223
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224* we probably should have some infrastructure to acquire sysexts with
225 drivers/firmware for local hardware automatically. Idea: reuse the modalias
226 logic of the kernel for this: make the main OS image install a hwdb file
227 that matches against local modalias strings, and adds properties to relevant
228 devices listing names of sysexts needed to support the hw. Then provide some
229 tool that goes through all devices and tries to acquire/download the
230 specified images.
231
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232* repart + cryptsetup: support file systems that are encrypted and use verity
233 on top. Usecase: confexts that shall be signed by the admin but also be
234 confidential. Then, add a new --make-ddi=confext-encrypted for this.
235
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236* tmpfiles: add new line type for moving files from some source dir to some
237 target dir. then use that to move sysexts/confexts and stuff from initrd
238 tmpfs to /run/, so that host can pick things up.
239
240* tiny varlink service that takes a fd passed in and serves it via http. Then
241 make use of that in networkd, and expose some EFI binary of choice for
242 DHCP/HTTP base EFI boot.
243
244* bootctl: add reboot-to-disk which takes a block device name, and
245 automatically sets things up so that system reboots into that device next.
246
247* maybe: in PID1, when we detect we run in an initrd, make superblock read-only
248 early on, but provide opt-out via kernel cmdline.
249
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250* systemd-pcrextend:
251 - support measuring to nvindex with PCR update semantics ("fake PCRs")
252 - add api for "allocating" such an nvindex
253 - once we have that start measuring every sysext we apply, every confext,
620788da 254 every RootImage= we apply, every nspawn and so on. All in separate fake
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255 PCRs.
256
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257* vmspawn:
258 - enable hyperv extension by default (https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/i386/hyperv.html)
259 - register with machined
260 - run in scope unit when invoked from command line, and machined registration is off
261 - support --directory= via virtiofs
262 - sd_notify support
263 - --ephemeral support
264 - --read-only support
265 - automatically suspend/resume the VM if the host suspends. Use logind
266 suspend inhibitor to implement this. request clean suspend by generating
267 suspend key presses.
268 - support for "real" networking via "-n" and --network-bridge=
269 - automatically run service "at the side" for swtpm
270 - translate SIGTERM to clean ACPI shutdown event
271
272* systemd-pcrmachine should probably also measure the SMBIOS system UUID.
273
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274* sd-boot: allow synthesizing additional type1 entries via SMBIOS vendor strings
275
276* storagetm:
277 - add USB mass storage device logic, so that all local disks are also exposed
278 as mass storage devices on systems that have a USB controller that can
279 operate in device mode
280 - add NVMe authentication
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282* add support for activating nvme-oF devices at boot automatically via kernel
283 cmdline, and maybe even support a syntax such as
284 root=nvme:<trtype>:<traddr>:<trsvcid>:<nqn>:<partition> to boot directly from
285 nvme-oF
286
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287* pcrlock:
288 - make signed PCR work together with pcrlock
289 - add kernel-install plugin that automatically creates UKI .pcrlock file when
290 UKI is installed, and removes it when it is removed again
291 - automatically install PE measurement of sd-boot on "bootctl install"
292 - write generated pcrlock signature files to the ESP as credential, one for
293 each installed OS & pick up generated pcrlock signature file in sd-stub,
294 pass it via initrd to OS
295 - pre-calc sysext + kernel cmdline measurements
296 - pre-calc cryptsetup root key measurement
297 - maybe make systemd-repart generate .pcrlock for old and new GPT header in
298 /run?
299 - Add support for more than 8 branches per PCR OR
300 - add "systemd-pcrlock lock-kernel-current" or so which synthesizes .pcrlock
301 policy from currently booted kernel/event log, to close gap for first boot
302 for pre-built images
303
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304* add a new systemd-project@.service that is very similar to user@.service but
305 uses DynamicUser=1 and no PAMName= to invoke an unprivileged somewhat
306 light-weight service manager. Use HOME=/var/lib/systemd/projects/%i as home
307 dir. Similar for $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. Start project@%i.target. Use LogField= to
308 add a field identifying the project.
309
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310* in sd-boot and sd-stub measure the SMBIOS vendor strings to some PCR (at
311 least some subset of them that look like systemd stuff), because apparently
312 some firmware does not, but systemd honours it. avoid duplicate measurement
313 by sd-boot and sd-stub by adding LoaderFeatures/StubFeatures flag for this,
314 so that sd-stub can avoid it if sd-boot already did it.
315
316* cryptsetup: a mechanism that allows signing a volume key with some key that
317 has to be present in the kernel keyring, or similar, to ensure that confext
318 DDIs can be encrypted against the local SRK but signed with the admin's key
319 and thus can authenticated locally before they are decrypted.
320
321* image policy should be extended to allow dictating *how* a disk is unlocked,
322 i.e. root=encrypted-tpm2+encrypted-fido2 would mean "root fs must be
323 encrypted and unlocked via fido2 or tpm2, but not otherwise"
324
325* systemd-repart: add support for formatting dm-crypt + dm-integrity file
326 systems.
327
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328* homed: use systemd-storagetm to expose home dirs via nvme-tcp. Then,
329 teach homed/pam_systemd_homed with a user name such as
330 lennart%nvme_tcp_192.168.100.77_8787 to log in from any linux host with the
331 same home dir. Similar maybe for nbd, iscsi? this should then first ask for
332 the local root pw, to authenticate that logging in like this is ok, and would
333 then be followed by another password prompt asking for the user's own
334 password. Also, do something similar for CIFS: if you log in via
0e9f2297 335 lennart%cifs-someserver_someshare, then set up the homed dir for it
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336 automatically. The PAM module should update the user name used for login to
337 the short version once it set up the user. Some care should be taken, so that
338 the long version can be still be resolved via NSS afterwards, to deal with
339 PAM clients that do not support PAM sessions where PAM_USER changes half-way.
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341* redefine /var/lib/extensions/ as the dir one can place all three of sysext,
342 confext as well is multi-modal DDIs that qualify as both. Then introduce
343 /var/lib/sysexts/ which can be used to place only DDIs that shall be used as
344 sysext
345
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346* Varlinkification of the following command line tools, to open them up to
347 other programs via IPC:
348 - bootctl
349 - journalctl (allowing journal read access via IPC)
350 - coredumpcl
351 - systemd-bless-boot
352 - systemd-measure
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353 - systemd-cryptenroll (to allow UIs to enroll FIDO2 keys and such)
354 - systemd-dissect
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355 - systemd-sysupdate
356 - systemd-analyze
357 - kernel-install
f277d99c 358 - systemd-mount (with PK so that desktop environments could use it to mount disks)
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360* in the service manager, pick up ERRNO= + BUSERROR= + VARLINKERROR= error
361 identifiers, and store them along with the exit status of a server and report
362 via "systemctl status".
363
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364* enumerate virtiofs devices during boot-up in a generator, and synthesize
365 mounts for rootfs, /usr/, /home/, /srv/ and some others from it, depending on
02c9d62b 366 the "tag". (waits for: https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd/-/issues/128)
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368* automatically mount one virtiofs during early boot phase to /run/host/,
369 similar to how we do that for nspawn, based on some clear tag.
370
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371* add some service that makes an atomic snapshot of PCR state and event log up
372 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
373
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374* encode type1 entries in some UKI section to add additional entries to the
375 menu.
376
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377* Add ACL-based access management to .socket units. i.e. add AllowPeerUser= +
378 AllowPeerGroup= that installs additional user/group ACL entries on AF_UNIX
379 sockets.
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381* systemd-tpm2-setup should probably have a factory reset logic, i.e. when some
382 kernel command line option is set we reset the TPM (equivalent of tpm2_clear
383 -c owner?).
384
385* systemd-tpm2-setup should support a mode where we refuse booting if the SRK
386 changed. (Must be opt-in, to not break systems which are supposed to be
387 migratable between PCs)
388
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389* when systemd-sysext learns mutable /usr/ (and systemd-confext mutable /etc/)
390 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
391 snapshot logic
392
393* add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
394 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
395 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
fcdd21ec 396 i.e. without recompiling the kernel, taking an upstream OS' kernel and adding
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397 a local key to it.
398
a1f7cdc6 399* PidRef conversion work:
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400 - cg_pid_get_xyz()
401 - pid_from_same_root_fs()
402 - get_ctty_devnr()
1158b06b 403 - pid1: sd_notify() receiver should use SCM_PIDFD to authenticate client
4775b55d 404 - actually wait for POLLIN on pidref's pidfd in service logic
1158b06b 405 - exec_spawn() + safe_fork()
a1f7cdc6 406 - openpt_allocate_in_namespace()
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407 - unit_attach_pid_to_cgroup_via_bus()
408 - cg_attach() – requires new kernel feature
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410* ddi must be listed as block device fstype
411
412* measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
413 mode.
414
3a9e659a 415* homed: add a basic form of secrets management to homed, that stores
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416 secrets in $HOME somewhere, is protected by the accounts own authentication
417 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
418 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
419 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
420 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
421 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
422
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423* use sd-event ratelimit feature optionally for journal stream clients that log
424 too much
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fcdd21ec 426* systemd-mount should only consider modern file systems when mounting, similar
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427 to systemd-dissect
428
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429* add another PE section ".fname" or so that encodes the intended filename for
430 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
431 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
432 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
433 control of the attacker.
434
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435* also include packaging metadata (á la
436 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
437 same JSON format.
438
439* make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
440 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
441 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
442 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
443 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
444 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
445 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
446 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
447 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
448 newer.
449
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450* in sd-stub: optionally add support for a new PE section .keyring or so that
451 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
452 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
453 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
454 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
455 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
456 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
457 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
458
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459* resolved: take possession of some IPv6 ULA address (let's say
460 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
461 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
462
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463* introduce a .microcode PE section for sd-stub which we'll pass as first initrd
464 to the kernel which will then upload it to the CPU. This should be distinct
465 from .initrd to guarantee right ordering. also, and maybe more importantly
466 support .microcode in PE add-ons, so that a microcode update can be shipped
9a27ef09 467 independently of any kernel.
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469* Maybe add SwitchRootEx() as new bus call that takes env vars to set for new
470 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
471 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
472 requested during switch root.
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474* introduce a .acpitable section for early ACPI table override
475
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476* add proper .osrel matching for PE addons. i.e. refuse applying an addon
477 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
478 matched against OS.
479
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480* figure out what to do about credentials sealed to PCRs in kexec + soft-reboot
481 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
482 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
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485 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
486 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
487 namespaces)
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490 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
491
492* mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
493 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
494 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
495
f447b741 496* fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
94d82b59 497 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
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499 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
500 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
501 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
502
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504 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
94d82b59 505 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
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507
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509 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
510 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
511 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
512 based on lo_file_name.
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515 with success notifications from nspawn payloads. When this is enabled,
56a89426 516 automatically support reverting back to older OS version images if newer ones
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518
519* implement new "systemd-fsrebind" tool that works like gpt-auto-generator but
520 looks at a root dir and then applies vpick on various dirs/images to pick a
521 root tree, a /usr/ tree, a /home/, a /srv/, a /var/ tree and so on. Dirs
522 could also be btrfs subvols (combine with btrfs auto-snapshort approach for
523 creating versions like these automatically).
524
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528 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
529 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
530 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
531 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
532 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
533 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
534 activation-by-message id and similar.
535
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537
512f2da5 538* landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
3a9e659a 539 ability to write anywhere else below /run/. Similar for
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541 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
542
543* landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
544 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
545 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
546 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
547 similar behaviour for system services, too.
548
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550 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
551 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
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554
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556 - do not enable the pager for queries like 'udevadm info -q -r symlink'
557 - add mode with newlines instead of spaces (for grep)?
558
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559* SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
560 localed, oomd, timedated.
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563 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
564 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
565 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
566 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
567 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
627cdcc7 568 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
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570 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
571 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
572 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
573 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
574 access.
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577 posix_spawn().
578
579* Make nspawn to a frontend for systemd-executor, so that we have to ways into
580 the executor: via unit files/dbus/varlink through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI
581 through nspawn.
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584 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
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587 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
588 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
589 for all umh processes.
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592 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
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595 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
596 resize.
597
598* homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
599 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
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602 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
603 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
604 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
605 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
606 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
607 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
608 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
609 system actually reset.
610
611* systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
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613 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
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616 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
617 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
618 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
619
4cb8a25b 620* sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
1c904337 621 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
fcdd21ec 622 is then useful for network boot, by embedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
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626 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
627 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
628 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
629 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
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632 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
633 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
634 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
635 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
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638
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640 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
7227dd81 641 Use case: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
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643
084ecae5 644* maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
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647* systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
648 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
649 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
650
6d040d84 651* sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
4cb8a25b 652 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
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654* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
655 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
656 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
657 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
658 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
659 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
660 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
661 usual.
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664
665* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
666
667* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
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670 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
671 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
672 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
673 sockaddr.
674
675* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
676 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
677 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
678 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
679 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
680 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
681 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
682 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
683 try to use inode from there.
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686 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
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689 extensions
690
691* gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
692 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
693 for the root fs or /usr/.
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696 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
697 combination thereof.
698
699* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
700 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
701 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
702 ahead of time.
703
704* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
705 aforementioned purpose.
706
707* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
708 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
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711 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
712 to figure out:
713 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
714 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
715 subsequent boots?
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718 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
719 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
720 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
721 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
722 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
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724 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
725 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
726 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
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729 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
730 used)
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733 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
734 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
735 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
736 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
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739 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
740 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
741 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 742 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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746 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
747 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
748
749* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
750 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
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753
754* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
755 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
7227dd81 756 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Use case: remove secondary OS
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758
759* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
760 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
761 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
762 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
763 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
764 only one for each OS.
765
766* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
767 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 768 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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770 boot, for the next.
771
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773 similar behind it, instead of http.
774
775* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
776 boot, or on first boot.
777
778* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
779 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
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782 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
783 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
784 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
785 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
786 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
787 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
788 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
789 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
790 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
791 until users are allowed to log in).
792
793* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
794 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
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797 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
798 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
7227dd81 799 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Use case: systemd-confext
b60e0f57 800 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
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802 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
803 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
b60e0f57 804 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
805 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
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807
808* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
809 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
810 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
811 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
7227dd81 812 enhanced remote attestation quote. Use case: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 813 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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815 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
b60e0f57 816 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
817 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
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819 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
820 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
b60e0f57 821 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
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823 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
824 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
825 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
b60e0f57 826 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
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828 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
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831 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
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834 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
835
836* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
837 instead of manual blocking.
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840 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
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843 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
844 supplied password.
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847 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
848 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
849 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
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852 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
853 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
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856* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
857 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
858 automatically derived from --private-key=).
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861 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
862 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
7227dd81 863 use as additional search condition. Use case: images that combined a sysext
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865
866* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
867 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
868 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
869 modules
870
b60e0f57 871* for systemd-confext: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
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873 a new name with a built-in config?
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876 maybe on kernel command line:
877 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
878 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
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881 hash type, etc)
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885
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4e0ceefe 887 but final node is not a directory
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890 non-VFAT fs is used.
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893
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895 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
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902 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
903 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
904 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
905 affect PCR values.
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908 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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911 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
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914 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
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917 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
918
919* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
920 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
921
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924 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
925 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
926 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
927 use it.
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930 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
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933 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
934 what it was signed.
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937 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
938 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
939 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
940 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
941 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
942 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
943 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
944 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
945 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
946 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
947 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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950 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
951
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953 • crypttab-generator: allow defining additional crypttab-like volumes via
954 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
955 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
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957 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
958 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
959 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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961 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
962 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
963 file system paths to enable on start.
964 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
965 usr=
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967 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
968 pre-built kernels.
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971 runtime state. Then, expose it:
972
973 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
974 about the unit.
975 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
976 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
977 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
978 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
979 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
980 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
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983 what to do if support ended
984
985* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
3ff1721c 986 login time, à la motd
81a96518 987
e1b45a75 988* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 989 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
7227dd81 990 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Use case: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 991 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 992 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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995 initrd transition. Specifically:
996 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
997 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
998 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
999
d486b26f 1000* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 1001 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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1003 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
1004 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
1005 depending on desired level of persistency.
1006
1007* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
1008 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
1c904337 1009 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
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1010 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
1011 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
1012 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
1013 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
1014 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
1015
1016* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
1017 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
1018 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
1019 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
1020
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1022
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1024
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1026 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
1027 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
7227dd81 1028 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Use case: container
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1030 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
1031 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
1032 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
3881fd40 1033 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
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1035 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
1036 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
1037 not unprivileged code.
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1040 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
1041 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
1042 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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1045 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
1046 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
1047 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
30fd9a2d 1048 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
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1049 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
1050 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
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1052 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
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1054* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
1055 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
1056 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
1057 order.
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1060 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
1061 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
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1064 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
1065 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
1066 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 1067 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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1069 IN_IGNORED again)
1070
5b06ad51 1071* for vendor-built signed initrds:
a4b329e6 1072 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
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1073 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
1074 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
1075 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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1076 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
1077 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
5b06ad51 1078 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
62471289 1079 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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1080 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
1081 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
1082 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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1085 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
1086 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
2df2bb1f 1087
03ede612 1088* sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
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1090 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 1091 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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1092 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
1093 directly to host service manager.
1094
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1095* sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
1096 no api to query the device id
1097
1098* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1099 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1100 also be queried.
1101
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1102* sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
1103 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1104 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1105 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
1106
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1107* sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
1108 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1109 latter).
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1111* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1112
1113* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
1114
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1115* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
1116 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
1117 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
1118 generated by GNU sha256sums.
1119
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1121 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
02c914ef 1122 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
47a9f917 1123 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
7227dd81 1124 to the menu. Use case: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
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1125 UEFI HTTP boot.
1126
1127* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
1128 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
1129 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
5bc9ea07 1130 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
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1131 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
1132 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
1133 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
1134 hence cheap for enumeration.
1135
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1136* sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
1137
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1138* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
1139 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1140 words: show partition labels).
1141
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1143 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
5bc9ea07 1144 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
7227dd81 1145 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. Use case:
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1147 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
1148 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
1149
e4f92a62 1150* deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
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1152* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
1153
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1154* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1155 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1156 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1157 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1158 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1159 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1160 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1161 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1162 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1163 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1164
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1165* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
1166 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
1167
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1168* doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
1169 jobs, units
1170
a57d72ce 1171* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
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1173 userspace)
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1177* add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
1178 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1179
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1182
1183* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1184 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
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1186* cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
1187 internal clock.
1188
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1189* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1190 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1191
1192* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1193 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1194 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1195 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
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1198 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1199 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1200
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1201* homed: if the homed shell fallback thing has access to an SSH agent, try to
1202 use it to unlock home dir (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled). We
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1204 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1205 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1206 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1207 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
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1210 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
7227dd81 1211 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Use case: drop a root user JSON record there,
bb5464ad 1212 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
7227dd81 1213 for debugging purposes. Other use case: boot into qemu with regular user
11b957b5 1214 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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1216* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
30fd9a2d 1217 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
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1219
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1220* add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
1221 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1222 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1223 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1224 on-disk storage.
1225
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1227 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1228 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1229 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1230 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1231
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1233 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1234 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
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1236* /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
1237 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1238 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1239 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1240
3fc0688d 1241* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
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1242 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1243 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1244 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1245 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1246 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1247 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1248 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1249 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1250 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1251 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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1254 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1255 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1258
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1262 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1263 that images cannot be misused.
1264
aca8ecc3 1265* New udev block device symlink names:
178d3ff2 1266 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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1267 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1268 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1269 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1270
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1272 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1273 - support casync as download mechanism
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1274 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1275 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1276 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1277 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
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1278 update component, since otherwise sysupdate.d/ files would override the
1279 host's update files.)
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1280 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1281 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1282 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1283 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1284
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1286
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1287* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1288 make dirs appear under right UID.
1289
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1290* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1291 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1292
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1294 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1295 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1296 already have it.
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1298* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1299 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1300
1c904337 1301* Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
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1303* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1304 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1305 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1306 /proc/self/fd/3
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1308* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1309 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1310 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1311
1312* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
7227dd81 1313 that is deleted in the fs. Use case would be with ConnectSocket= above.
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1315* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1316 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
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1318* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1319 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1320 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1321 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1322 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
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1325
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199b097d 1327 - acquire from EFI variable?
30fd9a2d 1328 - acquire via ask-password?
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1330 - pass creds via keyring?
1331 - pass creds via memfd?
1332 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1333 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1334 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
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1335 - make macsec code in networkd read key via creds logic (copy logic from
1336 wireguard)
1337 - make gatewayd/remote read key via creds logic
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1339
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1340* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1341 and such
1342
1343* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
80670e74 1344
02c914ef 1345* cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
80670e74 1346
7d7c75f1 1347* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1349
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1351 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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1354
1355* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1356 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1357
1358* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1359 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1360
1361* cryptsetup:
1362 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1363 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1364
08d33656 1365* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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1367* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1368 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1369
f461a28d 1370* special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
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1371 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1372
f461a28d 1373* add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
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1374 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1375
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1376* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1377
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1378* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1379
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1380* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1381 when it exits
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1383* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1384 o turn into dlopen() deps:
cdfd8537 1385 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 1386 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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1387 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1388 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1389 since they are so basic and our defaults)
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1391* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1392 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1393 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1394
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1395* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1396 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1397
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1398* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1399
1400* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1401 specific service
1402
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1403* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1404 exists and responds.
1405
91fc013f 1406* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1407 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1408
7e8facb3 1409* unify on openssl:
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1410 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1411 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1412 gnutls
1413 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
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1415* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1416 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1417
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1418* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1419 realname substr searches in varlink API
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1421* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1422
2a4be3c5 1423* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1424
f1eb0ccd 1425* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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1427* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1428 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1429 initrd had set.
1430
173c7873 1431* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1432 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1433 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1434 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1435 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1436 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1437
1438* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1439 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1440 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1441
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1442* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1443 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1444 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1445 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1446 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1447 source.
1448
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1449* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1450 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1451 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1452
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1453* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1454
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1455* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1456 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1457
c6526b8d 1458* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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1460* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1461 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1462 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1463 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1464 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1465 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1466 exec().
1467
1468* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1469
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1470* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1471 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1472
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1473* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1474 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1475
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1476* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1477 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1478 root.
1479
1480* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1481 is issued.
1482
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1483* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1484
1485* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1486
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1487* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1488 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1489 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1490
d238709c 1491* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1492 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1493 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1494
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1495* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1496
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1497* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1498 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1499
06898123 1500* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1501 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1502 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1503 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
06898123 1504
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1505* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1506
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1507* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1508
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1509* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1510 non-zero "tries done" count
1511
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1512* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1513 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1514 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1515 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1516 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1517 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1518 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1519 CODE_FILE.
1520
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1521* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1522 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1523 some explanatory text online.
1524
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1525* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1526
d1797c42 1527* hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
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1529* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1530 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1531
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1532* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1533 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1534 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1535 files and suchlike we operate on.
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1537* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1538
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1539* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1540
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1541* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1542 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1543
5da19043 1544* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1545 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
5da19043 1546
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1547* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1548 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1549 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1550 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1551 unlinked from any dir.
1552
bd1b3f75 1553* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
5da19043 1554
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1555* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1556
1557* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1558
53c70a27 1559* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1560 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1561 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1562 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1563 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1564
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1565* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1566
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1567* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1568 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1569
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1570* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1571 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1572 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1573 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1574 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
7227dd81 1575 different slice too by default. Use case: people who want to put resources on
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1576 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1577 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1578
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1579* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1580 for root, but only then.
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1582* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1583 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1584
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1585* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1586 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1587
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1588* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1589 only when used. Add unit tests.
1590
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1591* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1592 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1593
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1594* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1595 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1596 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1597 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1598 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1599
899feb72 1600* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
c6009ff0 1601
5f7ecd61 1602* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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1604* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1605 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1606
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1607* blog about fd store and restartable services
1608
1609* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1610
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1611* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1612 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1613
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1614* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1615 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1616 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1617 ID is available.
1618
1619* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1620 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1621 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1622
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1623* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1624 parameters
1625
63a185dc 1626* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1627 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1628 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1629 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1630 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1631 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1632 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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1634* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1635 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1636
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1637* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1638 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1639 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1640
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1641* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1642 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1643
1644 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1645
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1646* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1647 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1648 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1649
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1650* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1651 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1652
1653* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1654 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1655 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1656 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1657 natural habitat.
1658
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1659* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1660 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
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1662* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1663 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1664 relative to the configured default value.
1665
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1666* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1667
04397464 1668* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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1670* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1671
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1672* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1673
04397464 1674* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1675
04397464 1676* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1677
04397464 1678* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1679
8ce9b83a 1680* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1682* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1683 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1684 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1685
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1686* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1687 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1688
e40a326c 1689* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 1690
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1691* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1692 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1693 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1694 mapping to work.
1695
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1696* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1697
1698* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1699
1700* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1701
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1702* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1703 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1704
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1705* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1706 reload the unit file anyway
1707
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1708* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1709
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1710* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1711
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1712* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1713 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1714
f9bf1b8f 1715* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1716 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1717 specifications.
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1719* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1720
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1721* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1722
a2088fd0 1723* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1724 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1725 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1726 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
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1728* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1729
931bc195 1730* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
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1732* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1733 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1734 state.
41d6f3bf 1735 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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1737* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1738 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1739 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1740 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1741 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1742
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1743* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1744
d2f81fb0 1745* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1746 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1747
0a86c1a9 1748* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1749 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1750
e031c227 1751* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1752 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1753
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1754* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1755
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1756* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1757 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1758
25e773ee 1759* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1760
720652b3 1761* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1762
720652b3 1763* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1764
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1765* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1766 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1767
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1768* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1769
9d6db739 1770* resolved:
9d6db739 1771 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1772 - service registration
1773 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1774 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1775 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1776 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1777 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1778 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1779 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1780 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1781
e25b5a8d 1782* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1783
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1784* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1785
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1786* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1787
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1788* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1789
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1790* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1791
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1792* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1793 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1794
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1795* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1796
6a3f892a 1797* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1798 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1799 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1800
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1801* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1802 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1803 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1804
f9bf1b8f 1805* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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1807* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1808 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1809 for ReusePort=
1810
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f38afcd0 1812 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1813 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1814 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1815 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1816 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1817 the hierarchies of child processes
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1818 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1819 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1820
f38afcd0 1821* transient units:
f38afcd0 1822 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1823
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1824* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1825
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1826* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1827
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1828* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1829
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1830* 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
1831
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1832* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1833 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1834 path anyway.
1835
04397464 1836* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1837
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1838* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1839
07eabc2b 1840* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1841
07eabc2b 1842* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1843
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1844* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1845
1846* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1847 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1848 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1849
1850* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1851 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1852
1853* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1854
1855* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1856
1857* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1858
1859* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1860 needs to be auto-respawned?
1861
1862* pid1:
1863 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1864 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1865 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1866 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1867 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
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1868 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1869 - move PAM code into its own binary
1870 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1871 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1872 - Support --test based on current system state
1873 - 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().
1874 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1875 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1876 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1877 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1878 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1879 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1880 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1881 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1882 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1883 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1884 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1885 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1886
1887* unit files:
1888 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1889 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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1890 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1891 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1892 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1893 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1894 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1895 - introduce Type=pid-file
1896 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1897 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1898 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1899
1900* timer units:
63a185dc 1901 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1902 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1903
1904* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1905
1906* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1907
1908* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1909
1910* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1911
07eabc2b 1912* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1913
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1914* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1915
1916* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1917
fff87a35 1918* test/:
20d52ab6 1919 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1920
b5c03638 1921* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1922 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1923 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1924 destination.
1925
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1926* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1927 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1928
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1929* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1930
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1932 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1933 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1934
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1935* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1936 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1937
7227dd81 1938* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? use case:
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1939 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1940 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1941 that automatically.
1942
e5ec62c5 1943* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1944
ccddd104 1945* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1946
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1947* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1948
356ce991 1949* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1950
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1951* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1952
1953* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1954
1955* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1956
1957* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1958
1959* sd-bus:
1960 - EBADSLT handling
1961 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1962 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1963 - 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
1964 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1965 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1966 - longer term: priority inheritance
1967 - dbus spec updates:
1968 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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1969 - path escaping
1970 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1971
1972* sd-event
1973 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1974 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1975 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1976 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1977 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1978 here:
1979 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1980
1981* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1982 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1983
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1984* document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
1985
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1986* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1987
1988* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1989
1990* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1991
b44be3ec 1992* EFI:
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1993 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1994 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1995 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1996* bootctl
631427d6 1997 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1998
07eabc2b 1999* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 2000
07eabc2b 2001* bootctl:
483091b0 2002 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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2003 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
2004 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
f620a368 2005
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2006* logind:
2007 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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2008 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
2009 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
2010 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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2011 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
2012 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
2013 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
2014 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
2015 needs setuid().
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2016 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
2017 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
2018 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
2019 complete.
2020 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2021 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2022 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 2023 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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2024 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2025 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2026 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2027 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2028 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2029 relogins
77b19caf 2030 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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2031 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
2032 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
2033 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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2034
2035* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2036
2037* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2038 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2039 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2040
2041* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2042 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2043
b44be3ec 2044* journal:
57f2a947 2045 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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2046 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2047 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2048 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 2049 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 2050 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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2051 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2052 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2053 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 2054 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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2055 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2056 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 2057 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
02c914ef 2058 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
b44be3ec 2059 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 2060 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 2061 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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2062 - 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.
2063 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2064 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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2065 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2066 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2067 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2068 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 2069 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 2070 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 2071 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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2072 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2073 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2074 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2075 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2076 to syslog when it works again.
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2077 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2078 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2079 journals in.
2080 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2081 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2082 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2083 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2084 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 2085 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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2086 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2087 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2088 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2089 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2090 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2091 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2092 operation.
2093 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
b3e199ce 2094 written to as FAIL, but instead show that they are being written to.
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2095 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2096 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 2097 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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2098 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2099 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2100 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2101 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 2102 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
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2104* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2105 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2106
2107* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2108 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2109 validated via TPM.
2110
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2112 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2113 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2114
2115* journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2116 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2117 cursors as they happen.
2118
2119* journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2120 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2121 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2122 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2123 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2124 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2125 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2126 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2127 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2128
2129* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2130 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2131 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2132 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
cbcf76b1 2133 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
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2135
2136* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2137 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2138 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2139 records, to be able to order them.
2140
2141* journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2142 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2143 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2144 be safely written to disk, then.
2145
2146* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2147 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2148 inspiration from IMA log)
2149
2150* sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2151 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2152 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2153
2154* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
2155 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
2156 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
2157 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2158 for doing that.
2159
2160* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2161 log.c and sd-journal-send
2162
2163* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2164 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2165 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2166 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2167 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2168 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2169 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2170 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2171 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2172 an NTP sync is acquired.
2173
2174* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
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2175
2176* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2177 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2178 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2179
2180* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2181 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2182 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2183 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2184 cgroup.
2185
2186* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2187 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2188 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2189 logging.
2190
2191* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2192
2193* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2194 from the SIGBUS handler
2195
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2197 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2198 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2199 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2200
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2201* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2202 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2203
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2204* homed:
2205 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2206 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2207 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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2208 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2209 - create on activate?
2210 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2211 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2212 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2213 systemd --user is shut down.
2214 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2215 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2216 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2217 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2218 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2219 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2220 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2221 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2222 - query password from kernel keyring first
2223 - update even if record is "absent"
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2224 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2225 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2226 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2227 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2228 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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2229 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2230 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2231 doesn't mean user B sees it
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2233 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2234 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2235 signature
2236 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2237 and insert a local signature instead.
2238 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2239 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2240 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2241 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2242 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2243 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2244 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2245 easily?
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LP
2246 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2247 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
6d975fe7
LP
2248 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2249 can easily set overall quota for all users
2250 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2251 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
cff559ec
LP
2252 - add "homectl unbind" command to remove local user record of an inactive
2253 home dir
07eabc2b 2254
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LB
2255* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2256 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2257 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2258
2df2bb1f 2259* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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LB
2260
2261* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2262 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2263 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2264 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2265
2266* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2267
2268* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2269 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2270 something goes wrong on the way.
2271
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LB
2272* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2273 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2274 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2275 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2276
2277* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2278 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2279 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2280 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2281 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2282 automatically.
2283
2284* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2285 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2286
2287* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2288 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2289 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2290 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2291 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2292 fails to apply use the latter.
2293
2294* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2295 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2296
2297* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2298 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2299
2300* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2301 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2302 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
07eabc2b
LB
2303
2304* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2305 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2306
92e72028 2307* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
d01d9197
ZJS
2308 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2309 during boot.
2310
2311* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2312
b44be3ec 2313* document:
8b8f2591 2314 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
b44be3ec
LP
2315 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2316 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2317 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
f38afcd0
LP
2318 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2319 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
f38afcd0
LP
2320 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2321 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
5cf821ac
ZJS
2322 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2323 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2324 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2325 - document root=gpt-auto properly
b44be3ec
LP
2326
2327* systemctl:
b44be3ec
LP
2328 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2329 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
b44be3ec
LP
2330 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2331 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2332 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2333 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
f38afcd0 2334
07eabc2b
LB
2335* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2336 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2337 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2338
07eabc2b
LB
2339* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2340 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2341 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2342
07eabc2b
LB
2343* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2344 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2345 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 2346
07eabc2b
LB
2347* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2348 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 2349
07eabc2b
LB
2350* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2351 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2352 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2353 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 2354
07eabc2b
LB
2355* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2356 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2357 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2358 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2359
07eabc2b
LB
2360* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2361
2362* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2363
2364* unit install:
2365 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2366 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 2367
b44be3ec 2368* nspawn:
e25b5a8d
DH
2369 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2370 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2371 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2372 from the kernel's logs.
2373 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2374 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2375 interface be missing
e25b5a8d
DH
2376 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2377 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2378 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2379 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2380 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2381 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2382 PID 1...
e25b5a8d
DH
2383 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2384 running, remove them when shut down.
71b77f06
CB
2385 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2386 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2387 startup.
2388 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2389 or so, freeze the payload too.
2390 - support time namespaces
2391 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2392 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2393 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2394 "machinectl shell"
2395 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2396 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2397 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2398 - greater control over selinux label?
2399 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2400 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2401 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2402 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2403 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2404 host TPM.
2405 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2406 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2407 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2408 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2409 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2410 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2411 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2412 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
fdeabf57
CB
2413 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2414 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
3922f982
CB
2415 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2416 or two sockets.
3734fec7 2417 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
07eabc2b
LB
2418
2419* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2420 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2421 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2422 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2423 anything like that.
2424
e25b5a8d 2425* machined:
e25b5a8d
DH
2426 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2427 removed or added to an existing machine
2428 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2429 difference host, via ssh
e25b5a8d
DH
2430 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2431 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2432 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2433 question
e25b5a8d
DH
2434 - "machinectl history"
2435 - "machinectl diff"
2436 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2437 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2438
abd55b16 2439* udev:
abd55b16 2440 - move to LGPL
abd55b16
KS
2441 - kill scsi_id
2442 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2443 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2444 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2445 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2446
e25b5a8d
DH
2447* coredump:
2448 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2449 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2450 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
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LP
2451
2452* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2453
f38afcd0 2454* tmpfiles:
beca6b6e 2455 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
614cc34f 2456 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
e25b5a8d
DH
2457 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2458 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2459 calls follow symlinks.
ba405b22
ZJS
2460 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2461 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2462 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
beca6b6e
ZJS
2463 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2464 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
2479f0bb 2465 - add -n as shortcut for --dry-run in tmpfiles & sysusers & possibly other places
1258097c 2466
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TG
2467* udev-link-config:
2468 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2469 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2470 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2471
88e4d1d7 2472* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2473 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2474 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2475
0a4b9a07 2476* networkd:
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TG
2477 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2478 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2479 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2480 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2481 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2482 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
e25b5a8d
DH
2483 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2484 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2485 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2486 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2487 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
DH
2488 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2489 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2490 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2491 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2492 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2493 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2494 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2495
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LB
2496* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2497
d5e172d2
ZJS
2498* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2499
ac976532 2500* dhcp:
424a8732 2501 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2502
37d8b536
PF
2503* dhcp6:
2504 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2505 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2506 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2507 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
b3e199ce 2508 - implement support for temporary addresses (IA_TA)
37d8b536
PF
2509 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2510 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2511 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2512 or interface down
2513 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2514 this behavior
4a77c53d 2515 - RouteTable= ?
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2516
2517* shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2518 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2519 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)