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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
19* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
20
21* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
22
23* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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25* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
26
27* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
28
29* register catalog database signature as file magic
30
31* zsh shell completion:
32 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
33 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
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36* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
37* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
38 after being started.
39
40* write blog stories about:
41 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
42 - enabling dbus services
43 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
44 - remote access
45 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
46 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
47 - auto-restart
48 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
49 - the journal HTTP iface
50 - non-cgroup resource management
51 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
52 - refreshed, longer missions statement
53 - calendar time events
54 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
55 - how to create your own target
56 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
57 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
58
59Regularly:
60
61* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
62
63* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
64
65* pahole
66
67* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
68
69* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
70
71* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
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73Janitorial Clean-ups:
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75* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
76 semantics, like we do for device.c now
77
f461a28d 78* get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase() and related
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79 calls instead.
80
81* get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
82
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83* Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
84 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
85 libmount for something so trivial.
86
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87* drop set_free_free() and switch things over from string_hash_ops to
88 string_hash_ops_free everywhere, so that destruction is implicit rather than
89 explicit. Similar, for other special hashmap/set/ordered_hashmap destructors.
90
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91* generators sometimes apply C escaping and somethines specifier escaping to
92 paths and similar strings they write out. Sometimes both. We should clean
93 this up, and should probably always apply both, i.e. introduce
94 unit_file_escape() or so, which applies both.
95
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96Deprecations and removals:
97
98* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
99 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
100
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101* remove cgrouspv1 support EOY 2023. As per
102 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
103 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
104 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
105
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106* drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
107 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
9eb41aab 108 is only supported for such old kernels.
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110* drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
111 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
112
9eb41aab 113* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
3345802c 114 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
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115 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
116 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
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117 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
118
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119* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
120 baseline is 5.8.
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122* drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
123 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
124
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125* Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
126 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
127 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
128
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129* Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
130 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
131
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132* remove remaining tpm1.2 support from sd-stub
133
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134Features:
135
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136* redefine /var/lib/extensions/ as the dir one can place all three of sysext,
137 confext as well is multi-modal DDIs that qualify as both. Then introduce
138 /var/lib/sysexts/ which can be used to place only DDIs that shall be used as
139 sysext
140
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141* in pid1: move out all cgroup state settings from Unit into a new object
142 CGroupState or so which is allocated when we realize the unit into a cgroup,
143 and then remains referenced by it. The new object should also carry an fd to
144 the realized cgroup, to pin it (and later execute all cgroup operations over,
145 once we drop cgroupv1 compat).
146
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147* add new "systemd-ssh-generator", which allows basic ssh config via
148 credentials (host key). It generates sshd.socket for IP, but also
149 sshd-vsock.socket for listening on AF_VSOCK when running in a VM, and
150 sshd-unix.socket on AF_UNIX when running in a container. It also generates a
151 matching sshd.service file with a host key passed in on the cmdline via
152 credentials. Then, add a ssh_config drop-in that matches some suitable
153 hostname pattern and has a ProxyCommand set that allows connecting to any
154 local VM/container that way without any networking configured.
155
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156* Varlinkification of the following command line tools, to open them up to
157 other programs via IPC:
158 - bootctl
159 - journalctl (allowing journal read access via IPC)
160 - coredumpcl
161 - systemd-bless-boot
162 - systemd-measure
163 - systemd-creds (allowing clients to encrypt credentials locally)
164 - systemd-cryptenroll (to allow UIs to enroll FIDO2 keys and such)
165 - systemd-dissect
166 - systemd-sysext
167 - systemd-sysupdate
168 - systemd-analyze
169 - kernel-install
170
171* Varlink: add glue code to allow varlink clients to be authenticated via
172 Polkit by passing client pidfd over.
173
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174* in the service manager, pick up ERRNO= + BUSERROR= + VARLINKERROR= error
175 identifiers, and store them along with the exit status of a server and report
176 via "systemctl status".
177
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178* enumerate virtiofs devices during boot-up in a generator, and synthesize
179 mounts for rootfs, /usr/, /home/, /srv/ and some others from it, depending on
02c9d62b 180 the "tag". (waits for: https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd/-/issues/128)
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182* automatically mount one virtiofs during early boot phase to /run/host/,
183 similar to how we do that for nspawn, based on some clear tag.
184
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185* add some service that makes an atomic snapshot of PCR state and event log up
186 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
187
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188* encode type1 entries in some UKI section to add additional entries to the
189 menu.
190
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191* Add ACL-based access management to .socket units. i.e. add AllowPeerUser= +
192 AllowPeerGroup= that installs additional user/group ACL entries on AF_UNIX
193 sockets.
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195* systemd-tpm2-setup should probably have a factory reset logic, i.e. when some
196 kernel command line option is set we reset the TPM (equivalent of tpm2_clear
197 -c owner?).
198
199* systemd-tpm2-setup should support a mode where we refuse booting if the SRK
200 changed. (Must be opt-in, to not break systems which are supposed to be
201 migratable between PCs)
202
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203* when systemd-sysext learns mutable /usr/ (and systemd-confext mutable /etc/)
204 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
205 snapshot logic
206
207* add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
208 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
209 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
fcdd21ec 210 i.e. without recompiling the kernel, taking an upstream OS' kernel and adding
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211 a local key to it.
212
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213* PidRef conversion work:
214 - pid_is_unwaited() → pidref_is_unwaited()
215 - pid_is_alive() → pidref_is_alive()
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216 - is_kernel_thread() → pidref_is_kernel_thread()
217 - pid_is_my_child() → pidref_is_my_child()
d94dc50c 218 - get_process_uid() → pidref_get_uid()
4775b55d 219 - actually wait for POLLIN on pidref's pidfd in service logic
a1f7cdc6 220 - exec_spawn()
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221 - cg_pid_get_unit()
222 - openpt_allocate_in_namespace()
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223 - sd_bus_creds
224 - unit_attach_pid_to_cgroup_via_bus()
225 - cg_attach() – requires new kernel feature
226 - varlink_get_peer_pid()
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228* ddi must be listed as block device fstype
229
230* measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
231 mode.
232
233* homed: add a basic form of of secrets management to homed, that stores
234 secrets in $HOME somewhere, is protected by the accounts own authentication
235 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
236 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
237 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
238 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
239 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
240
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241* use sd-event ratelimit feature optionally for journal stream clients that log
242 too much
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fcdd21ec 244* systemd-mount should only consider modern file systems when mounting, similar
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245 to systemd-dissect
246
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247* new "systemd-pcrlock" component for dealing with PCR4. Design idea:
248 1. define /{etc,usr,var/lib}/pcrlock.d/<component>/<version>.pcrlock
249 2. these files contain list of hashes that will be measured when component is
250 run, per PCR
251 3. each component involved in the boot that is deterministically measured can
252 place one or more of these files in those dirs (shim, sd-boot,
253 sd-stub/UKI, cryptsetup, pcrphase, pcrfs, …)
254 4. since each component has its own dir, with multiple files in them, package
255 such as kernels (of which there can be multiple installed at the same
256 time) can be grouped together: only one of them is measured at a time.
257 5. whenever a new component is added or an old one removed, or the PCR lock
258 shall be relaxed or tightened the systemd-pcrlock tool is invoked.
259 6. tool iterates through all these files, orders them alphabetically by
260 component, then matches them up with current measurements (as per uefi
261 event log), identifying by hash, accepting that the "beginning" of the
262 measurements might not be recognizable.
263 7. Then calculates expected PCR values starting with the "unrecognized
264 head" from the event log, then continuing with all of components
265 defined via the .pcrlock files (but dropping out the "recognized tail"
266 from the uefi event log). (This might mean combinatorial explosion, if
267 there are multiple shims, multiple sd-boot, and so on.)
268 8. Generates a public/private key pair on the TPM
269 9. Generates a counter object in the TPM, with a policy that allows only
270 one-by-one increase with signature policy by the public/private key pair.
271 10. now signs policies of all expected PCR values with the generated keypair,
272 using all combinations of components defined in the .pcrlock files
273 restricting it to the counter + 1.
274 11. locks down the keypair with a signed policy with its own public key
275 12. generates JSON file of all these policies with their signatures, drops
276 them as singleton in ESP
277 13. increases the counter by one.
278 14. after boot sd-stub picks JSON up from ESP, passes it to userspace via
279 .extra
280 15. JSON contained policies can now be used to unlock disk as well as the
281 public/key itself for signing further policies, as well as increment for
282 the counter
283 16. whenever any of the components above is added/removed new JSON file with
284 signatures for counter + 1 is generated, dropped in ESP, then counter
285 increased. (i.e. this means the "recognized tail" of the event log is
286 deterministically swapped out)
287 17. when firmware update is expected, relaxed signed policy is generated for
288 next boot only valid if counter is increased (this means the
289 "unrecognized head" for the event log can change without losing access)
290 18. on every boot checks if releaxed policy is in effect, if so, new strict
291 policy is generated and counter increased.
292 Net result: Removes downgrade attack surface + Locks OS to firmware + Allows
293 downgrades within bounds
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295* add another PE section ".fname" or so that encodes the intended filename for
296 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
297 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
298 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
299 control of the attacker.
300
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301* also include packaging metadata (á la
302 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
303 same JSON format.
304
305* make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
306 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
307 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
308 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
309 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
310 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
311 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
312 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
313 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
314 newer.
315
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316* in sd-stub: optionally add support for a new PE section .keyring or so that
317 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
318 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
319 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
320 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
321 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
322 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
323 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
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325* resolved: take possession of some IPv6 ULA address (let's say
326 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
327 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
328
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329* introduce a .microcode PE section for sd-stub which we'll pass as first initrd
330 to the kernel which will then upload it to the CPU. This should be distinct
331 from .initrd to guarantee right ordering. also, and maybe more importantly
332 support .microcode in PE add-ons, so that a microcode update can be shipped
9a27ef09 333 independently of any kernel.
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335* Maybe add SwitchRootEx() as new bus call that takes env vars to set for new
336 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
337 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
338 requested during switch root.
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340* introduce a .acpitable section for early ACPI table override
341
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342* add proper .osrel matching for PE addons. i.e. refuse applying an addon
343 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
344 matched against OS.
345
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346* figure out what to do about credentials sealed to PCRs in kexec + soft-reboot
347 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
348 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
349
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350* logind: when logging in, always take an fd to the home dir, to keep the dir
351 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
352 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
353 namespaces)
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355* mount most file systems with a restrictive uidmap. e.g. mount /usr/ with a
356 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
357
358* mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
359 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
360 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
361
f447b741 362* fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
94d82b59 363 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
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364 "*:foobar:*", to wildcard match both the start and the end of the string.
365 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
366 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
367 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
368
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369* mount /tmp/ and /var/tmp with a uidmap applied that blocks out "nobody" user
370 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
94d82b59 371 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
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372 used transiently, never persistently.
373
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374* rework loopback support in fstab: when "loop" option is used, then
375 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
376 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
377 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
378 based on lo_file_name.
379
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380* remove tomoyo support, it's obsolete and unmaintained apparently
381
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382* In .socket units, add ConnectStream=, ConnectDatagram=,
383 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
384 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
385 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
386 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
387 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
388 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
389 activation-by-message id and similar.
390
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391* .service with invalid Sockets= starts successfully.
392
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393* landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
394 ability to write anywehere else below /run/. Similar for
395 StateDirectory=. Benefit would be clear delegation via unit files: services
396 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
397
398* landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
399 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
400 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
401 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
402 similar behaviour for system services, too.
403
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404* Add systemd-mount@.service which is instantiated for a block device and
405 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
406 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
407
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408* udevd: extend memory pressure logic: also kill any idle worker processes
409
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410* udevadm: to make symlink querying with udevadm nicer:
411 - do not enable the pager for queries like 'udevadm info -q -r symlink'
412 - add mode with newlines instead of spaces (for grep)?
413
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414* SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
415 localed, oomd, timedated.
416
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417* in order to make binding to PCR 4 realistic:
418 - generate one keypair "U" and store it in a tpm2 nvindex.
419 - Generate another keypair "P" and store it in a second tpm2 nvindex.
420 - allocate a persistent counter object "C" in the tpm2
421 - Enroll all user objects (i.e. luks volumes, creds, …) to a tpm2 policy
422 signed by U.
423 - Lock both U and P down with a tpm2 policy signed by P (yes, P can only be
424 used if a signature by P itself can be provided)
425 - For regular reboots generate a signature for a restrictive PCR4 + counter C
426 based policy with key P. Place signature in EFI var, so it can be found on
427 next boot
428 - For reboots where a firmware update is expected generate a signature with a
429 more open policy against just counter C. Place signature in same EFI var.
430 - Increase C whenever switching between these two signature types.
431 - During early boot, use the signature from the EFI var to unlock U and P.
432 Use it to generate a signature for unlocking user objects given the current
433 PCR 4 value, store that away into /run somewhere, for user during the whole
434 later boot.
435 - When booting up automatically update the mentioned efi var so that it
436 contains the restrictive signature. But also generate a signature ahead of
437 time that could be used in case during the current boot we later detect we might
438 need to reboot for a firmware update. Store that in /run somewhere, so that
439 it can be placed in the EFI var, if needed.
440
441* repart/gpt-auto/DDIs: maybe introduce a concept of "extension" partitions,
442 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
443 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
444 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
445 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
446 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
627cdcc7 447 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
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448 from the uuid of the original partition it extends. Inspiration for this is
449 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
450 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
451 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
452 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
453 access.
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455* split out execute.c into new "systemd-executor" binary. Then make PID 1 fork
456 that off via vfork(), and then let that executor do the hard work. Ultimately
457 the executor then gets replaced by the real binary sooner or later. Reason:
458 currently the intermediary "stub" process is a CoW trap that doubles memory
459 usage of PID 1 on each service start. Also, strictly speaking we are not
d09df6b9 460 allowed to do NSS from the stub process yet we do anyway. Next steps would
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461 then be maybe use CLONE_INTO_CGROUP for the executor, given that we don't
462 need glibc anymore in the stub process then. Then, switch nspawn to just be a
463 frontend for this too, so that we have to ways into the executor: via unit
464 files/dbus/varlin through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI through nspawn.
465
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466* sd-stub: detect if we are running with uefi console output on serial, and if so
467 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
468
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469* add a utility that can be used with the kernel's
470 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
471 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
472 for all umh processes.
473
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474* systemd-shutdown: keep sending sd_notify() status updates immediately before
475 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
476
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477* homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
478 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
479 resize.
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481* homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
482 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
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485 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
486 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
487 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
488 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
489 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
490 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
491 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
492 system actually reset.
493
494* systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
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496 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
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499 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
500 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
501 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
502
4cb8a25b 503* sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
1c904337 504 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
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509 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
510 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
511 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
512 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
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515 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
516 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
517 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
518 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
519
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521
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523 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
7227dd81 524 Use case: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
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526
084ecae5 527* maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
7227dd81 528 cmdline. use case: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
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530* systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
531 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
532 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
533
6d040d84 534* sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
4cb8a25b 535 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
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537* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
538 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
539 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
540 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
541 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
542 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
543 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
544 usual.
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547
548* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
549
550* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
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553 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
554 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
555 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
556 sockaddr.
557
558* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
559 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
560 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
561 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
562 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
563 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
564 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
565 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
566 try to use inode from there.
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569 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
570
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572 extensions
573
574* gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
575 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
576 for the root fs or /usr/.
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579 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
580 combination thereof.
581
582* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
583 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
584 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
585 ahead of time.
586
587* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
588 aforementioned purpose.
589
590* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
591 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
592
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594 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
595 to figure out:
596 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
597 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
598 subsequent boots?
599
dbc62e59 600* provide an API (probably IPC) to apps to encrypt/decrypt
7227dd81 601 credentials. use case: allow bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd
dbc62e59 602 that way, without shelling out to our tools.
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605 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
606 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
607 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
608 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
609 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
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611 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
612 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
613 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
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616 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
617 used)
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620 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
621 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
622 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
623 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
624
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626 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
627 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
628 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 629 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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633 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
634 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
635
636* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
637 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
638
639* implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
640 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
641 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
642 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
643 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
644 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
645
646* add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
647 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
648 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
649
650* systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
651
652* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
653 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
7227dd81 654 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Use case: remove secondary OS
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656
657* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
658 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
659 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
660 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
661 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
662 only one for each OS.
663
664* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
665 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 666 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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668 boot, for the next.
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671 similar behind it, instead of http.
672
673* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
674 boot, or on first boot.
675
676* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
677 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
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680 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
681 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
682 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
683 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
684 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
685 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
686 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
687 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
688 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
689 until users are allowed to log in).
690
691* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
692 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
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695 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
696 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
7227dd81 697 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Use case: systemd-confext
b60e0f57 698 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
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700 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
701 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
b60e0f57 702 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
703 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
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705
706* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
707 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
708 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
709 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
7227dd81 710 enhanced remote attestation quote. Use case: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 711 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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713 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
b60e0f57 714 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
715 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
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717 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
718 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
b60e0f57 719 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
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721 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
722 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
723 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
b60e0f57 724 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
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726 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
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729 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
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732 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
733
734* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
735 instead of manual blocking.
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738 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
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741 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
742 supplied password.
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745 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
746 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
747 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
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750 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
751 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
fcdd21ec 752 convenience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
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754* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
755 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
756 automatically derived from --private-key=).
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759 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
760 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
761
762* Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
763 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
764 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
7227dd81 765 use as additional search condition. Use case: images that combined a sysext
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767
768* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
769 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
770 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
771 modules
772
b60e0f57 773* for systemd-confext: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
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775 a new name with a built-in config?
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778 maybe on kernel command line:
779 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
780 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
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783 hash type, etc)
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787
f461a28d 788* chase(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
4e0ceefe 789 but final node is not a directory
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792 non-VFAT fs is used.
793
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797 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
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804 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
805 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
806 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
807 affect PCR values.
808
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810 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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813 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
814
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816 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
817
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819 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
820
821* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
822 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
823
9f3a3ac7 824* add small wrapper around qemu that implements sd_notify/AF_VSOCK + machined and
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826 equivalent to nspawn's. Maybe be called "systemd-vmspawn". Should imply good
827 settings, i.e. RNG + HyperV enlightenments. Should also result in swtpm
828 instance, plus virtiofsd instances. Translate credentials into smbios type
829 11 strings. Correctly translate SIGTERM into ACPI shutdown events.
830 Listen to logind suspend events and turn these into suspend key pressed +
831 ACPI resume events.
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835 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
836 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
837 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
838 use it.
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841 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
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844 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
845 what it was signed.
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848 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
849 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
850 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
851 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
852 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
853 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
854 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
855 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
856 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
857 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
858 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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861 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
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864 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
865 via the credentials logic.
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867 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
868 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
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870 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
871 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
872 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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874 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
875 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
876 file system paths to enable on start.
877 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
878 usr=
879 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
880 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
7227dd81 881 register if not registered yet. Use case: deploy a system, and add an
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884 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
885 pre-built kernels.
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888 runtime state. Then, expose it:
889
890 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
891 about the unit.
892 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
893 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
894 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
895 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
896 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
897 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
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900 what to do if support ended
901
902* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
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e1b45a75 905* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 906 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
7227dd81 907 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Use case: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 908 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 909 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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912 initrd transition. Specifically:
913 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
914 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
915 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
916
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47b86590 918 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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920 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
921 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
922 depending on desired level of persistency.
923
924* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
925 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
1c904337 926 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
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928 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
929 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
930 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
931 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
932
933* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
934 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
935 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
936 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
937
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939
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940* add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
941
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942* homed/userdb: maybe define a "companion" dir for home directories where apps
943 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
944 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
7227dd81 945 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Use case: container
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947 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
948 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
949 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
3881fd40 950 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
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951 by. Inform user code about path to this companion dir via env var, so that
952 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
953 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
954 not unprivileged code.
955
956* given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
02c914ef 957 that hooks up userdbctl ssh-key stuff.
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960 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
961 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
962 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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965 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
966 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
967 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
30fd9a2d 968 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
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969 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
970 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
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971 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is the only way to enter developer mode, by
972 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
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974* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
975 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
976 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
977 order.
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980 policies: policy probably must take some nvram based generation counter into
981 account that can only monotonically increase and can be used to invalidate
982 old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to old signed PCR sets
983 whenever they want.
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985* update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
986 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
987 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
988
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990 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
991 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
992 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 993 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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994 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
995 IN_IGNORED again)
996
5b06ad51 997* for vendor-built signed initrds:
a4b329e6 998 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
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999 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
1000 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
1001 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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1002 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
1003 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
5b06ad51 1004 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
62471289 1005 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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1006 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
1007 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
1008 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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1011 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
1012 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
2df2bb1f 1013
03ede612 1014* sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
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1016 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 1017 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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1018 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
1019 directly to host service manager.
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1021* sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
1022 no api to query the device id
1023
1024* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1025 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1026 also be queried.
1027
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1028* sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
1029 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1030 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1031 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
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1033* sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
1034 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1035 latter).
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1037* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1038
1039* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
1040
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1041* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
1042 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
1043 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
1044 generated by GNU sha256sums.
1045
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1047 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
02c914ef 1048 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
47a9f917 1049 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
7227dd81 1050 to the menu. Use case: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
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1052
1053* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
1054 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
1055 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
5bc9ea07 1056 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
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1057 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
1058 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
1059 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
1060 hence cheap for enumeration.
1061
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1063
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1064* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
1065 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1066 words: show partition labels).
1067
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1069 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
5bc9ea07 1070 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
7227dd81 1071 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. Use case:
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1072 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
1073 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
1074 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
1075
e4f92a62 1076* deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
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1078* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
1079
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1080* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1081 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1082 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1083 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1084 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1085 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1086 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1087 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1088 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1089 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1090
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1092 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
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1094* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
1095 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
1096
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1097* doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
1098 jobs, units
1099
a57d72ce 1100* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
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1101 sync, i.e. parse out architecture field in sd-boot (currently only done in
1102 userspace)
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1107 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1108
d1666bde 1109* Enable RestrictFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
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1111
1112* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1113 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
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1115* cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
1116 internal clock.
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1118* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1119 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1120
1121* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1122 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1123 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1124 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
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1127 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1128 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1129
1130* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
1131 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
1132 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
1133 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
1134 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
1135 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
1136 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
1137 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
1138 thread:
1139 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
1140 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
1141 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
1142 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
1143 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
1144 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
1145
1146* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
1147 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
1148 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
1149
1150* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
1151 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
1152 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
1153 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
1154 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
1155 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
1156 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
1157 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
1158 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
1159 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
1160 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1161 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1162 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1163 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1164 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
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1167 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
7227dd81 1168 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Use case: drop a root user JSON record there,
bb5464ad 1169 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
7227dd81 1170 for debugging purposes. Other use case: boot into qemu with regular user
11b957b5 1171 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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1173* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
30fd9a2d 1174 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
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1176
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1177* add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
1178 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1179 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1180 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1181 on-disk storage.
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1184 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1185 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1186 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1187 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1188
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1189* portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
1190 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1191 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
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1193* logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
1194 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
1195 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
1196 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
1197 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
1198 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
1199 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
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1201* /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
1202 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1203 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1204 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1205
3fc0688d 1206* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
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1207 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1208 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1209 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1210 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1211 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1212 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1213 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1214 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1215 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1216 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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1219 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1220 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1222* rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
1223
63a185dc 1224* PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
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1226* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1227 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1228 that images cannot be misused.
1229
aca8ecc3 1230* New udev block device symlink names:
178d3ff2 1231 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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1232 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1233 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1234 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1235
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1237 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1238 - support casync as download mechanism
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1239 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1240 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1241 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1242 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1243 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
1244 override the host's update files.)
1245 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1246 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1247 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1248 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1249
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1250* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1251
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1252* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1253 make dirs appear under right UID.
1254
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1255* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1256 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1257
24063ba1 1258* introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
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1260 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1261 already have it.
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1263* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1264 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1265
1c904337 1266* Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
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1268* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1269 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1270 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1271 /proc/self/fd/3
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1273* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1274 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1275 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1276
1277* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
7227dd81 1278 that is deleted in the fs. Use case would be with ConnectSocket= above.
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1280* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1281 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1282
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1283* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1284 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1285 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1286 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1287 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
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1290
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199b097d 1292 - acquire from EFI variable?
30fd9a2d 1293 - acquire via ask-password?
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1295 - pass creds via keyring?
1296 - pass creds via memfd?
1297 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1298 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1299 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1300 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1301 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1302 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
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1303 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
1304 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
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1307 firmware indicates there is one.
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1309* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1310 and such
1311
1312* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
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02c914ef 1314* cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
80670e74 1315
7d7c75f1 1316* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1317 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1318
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1320 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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1323
1324* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1325 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1326
1327* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1328 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1329
1330* cryptsetup:
1331 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1332 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1333
08d33656 1334* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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1337 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1338
f461a28d 1339* special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
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1341
f461a28d 1342* add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
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1343 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1344
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1345* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1346
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1347* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1348
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1349* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1350
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1351* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1352 when it exits
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1355 o turn into dlopen() deps:
cdfd8537 1356 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
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1358 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1359 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1360 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1361 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
1362 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
1363
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1364* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1365 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1366 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1367
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1368* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1369 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1370
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1371* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1372
1373* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1374 specific service
1375
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1376* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1377 exists and responds.
1378
91fc013f 1379* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1380 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1381
7e8facb3 1382* unify on openssl:
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1383 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1384 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1385 gnutls
1386 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
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1388* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1389 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1390
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1391* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1392 realname substr searches in varlink API
006c44c1 1393
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1394* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1395
2a4be3c5 1396* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1397
f1eb0ccd 1398* pid1: activation by journal search expression
006c44c1 1399
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1400* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1401 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1402 initrd had set.
1403
173c7873 1404* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1405 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1406 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1407 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1408 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1409 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1410
1411* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1412 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1413 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1414
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1415* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1416 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1417 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1418 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1419 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1420 source.
1421
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1422* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1423 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1424 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1425
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1426* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1427
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1428* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1429 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1430 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1431 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1432 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1433 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1434 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1435 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1436 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1437 hibernation mode. (see
1438 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1439 section 10.2.2.8 and
1440 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1441 at the end).
1442
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1443* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1444 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1445
c6526b8d 1446* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
312dc153 1447
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1448* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1449 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1450 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1451 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1452 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1453 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1454 exec().
1455
1456* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1457
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1458* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1459 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1460
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1461* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1462 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1463
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1464* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1465 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1466 root.
1467
1468* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1469 is issued.
1470
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1471* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1472
1473* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1474
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1475* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1476 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1477 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1478
d238709c 1479* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1480 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1481 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1482
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1483* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1484
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1485* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1486 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1487
06898123 1488* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1489 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1490 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1491 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
06898123 1492
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1493* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1494
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1495* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1496
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1497* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1498 non-zero "tries done" count
1499
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1500* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1501 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1502 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1503 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1504 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1505 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1506 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1507 CODE_FILE.
1508
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1509* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1510 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1511 some explanatory text online.
1512
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1513* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1514
d1797c42 1515* hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
c633b0a6 1516
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1517* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1518 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1519
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1520* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1521 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1522 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1523 files and suchlike we operate on.
070d0ac9 1524
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1525* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1526
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1527* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1528
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1529* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1530 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1531
5da19043 1532* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1533 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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1535* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1536 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1537 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1538 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1539 unlinked from any dir.
1540
bd1b3f75 1541* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
5da19043 1542
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1543* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1544
1545* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1546
53c70a27 1547* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1548 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1549 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1550 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1551 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1552
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1553* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1554
1555* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1556
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1557* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1558 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1559
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1560* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1561 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1562 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1563 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1564 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
7227dd81 1565 different slice too by default. Use case: people who want to put resources on
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1566 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1567 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1568
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1569* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1570 for root, but only then.
586a8e93 1571
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1572* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1573 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1574
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1575* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1576 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1577
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1578* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1579 only when used. Add unit tests.
1580
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1581* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1582 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1583
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1584* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1585 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1586 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1587 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1588 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1589
899feb72 1590* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
c6009ff0 1591
5f7ecd61 1592* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
5962e9db 1593
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1594* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1595 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1596
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1597* blog about fd store and restartable services
1598
1599* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1600
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1601* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1602 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1603
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1604* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1605 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1606 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1607 ID is available.
1608
1609* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1610 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1611 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1612
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1613* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1614 parameters
1615
63a185dc 1616* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1617 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1618 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1619 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1620 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1621 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1622 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
6fc373ee 1623
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1624* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1625 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1626
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1627* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1628 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1629 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1630
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1631* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1632 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1633
1634 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1635
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1636* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1637 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1638 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1639
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1640* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1641 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1642
1643* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1644 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1645 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1646 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1647 natural habitat.
1648
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1649* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1650 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
8eb7383b 1651
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1652* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1653 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1654 relative to the configured default value.
1655
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1656* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1657
04397464 1658* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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1660* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1661
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1662* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1663
04397464 1664* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1665
04397464 1666* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1667
04397464 1668* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1669
8ce9b83a 1670* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1671
1672* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1673 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1674 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1675
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1676* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1677 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1678
e40a326c 1679* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 1680
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1681* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1682 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1683 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1684 mapping to work.
1685
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1686* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1687
1688* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1689
1690* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1691
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1692* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1693 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1694
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1695* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1696 reload the unit file anyway
1697
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1698* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1699
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1700* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1701
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1702* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1703 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1704
f9bf1b8f 1705* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1706 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1707 specifications.
de7399eb 1708
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1709* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1710
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1711* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1712
a2088fd0 1713* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1714 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1715 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1716 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
a2088fd0 1717
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1718* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1719
931bc195 1720* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
b18d23d7 1721
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1722* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1723 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1724 state.
41d6f3bf 1725 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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1727* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1728 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1729 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1730 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1731 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1732
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1733* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1734
d2f81fb0 1735* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1736 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1737
0a86c1a9 1738* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1739 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1740
e031c227 1741* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1742 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1743
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1744* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1745
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1746* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1747 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1748
25e773ee 1749* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1750
720652b3 1751* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1752
720652b3 1753* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1754
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1755* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1756 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1757
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1758* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1759
9d6db739 1760* resolved:
9d6db739 1761 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1762 - service registration
1763 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1764 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1765 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1766 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1767 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1768 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1769 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1770 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1771
e25b5a8d 1772* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1773
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1774* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1775
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1776* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1777
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1778* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1779
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1780* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1781
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1782* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1783 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1784
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1785* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1786
6a3f892a 1787* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1788 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1789 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1790
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1791* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1792 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1793 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1794
f9bf1b8f 1795* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1796
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1797* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1798 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1799 for ReusePort=
1800
f38afcd0 1801* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1802 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1803 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1804 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1805 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1806 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1807 the hierarchies of child processes
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1808 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1809 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1810
f38afcd0 1811* transient units:
f38afcd0 1812 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1813
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1814* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1815
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1816* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1817
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1818* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1819
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1820* 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
1821
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1822* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1823 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1824 path anyway.
1825
04397464 1826* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1827
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1828* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1829
1830* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1831
07eabc2b 1832* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1833
07eabc2b 1834* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1835
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1836* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1837
1838* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1839 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1840 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1841
1842* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1843 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1844
1845* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1846
1847* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1848
1849* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1850
1851* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1852 needs to be auto-respawned?
1853
1854* pid1:
1855 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1856 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1857 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1858 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1859 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
7227dd81 1860 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Use case:
41d6f3bf 1861 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
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1862 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1863 - move PAM code into its own binary
1864 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1865 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1866 - Support --test based on current system state
1867 - 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().
1868 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1869 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1870 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1871 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1872 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1873 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1874 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1875 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1876 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1877 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1878 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1879 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1880
1881* unit files:
1882 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1883 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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1884 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1885 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1886 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1887 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1888 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1889 - introduce Type=pid-file
1890 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1891 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1892 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1893
1894* timer units:
63a185dc 1895 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1896 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1897
1898* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1899
1900* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1901
1902* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1903
1904* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1905
07eabc2b 1906* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1907
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1908* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1909
1910* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1911
fff87a35 1912* test/:
20d52ab6 1913 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1914
b5c03638 1915* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1916 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1917 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1918 destination.
1919
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1920* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1921 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1922
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1923* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1924
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1925* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1926 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1927 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1928
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1929* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1930 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1931
7227dd81 1932* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? use case:
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1933 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1934 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1935 that automatically.
1936
e5ec62c5 1937* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1938
ccddd104 1939* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1940
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1941* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1942
356ce991 1943* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1944
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1945* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1946
1947* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1948
1949* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1950
1951* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1952
1953* sd-bus:
1954 - EBADSLT handling
1955 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1956 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1957 - 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
1958 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1959 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1960 - longer term: priority inheritance
1961 - dbus spec updates:
1962 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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1963 - path escaping
1964 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1965
1966* sd-event
1967 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1968 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1969 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1970 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1971 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1972 here:
1973 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1974
1975* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1976 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1977
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1978* document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
1979
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1980* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1981
1982* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1983
1984* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1985
b44be3ec 1986* EFI:
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1987 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1988 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1989 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1990* bootctl
631427d6 1991 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1992
07eabc2b 1993* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 1994
07eabc2b 1995* bootctl:
483091b0 1996 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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1997 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1998 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
f620a368 1999
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2000* logind:
2001 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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2002 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
2003 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
2004 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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2005 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
2006 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
2007 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
2008 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
2009 needs setuid().
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2010 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
2011 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
2012 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
2013 complete.
2014 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2015 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2016 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 2017 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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2018 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2019 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2020 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2021 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2022 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2023 relogins
77b19caf 2024 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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2025 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
2026 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
2027 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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2028
2029* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2030
2031* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2032 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2033 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2034
2035* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2036 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2037
b44be3ec 2038* journal:
57f2a947 2039 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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2040 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2041 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2042 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 2043 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 2044 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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2045 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2046 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2047 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 2048 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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2049 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2050 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 2051 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
02c914ef 2052 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
b44be3ec 2053 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 2054 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 2055 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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2056 - 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.
2057 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2058 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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2059 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2060 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2061 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2062 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 2063 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 2064 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 2065 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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2066 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2067 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2068 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2069 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2070 to syslog when it works again.
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2071 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2072 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2073 journals in.
2074 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2075 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2076 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2077 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2078 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 2079 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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2080 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2081 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2082 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2083 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2084 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2085 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2086 operation.
2087 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
2088 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
2089 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2090 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 2091 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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2092 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2093 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2094 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2095 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 2096 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
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2098* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2099 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2100
2101* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2102 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2103 validated via TPM.
2104
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2105* rework journalctl -M to be based on a machined method that generates a mount
2106 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2107 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2108
2109* journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2110 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2111 cursors as they happen.
2112
2113* journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2114 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2115 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2116 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2117 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2118 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2119 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2120 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2121 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2122
2123* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2124 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2125 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2126 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
cbcf76b1 2127 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
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2129
2130* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2131 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2132 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2133 records, to be able to order them.
2134
2135* journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2136 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2137 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2138 be safely written to disk, then.
2139
2140* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2141 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2142 inspiration from IMA log)
2143
2144* sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2145 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2146 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2147
2148* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
2149 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
2150 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
2151 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2152 for doing that.
2153
2154* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2155 log.c and sd-journal-send
2156
2157* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2158 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2159 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2160 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2161 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2162 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2163 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2164 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2165 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2166 an NTP sync is acquired.
2167
2168* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
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2170* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2171 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2172 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2173
2174* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2175 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2176 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2177 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2178 cgroup.
2179
2180* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2181 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2182 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2183 logging.
2184
2185* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2186
2187* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2188 from the SIGBUS handler
2189
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2190* add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
2191 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2192 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2193 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2194
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2195* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2196 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2197
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2198* homed:
2199 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2200 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2201 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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2202 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2203 - create on activate?
2204 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2205 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2206 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2207 systemd --user is shut down.
2208 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2209 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2210 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2211 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2212 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2213 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2214 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2215 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2216 - query password from kernel keyring first
2217 - update even if record is "absent"
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2218 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2219 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2220 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2221 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2222 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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2223 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2224 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2225 doesn't mean user B sees it
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2227 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2228 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2229 signature
2230 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2231 and insert a local signature instead.
2232 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2233 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2234 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2235 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2236 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2237 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2238 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2239 easily?
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2240 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2241 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2242 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2243 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2244 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2245 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2246 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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2247 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2248 can easily set overall quota for all users
2249 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2250 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 2251 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 2252 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
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2253 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2254 large.
07eabc2b 2255
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2256* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2257 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2258 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2259
2df2bb1f 2260* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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2261
2262* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2263 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2264 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2265 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2266
2267* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2268
2269* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2270 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2271 something goes wrong on the way.
2272
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2273* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2274 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2275 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2276 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2277
2278* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2279 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2280 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2281 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2282 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2283 automatically.
2284
2285* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2286 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2287
2288* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2289 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2290 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2291 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2292 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2293 fails to apply use the latter.
2294
2295* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2296 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2297
2298* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2299 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2300
2301* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2302 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2303 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
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2304
2305* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2306 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2307
92e72028 2308* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
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ZJS
2309 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2310 during boot.
2311
2312* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2313
b44be3ec 2314* document:
8b8f2591 2315 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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2316 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2317 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2318 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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2319 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2320 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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2321 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2322 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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2323 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2324 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2325 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2326 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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2327
2328* systemctl:
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2329 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2330 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2331 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2332 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2333 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2334 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2335 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2336 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2337 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 2338 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
f38afcd0 2339
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2340* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2341 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2342 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2343
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2344* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2345 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2346 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2347
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2348* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2349 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2350 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 2351
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LB
2352* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2353 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 2354
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2355* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2356 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2357 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2358 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 2359
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2360* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2361 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2362 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2363 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2364
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2365* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2366
2367* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2368
2369* unit install:
2370 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2371 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 2372
b44be3ec 2373* nspawn:
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2374 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2375 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2376 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2377 from the kernel's logs.
2378 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2379 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2380 interface be missing
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DH
2381 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2382 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2383 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2384 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2385 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2386 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2387 PID 1...
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2388 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2389 running, remove them when shut down.
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2390 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2391 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2392 startup.
2393 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2394 or so, freeze the payload too.
2395 - support time namespaces
2396 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2397 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2398 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2399 "machinectl shell"
2400 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2401 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2402 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2403 - greater control over selinux label?
2404 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2405 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2406 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2407 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2408 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2409 host TPM.
2410 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2411 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2412 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2413 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2414 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2415 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2416 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2417 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
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2418 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2419 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
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2420 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2421 or two sockets.
3734fec7 2422 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
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2423
2424* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2425 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2426 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2427 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2428 anything like that.
2429
e25b5a8d 2430* machined:
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2431 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2432 removed or added to an existing machine
2433 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2434 difference host, via ssh
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2435 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2436 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2437 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2438 question
e25b5a8d
DH
2439 - "machinectl history"
2440 - "machinectl diff"
2441 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2442 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2443
abd55b16 2444* udev:
abd55b16 2445 - move to LGPL
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2446 - kill scsi_id
2447 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2448 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2449 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2450 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2451
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2452* coredump:
2453 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2454 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2455 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
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2456
2457* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2458
f38afcd0 2459* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 2460 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
beca6b6e 2461 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
614cc34f 2462 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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2463 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2464 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2465 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 2466 - add --test mode
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2467 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2468 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2469 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
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ZJS
2470 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2471 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
1258097c 2472
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2473* udev-link-config:
2474 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2475 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2476 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2477
88e4d1d7 2478* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2479 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2480 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2481
0a4b9a07 2482* networkd:
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2483 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2484 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2485 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2486 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2487 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2488 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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2489 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2490 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2491 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2492 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2493 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
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2494 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2495 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2496 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2497 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2498 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2499 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2500 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2501
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2502* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2503
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ZJS
2504* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2505
ac976532 2506* dhcp:
424a8732 2507 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2508
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2509* dhcp6:
2510 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2511 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2512 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2513 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 2514 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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PF
2515 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2516 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2517 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2518 or interface down
2519 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2520 this behavior
4a77c53d 2521 - RouteTable= ?
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2522
2523* shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2524 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2525 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)