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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
6
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 11External:
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
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19* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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21* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
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23* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
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25* register catalog database signature as file magic
26
27* zsh shell completion:
28 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
29 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
76c068b7 30 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
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32* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
33* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
34 after being started.
35
36* write blog stories about:
37 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
38 - enabling dbus services
39 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
40 - remote access
41 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
42 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
43 - auto-restart
44 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
45 - the journal HTTP iface
46 - non-cgroup resource management
47 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
48 - refreshed, longer missions statement
49 - calendar time events
50 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
51 - how to create your own target
52 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
3a9e659a 53 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/early boot
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55Regularly:
56
57* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
58
59* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
60
61* pahole
62
63* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
64
65* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
66
67* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
68
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69Janitorial Clean-ups:
70
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71* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
72 semantics, like we do for device.c now
73
f461a28d 74* get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase() and related
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75 calls instead.
76
77* get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
78
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79* Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
80 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
81 libmount for something so trivial.
82
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83* drop set_free_free() and switch things over from string_hash_ops to
84 string_hash_ops_free everywhere, so that destruction is implicit rather than
85 explicit. Similar, for other special hashmap/set/ordered_hashmap destructors.
86
b3e199ce 87* generators sometimes apply C escaping and sometimes specifier escaping to
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88 paths and similar strings they write out. Sometimes both. We should clean
89 this up, and should probably always apply both, i.e. introduce
90 unit_file_escape() or so, which applies both.
91
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92* xopenat() should pin the parent dir of the inode it creates before doing its
93 thing, so that it can create, open, label somewhat atomically.
94
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95Deprecations and removals:
96
97* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
98 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
99
b3e199ce 100* remove cgroups v1 support EOY 2023. As per
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101 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
102 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
103 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
104
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105* drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
106 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
9eb41aab 107 is only supported for such old kernels.
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109* drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
110 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
111
9eb41aab 112* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
3345802c 113 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
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114 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
115 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
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116 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
117
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118* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
119 baseline is 5.8.
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121* drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
122 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
123
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124* Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
125 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
126 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
127
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128* Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
129 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
130
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131* remove remaining tpm1.2 support from sd-stub
132
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133Features:
134
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135* Add an alias to systemd-run maybe called "uid0" or so, which tries to mimic
136 the sudo/su command lines to some level, but is backed by transient services,
137 and proper security isolate/tty forwarding. This would then allow us to run
138 systems with NNP turned on reasonably nicely. To make this extra nice and
139 pretty, in ptyfwd rewrite every NL we pass through so that it resets the bg
140 color to some reddish tone, and erase the whole coming line first, so that
141 the background color indicates when operating with privileges and when not.
142
143* use udev rule networkd ownership property to take ownership of network
144 interfaces nspawn creates
145
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146* add a kernel cmdline switch (and cred?) for marking a system to be
147 "headless", in which case we never open /dev/console for reading, only for
148 writing. This would then mean: systemd-firstboot would process creds but not
149 ask interactively, getty would not be started and so on.
150
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151* extend mime database with mime types for:
152 - journal files
153 - credential files
154 - hwdb files
155 - catalog files
156
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157* cryptsetup: new crypttab option to auto-grow a luks device to its backing
158 partition size. new crypttab option to reencrypt a luks device with a new
159 volume key.
160
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161* we probably should have some infrastructure to acquire sysexts with
162 drivers/firmware for local hardware automatically. Idea: reuse the modalias
163 logic of the kernel for this: make the main OS image install a hwdb file
164 that matches against local modalias strings, and adds properties to relevant
165 devices listing names of sysexts needed to support the hw. Then provide some
166 tool that goes through all devices and tries to acquire/download the
167 specified images.
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169* repart + cryptsetup: support file systems that are encrypted and use verity
170 on top. Usecase: confexts that shall be signed by the admin but also be
171 confidential. Then, add a new --make-ddi=confext-encrypted for this.
172
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173* tmpfiles: add new line type for moving files from some source dir to some
174 target dir. then use that to move sysexts/confexts and stuff from initrd
175 tmpfs to /run/, so that host can pick things up.
176
177* tiny varlink service that takes a fd passed in and serves it via http. Then
178 make use of that in networkd, and expose some EFI binary of choice for
179 DHCP/HTTP base EFI boot.
180
181* bootctl: add reboot-to-disk which takes a block device name, and
182 automatically sets things up so that system reboots into that device next.
183
184* maybe: in PID1, when we detect we run in an initrd, make superblock read-only
185 early on, but provide opt-out via kernel cmdline.
186
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187* systemd-pcrextend:
188 - support measuring to nvindex with PCR update semantics ("fake PCRs")
189 - add api for "allocating" such an nvindex
190 - once we have that start measuring every sysext we apply, every confext,
620788da 191 every RootImage= we apply, every nspawn and so on. All in separate fake
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192 PCRs.
193
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194* vmspawn:
195 - enable hyperv extension by default (https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/i386/hyperv.html)
196 - register with machined
197 - run in scope unit when invoked from command line, and machined registration is off
198 - support --directory= via virtiofs
199 - sd_notify support
200 - --ephemeral support
201 - --read-only support
202 - automatically suspend/resume the VM if the host suspends. Use logind
203 suspend inhibitor to implement this. request clean suspend by generating
204 suspend key presses.
205 - support for "real" networking via "-n" and --network-bridge=
206 - automatically run service "at the side" for swtpm
207 - translate SIGTERM to clean ACPI shutdown event
208
209* systemd-pcrmachine should probably also measure the SMBIOS system UUID.
210
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211* sd-boot: allow synthesizing additional type1 entries via SMBIOS vendor strings
212
213* storagetm:
214 - add USB mass storage device logic, so that all local disks are also exposed
215 as mass storage devices on systems that have a USB controller that can
216 operate in device mode
217 - add NVMe authentication
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219* add support for activating nvme-oF devices at boot automatically via kernel
220 cmdline, and maybe even support a syntax such as
221 root=nvme:<trtype>:<traddr>:<trsvcid>:<nqn>:<partition> to boot directly from
222 nvme-oF
223
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224* pcrlock:
225 - make signed PCR work together with pcrlock
226 - add kernel-install plugin that automatically creates UKI .pcrlock file when
227 UKI is installed, and removes it when it is removed again
228 - automatically install PE measurement of sd-boot on "bootctl install"
229 - write generated pcrlock signature files to the ESP as credential, one for
230 each installed OS & pick up generated pcrlock signature file in sd-stub,
231 pass it via initrd to OS
232 - pre-calc sysext + kernel cmdline measurements
233 - pre-calc cryptsetup root key measurement
234 - maybe make systemd-repart generate .pcrlock for old and new GPT header in
235 /run?
236 - Add support for more than 8 branches per PCR OR
237 - add "systemd-pcrlock lock-kernel-current" or so which synthesizes .pcrlock
238 policy from currently booted kernel/event log, to close gap for first boot
239 for pre-built images
240
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241* add a new systemd-project@.service that is very similar to user@.service but
242 uses DynamicUser=1 and no PAMName= to invoke an unprivileged somewhat
243 light-weight service manager. Use HOME=/var/lib/systemd/projects/%i as home
244 dir. Similar for $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. Start project@%i.target. Use LogField= to
245 add a field identifying the project.
246
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247* in sd-boot and sd-stub measure the SMBIOS vendor strings to some PCR (at
248 least some subset of them that look like systemd stuff), because apparently
249 some firmware does not, but systemd honours it. avoid duplicate measurement
250 by sd-boot and sd-stub by adding LoaderFeatures/StubFeatures flag for this,
251 so that sd-stub can avoid it if sd-boot already did it.
252
253* cryptsetup: a mechanism that allows signing a volume key with some key that
254 has to be present in the kernel keyring, or similar, to ensure that confext
255 DDIs can be encrypted against the local SRK but signed with the admin's key
256 and thus can authenticated locally before they are decrypted.
257
258* image policy should be extended to allow dictating *how* a disk is unlocked,
259 i.e. root=encrypted-tpm2+encrypted-fido2 would mean "root fs must be
260 encrypted and unlocked via fido2 or tpm2, but not otherwise"
261
262* systemd-repart: add support for formatting dm-crypt + dm-integrity file
263 systems.
264
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265* homed: use systemd-storagetm to expose home dirs via nvme-tcp. Then,
266 teach homed/pam_systemd_homed with a user name such as
267 lennart%nvme_tcp_192.168.100.77_8787 to log in from any linux host with the
268 same home dir. Similar maybe for nbd, iscsi? this should then first ask for
269 the local root pw, to authenticate that logging in like this is ok, and would
270 then be followed by another password prompt asking for the user's own
271 password. Also, do something similar for CIFS: if you log in via
0e9f2297 272 lennart%cifs-someserver_someshare, then set up the homed dir for it
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273 automatically. The PAM module should update the user name used for login to
274 the short version once it set up the user. Some care should be taken, so that
275 the long version can be still be resolved via NSS afterwards, to deal with
276 PAM clients that do not support PAM sessions where PAM_USER changes half-way.
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278* redefine /var/lib/extensions/ as the dir one can place all three of sysext,
279 confext as well is multi-modal DDIs that qualify as both. Then introduce
280 /var/lib/sysexts/ which can be used to place only DDIs that shall be used as
281 sysext
282
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283* in pid1: move out all cgroup state settings from Unit into a new object
284 CGroupState or so which is allocated when we realize the unit into a cgroup,
285 and then remains referenced by it. The new object should also carry an fd to
286 the realized cgroup, to pin it (and later execute all cgroup operations over,
287 once we drop cgroupv1 compat).
288
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289* add new "systemd-ssh-generator", which allows basic ssh config via
290 credentials (host key). It generates sshd.socket for IP, but also
291 sshd-vsock.socket for listening on AF_VSOCK when running in a VM, and
292 sshd-unix.socket on AF_UNIX when running in a container. It also generates a
293 matching sshd.service file with a host key passed in on the cmdline via
294 credentials. Then, add a ssh_config drop-in that matches some suitable
295 hostname pattern and has a ProxyCommand set that allows connecting to any
296 local VM/container that way without any networking configured.
297
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298* Varlinkification of the following command line tools, to open them up to
299 other programs via IPC:
300 - bootctl
301 - journalctl (allowing journal read access via IPC)
302 - coredumpcl
303 - systemd-bless-boot
304 - systemd-measure
305 - systemd-creds (allowing clients to encrypt credentials locally)
306 - systemd-cryptenroll (to allow UIs to enroll FIDO2 keys and such)
307 - systemd-dissect
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308 - systemd-sysupdate
309 - systemd-analyze
ed272a9f 310 - systemd-pcrlock (to allow fwupd to relax policy)
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311 - kernel-install
312
313* Varlink: add glue code to allow varlink clients to be authenticated via
314 Polkit by passing client pidfd over.
315
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316* in the service manager, pick up ERRNO= + BUSERROR= + VARLINKERROR= error
317 identifiers, and store them along with the exit status of a server and report
318 via "systemctl status".
319
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320* enumerate virtiofs devices during boot-up in a generator, and synthesize
321 mounts for rootfs, /usr/, /home/, /srv/ and some others from it, depending on
02c9d62b 322 the "tag". (waits for: https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd/-/issues/128)
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324* automatically mount one virtiofs during early boot phase to /run/host/,
325 similar to how we do that for nspawn, based on some clear tag.
326
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327* add some service that makes an atomic snapshot of PCR state and event log up
328 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
329
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330* encode type1 entries in some UKI section to add additional entries to the
331 menu.
332
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333* Add ACL-based access management to .socket units. i.e. add AllowPeerUser= +
334 AllowPeerGroup= that installs additional user/group ACL entries on AF_UNIX
335 sockets.
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337* systemd-tpm2-setup should probably have a factory reset logic, i.e. when some
338 kernel command line option is set we reset the TPM (equivalent of tpm2_clear
339 -c owner?).
340
341* systemd-tpm2-setup should support a mode where we refuse booting if the SRK
342 changed. (Must be opt-in, to not break systems which are supposed to be
343 migratable between PCs)
344
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345* when systemd-sysext learns mutable /usr/ (and systemd-confext mutable /etc/)
346 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
347 snapshot logic
348
349* add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
350 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
351 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
fcdd21ec 352 i.e. without recompiling the kernel, taking an upstream OS' kernel and adding
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353 a local key to it.
354
a1f7cdc6 355* PidRef conversion work:
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356 - cg_pid_get_xyz()
357 - pid_from_same_root_fs()
358 - get_ctty_devnr()
1158b06b 359 - pid1: sd_notify() receiver should use SCM_PIDFD to authenticate client
4775b55d 360 - actually wait for POLLIN on pidref's pidfd in service logic
1158b06b 361 - exec_spawn() + safe_fork()
a1f7cdc6 362 - openpt_allocate_in_namespace()
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363 - sd_bus_creds
364 - unit_attach_pid_to_cgroup_via_bus()
365 - cg_attach() – requires new kernel feature
366 - varlink_get_peer_pid()
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368* ddi must be listed as block device fstype
369
370* measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
371 mode.
372
3a9e659a 373* homed: add a basic form of secrets management to homed, that stores
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374 secrets in $HOME somewhere, is protected by the accounts own authentication
375 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
376 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
377 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
378 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
379 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
380
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381* use sd-event ratelimit feature optionally for journal stream clients that log
382 too much
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fcdd21ec 384* systemd-mount should only consider modern file systems when mounting, similar
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385 to systemd-dissect
386
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387* add another PE section ".fname" or so that encodes the intended filename for
388 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
389 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
390 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
391 control of the attacker.
392
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393* also include packaging metadata (á la
394 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
395 same JSON format.
396
397* make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
398 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
399 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
400 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
401 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
402 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
403 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
404 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
405 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
406 newer.
407
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408* in sd-stub: optionally add support for a new PE section .keyring or so that
409 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
410 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
411 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
412 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
413 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
414 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
415 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
416
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417* resolved: take possession of some IPv6 ULA address (let's say
418 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
419 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
420
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421* introduce a .microcode PE section for sd-stub which we'll pass as first initrd
422 to the kernel which will then upload it to the CPU. This should be distinct
423 from .initrd to guarantee right ordering. also, and maybe more importantly
424 support .microcode in PE add-ons, so that a microcode update can be shipped
9a27ef09 425 independently of any kernel.
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427* Maybe add SwitchRootEx() as new bus call that takes env vars to set for new
428 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
429 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
430 requested during switch root.
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432* introduce a .acpitable section for early ACPI table override
433
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434* add proper .osrel matching for PE addons. i.e. refuse applying an addon
435 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
436 matched against OS.
437
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438* figure out what to do about credentials sealed to PCRs in kexec + soft-reboot
439 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
440 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
441
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442* logind: when logging in, always take an fd to the home dir, to keep the dir
443 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
444 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
445 namespaces)
446
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447* mount most file systems with a restrictive uidmap. e.g. mount /usr/ with a
448 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
449
450* mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
451 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
452 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
453
f447b741 454* fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
94d82b59 455 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
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456 "*:foobar:*", to wildcard match both the start and the end of the string.
457 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
458 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
459 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
460
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461* mount /tmp/ and /var/tmp with a uidmap applied that blocks out "nobody" user
462 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
94d82b59 463 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
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464 used transiently, never persistently.
465
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466* rework loopback support in fstab: when "loop" option is used, then
467 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
468 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
469 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
470 based on lo_file_name.
471
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472* remove tomoyo support, it's obsolete and unmaintained apparently
473
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474* In .socket units, add ConnectStream=, ConnectDatagram=,
475 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
476 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
477 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
478 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
479 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
480 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
481 activation-by-message id and similar.
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483* .service with invalid Sockets= starts successfully.
484
512f2da5 485* landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
3a9e659a 486 ability to write anywhere else below /run/. Similar for
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488 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
489
490* landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
491 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
492 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
493 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
494 similar behaviour for system services, too.
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497 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
498 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
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501
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502* udevadm: to make symlink querying with udevadm nicer:
503 - do not enable the pager for queries like 'udevadm info -q -r symlink'
504 - add mode with newlines instead of spaces (for grep)?
505
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507 localed, oomd, timedated.
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510 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
511 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
512 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
513 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
514 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
627cdcc7 515 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
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517 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
518 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
519 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
520 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
521 access.
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524 posix_spawn().
525
526* Make nspawn to a frontend for systemd-executor, so that we have to ways into
527 the executor: via unit files/dbus/varlink through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI
528 through nspawn.
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531 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
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534 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
535 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
536 for all umh processes.
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539 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
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541* homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
542 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
543 resize.
544
545* homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
546 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
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549 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
550 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
551 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
552 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
553 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
554 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
555 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
556 system actually reset.
557
558* systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
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560 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
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563 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
564 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
565 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
566
4cb8a25b 567* sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
1c904337 568 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
fcdd21ec 569 is then useful for network boot, by embedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
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573 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
574 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
575 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
576 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
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579 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
580 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
581 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
582 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
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587 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
7227dd81 588 Use case: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
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590
084ecae5 591* maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
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594* systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
595 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
596 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
597
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4cb8a25b 599 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
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601* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
602 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
603 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
604 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
605 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
606 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
607 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
608 usual.
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611
612* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
613
614* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
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617 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
618 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
619 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
620 sockaddr.
621
622* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
623 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
624 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
625 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
626 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
627 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
628 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
629 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
630 try to use inode from there.
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633 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
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636 extensions
637
638* gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
639 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
640 for the root fs or /usr/.
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643 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
644 combination thereof.
645
646* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
647 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
648 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
649 ahead of time.
650
651* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
652 aforementioned purpose.
653
654* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
655 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
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658 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
659 to figure out:
660 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
661 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
662 subsequent boots?
663
dbc62e59 664* provide an API (probably IPC) to apps to encrypt/decrypt
7227dd81 665 credentials. use case: allow bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd
dbc62e59 666 that way, without shelling out to our tools.
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669 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
670 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
671 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
672 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
673 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
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675 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
676 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
677 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
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680 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
681 used)
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684 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
685 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
686 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
687 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
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690 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
691 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
692 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 693 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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697 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
698 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
699
700* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
701 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
702
703* implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
704 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
705 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
706 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
707 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
708 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
709
710* add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
711 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
712 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
713
714* systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
715
716* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
717 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
7227dd81 718 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Use case: remove secondary OS
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720
721* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
722 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
723 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
724 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
725 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
726 only one for each OS.
727
728* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
729 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 730 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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732 boot, for the next.
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735 similar behind it, instead of http.
736
737* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
738 boot, or on first boot.
739
740* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
741 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
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744 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
745 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
746 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
747 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
748 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
749 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
750 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
751 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
752 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
753 until users are allowed to log in).
754
755* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
756 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
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759 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
760 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
7227dd81 761 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Use case: systemd-confext
b60e0f57 762 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
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764 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
765 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
b60e0f57 766 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
767 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
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769
770* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
771 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
772 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
773 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
7227dd81 774 enhanced remote attestation quote. Use case: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 775 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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777 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
b60e0f57 778 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
779 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
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781 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
782 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
b60e0f57 783 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
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785 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
786 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
787 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
b60e0f57 788 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
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790 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
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793 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
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796 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
797
798* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
799 instead of manual blocking.
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802 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
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805 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
806 supplied password.
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809 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
810 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
811 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
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814 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
815 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
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818* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
819 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
820 automatically derived from --private-key=).
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823 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
824 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
825
826* Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
827 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
828 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
7227dd81 829 use as additional search condition. Use case: images that combined a sysext
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831
832* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
833 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
834 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
835 modules
836
b60e0f57 837* for systemd-confext: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
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839 a new name with a built-in config?
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842 maybe on kernel command line:
843 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
844 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
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847 hash type, etc)
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851
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4e0ceefe 853 but final node is not a directory
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856 non-VFAT fs is used.
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861 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
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868 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
869 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
870 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
871 affect PCR values.
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874 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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876* in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
877 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
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880 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
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883 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
884
885* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
886 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
887
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890 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
891 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
892 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
893 use it.
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896 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
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899 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
900 what it was signed.
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903 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
904 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
905 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
906 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
907 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
908 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
909 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
910 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
911 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
912 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
913 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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916 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
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919 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
920 via the credentials logic.
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922 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
923 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
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925 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
926 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
927 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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929 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
930 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
931 file system paths to enable on start.
932 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
933 usr=
934 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
935 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
7227dd81 936 register if not registered yet. Use case: deploy a system, and add an
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939 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
940 pre-built kernels.
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943 runtime state. Then, expose it:
944
945 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
946 about the unit.
947 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
948 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
949 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
950 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
951 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
952 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
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955 what to do if support ended
956
957* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
3ff1721c 958 login time, à la motd
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e1b45a75 960* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 961 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
7227dd81 962 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Use case: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 963 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 964 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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967 initrd transition. Specifically:
968 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
969 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
970 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
971
d486b26f 972* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 973 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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975 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
976 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
977 depending on desired level of persistency.
978
979* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
980 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
1c904337 981 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
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983 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
984 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
985 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
986 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
987
988* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
989 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
990 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
991 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
992
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994
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996
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998 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
999 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
7227dd81 1000 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Use case: container
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1002 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
1003 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
1004 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
3881fd40 1005 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
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1007 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
1008 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
1009 not unprivileged code.
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1012 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
1013 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
1014 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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1017 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
1018 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
1019 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
30fd9a2d 1020 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
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1021 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
1022 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
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1024 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
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1026* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
1027 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
1028 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
1029 order.
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1032 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
1033 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
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1036 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
1037 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
1038 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 1039 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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1041 IN_IGNORED again)
1042
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a4b329e6 1044 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
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1046 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
1047 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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1048 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
1049 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
5b06ad51 1050 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
62471289 1051 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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1053 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
1054 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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1057 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
1058 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
2df2bb1f 1059
03ede612 1060* sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
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1062 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 1063 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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1065 directly to host service manager.
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1068 no api to query the device id
1069
1070* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1071 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1072 also be queried.
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1075 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1076 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1077 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
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1080 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1081 latter).
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1083* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1084
1085* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
1086
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1088 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
1089 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
1090 generated by GNU sha256sums.
1091
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1093 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
02c914ef 1094 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
47a9f917 1095 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
7227dd81 1096 to the menu. Use case: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
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1098
1099* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
1100 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
1101 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
5bc9ea07 1102 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
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1104 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
1105 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
1106 hence cheap for enumeration.
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1111 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1112 words: show partition labels).
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1115 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
5bc9ea07 1116 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
7227dd81 1117 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. Use case:
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1119 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
1120 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
1121
e4f92a62 1122* deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
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1124* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
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1126* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1127 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1128 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1129 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1130 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1131 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1132 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1133 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1134 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1135 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
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1138 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
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1141 jobs, units
1142
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1145 userspace)
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1150 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1151
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1154
1155* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1156 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
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1159 internal clock.
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1161* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1162 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1163
1164* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1165 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1166 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1167 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
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1170 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1171 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1172
1173* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
1174 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
1175 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
1176 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
1177 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
1178 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
1179 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
1180 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
1181 thread:
1182 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
1183 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
1184 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
1185 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
1186 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
1187 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
1188
1189* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
1190 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
1191 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
1192
1193* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
1194 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
1195 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
1196 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
1197 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
1198 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
1199 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
1200 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
1201 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
1202 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
1203 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1204 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1205 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1206 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1207 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
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1210 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
7227dd81 1211 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Use case: drop a root user JSON record there,
bb5464ad 1212 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
7227dd81 1213 for debugging purposes. Other use case: boot into qemu with regular user
11b957b5 1214 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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1216* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
30fd9a2d 1217 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
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1219
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1221 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1222 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1223 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1224 on-disk storage.
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1227 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1228 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1229 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1230 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1231
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1233 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1234 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
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1237 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
1238 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
1239 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
1240 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
1241 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
1242 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
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1245 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1246 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1247 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1248
3fc0688d 1249* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
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1250 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1251 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1252 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1253 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1254 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1255 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1256 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1257 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1258 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1259 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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1262 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1263 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1266
63a185dc 1267* PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
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1270 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1271 that images cannot be misused.
1272
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178d3ff2 1274 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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1275 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1276 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1277 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1278
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1280 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1281 - support casync as download mechanism
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1282 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1283 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1284 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1285 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
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1287 host's update files.)
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1288 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1289 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1290 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1291 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1292
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1294
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1295* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1296 make dirs appear under right UID.
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1298* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1299 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1300
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1303 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1304 already have it.
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1307 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1308
1c904337 1309* Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
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1311* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1312 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1313 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1314 /proc/self/fd/3
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1317 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1318 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1319
1320* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
7227dd81 1321 that is deleted in the fs. Use case would be with ConnectSocket= above.
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1324 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
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1327 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1328 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1329 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1330 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
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1333
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199b097d 1335 - acquire from EFI variable?
30fd9a2d 1336 - acquire via ask-password?
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1338 - pass creds via keyring?
1339 - pass creds via memfd?
1340 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1341 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1342 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1343 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1344 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1345 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
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1347 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
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1350 firmware indicates there is one.
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1353 and such
1354
1355* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
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02c914ef 1357* cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
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7d7c75f1 1359* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1362* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1363 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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1365* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1366
1367* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1368 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1369
1370* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1371 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1372
1373* cryptsetup:
1374 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1375 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1376
08d33656 1377* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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1379* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1380 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1381
f461a28d 1382* special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
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1383 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1384
f461a28d 1385* add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
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1386 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1387
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1388* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1389
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1390* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1391
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1392* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1393
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1394* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1395 when it exits
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1397* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1398 o turn into dlopen() deps:
cdfd8537 1399 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 1400 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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1401 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1402 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1403 since they are so basic and our defaults)
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1405* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1406 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1407 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1408
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1409* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1410 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1411
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1412* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1413
1414* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1415 specific service
1416
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1417* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1418 exists and responds.
1419
91fc013f 1420* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1421 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1422
7e8facb3 1423* unify on openssl:
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1424 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1425 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1426 gnutls
1427 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
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1429* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1430 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1431
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1432* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1433 realname substr searches in varlink API
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1435* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1436
2a4be3c5 1437* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1438
f1eb0ccd 1439* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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1441* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1442 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1443 initrd had set.
1444
173c7873 1445* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1446 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1447 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1448 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1449 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1450 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1451
1452* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1453 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1454 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1455
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1456* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1457 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1458 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1459 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1460 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1461 source.
1462
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1463* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1464 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1465 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1466
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1467* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1468
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1469* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1470 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1471
c6526b8d 1472* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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1474* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1475 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1476 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1477 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1478 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1479 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1480 exec().
1481
1482* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1483
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1484* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1485 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1486
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1487* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1488 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1489
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1490* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1491 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1492 root.
1493
1494* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1495 is issued.
1496
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1497* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1498
1499* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1500
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1501* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1502 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1503 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1504
d238709c 1505* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1506 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1507 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1508
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1509* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1510
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1511* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1512 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1513
06898123 1514* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1515 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1516 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1517 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
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1519* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1520
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1521* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1522
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1523* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1524 non-zero "tries done" count
1525
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1526* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1527 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1528 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1529 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1530 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1531 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1532 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1533 CODE_FILE.
1534
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1535* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1536 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1537 some explanatory text online.
1538
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1539* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1540
d1797c42 1541* hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
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1543* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1544 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1545
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1546* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1547 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1548 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1549 files and suchlike we operate on.
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1551* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1552
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1553* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1554
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1555* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1556 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1557
5da19043 1558* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1559 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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1561* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1562 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1563 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1564 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1565 unlinked from any dir.
1566
bd1b3f75 1567* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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1569* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1570
1571* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1572
53c70a27 1573* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1574 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1575 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1576 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1577 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1578
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1579* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1580
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1581* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1582 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1583
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1584* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1585 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1586 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1587 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1588 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
7227dd81 1589 different slice too by default. Use case: people who want to put resources on
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1590 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1591 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1592
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1593* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1594 for root, but only then.
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1596* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1597 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1598
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1599* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1600 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1601
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1602* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1603 only when used. Add unit tests.
1604
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1605* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1606 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1607
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1608* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1609 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1610 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1611 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1612 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1613
899feb72 1614* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
c6009ff0 1615
5f7ecd61 1616* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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1618* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1619 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1620
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1621* blog about fd store and restartable services
1622
1623* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1624
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1625* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1626 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1627
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1628* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1629 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1630 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1631 ID is available.
1632
1633* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1634 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1635 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1636
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1637* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1638 parameters
1639
63a185dc 1640* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1641 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1642 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1643 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1644 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1645 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1646 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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1648* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1649 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1650
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1651* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1652 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1653 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1654
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1655* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1656 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1657
1658 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1659
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1660* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1661 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1662 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1663
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1664* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1665 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1666
1667* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1668 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1669 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1670 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1671 natural habitat.
1672
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1673* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1674 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
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1676* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1677 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1678 relative to the configured default value.
1679
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1680* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1681
04397464 1682* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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1684* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1685
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1686* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1687
04397464 1688* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1689
04397464 1690* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1691
04397464 1692* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1693
8ce9b83a 1694* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1696* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1697 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1698 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1699
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1700* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1701 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1702
e40a326c 1703* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
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1705* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1706 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1707 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1708 mapping to work.
1709
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1710* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1711
1712* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1713
1714* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1715
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1716* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1717 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1718
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1719* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1720 reload the unit file anyway
1721
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1722* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1723
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1724* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1725
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1726* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1727 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1728
f9bf1b8f 1729* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1730 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1731 specifications.
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1733* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1734
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1735* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1736
a2088fd0 1737* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1738 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1739 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1740 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
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1742* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1743
931bc195 1744* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
b18d23d7 1745
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1746* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1747 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1748 state.
41d6f3bf 1749 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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1751* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1752 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1753 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1754 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1755 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1756
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1757* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1758
d2f81fb0 1759* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1760 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1761
0a86c1a9 1762* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1763 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1764
e031c227 1765* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1766 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1767
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1768* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1769
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1770* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1771 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1772
25e773ee 1773* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1774
720652b3 1775* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1776
720652b3 1777* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1778
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1779* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1780 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1781
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1782* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1783
9d6db739 1784* resolved:
9d6db739 1785 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1786 - service registration
1787 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1788 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1789 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1790 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1791 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1792 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1793 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1794 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1795
e25b5a8d 1796* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1797
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1798* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1799
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1800* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1801
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1802* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1803
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1804* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1805
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1806* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1807 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
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1809* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1810
6a3f892a 1811* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1812 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1813 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1814
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1815* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1816 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1817 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1818
f9bf1b8f 1819* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
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1822 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1823 for ReusePort=
1824
f38afcd0 1825* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1826 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1827 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1828 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1829 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1830 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1831 the hierarchies of child processes
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1832 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1833 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1834
f38afcd0 1835* transient units:
f38afcd0 1836 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1837
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1838* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1839
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1840* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1841
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1842* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1843
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1844* 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
1845
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1846* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1847 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1848 path anyway.
1849
04397464 1850* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1851
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1852* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1853
1854* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1855
07eabc2b 1856* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1857
07eabc2b 1858* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1859
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1860* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1861
1862* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1863 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1864 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1865
1866* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1867 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1868
1869* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1870
1871* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1872
1873* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1874
1875* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1876 needs to be auto-respawned?
1877
1878* pid1:
1879 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1880 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1881 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1882 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1883 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
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1884 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1885 - move PAM code into its own binary
1886 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1887 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1888 - Support --test based on current system state
1889 - 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().
1890 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1891 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1892 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1893 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1894 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1895 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1896 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1897 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1898 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1899 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1900 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1901 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1902
1903* unit files:
1904 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1905 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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1906 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1907 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1908 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1909 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1910 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1911 - introduce Type=pid-file
1912 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1913 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1914 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1915
1916* timer units:
63a185dc 1917 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1918 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1919
1920* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1921
1922* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1923
1924* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1925
1926* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1927
07eabc2b 1928* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1929
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1930* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1931
1932* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1933
fff87a35 1934* test/:
20d52ab6 1935 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1936
b5c03638 1937* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1938 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1939 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1940 destination.
1941
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1942* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1943 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1944
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1945* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1946
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1947* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1948 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1949 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1950
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1951* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1952 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1953
7227dd81 1954* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? use case:
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1955 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1956 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1957 that automatically.
1958
e5ec62c5 1959* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1960
ccddd104 1961* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1962
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1963* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1964
356ce991 1965* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1966
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1967* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1968
1969* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1970
1971* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1972
1973* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1974
1975* sd-bus:
1976 - EBADSLT handling
1977 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1978 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1979 - 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
1980 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1981 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1982 - longer term: priority inheritance
1983 - dbus spec updates:
1984 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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1985 - path escaping
1986 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1987
1988* sd-event
1989 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1990 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1991 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1992 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1993 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1994 here:
1995 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1996
1997* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1998 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1999
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2000* document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
2001
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2002* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
2003
2004* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
2005
2006* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
2007
b44be3ec 2008* EFI:
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2009 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
2010 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 2011 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 2012* bootctl
631427d6 2013 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 2014
07eabc2b 2015* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 2016
07eabc2b 2017* bootctl:
483091b0 2018 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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2019 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
2020 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
f620a368 2021
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2022* logind:
2023 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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2024 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
2025 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
2026 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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2027 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
2028 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
2029 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
2030 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
2031 needs setuid().
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2032 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
2033 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
2034 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
2035 complete.
2036 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2037 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2038 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 2039 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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2040 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2041 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2042 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2043 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2044 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2045 relogins
77b19caf 2046 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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2047 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
2048 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
2049 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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2050
2051* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2052
2053* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2054 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2055 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2056
2057* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2058 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2059
b44be3ec 2060* journal:
57f2a947 2061 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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2062 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2063 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2064 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 2065 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 2066 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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2067 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2068 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2069 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 2070 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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2071 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2072 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 2073 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
02c914ef 2074 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
b44be3ec 2075 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 2076 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 2077 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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2078 - 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.
2079 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2080 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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2081 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2082 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2083 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2084 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 2085 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 2086 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 2087 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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2088 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2089 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2090 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2091 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2092 to syslog when it works again.
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2093 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2094 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2095 journals in.
2096 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2097 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2098 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2099 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2100 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 2101 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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2102 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2103 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2104 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2105 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2106 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2107 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2108 operation.
2109 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
b3e199ce 2110 written to as FAIL, but instead show that they are being written to.
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2111 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2112 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 2113 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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2114 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2115 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2116 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2117 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 2118 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
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2120* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2121 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2122
2123* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2124 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2125 validated via TPM.
2126
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2127* rework journalctl -M to be based on a machined method that generates a mount
2128 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2129 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2130
2131* journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2132 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2133 cursors as they happen.
2134
2135* journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2136 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2137 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2138 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2139 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2140 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2141 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2142 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2143 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2144
2145* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2146 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2147 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2148 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
cbcf76b1 2149 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
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2151
2152* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2153 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2154 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2155 records, to be able to order them.
2156
2157* journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2158 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2159 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2160 be safely written to disk, then.
2161
2162* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2163 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2164 inspiration from IMA log)
2165
2166* sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2167 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2168 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2169
2170* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
2171 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
2172 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
2173 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2174 for doing that.
2175
2176* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2177 log.c and sd-journal-send
2178
2179* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2180 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2181 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2182 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2183 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2184 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2185 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2186 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2187 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2188 an NTP sync is acquired.
2189
2190* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
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2191
2192* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2193 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2194 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2195
2196* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2197 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2198 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2199 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2200 cgroup.
2201
2202* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2203 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2204 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2205 logging.
2206
2207* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2208
2209* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2210 from the SIGBUS handler
2211
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2213 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2214 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2215 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2216
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2218 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2219
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2220* homed:
2221 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2222 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2223 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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2224 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2225 - create on activate?
2226 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2227 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2228 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2229 systemd --user is shut down.
2230 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2231 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2232 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2233 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2234 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2235 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2236 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2237 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2238 - query password from kernel keyring first
2239 - update even if record is "absent"
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2240 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2241 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2242 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2243 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2244 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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2245 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2246 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2247 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 2248 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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2249 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2250 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2251 signature
2252 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2253 and insert a local signature instead.
2254 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2255 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2256 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2257 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2258 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2259 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2260 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2261 easily?
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2262 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2263 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2264 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2265 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2266 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2267 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2268 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
6d975fe7
LP
2269 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2270 can easily set overall quota for all users
2271 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2272 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 2273 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 2274 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
f1a147f2
LP
2275 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2276 large.
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LP
2277 - add "homectl unbind" command to remove local user record of an inactive
2278 home dir
07eabc2b 2279
07eabc2b
LB
2280* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2281 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2282 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2283
2df2bb1f 2284* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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LB
2285
2286* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2287 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2288 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2289 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2290
2291* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2292
2293* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2294 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2295 something goes wrong on the way.
2296
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LB
2297* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2298 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2299 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2300 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2301
2302* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2303 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2304 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2305 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2306 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2307 automatically.
2308
2309* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2310 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2311
2312* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2313 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2314 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2315 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2316 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2317 fails to apply use the latter.
2318
2319* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2320 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2321
2322* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2323 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2324
2325* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2326 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2327 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
07eabc2b
LB
2328
2329* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2330 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2331
92e72028 2332* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
d01d9197
ZJS
2333 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2334 during boot.
2335
2336* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2337
b44be3ec 2338* document:
8b8f2591 2339 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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LP
2340 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2341 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2342 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
f38afcd0
LP
2343 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2344 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
f38afcd0
LP
2345 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2346 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
5cf821ac
ZJS
2347 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2348 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2349 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2350 - document root=gpt-auto properly
b44be3ec
LP
2351
2352* systemctl:
b44be3ec
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2353 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2354 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2355 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2356 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2357 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2358 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2359 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2360 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2361 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 2362 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
f38afcd0 2363
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LB
2364* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2365 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2366 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2367
07eabc2b
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2368* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2369 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2370 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2371
07eabc2b
LB
2372* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2373 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2374 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 2375
07eabc2b
LB
2376* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2377 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 2378
07eabc2b
LB
2379* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2380 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2381 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2382 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 2383
07eabc2b
LB
2384* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2385 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2386 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2387 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2388
07eabc2b
LB
2389* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2390
2391* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2392
2393* unit install:
2394 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2395 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 2396
b44be3ec 2397* nspawn:
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2398 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2399 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2400 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2401 from the kernel's logs.
2402 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2403 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2404 interface be missing
e25b5a8d
DH
2405 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2406 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2407 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2408 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2409 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2410 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2411 PID 1...
e25b5a8d
DH
2412 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2413 running, remove them when shut down.
71b77f06
CB
2414 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2415 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2416 startup.
2417 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2418 or so, freeze the payload too.
2419 - support time namespaces
2420 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2421 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2422 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2423 "machinectl shell"
2424 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2425 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2426 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2427 - greater control over selinux label?
2428 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2429 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2430 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2431 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2432 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2433 host TPM.
2434 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2435 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2436 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2437 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2438 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2439 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2440 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2441 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
fdeabf57
CB
2442 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2443 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
3922f982
CB
2444 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2445 or two sockets.
3734fec7 2446 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
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LB
2447
2448* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2449 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2450 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2451 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2452 anything like that.
2453
e25b5a8d 2454* machined:
e25b5a8d
DH
2455 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2456 removed or added to an existing machine
2457 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2458 difference host, via ssh
e25b5a8d
DH
2459 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2460 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2461 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2462 question
e25b5a8d
DH
2463 - "machinectl history"
2464 - "machinectl diff"
2465 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2466 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2467
abd55b16 2468* udev:
abd55b16 2469 - move to LGPL
abd55b16
KS
2470 - kill scsi_id
2471 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2472 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2473 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2474 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2475
e25b5a8d
DH
2476* coredump:
2477 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2478 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2479 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
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LP
2480
2481* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2482
f38afcd0 2483* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 2484 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
beca6b6e 2485 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
614cc34f 2486 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
e25b5a8d
DH
2487 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2488 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2489 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 2490 - add --test mode
ba405b22
ZJS
2491 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2492 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2493 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
beca6b6e
ZJS
2494 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2495 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
1258097c 2496
af6f0d42
TG
2497* udev-link-config:
2498 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2499 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2500 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2501
88e4d1d7 2502* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2503 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2504 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2505
0a4b9a07 2506* networkd:
c74ecd71
TG
2507 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2508 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2509 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2510 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2511 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2512 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
e25b5a8d
DH
2513 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2514 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2515 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2516 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2517 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
DH
2518 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2519 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2520 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2521 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2522 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2523 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2524 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2525
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LB
2526* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2527
d5e172d2
ZJS
2528* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2529
ac976532 2530* dhcp:
424a8732 2531 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2532
37d8b536
PF
2533* dhcp6:
2534 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2535 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2536 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2537 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
b3e199ce 2538 - implement support for temporary addresses (IA_TA)
37d8b536
PF
2539 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2540 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2541 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2542 or interface down
2543 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2544 this behavior
4a77c53d 2545 - RouteTable= ?
7af442cf
MY
2546
2547* shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2548 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2549 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)