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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
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19* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
20
21* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
22
23* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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25* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
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27* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
28
29* register catalog database signature as file magic
30
31* zsh shell completion:
32 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
33 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
76c068b7 34 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
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36* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
37* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
38 after being started.
39
40* write blog stories about:
41 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
42 - enabling dbus services
43 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
44 - remote access
45 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
46 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
47 - auto-restart
48 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
49 - the journal HTTP iface
50 - non-cgroup resource management
51 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
52 - refreshed, longer missions statement
53 - calendar time events
54 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
55 - how to create your own target
56 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
57 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
58
59Regularly:
60
61* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
62
63* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
64
65* pahole
66
67* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
68
69* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
70
71* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
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73Janitorial Clean-ups:
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75* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
76 semantics, like we do for device.c now
77
f461a28d 78* get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase() and related
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79 calls instead.
80
81* get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
82
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83* Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
84 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
85 libmount for something so trivial.
86
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87* drop set_free_free() and switch things over from string_hash_ops to
88 string_hash_ops_free everywhere, so that destruction is implicit rather than
89 explicit. Similar, for other special hashmap/set/ordered_hashmap destructors.
90
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91* generators sometimes apply C escaping and somethines specifier escaping to
92 paths and similar strings they write out. Sometimes both. We should clean
93 this up, and should probably always apply both, i.e. introduce
94 unit_file_escape() or so, which applies both.
95
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96Deprecations and removals:
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98* homed: add a basic form of of secrets management to homed, that stores
99 secrets in $HOME somewhere, is protected by the accounts own authentication
100 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
101 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
102 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
103 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
104 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
105
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106* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
107 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
108
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109* remove cgrouspv1 support EOY 2023. As per
110 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
111 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
112 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
113
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114* drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
115 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
9eb41aab 116 is only supported for such old kernels.
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118* drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
119 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
120
9eb41aab 121* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
3345802c 122 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
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123 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
124 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
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125 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
126
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127* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
128 baseline is 5.8.
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130* drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
131 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
132
3345802c 133* rework our PID tracking in services and so on, to be strictly based on pidfd,
9eb41aab 134 once kernel baseline is 5.13.
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136* Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
137 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
138 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
139
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140* Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
141 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
142
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143* remove remaining tpm1.2 support from sd-stub
144
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145Features:
146
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147* add ConditionSecurity=stub-measured or so that checks if we are booted with
148 systemd-stub and its measurements
149
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150* sd-boot should probably measure its configuration file to PCR 5 at boot, as
151 per TCG PC Client Platform Firmware Profile Spec.
152
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153* use sd-event ratelimit feature optionally for .socket units to "pause" overly
154 busy sockets temporarily. (as a less drastic version of the trigger
155 ratelimit)
156
157* similar, add the same for journal stream clients that log too much
158
159* systemd-mount sould only consider modern file systems when mounting, similar
160 to systemd-dissect
161
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162* new "systemd-pcrlock" component for dealing with PCR4. Design idea:
163 1. define /{etc,usr,var/lib}/pcrlock.d/<component>/<version>.pcrlock
164 2. these files contain list of hashes that will be measured when component is
165 run, per PCR
166 3. each component involved in the boot that is deterministically measured can
167 place one or more of these files in those dirs (shim, sd-boot,
168 sd-stub/UKI, cryptsetup, pcrphase, pcrfs, …)
169 4. since each component has its own dir, with multiple files in them, package
170 such as kernels (of which there can be multiple installed at the same
171 time) can be grouped together: only one of them is measured at a time.
172 5. whenever a new component is added or an old one removed, or the PCR lock
173 shall be relaxed or tightened the systemd-pcrlock tool is invoked.
174 6. tool iterates through all these files, orders them alphabetically by
175 component, then matches them up with current measurements (as per uefi
176 event log), identifying by hash, accepting that the "beginning" of the
177 measurements might not be recognizable.
178 7. Then calculates expected PCR values starting with the "unrecognized
179 head" from the event log, then continuing with all of components
180 defined via the .pcrlock files (but dropping out the "recognized tail"
181 from the uefi event log). (This might mean combinatorial explosion, if
182 there are multiple shims, multiple sd-boot, and so on.)
183 8. Generates a public/private key pair on the TPM
184 9. Generates a counter object in the TPM, with a policy that allows only
185 one-by-one increase with signature policy by the public/private key pair.
186 10. now signs policies of all expected PCR values with the generated keypair,
187 using all combinations of components defined in the .pcrlock files
188 restricting it to the counter + 1.
189 11. locks down the keypair with a signed policy with its own public key
190 12. generates JSON file of all these policies with their signatures, drops
191 them as singleton in ESP
192 13. increases the counter by one.
193 14. after boot sd-stub picks JSON up from ESP, passes it to userspace via
194 .extra
195 15. JSON contained policies can now be used to unlock disk as well as the
196 public/key itself for signing further policies, as well as increment for
197 the counter
198 16. whenever any of the components above is added/removed new JSON file with
199 signatures for counter + 1 is generated, dropped in ESP, then counter
200 increased. (i.e. this means the "recognized tail" of the event log is
201 deterministically swapped out)
202 17. when firmware update is expected, relaxed signed policy is generated for
203 next boot only valid if counter is increased (this means the
204 "unrecognized head" for the event log can change without losing access)
205 18. on every boot checks if releaxed policy is in effect, if so, new strict
206 policy is generated and counter increased.
207 Net result: Removes downgrade attack surface + Locks OS to firmware + Allows
208 downgrades within bounds
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210* add another PE section ".fname" or so that encodes the intended filename for
211 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
212 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
213 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
214 control of the attacker.
215
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216* also include packaging metadata (á la
217 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
218 same JSON format.
219
220* make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
221 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
222 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
223 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
224 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
225 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
226 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
227 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
228 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
229 newer.
230
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231* in sd-stub: optionally add support for a new PE section .keyring or so that
232 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
233 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
234 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
235 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
236 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
237 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
238 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
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240* resolved: take possession of some IPv6 ULA address (let's say
241 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
242 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
243
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244* introduce a .microcode PE section for sd-stub which we'll pass as first initrd
245 to the kernel which will then upload it to the CPU. This should be distinct
246 from .initrd to guarantee right ordering. also, and maybe more importantly
247 support .microcode in PE add-ons, so that a microcode update can be shipped
9a27ef09 248 independently of any kernel.
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250* Maybe add SwitchRootEx() as new bus call that takes env vars to set for new
251 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
252 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
253 requested during switch root.
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255* introduce a .acpitable section for early ACPI table override
256
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257* add proper .osrel matching for PE addons. i.e. refuse applying an addon
258 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
259 matched against OS.
260
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261* use different sbat for sd-boot and sd-stub (so that people can revoke one
262 without the other)
263
264* in ukify merge sbat info from kernel (if it has any, upstream kernels so far
265 dont), of sd-stub and data supplied by user. Then measure sbat too in
266 sd-stub, explicitly.
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268* figure out what to do about credentials sealed to PCRs in kexec + soft-reboot
269 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
270 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
271
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272* logind: when logging in, always take an fd to the home dir, to keep the dir
273 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
274 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
275 namespaces)
276
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277* refuse using the switch-root operation without /etc/initrd-release. Now
278 that we have a concept of userspace reboot, we can clearly say: switch-root
279 is for transitioning from initrd to host (or initrd to next initrd), while
280 userspace reboot is for switching host to next version of the host.
281
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282* mount most file systems with a restrictive uidmap. e.g. mount /usr/ with a
283 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
284
285* mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
286 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
287 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
288
f447b741 289* fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
94d82b59 290 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
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291 "*:foobar:*", to wildcard match both the start and the end of the string.
292 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
293 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
294 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
295
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296* mount /tmp/ and /var/tmp with a uidmap applied that blocks out "nobody" user
297 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
94d82b59 298 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
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299 used transiently, never persistently.
300
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301* rework loopback support in fstab: when "loop" option is used, then
302 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
303 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
304 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
305 based on lo_file_name.
306
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307* remove tomoyo support, it's obsolete and unmaintained apparently
308
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309* In .socket units, add ConnectStream=, ConnectDatagram=,
310 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
311 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
312 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
313 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
314 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
315 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
316 activation-by-message id and similar.
317
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318* landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
319 ability to write anywehere else below /run/. Similar for
320 StateDirectory=. Benefit would be clear delegation via unit files: services
321 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
322
323* landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
324 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
325 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
326 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
327 similar behaviour for system services, too.
328
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329* Add systemd-mount@.service which is instantiated for a block device and
330 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
331 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
332
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333* udevd: extend memory pressure logic: also kill any idle worker processes
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335* SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
336 localed, oomd, timedated.
337
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338* in order to make binding to PCR 4 realistic:
339 - generate one keypair "U" and store it in a tpm2 nvindex.
340 - Generate another keypair "P" and store it in a second tpm2 nvindex.
341 - allocate a persistent counter object "C" in the tpm2
342 - Enroll all user objects (i.e. luks volumes, creds, …) to a tpm2 policy
343 signed by U.
344 - Lock both U and P down with a tpm2 policy signed by P (yes, P can only be
345 used if a signature by P itself can be provided)
346 - For regular reboots generate a signature for a restrictive PCR4 + counter C
347 based policy with key P. Place signature in EFI var, so it can be found on
348 next boot
349 - For reboots where a firmware update is expected generate a signature with a
350 more open policy against just counter C. Place signature in same EFI var.
351 - Increase C whenever switching between these two signature types.
352 - During early boot, use the signature from the EFI var to unlock U and P.
353 Use it to generate a signature for unlocking user objects given the current
354 PCR 4 value, store that away into /run somewhere, for user during the whole
355 later boot.
356 - When booting up automatically update the mentioned efi var so that it
357 contains the restrictive signature. But also generate a signature ahead of
358 time that could be used in case during the current boot we later detect we might
359 need to reboot for a firmware update. Store that in /run somewhere, so that
360 it can be placed in the EFI var, if needed.
361
362* repart/gpt-auto/DDIs: maybe introduce a concept of "extension" partitions,
363 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
364 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
365 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
366 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
367 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
627cdcc7 368 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
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369 from the uuid of the original partition it extends. Inspiration for this is
370 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
371 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
372 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
373 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
374 access.
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376* split out execute.c into new "systemd-executor" binary. Then make PID 1 fork
377 that off via vfork(), and then let that executor do the hard work. Ultimately
378 the executor then gets replaced by the real binary sooner or later. Reason:
379 currently the intermediary "stub" process is a CoW trap that doubles memory
380 usage of PID 1 on each service start. Also, strictly speaking we are not
d09df6b9 381 allowed to do NSS from the stub process yet we do anyway. Next steps would
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382 then be maybe use CLONE_INTO_CGROUP for the executor, given that we don't
383 need glibc anymore in the stub process then. Then, switch nspawn to just be a
384 frontend for this too, so that we have to ways into the executor: via unit
385 files/dbus/varlin through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI through nspawn.
386
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387* sd-stub: detect if we are running with uefi console output on serial, and if so
388 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
389
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390* add a utility that can be used with the kernel's
391 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
392 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
393 for all umh processes.
394
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395* systemd-shutdown: keep sending sd_notify() status updates immediately before
396 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
397
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398* homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
399 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
400 resize.
401
402* homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
403 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
404
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405* timesyncd: when saving/restoring clock try to take boot time into account.
406 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
407 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
408 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
409 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
410 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
411 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
412 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
413 system actually reset.
414
415* systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
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416 userspace to allow ordering boots (for example in journalctl). The counter
417 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
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419* pam_systemd_home: add module parameter to control whether to only accept
420 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
421 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
422 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
423
4cb8a25b 424* sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
1c904337 425 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
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426 is then useful for network boot, by embdedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
427 in sd-boot, which reference remote kernels.
428
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429* maybe prohibit setuid() to the nobody user, to lock things down, via seccomp.
430 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
431 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
432 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
433 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
434
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435* sd-boot: add a new PE section .bls or so that carries a cpio with additional
436 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
437 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
438 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
439 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
440
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441* sd-boot: also allow passing in the cpio as in the previous item via SMBIOS
442
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443* add a new EFI tool "sd-fetch" or so. It looks in a PE section ".url" for an
444 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
445 Usecase: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
446 binaries in place of UKIs, and download them on-the-fly.
447
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448* maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
449 cmdline. usecase: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
450
451* systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
452 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
453 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
454
6d040d84 455* sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
4cb8a25b 456 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
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458* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
459 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
460 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
461 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
462 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
463 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
464 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
465 usual.
466
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467* Lennart: big blog story about DDIs
468
469* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
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471* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
472
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473* bpf: see if we can use BPF to solve the syslog message cgroup source problem:
474 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
475 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
476 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
477 sockaddr.
478
479* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
480 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
481 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
482 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
483 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
484 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
485 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
486 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
487 try to use inode from there.
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490 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
491
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493 extensions
494
495* gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
496 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
497 for the root fs or /usr/.
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500 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
501 combination thereof.
502
503* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
504 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
505 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
506 ahead of time.
507
508* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
509 aforementioned purpose.
510
511* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
512 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
513
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515 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
516 to figure out:
517 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
518 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
519 subsequent boots?
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522 credentials. usecase: allow bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd
523 that way, without shelling out to our tools.
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526 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
527 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
528 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
529 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
530 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
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531 default to PCR 15 at least if sd-stub is used (i.e. bind to system identity),
532 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
533 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
534 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
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537 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
538 used)
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541 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
542 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
543 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
544 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
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547 TCG's "Canonical Event Log" format to some file, so that we can reason about
548 how PCR values we manage came to
549 be. https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/canonical-event-log-format/
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552 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
553 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
554 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 555 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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557
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558* write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
559 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
560 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
561
562* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
563 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
564
565* implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
566 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
567 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
568 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
569 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
570 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
571
572* add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
573 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
574 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
575
576* systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
577
578* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
579 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
580 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Usecase: remove secondary OS
581 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
582
583* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
584 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
585 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
586 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
587 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
588 only one for each OS.
589
590* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
591 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 592 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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593 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
594 boot, for the next.
595
596* figure out a sane way when building UKIs how to extract SBAT data from inner
597 kernel, extend it with component info, and add to outer kernel.
598
599* systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
600 similar behind it, instead of http.
601
602* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
603 boot, or on first boot.
604
605* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
606 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
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609 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
610 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
611 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
612 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
613 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
614 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
615 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
616 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
617 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
618 until users are allowed to log in).
619
620* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
621 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
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624 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
625 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
b60e0f57 626 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Usecase: systemd-confext
627 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
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629 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
630 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
b60e0f57 631 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
632 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
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634
635* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
636 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
637 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
638 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
639 enhanced remote attestation quote. Usecase: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 640 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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642 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
b60e0f57 643 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
644 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
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646 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
647 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
b60e0f57 648 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
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650 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
651 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
652 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
b60e0f57 653 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
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655 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
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658 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
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661 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
662
663* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
664 instead of manual blocking.
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667 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
668
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670 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
671 supplied password.
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674 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
675 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
676 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
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679 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
680 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
681 convencience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
682
683* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
684 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
685 automatically derived from --private-key=).
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688 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
689 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
690
691* Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
692 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
693 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
694 use as additional search condition. Usecase: images that combined a sysext
695 partition with a portable service partition in one.
696
697* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
698 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
699 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
700 modules
701
b60e0f57 702* for systemd-confext: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
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704 a new name with a built-in config?
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707 maybe on kernel command line:
708 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
709 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
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712 hash type, etc)
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716
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4e0ceefe 718 but final node is not a directory
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721 non-VFAT fs is used.
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726 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
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733 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
734 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
735 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
736 affect PCR values.
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739 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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742 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
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745 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
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748 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
749
750* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
751 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
752
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755 equivalent to nspawn's. Maybe be called "systemd-vmspawn". Should imply good
756 settings, i.e. RNG + HyperV enlightenments. Should also result in swtpm
757 instance, plus virtiofsd instances. Translate credentials into smbios type
758 11 strings. Correctly translate SIGTERM into ACPI shutdown events.
759 Listen to logind suspend events and turn these into suspend key pressed +
760 ACPI resume events.
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764 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
765 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
766 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
767 use it.
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770 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
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773 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
774 what it was signed.
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777 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
778 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
779 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
780 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
781 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
782 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
783 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
784 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
785 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
786 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
787 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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790 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
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793 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
794 via the credentials logic.
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796 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
797 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
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799 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
800 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
801 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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803 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
804 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
805 file system paths to enable on start.
806 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
807 usr=
808 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
809 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
810 register if not registered yet. Usecase: deploy a system, and add an
811 account one can directly log into.
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813 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
814 pre-built kernels.
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817 runtime state. Then, expose it:
818
819 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
820 about the unit.
821 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
822 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
823 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
824 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
825 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
826 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
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829 what to do if support ended
830
831* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
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e1b45a75 834* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 835 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
e1b45a75 836 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Usecase: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 837 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 838 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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841 initrd transition. Specifically:
842 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
843 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
844 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
845
846* implement varlink introspection
847
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47b86590 849 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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851 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
852 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
853 depending on desired level of persistency.
854
855* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
856 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
1c904337 857 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
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859 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
860 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
861 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
862 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
863
864* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
865 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
866 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
867 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
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874 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
875 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
876 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Usecase: container
877 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
878 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
879 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
880 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
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883 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
884 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
885 not unprivileged code.
886
887* given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
02c914ef 888 that hooks up userdbctl ssh-key stuff.
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891 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
892 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
893 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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896 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
897 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
898 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
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901 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
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903 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
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905* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
906 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
907 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
908 order.
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911 policies: policy probably must take some nvram based generation counter into
912 account that can only monotonically increase and can be used to invalidate
913 old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to old signed PCR sets
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916* update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
917 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
918 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
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921 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
922 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
923 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
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926 IN_IGNORED again)
927
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930 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
931 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
932 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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933 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
934 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
5b06ad51 935 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
62471289 936 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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937 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
938 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
939 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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942 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
943 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
2df2bb1f 944
03ede612 945* sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
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947 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 948 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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949 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
950 directly to host service manager.
951
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952* sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
953 no api to query the device id
954
955* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
956 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
957 also be queried.
958
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960 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
961 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
962 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
963
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964* sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
965 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
966 latter).
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968* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
969
970* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
971
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972* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
973 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
974 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
975 generated by GNU sha256sums.
976
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977* sd-boot: maybe add support for embedding the various auxiliary resources we
978 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
02c914ef 979 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
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980 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
981 to the menu. Usecase: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
982 UEFI HTTP boot.
983
984* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
985 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
986 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
5bc9ea07 987 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
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988 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
989 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
990 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
991 hence cheap for enumeration.
992
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993* sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
994
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995* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
996 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
997 words: show partition labels).
998
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1000 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
5bc9ea07 1001 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
b17a681b 1002 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. usecase:
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1003 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
1004 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
1005 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
1006
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1007* improve scope units to support creation by pidfd instead of by PID
1008
e4f92a62 1009* deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
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1011* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
1012
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1013* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1014 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1015 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1016 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1017 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1018 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1019 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1020 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1021 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1022 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1023
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1024* kernel-install:
1025 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
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1027* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
1028 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
1029
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1030* doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
1031 jobs, units
1032
a57d72ce 1033* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
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1034 sync, i.e. parse out architecture field in sd-boot (currently only done in
1035 userspace)
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1037* automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
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1039* add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
1040 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1041
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1044
1045* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1046 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
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1049 internal clock.
1050
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1051* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1052 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1053
1054* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1055 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1056 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1057 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
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1060 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1061 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1062
1063* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
1064 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
1065 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
1066 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
1067 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
1068 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
1069 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
1070 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
1071 thread:
1072 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
1073 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
1074 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
1075 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
1076 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
1077 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
1078
1079* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
1080 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
1081 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
1082
1083* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
1084 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
1085 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
1086 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
1087 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
1088 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
1089 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
1090 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
1091 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
1092 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
1093 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1094 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1095 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1096 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1097 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
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1100 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
1101 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
1102 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
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1103 for debugging purposes. Other usecase: boot into qemu with regular user
1104 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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1106* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
30fd9a2d 1107 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
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1109
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1111 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1112 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1113 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1114 on-disk storage.
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1117 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1118 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1119 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1120 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1121
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1123 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1124 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
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1126* logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
1127 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
1128 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
1129 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
1130 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
1131 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
1132 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
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1135 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1136 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1137 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1138
3fc0688d 1139* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
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1140 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1141 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1142 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1143 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1144 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1145 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1146 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1147 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1148 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1149 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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1152 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1153 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1156
63a185dc 1157* PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
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1159* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1160 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1161 that images cannot be misused.
1162
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178d3ff2 1164 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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1165 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1166 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1167 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1168
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1170 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1171 - support casync as download mechanism
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1172 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1173 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1174 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1175 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1176 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
1177 override the host's update files.)
1178 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1179 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1180 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1181 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
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1184
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1185* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1186 make dirs appear under right UID.
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1188* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1189 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1190
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1193 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1194 already have it.
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1197 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1198
1c904337 1199* Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
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1201* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1202 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1203 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1204 /proc/self/fd/3
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1206* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1207 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1208 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1209
1210* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1211 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1212
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1213* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1214 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
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1216* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1217 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1218 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1219 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1220 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
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1223
199b097d 1224* credentials system:
199b097d 1225 - acquire from EFI variable?
30fd9a2d 1226 - acquire via ask-password?
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1228 - pass creds via keyring?
1229 - pass creds via memfd?
1230 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1231 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1232 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1233 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1234 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1235 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
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1236 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
1237 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
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1240 firmware indicates there is one.
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1242* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1243 and such
1244
1245* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
80670e74 1246
02c914ef 1247* cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
80670e74 1248
7d7c75f1 1249* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1251
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1252* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1253 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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1256
1257* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1258 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1259
1260* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1261 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1262
1263* cryptsetup:
1264 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1265 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1266
08d33656 1267* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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1269* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1270 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1271
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1274
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1276 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1277
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1278* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1279
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1280* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1281
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1282* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
1283
1284* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1285
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1286* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1287 when it exits
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1289* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1290 o turn into dlopen() deps:
cdfd8537 1291 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
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1294 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1295 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1296 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
1297 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
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1299* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1300 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1301 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
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1303* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1304 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
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1306* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1307
1308* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1309 specific service
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1311* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1312 exists and responds.
1313
91fc013f 1314* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1315 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1316
7e8facb3 1317* unify on openssl:
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1318 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1319 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1320 gnutls
1321 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
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1323* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1324 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1325
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1326* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1327 realname substr searches in varlink API
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1329* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1330
2a4be3c5 1331* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1332
f1eb0ccd 1333* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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1336 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1337 initrd had set.
1338
173c7873 1339* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1340 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1342 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1343 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1344 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1345
1346* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1347 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1348 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1349
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1351 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1352 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1353 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1354 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1355 source.
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1357* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1358 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1359 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
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1361* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1362
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1363* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1364 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1365 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1366 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1367 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1368 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1369 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1370 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1371 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1372 hibernation mode. (see
1373 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1374 section 10.2.2.8 and
1375 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1376 at the end).
1377
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1378* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1379 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1380
c6526b8d 1381* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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1383* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1384 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1385 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1386 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1387 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1388 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1389 exec().
1390
1391* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1392
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1393* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1394 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1395
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1396* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1397 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1398
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1399* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1400 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1401 root.
1402
1403* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1404 is issued.
1405
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1406* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1407
1408* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1409
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1410* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1411 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1412 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1413
d238709c 1414* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1415 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1416 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1417
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1418* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1419
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1420* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1421 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1422
06898123 1423* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1424 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1425 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1426 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
06898123 1427
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1428* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1429
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1430* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1431
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1432* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1433 non-zero "tries done" count
1434
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1435* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1436 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1437 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1438 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1439 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1440 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1441 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1442 CODE_FILE.
1443
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1444* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1445 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1446 some explanatory text online.
1447
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1448* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1449
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1450* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1451 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1452
d1797c42 1453* hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
c633b0a6 1454
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1455* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1456 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1457
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1458* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1459 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1460 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1461 files and suchlike we operate on.
070d0ac9 1462
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1463* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1464
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1465* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1466
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1467* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1468 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1469
5da19043 1470* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1471 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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1473* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1474 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1475 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1476 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1477 unlinked from any dir.
1478
bd1b3f75 1479* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
5da19043 1480
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1481* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1482
1483* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1484
53c70a27 1485* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1486 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1487 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1488 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1489 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1490
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1491* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1492
1493* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1494
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1495* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1496 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1497
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1498* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1499 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1500 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1501 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1502 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1503 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
1504 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1505 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1506
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1507* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1508 for root, but only then.
586a8e93 1509
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1510* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1511 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1512
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1513* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1514 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1515
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1516* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1517 only when used. Add unit tests.
1518
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1519* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1520 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1521
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1522* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1523 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1524 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1525 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1526 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1527
899feb72 1528* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
c6009ff0 1529
5f7ecd61 1530* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
5962e9db 1531
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1532* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1533 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1534
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1535* blog about fd store and restartable services
1536
1537* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1538
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1539* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1540 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1541
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1542* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1543 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1544 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1545 ID is available.
1546
1547* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1548 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1549 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1550
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1551* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1552 parameters
1553
63a185dc 1554* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1555 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1556 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1557 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1558 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1559 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1560 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
6fc373ee 1561
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1562* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1563 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1564
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1565* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1566 about it in the resource log message
1567
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1568* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1569 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1570 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1571
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1572* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1573 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1574
1575 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1576
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1577* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1578 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1579 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1580
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1581* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1582 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1583
1584* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1585 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1586 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1587 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1588 natural habitat.
1589
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1590* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1591 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
8eb7383b 1592
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1593* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1594 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1595 relative to the configured default value.
1596
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1597* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1598
04397464 1599* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
d82047be 1600
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1601* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1602
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1603* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1604
04397464 1605* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1606
04397464 1607* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1608
04397464 1609* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1610
8ce9b83a 1611* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1612
1613* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1614 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1615 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1616
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1617* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1618 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1619
e40a326c 1620* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 1621
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1622* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1623 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1624 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1625 mapping to work.
1626
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1627* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1628
1629* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1630
1631* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1632
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1633* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1634 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1635
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1636* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1637 reload the unit file anyway
1638
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1639* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1640
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1641* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1642
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1643* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1644 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1645
f9bf1b8f 1646* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1647 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1648 specifications.
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1650* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1651
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1652* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1653
a2088fd0 1654* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1655 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1656 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1657 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
a2088fd0 1658
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1659* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1660
931bc195 1661* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
b18d23d7 1662
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1663* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1664 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1665 state.
41d6f3bf 1666 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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1668* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1669 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1670 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1671 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1672 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1673
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1674* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1675
d2f81fb0 1676* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1677 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1678
0a86c1a9 1679* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1680 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1681
e031c227 1682* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1683 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1684
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1685* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1686
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1687* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1688 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1689
25e773ee 1690* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1691
720652b3 1692* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1693
720652b3 1694* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1695
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1696* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1697 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1698
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1699* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1700
9d6db739 1701* resolved:
9d6db739 1702 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1703 - service registration
1704 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1705 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1706 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1707 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1708 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1709 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1710 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1711 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1712
e25b5a8d 1713* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1714
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1715* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1716
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1717* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1718
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1719* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1720
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1721* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1722
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1723* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1724 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1725
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1726* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1727
6a3f892a 1728* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1729 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1730 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1731
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1732* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1733 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1734 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1735
f9bf1b8f 1736* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1737
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1738* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1739 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1740 for ReusePort=
1741
f38afcd0 1742* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1743 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1744 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1745 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1746 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1747 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1748 the hierarchies of child processes
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1749- add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1750 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1751
f38afcd0 1752* transient units:
f38afcd0 1753 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1754
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1755* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1756
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1757* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1758
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1759* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1760
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1761* 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
1762
7f79cd71 1763* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 1764
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1765* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1766 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1767 path anyway.
1768
04397464 1769* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1770
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1771* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1772
1773* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1774
07eabc2b 1775* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1776
07eabc2b 1777* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1778
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1779* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1780
1781* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1782 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1783 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1784
1785* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1786 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1787
1788* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1789
1790* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1791
1792* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1793
1794* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1795 needs to be auto-respawned?
1796
1797* pid1:
1798 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1799 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1800 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1801 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1802 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
07eabc2b 1803 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
41d6f3bf 1804 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
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1805 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1806 - move PAM code into its own binary
1807 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1808 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1809 - Support --test based on current system state
1810 - 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().
1811 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1812 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1813 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1814 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1815 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1816 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1817 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1818 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1819 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1820 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1821 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1822 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1823
1824* unit files:
1825 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1826 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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1827 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1828 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1829 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1830 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1831 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1832 - introduce Type=pid-file
1833 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1834 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1835 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1836
1837* timer units:
63a185dc 1838 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1839 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1840
1841* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1842
1843* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1844
1845* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1846
1847* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1848
07eabc2b 1849* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1850
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1851* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1852
1853* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1854
fff87a35 1855* test/:
20d52ab6 1856 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1857
b5c03638 1858* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1859 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1860 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1861 destination.
1862
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1863* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1864 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1865
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1866* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1867
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1868* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1869 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1870 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1871
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1872* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1873 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1874
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1875* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1876 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1877 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1878 that automatically.
1879
e5ec62c5 1880* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1881
ccddd104 1882* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1883
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1884* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1885
356ce991 1886* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1887
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1888* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1889
1890* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1891
1892* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1893
1894* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1895
1896* sd-bus:
1897 - EBADSLT handling
1898 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1899 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1900 - 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
1901 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1902 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1903 - longer term: priority inheritance
1904 - dbus spec updates:
1905 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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1906 - path escaping
1907 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1908
1909* sd-event
1910 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1911 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1912 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1913 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1914 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1915 here:
1916 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1917
1918* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1919 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1920
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1922
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1923* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1924
1925* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1926
1927* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1928
b44be3ec 1929* EFI:
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1930 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1931 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1932 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1933* bootctl
631427d6 1934 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1935
07eabc2b 1936* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 1937
07eabc2b 1938* bootctl:
483091b0 1939 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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1940 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1941 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
f620a368 1942
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1943* logind:
1944 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1945 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1946 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1947 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1948 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1949 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1950 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1951 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1952 needs setuid().
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1953 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1954 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1955 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1956 complete.
1957 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1958 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1959 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 1960 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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1961 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1962 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1963 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1964 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1965 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1966 relogins
77b19caf 1967 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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1968 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
1969 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
1970 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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1971
1972* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1973
1974* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1975 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1976 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1977
1978* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1979 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1980
b44be3ec 1981* journal:
57f2a947 1982 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1983 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1984 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1985 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 1986 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1987 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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1988 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1989 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1990 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 1991 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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1992 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1993 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 1994 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
02c914ef 1995 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
b44be3ec 1996 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 1997 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 1998 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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1999 - 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.
2000 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2001 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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2002 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2003 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2004 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2005 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 2006 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 2007 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 2008 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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2009 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2010 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2011 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2012 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2013 to syslog when it works again.
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2014 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2015 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2016 journals in.
2017 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2018 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2019 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2020 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2021 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 2022 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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2023 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2024 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2025 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2026 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2027 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2028 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2029 operation.
2030 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
2031 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
2032 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2033 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 2034 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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2035 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2036 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2037 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2038 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 2039 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
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2041* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2042 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2043
2044* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2045 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2046 validated via TPM.
2047
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2049 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2050 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2051
2052* journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2053 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2054 cursors as they happen.
2055
2056* journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2057 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2058 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2059 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2060 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2061 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2062 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2063 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2064 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2065
2066* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2067 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2068 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2069 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
cbcf76b1 2070 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
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2072
2073* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2074 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2075 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2076 records, to be able to order them.
2077
2078* journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2079 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2080 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2081 be safely written to disk, then.
2082
2083* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2084 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2085 inspiration from IMA log)
2086
2087* sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2088 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2089 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2090
2091* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
2092 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
2093 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
2094 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2095 for doing that.
2096
2097* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2098 log.c and sd-journal-send
2099
2100* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2101 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2102 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2103 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2104 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2105 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2106 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2107 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2108 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2109 an NTP sync is acquired.
2110
2111* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
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2113* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2114 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2115 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2116
2117* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2118 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2119 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2120 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2121 cgroup.
2122
2123* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2124 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2125 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2126 logging.
2127
2128* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2129
2130* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2131 from the SIGBUS handler
2132
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2134 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2135 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2136 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2137
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2139 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2140
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2141* homed:
2142 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2143 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2144 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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2145 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2146 - create on activate?
2147 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2148 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2149 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2150 systemd --user is shut down.
2151 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2152 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2153 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2154 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2155 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2156 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2157 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2158 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2159 - query password from kernel keyring first
2160 - update even if record is "absent"
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2161 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2162 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2163 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2164 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2165 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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2166 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2167 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2168 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 2169 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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2170 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2171 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2172 signature
2173 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2174 and insert a local signature instead.
2175 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2176 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2177 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2178 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2179 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2180 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2181 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2182 easily?
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2183 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2184 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2185 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2186 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2187 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2188 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2189 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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2190 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2191 can easily set overall quota for all users
2192 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2193 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 2194 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 2195 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
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2196 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2197 large.
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2199* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2200 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2201 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2202
2df2bb1f 2203* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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2204
2205* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2206 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2207 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2208 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2209
2210* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2211
2212* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2213 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2214 something goes wrong on the way.
2215
2216* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
2217
2218* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2219 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2220 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2221 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2222
2223* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2224 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2225 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2226 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2227 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2228 automatically.
2229
2230* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2231 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2232
2233* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2234 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2235 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2236 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2237 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2238 fails to apply use the latter.
2239
2240* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2241 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2242
2243* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2244 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2245
2246* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2247 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2248 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
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2249
2250* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2251 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2252
92e72028 2253* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
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2254 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2255 during boot.
2256
2257* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2258
b44be3ec 2259* document:
8b8f2591 2260 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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2261 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2262 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2263 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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2264 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2265 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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2266 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2267 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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2268 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2269 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2270 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2271 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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2272
2273* systemctl:
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2274 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2275 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2276 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2277 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2278 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2279 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2280 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2281 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2282 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 2283 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
f38afcd0 2284
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2285* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2286 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2287 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2288
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2289* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2290 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2291 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2292
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2293* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2294 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2295 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 2296
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2297* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2298 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 2299
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2300* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2301 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2302 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2303 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 2304
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2305* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2306 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2307 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2308 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2309
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2310* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2311
2312* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2313
2314* unit install:
2315 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2316 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 2317
b44be3ec 2318* nspawn:
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2319 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2320 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2321 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2322 from the kernel's logs.
2323 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2324 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2325 interface be missing
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2326 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2327 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2328 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2329 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2330 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2331 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2332 PID 1...
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2333 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2334 running, remove them when shut down.
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2335 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2336 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2337 startup.
2338 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2339 or so, freeze the payload too.
2340 - support time namespaces
2341 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2342 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2343 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2344 "machinectl shell"
2345 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2346 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2347 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2348 - greater control over selinux label?
2349 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2350 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2351 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2352 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2353 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2354 host TPM.
2355 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2356 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2357 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2358 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2359 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2360 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2361 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2362 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
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2363 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2364 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
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2365 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2366 or two sockets.
3734fec7 2367 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
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2368
2369* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2370 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2371 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2372 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2373 anything like that.
2374
e25b5a8d 2375* machined:
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2376 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2377 removed or added to an existing machine
2378 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2379 difference host, via ssh
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2380 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2381 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2382 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2383 question
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2384 - "machinectl history"
2385 - "machinectl diff"
2386 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2387 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2388
abd55b16 2389* udev:
abd55b16 2390 - move to LGPL
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2391 - kill scsi_id
2392 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2393 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2394 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2395 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2396
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2397* coredump:
2398 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2399 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2400 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
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2401
2402* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2403
f38afcd0 2404* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 2405 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
beca6b6e 2406 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
614cc34f 2407 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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2408 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2409 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2410 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 2411 - add --test mode
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2412 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2413 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2414 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
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2415 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2416 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
1258097c 2417
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2418* udev-link-config:
2419 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2420 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2421 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2422
88e4d1d7 2423* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2424 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2425 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2426
0a4b9a07 2427* networkd:
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2428 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2429 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2430 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2431 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2432 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2433 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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2434 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2435 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2436 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2437 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2438 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
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2439 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2440 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2441 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2442 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2443 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2444 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2445 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2446
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2447* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2448
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2449* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2450
ac976532 2451* dhcp:
424a8732 2452 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2453
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2454* dhcp6:
2455 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2456 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2457 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2458 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 2459 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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2460 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2461 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2462 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2463 or interface down
2464 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2465 this behavior
4a77c53d 2466 - RouteTable= ?