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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
19* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
20
21* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
22
23* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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25* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
26
27* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
28
29* register catalog database signature as file magic
30
31* zsh shell completion:
32 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
33 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
76c068b7 34 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
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36* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
37* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
38 after being started.
39
40* write blog stories about:
41 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
42 - enabling dbus services
43 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
44 - remote access
45 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
46 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
47 - auto-restart
48 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
49 - the journal HTTP iface
50 - non-cgroup resource management
51 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
52 - refreshed, longer missions statement
53 - calendar time events
54 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
55 - how to create your own target
56 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
57 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
58
59Regularly:
60
61* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
62
63* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
64
65* pahole
66
67* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
68
69* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
70
71* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
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73Janitorial Clean-ups:
74
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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
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78* get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase_symlinks() and related
79 calls instead.
80
81* get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
82
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83* Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
84 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
85 libmount for something so trivial.
86
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87Deprecations and removals:
88
89* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
90 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
91
92* 2019-10 – Remove POINTINGSTICK_CONST_ACCEL references from the hwdb, see #9573
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94* remove cgrouspv1 support EOY 2023. As per
95 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
96 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
97 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
98
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99* drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
100 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
9eb41aab 101 is only supported for such old kernels.
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103* drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
104 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
105
9eb41aab 106* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
3345802c 107 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
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108 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
109 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
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110 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
111
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112* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
113 baseline is 5.8.
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115* drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
116 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
117
3345802c 118* rework our PID tracking in services and so on, to be strictly based on pidfd,
9eb41aab 119 once kernel baseline is 5.13.
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121* H2 2023: remove support for unmerged-usr
122
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123* Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
124 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
125 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
126
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127* Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
128 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
129
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130Features:
131
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132* split out execute.c into new "systemd-executor" binary. Then make PID 1 fork
133 that off via vfork(), and then let that executor do the hard work. Ultimately
134 the executor then gets replaced by the real binary sooner or later. Reason:
135 currently the intermediary "stub" process is a CoW trap that doubles memory
136 usage of PID 1 on each service start. Also, strictly speaking we are not
d09df6b9 137 allowed to do NSS from the stub process yet we do anyway. Next steps would
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138 then be maybe use CLONE_INTO_CGROUP for the executor, given that we don't
139 need glibc anymore in the stub process then. Then, switch nspawn to just be a
140 frontend for this too, so that we have to ways into the executor: via unit
141 files/dbus/varlin through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI through nspawn.
142
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143* sd-stub: detect if we are running with uefi console output on serial, and if so
144 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
145
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146* add a utility that can be used with the kernel's
147 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
148 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
149 for all umh processes.
150
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151* systemd-shutdown: keep sending sd_notify() status updates immediately before
152 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
153
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154* homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
155 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
156 resize.
157
158* homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
159 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
160
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161* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
162 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
163 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
164 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
165 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculted from the monotonic timestamp in the
166 log record, adjusted by the delta declared in the structured log record.
167
168* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
169 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
170 and new new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
171 records, to be able to order them.
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173* timesyncd: when saving/restoring clock try to take boot time into account.
174 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
175 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
176 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
177 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
178 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
179 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
180 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
181 system actually reset.
182
183* systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
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184 userspace to allow ordering boots (for example in journalctl). The counter
185 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
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186
187* systemd-sysext: for sysext DDIs picked up via EFI stub, set much stricter
188 image policy by default
189
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190* systemd-dissect: maybe add "--attach" and "--detach" verbs which
191 synchronously attach a DDI to a loopback device but not actually mount them.
192
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193* pam_systemd_home: add module parameter to control whether to only accept
194 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
195 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
196 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
197
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198* sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
199 lines. THen, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
200 is then useful for network boot, by embdedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
201 in sd-boot, which reference remote kernels.
202
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203* fix systemd-gpt-auto-generator in case a UKI is spawned from XBOOTLDR without
204 sd-boot. In that case LoaderDevicePartUUID will point to the XBOOTLDR, and we
205 should then derive the root disk from that, and then the ESP/XBOOTLDR from
206 that. Right now we will only mount ESP if it matches LoaderDEvicePartUUID
207 which isn't quite the same.
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209* maybe prohibit setuid() to the nobody user, to lock things down, via seccomp.
210 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
211 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
212 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
213 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
214
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215* sd-boot: add a new PE section .bls or so that carries a cpio with additional
216 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
217 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
218 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
219 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
220
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221* sd-boot: also allow passing in the cpio as in the previous item via SMBIOS
222
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223* add a new EFI tool "sd-fetch" or so. It looks in a PE section ".url" for an
224 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
225 Usecase: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
226 binaries in place of UKIs, and download them on-the-fly.
227
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228* bootctl: warn if ESP is mounted world-readable (and in particular the seed).
229
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230* maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
231 cmdline. usecase: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
232
233* systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
234 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
235 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
236
6d040d84 237* sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
4cb8a25b 238 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
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240* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
241 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
242 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
243 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
244 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
245 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
246 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
247 usual.
248
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249* Lennart: big blog story about DDIs
250
251* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
252
253* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
254
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255* bpf: see if we can use BPF to solve the syslog message cgroup source problem:
256 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
257 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
258 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
259 sockaddr.
260
261* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
262 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
263 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
264 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
265 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
266 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
267 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
268 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
269 try to use inode from there.
270
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271* extend the verity signature partition to permit multiple signatures for the
272 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
273
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274* consider adding a new partition type, just for /opt/ for usage in system
275 extensions
276
277* gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
278 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
279 for the root fs or /usr/.
280
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281* dissection policy should enforce that unlocking can only take place by
282 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
283 combination thereof.
284
285* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
286 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
287 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
288 ahead of time.
289
290* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
291 aforementioned purpose.
292
293* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
294 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
295
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296* Add systemd-sysupdate-initrd.service or so that runs systemd-sysupdate in the
297 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
298 to figure out:
299 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
300 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
301 subsequent boots?
302
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303* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
304 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
305 inspiration from IMA log)
306
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307* provide an API to apps to encrypt/decrypt credentials. usecase: allow
308 bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd that way, without shelling
309 out to our tools.
310
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311* revisit default PCR bindings in cryptenroll and systemd-creds. Currently they
312 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
313 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
314 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
315 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
316 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
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317 default to PCR 15 at least if sd-stub is used (i.e. bind to system identity),
318 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
319 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
320 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
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322* move discoverable partition spec and boot loader spec over to uapi group
323
324* maybe measure UUIDs of important mounted file systems (after mount, via the
325 new ioctls to query them) into PCR 15? Add "x-systemd.measure-pcr=" or so for
326 this that pulls in a per mount service?
327
328* measure /etc/machine-id during early boot into PCR 15?
329
330* To mimic the new tpm2-measure-pcr= crypttab option add the same to veritytab
331 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
332 used)
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334* We should start measuring all services, containers, and system extensions we
335 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
336 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
337 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
338 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
339
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340* whenever we measure something into a TPM PCR from userspace, write a record in
341 TCG's "Canonical Event Log" format to some file, so that we can reason about
342 how PCR values we manage came to
343 be. https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/canonical-event-log-format/
344
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345* bootspec: permit graceful "update" from type #2 to type #1. If both a type #1
346 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
347 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
348 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 349 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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350 should win over vendor defaults.
351
352* sd-stub: optionally allow users to configure manual kernel command line even
353 in SecureBoot by authenticating it via shim's APIs, integrating with MOK and
354 similar: instead of authenticating just PE code shim should be capable of
355 authenticating any kind of data for us, including files containing kernel
356 command lines.
357
358* write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
359 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
360 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
361
362* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
363 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
364
365* implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
366 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
367 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
368 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
369 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
370 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
371
372* add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
373 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
374 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
375
376* systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
377
378* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
379 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
380 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Usecase: remove secondary OS
381 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
382
383* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
384 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
385 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
386 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
387 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
388 only one for each OS.
389
390* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
391 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 392 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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393 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
394 boot, for the next.
395
396* figure out a sane way when building UKIs how to extract SBAT data from inner
397 kernel, extend it with component info, and add to outer kernel.
398
399* systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
400 similar behind it, instead of http.
401
402* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
403 boot, or on first boot.
404
405* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
406 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
407
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408* we probably needs .pcrpkeyrd or so as additional PE section in UKIs,
409 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
410 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
411 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
412 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
413 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
414 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
415 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
416 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
417 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
418 until users are allowed to log in).
419
420* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
421 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
422
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423* add support for asymmetric LUKS2 TPM based encryption. i.e. allow preparing
424 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
425 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
426 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Usecase: systemd-syscfg
427 for a central orchestrator to generate syscfg images securely that can only
428 be activated on one specific host (which can be used for installing a bunch
429 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
430 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
431 prepare a syscfg image that can only be activated on a specific host that
432 runs a specific software in a specific time window. syscfg would be
433 automatically invalidated outside of it.
434
435* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
436 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
437 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
438 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
439 enhanced remote attestation quote. Usecase: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 440 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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441 have the orchestrator collect these reports centrally over a 3min time
442 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
443 and generate a small syscfg for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
444 on each node. The syscfg would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
445 proposed above, so that it can only be activated on the specific host, if the
446 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
447 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
448 update syscfg. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
449 config and collected reports in the last 3min time window only, and thus can
450 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
451 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
452 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
453 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via syscfg updates,
454 and via the time window TPM logic invalidated if node doesn't keep itself
455 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
456
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457* in the initrd, once the rootfs encryption key has been measured to PCR 15,
458 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
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460* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to use sd_event_set_signal_exit(), instead
461 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
462
463* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
464 instead of manual blocking.
465
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466* sd-boot: for each installed OS, grey out older entries (i.e. all but the
467 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
468
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469* automatically propagate LUKS password credential into cryptsetup from host
470 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
471 supplied password.
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473* add ability to path_is_valid() to classify paths that refer to a dir from
474 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
475 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
476 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
477
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478* systemd-measure: allow operating with PEM certificates in addition to PEM
479 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
480 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
481 convencience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
482
483* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
484 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
485 automatically derived from --private-key=).
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488
489* tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
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492 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
493 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
494
495* Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
496 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
497 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
498 use as additional search condition. Usecase: images that combined a sysext
499 partition with a portable service partition in one.
500
501* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
502 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
503 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
504 modules
505
506* for systemd-syscfg: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
507 sig using squashfs-tools-ng's library. Maybe just systemd-repart called under
508 a new name with a built-in config?
509
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511 /dev/disk/by-diskseq/… so that they can't be swapped out behind our back.
512
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514 maybe on kernel command line:
515 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
516 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
517
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519 hash type, etc)
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6c2d70ce 521* chase_symlinks(): take inspiration from path_extract_filename() and return
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523
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524* chase_symlinks(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
525 but final node is not a directory
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527* chase_symlinks(): add new flag that simply refuses all symlink use in a path,
528 then use that for accessing XBOOTLDR/ESP
529
530* document in boot loader spec that symlinks in XBOOTLDR/ESP are not OK even if
531 non-VFAT fs is used.
532
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533* measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
534
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535* measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
536 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
537
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539
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540* sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
541 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
542 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
543 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
544 affect PCR values.
545
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547 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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549* in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
550 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
551
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552* sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
553 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
554
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555* sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
556 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
557
558* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
559 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
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562 maybe some other stuff and boots it
563
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566 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
567 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
568 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
569 use it.
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572 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
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575 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
576 what it was signed.
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579 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
580 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
581 be safely written to disk, then.
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584 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
585 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
586 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
587 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
588 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
589 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
590 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
591 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
592 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
593 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
594 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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597 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
598
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601 token that are not referenced by any. Then, change kernel-install to use only
602 this to remove auxiliary files, and never remove them explicitly. Benefit:
603 resources such as initrds/kernels/dtb can be shared between entries.
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606 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
607 via the credentials logic.
608 • fstab-generator: allow defining additional fstab-like mounts via
609 credentials (similar: crypttab-generator, verity-generator,
610 integrity-generator)
611 • getty-generator: allow defining additional getty instances via a credential
612 • run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
613 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
614 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
615 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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617 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
618 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
619 file system paths to enable on start.
620 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
621 usr=
622 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
623 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
624 register if not registered yet. Usecase: deploy a system, and add an
625 account one can directly log into.
626 • initialize machine ID from systemd credential picked up from the ESP via
627 sd-stub, so that machine ID is stable even on systems where unified kernels
628 are used, and hence kernel cmdline cannot be modified locally
629 • in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
630 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
631 pre-built kernels.
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634 runtime state. Then, expose it:
635
636 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
637 about the unit.
638 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
639 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
640 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
641 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
642 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
643 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
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646 what to do if support ended
647
648* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
649 login time, á la motd
650
e1b45a75 651* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 652 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
e1b45a75 653 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Usecase: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 654 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 655 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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658 initrd transition. Specifically:
659 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
660 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
661 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
662
663* implement varlink introspection
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666 chase_symlinks() instead
667
d486b26f 668* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 669 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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671 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
672 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
673 depending on desired level of persistency.
674
675* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
676 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
677 in oneshit mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
678 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
679 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
680 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
681 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
682 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
683
684* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
685 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
686 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
687 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
688
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690
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694 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
695 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
696 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Usecase: container
697 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
698 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
699 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
700 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
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703 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
704 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
705 not unprivileged code.
706
707* given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
708 that hooks up userbdctl ssh-key stuff.
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711 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
712 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
713 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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716 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
717 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
718 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
719 it. when developer mode is entered generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
720 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
721 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
722 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is only way to enter developer mode, by
723 binding it to locality/PCRs so that that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
724
725* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
726 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
727 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
728 order.
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731 policies: policy probably must take some nvram based generation counter into
732 account that can only monotonically increase and can be used to invalidate
733 old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to old signed PCR sets
734 whenever they want.
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736* update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
737 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
738 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
739
740* add a clear concept how the initrd can make up credentials on their own to
741 pass to the system when transitioning into the host OS. usecase: things like
742 cloud-init/ignitation and similar can parameterize the host with data they
743 acquire.
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746 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
747 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
748 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 749 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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751 IN_IGNORED again)
752
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754 cmdline. Usecase: invoke a VM, and mount a host homedir into it via
755 virtio-fs.
756
757* for vendor-built signed initrds:
62471289 758 - make sysext run in the initrd
5b06ad51 759 - sysext should pick up sysext images from /.extra/ in the initrd, and insist
62471289 760 on verification if in secureboot mode
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762 type #2 drop-in dir in the ESP.
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764 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
765 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
766 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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768 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
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770 - pid 1 should look for machine ID in creds
62471289 771 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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773 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
774 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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777 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
778 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
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780* firstboot: maybe just default to C.UTF-8 locale if nothing is set, so that we
781 don't query this unnecessarily in entirely uninitialized
782 containers. (i.e. containers with empty /etc).
783
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786 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
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789 directly to host service manager.
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792 extending the command line to enable vsock on the VM, and using fw_cfg to
793 configure socket address.
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796
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798 no api to query the device id
799
800* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
801 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
802 also be queried.
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805 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
806 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
807 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
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810 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
811 latter).
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813* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
814
815* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
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817* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
818 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
819 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
820 generated by GNU sha256sums.
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823 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
824 logic: allow combining sd-boot via objcopy with kernels to enumerate, .conf
825 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
826 to the menu. Usecase: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
827 UEFI HTTP boot.
828
829* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
830 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
831 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
832 binary with some minimal info about an URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
833 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
834 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
835 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
836 hence cheap for enumeration.
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839
840* maybe add a "syscfg" concept, that is almost entirely identical to "sysext",
841 but operates on /etc/ instead of /usr/ and /opt/. Use case would be: trusted,
842 authenticated, atomic, additive configuration management primitive: drop in a
843 configuration bundle, and activate it, so that it is instantly visible,
844 comprehensively.
845
846* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
847 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
848 words: show partition labels).
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851 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
852 that take an URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
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855 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
856 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
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859
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862* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
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865 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
866 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
867 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
868 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
869 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
870 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
871 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
872 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
873 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
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876 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
877 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
878 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
879 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
880 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
881 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
882 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
883 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
884 an NTP sync is acquired.
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887 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
888 - maybe add env var that shortcuts kernel-install for installers that want to
889 call it at the end only
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892 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
893
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895 jobs, units
896
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899 userspace)
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904 json package metadata, and use that when logging
905
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908
909* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
910 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
911
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913 internal clock.
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916 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
917
918* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
919 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
920 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
921 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
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924 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
925 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
926
927* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
928 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
929 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
930 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
931 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
932 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
933 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
934 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
935 thread:
936 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
937 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
938 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
939 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
940 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
941 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
942
943* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
944 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
945 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
946
947* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
948 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
949 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
950 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
951 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
952 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
953 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
954 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
955 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
956 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
957 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
958 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
959 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
960 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
961 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
962
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963* add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
964 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
965 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
966 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
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967 for debugging purposes. Other usecase: boot into qemu with regular user
968 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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970* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
971 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us drop drop libcap
972 dep in the base OS image)
973
974* sysext: automatically activate sysext images dropped in via new sd-stub
c0a74f62 975 sysext pickup logic. (must insist on verity + signature on those though)
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977* add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
978 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
979 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
980 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
981 on-disk storage.
982
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983* userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
984 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
985 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
986 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
987 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
988
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989* portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
990 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
991 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
992
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993* logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
994 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
995 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
996 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
997 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
998 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
999 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
1000
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1001* /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
1002 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1003 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1004 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1005
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1006* add high-level lockdown level for GPT dissection logic: e.g. an enum that can
1007 be ANY (to mount anything), TRUSTED (to require that /usr is on signed
1008 verity, but rest doesn't matter), LOCKEDDOWN (to require that everything is
1009 on signed verity, except for ESP), SUPERLOCKDOWN (like LOCKEDDOWN but ESP not
1010 allowed). And then maybe some flavours of that that declare what is expected
1011 from home/srv/var… Then, add a new cmdline flag to all tools that parse such
1012 images, to configure this. Also, add a kernel cmdline option for this, to be
1013 honoured by the gpt auto generator.
1014
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1015 Alternative idea: add "systemd.gpt_auto_policy=rhvs" to allow gpt-auto to
1016 only mount root dir, /home/ dir, /var/ and /srv/, but nothing else. And then
1017 minor extension to this, insisting on encryption, for example
af3d3873 1018 "systemd.gpt_auto_policy=r+v+h" to require encryption for root and var but not
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1019 for /home/, and similar. Similar add --image-dissect-policy= to tools that
1020 take --image= that take the same short string.
1021
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1023 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1024 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1025 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1026 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1027 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1028 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1029 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1030 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1031 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1032 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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1034* add a "policy" to the dissection logic. i.e. a bit mask what is OK to mount,
1035 what must be read-only, what requires encryption, and what requires
1036 authentication.
1037
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1038* in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
1039 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1040 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1042* rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
1043
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1046* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1047 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1048 that images cannot be misused.
1049
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178d3ff2 1051 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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1052 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1053 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1054 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1055
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1056* sysupdate:
1057 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1058 - support casync as download mechanism
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1059 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1060 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1061 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1062 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1063 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
1064 override the host's update files.)
1065 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1066 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1067 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1068 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1069
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1070* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1071
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1072* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1073 make dirs appear under right UID.
1074
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1075* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1076 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1077
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1078* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
1079 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
1080 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
1081 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
1082 for doing that.
1083
24063ba1 1084* introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
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1085 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1086 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1087 already have it.
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1089* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1090 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1091
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1092* add an Open= setting to service unit files that can open arbitrary file
1093 system paths at service startup time and pass them to the service process via
1094 our usual socket activation protocol. If passed path refers to AF_UNIX
1095 socket: connect() to it.
1096
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1097* Similar, ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
1098
1099* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1100 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1101 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1102 /proc/self/fd/3
1103
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1104* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1105 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1106 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1107
1108* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1109 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1110
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1111* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1112 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1113
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1114* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1115 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1116 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1117 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1118 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
1119
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1120* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1121
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1123 - acquire from EFI variable?
1124 - acquire via via ask-password?
1125 - acquire creds via keyring?
1126 - pass creds via keyring?
1127 - pass creds via memfd?
1128 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1129 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1130 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1131 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1132 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1133 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
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1134 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
1135 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
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1137* add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
1138 firmware indicates there is one.
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1140* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1141 and such
1142
1143* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
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1145* cyptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
1146
7d7c75f1 1147* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1148 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1149
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1150* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1151 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
7d7c75f1 1152
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1153* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1154
1155* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1156 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1157
1158* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1159 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1160
1161* cryptsetup:
1162 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1163 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1164
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1165* when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
1166 it happens to be set up alright already.
1167
1168* at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
1169
1170* userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
1171 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
1172 default.
1173
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1174* sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
1175 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
1176 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
1177 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
1178 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
1179
08d33656 1180* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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1182* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1183 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1184
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1185* change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
1186 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
1187 temporary dir.
1188
1189* special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
1190 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1191
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1192* add a new flag to chase_symlinks() that stops chasing once the first missing
1193 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1194
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1195* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1196
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1197* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1198
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1199* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
1200
1201* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1202
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1203* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1204 when it exits
1205
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1206* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1207 o turn into dlopen() deps:
cdfd8537 1208 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 1209 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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1210 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1211 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1212 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1213 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
1214 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
1215
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1216* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1217 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1218 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1219
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1220* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1221 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1222
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1223* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1224
1225* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1226 specific service
1227
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1228* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1229 exists and responds.
1230
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1231* Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
1232 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
1233 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
1234
91fc013f 1235* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1236 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1237
7e8facb3 1238* unify on openssl:
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1239 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1240 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1241 gnutls
1242 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
492f91d8 1243
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1244* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1245 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1246
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1247* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1248 realname substr searches in varlink API
006c44c1 1249
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1250* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1251
2a4be3c5 1252* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1253
f1eb0ccd 1254* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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1256* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1257 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1258 initrd had set.
1259
173c7873 1260* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1261 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1262 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1263 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1264 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1265 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1266
1267* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1268 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1269 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1270
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1271* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1272 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1273 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1274 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1275 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1276 source.
1277
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1278* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1279 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1280 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1281
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1282* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1283
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1284* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
1285 the hibernation
1286
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1287* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1288 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1289 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1290 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1291 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1292 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1293 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1294 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1295 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1296 hibernation mode. (see
1297 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1298 section 10.2.2.8 and
1299 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1300 at the end).
1301
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1302* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1303 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1304
c6526b8d 1305* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
312dc153 1306
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1307* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1308 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1309 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1310 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1311 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1312 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1313 exec().
1314
1315* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1316
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1317* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1318 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1319
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1320* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1321 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1322
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1323* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1324 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1325 root.
1326
1327* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1328 is issued.
1329
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1330* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1331
1332* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1333
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1334* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1335 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1336 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1337
d238709c 1338* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1339 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1340 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1341
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1342* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1343
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1344* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1345 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1346
06898123 1347* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1348 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1349 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1350 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
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1352* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1353
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1354* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
1355 log.c and sd-journal-send
1356
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1357* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1358
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1359* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
1360
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1361* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1362 non-zero "tries done" count
1363
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1364* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1365 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1366 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1367 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1368 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1369 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1370 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1371 CODE_FILE.
1372
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1373* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1374 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1375 some explanatory text online.
1376
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1377* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1378
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1379* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1380 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1381
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1382* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
1383 Specifically:
1384
1385 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
1386 properly)
e83419d0 1387 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 1388 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
c633b0a6 1389
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1390* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1391 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1392
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1393* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1394 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1395 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1396 files and suchlike we operate on.
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1398* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1399
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1400* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1401
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1402* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1403 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1404
5da19043 1405* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1406 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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1408* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1409 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1410 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1411 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1412 unlinked from any dir.
1413
bd1b3f75 1414* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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1416* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1417
1418* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1419
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1420* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
1421 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
1422 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
1423 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
1424 should reflink the image file itself.
1425
1426 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
1427 specific paths only like this.
1428
53c70a27 1429* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1430 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1431 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1432 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1433 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1434
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1435* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1436
1437* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1438
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1439* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1440 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1441
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1442* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1443 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1444 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1445 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1446 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1447 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
1448 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1449 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1450
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1451* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1452 for root, but only then.
586a8e93 1453
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1454* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
1455
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1456* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1457 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1458
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1459* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1460 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1461
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1462* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1463 only when used. Add unit tests.
1464
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1465* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1466 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1467
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1468* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1469 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1470 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1471 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1472 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1473
899feb72 1474* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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1476* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
1477 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
1478 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
1479
5f7ecd61 1480* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
5962e9db 1481
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1482* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1483 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1484
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1485* blog about fd store and restartable services
1486
1487* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1488
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1489* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1490 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1491
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1492* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1493 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1494 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1495 ID is available.
1496
1497* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1498 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1499 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1500
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1501* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1502 parameters
1503
63a185dc 1504* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1505 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1506 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1507 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1508 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1509 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1510 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
6fc373ee 1511
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1512* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1513 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1514
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1515* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1516 about it in the resource log message
1517
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1518* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1519 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1520 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1521
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1522* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1523 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1524
1525 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1526
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1527* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1528 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1529 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1530
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1531* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1532 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1533
1534* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1535 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1536 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1537 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1538 natural habitat.
1539
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1540* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1541 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
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1543* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1544 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1545 relative to the configured default value.
1546
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1547* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1548
04397464 1549* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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1551* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1552
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1553* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1554
04397464 1555* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1556
04397464 1557* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1558
04397464 1559* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1560
8ce9b83a 1561* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1562
1563* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1564 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1565 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1566
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1567* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1568 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1569
e40a326c 1570* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 1571
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1572* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1573 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1574 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1575 mapping to work.
1576
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1577* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1578
1579* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1580
1581* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1582
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1583* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1584 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1585
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1586* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1587 reload the unit file anyway
1588
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1589* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1590
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1591* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1592
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1593* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1594 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1595
f9bf1b8f 1596* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1597 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1598 specifications.
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1600* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1601
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1602* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1603
a2088fd0 1604* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1605 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1606 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1607 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
a2088fd0 1608
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1609* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1610
931bc195 1611* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
b18d23d7 1612
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1613* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1614 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1615 state.
41d6f3bf 1616 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
60d17b74 1617
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1618* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1619 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1620 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1621 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1622 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1623
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1624* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1625
d2f81fb0 1626* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1627 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1628
0a86c1a9 1629* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1630 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1631
e031c227 1632* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1633 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1634
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1635* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1636
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1637* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1638 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1639
25e773ee 1640* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1641
720652b3 1642* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1643
720652b3 1644* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1645
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1646* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
1647
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1648* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1649 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1650
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1651* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1652
9d6db739 1653* resolved:
9d6db739 1654 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1655 - service registration
1656 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1657 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1658 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1659 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1660 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1661 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1662 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1663 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1664
e25b5a8d 1665* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1666
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1667* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1668
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1669* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1670
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1671* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1672
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1673* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1674
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1675* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1676 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1677
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1678* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1679
6a3f892a 1680* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1681 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1682 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1683
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1684* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1685 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1686 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1687
f9bf1b8f 1688* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1689
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1690* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1691 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1692 for ReusePort=
1693
f38afcd0 1694* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1695 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1696 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1697 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1698 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1699 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1700 the hierarchies of child processes
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1701- add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1702 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1703
f38afcd0 1704* transient units:
f38afcd0 1705 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1706
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1707* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1708
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1709* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1710
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1711* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1712
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1713* 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
1714
7f79cd71 1715* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 1716
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1717* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1718 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1719 path anyway.
1720
04397464 1721* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1722
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1723* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1724
1725* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1726
07eabc2b 1727* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1728
07eabc2b 1729* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1730
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1731* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1732
1733* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1734 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1735 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1736
1737* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1738 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1739
1740* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1741
1742* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1743
1744* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1745
1746* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1747 needs to be auto-respawned?
1748
1749* pid1:
1750 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1751 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1752 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1753 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1754 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
07eabc2b 1755 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
41d6f3bf 1756 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
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1757 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1758 - move PAM code into its own binary
1759 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1760 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1761 - Support --test based on current system state
1762 - 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().
1763 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1764 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1765 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1766 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1767 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1768 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1769 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1770 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1771 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1772 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1773 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1774 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1775
1776* unit files:
1777 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1778 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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1779 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1780 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1781 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1782 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1783 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1784 - introduce Type=pid-file
1785 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1786 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1787 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1788
1789* timer units:
63a185dc 1790 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1791 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1792
1793* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1794
1795* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1796
1797* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1798
1799* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1800
07eabc2b 1801* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1802
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1803* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1804
1805* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1806
fff87a35 1807* test/:
20d52ab6 1808 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1809
b5c03638 1810* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1811 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1812 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1813 destination.
1814
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1815* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1816 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1817
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1818* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1819
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1820* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1821 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1822 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1823
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1824* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1825 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1826
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1827* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1828 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1829 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1830 that automatically.
1831
e5ec62c5 1832* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1833
ccddd104 1834* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1835
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1836* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1837
356ce991 1838* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1839
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1840* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1841
1842* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1843
1844* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1845
1846* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1847
1848* sd-bus:
1849 - EBADSLT handling
1850 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1851 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1852 - 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
1853 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1854 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1855 - longer term: priority inheritance
1856 - dbus spec updates:
1857 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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1858 - path escaping
1859 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1860
1861* sd-event
1862 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1863 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1864 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1865 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1866 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1867 here:
1868 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1869
1870* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1871 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1872
1873* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1874
1875* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1876
1877* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1878
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1879* systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
1880 reading/writing files
1881
1882* firstboot: make it useful to be run immediately after yum --installroot to set up a machine. (most specifically, make --copy-root-password work even if /etc/passwd already exists
1883
b44be3ec 1884* EFI:
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1885 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1886 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1887 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1888* bootctl
631427d6 1889 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1890
07eabc2b 1891* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 1892
07eabc2b 1893* bootctl:
483091b0 1894 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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1895 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1896 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
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1897
1898* kernel-install:
1899 - optionally, support generating type #2 entries instead of type #1, including signing them
e6c6e7af 1900
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1901* logind:
1902 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1903 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1904 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1905 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1906 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1907 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1908 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1909 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1910 needs setuid().
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1911 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1912 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1913 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1914 complete.
1915 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1916 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1917 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 1918 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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1919 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1920 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1921 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1922 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1923 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1924 relogins
77b19caf 1925 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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1926 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
1927 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
1928 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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1929
1930* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1931
1932* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1933 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1934 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1935
1936* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1937 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1938
b44be3ec 1939* journal:
57f2a947 1940 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1941 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1942 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1943 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 1944 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1945 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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1946 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1947 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1948 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 1949 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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1950 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1951 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 1952 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
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1953 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1954 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 1955 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 1956 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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1957 - 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.
1958 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1959 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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1960 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1961 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1962 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1963 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 1964 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 1965 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 1966 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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1967 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1968 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1969 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1970 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1971 to syslog when it works again.
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1972 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1973 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1974 journals in.
1975 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1976 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1977 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1978 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1979 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 1980 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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1981 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1982 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1983 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1984 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1985 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1986 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1987 operation.
1988 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1989 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1990 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1991 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 1992 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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1993 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1994 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1995 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1996 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 1997 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
b44be3ec 1998
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1999* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2000 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2001
2002* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2003 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2004 validated via TPM.
2005
2006* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2007 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2008
2009* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2010 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2011 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2012
2013* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2014 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2015 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2016 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2017 cgroup.
2018
2019* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2020 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2021 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2022 logging.
2023
2024* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2025
2026* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2027 from the SIGBUS handler
2028
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2030 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2031 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2032 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2033
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2034* homed:
2035 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2036 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2037 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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2038 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2039 - create on activate?
2040 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2041 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2042 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2043 systemd --user is shut down.
2044 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2045 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2046 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2047 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2048 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2049 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2050 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2051 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2052 - query password from kernel keyring first
2053 - update even if record is "absent"
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2054 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2055 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2056 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2057 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2058 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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2059 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2060 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2061 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 2062 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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2063 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2064 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2065 signature
2066 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2067 and insert a local signature instead.
2068 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2069 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2070 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2071 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2072 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2073 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2074 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2075 easily?
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2076 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2077 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2078 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2079 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2080 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2081 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2082 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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2083 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2084 can easily set overall quota for all users
2085 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2086 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 2087 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 2088 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
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2089 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2090 large.
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2092* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2093 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2094 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2095
2df2bb1f 2096* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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2097
2098* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2099 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2100 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2101 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2102
2103* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2104
2105* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2106 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2107 something goes wrong on the way.
2108
2109* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
2110
2111* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2112 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2113 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2114 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2115
2116* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2117 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2118 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2119 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2120 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2121 automatically.
2122
2123* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2124 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2125
2126* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2127 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2128 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2129 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2130 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2131 fails to apply use the latter.
2132
2133* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2134 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2135
2136* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2137 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2138
2139* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2140 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2141 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
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2142
2143* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2144 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2145
92e72028 2146* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
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2147 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2148 during boot.
2149
2150* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2151
b44be3ec 2152* document:
8b8f2591 2153 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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2154 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2155 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2156 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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2157 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2158 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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2159 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2160 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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2161 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2162 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2163 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2164 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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2165
2166* systemctl:
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2167 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2168 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2169 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2170 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2171 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2172 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2173 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2174 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2175 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 2176 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
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2178* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2179 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2180 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2181
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2182* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
2183 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
2184 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
2185 output for them.
d2e83c23 2186
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2187* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2188 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2189 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2190
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2191* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2192 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2193 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 2194
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2195* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2196 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
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2198* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2199 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2200 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2201 do, for example)
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2203* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2204 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2205 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2206 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2207
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2208* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2209
2210* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2211
2212* unit install:
2213 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2214 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
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2217 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2218 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2219 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2220 from the kernel's logs.
2221 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2222 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2223 interface be missing
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2224 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2225 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2226 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2227 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2228 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2229 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2230 PID 1...
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2231 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2232 running, remove them when shut down.
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2233 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2234 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2235 startup.
2236 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2237 or so, freeze the payload too.
2238 - support time namespaces
2239 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2240 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2241 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2242 "machinectl shell"
2243 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2244 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2245 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2246 - greater control over selinux label?
2247 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2248 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2249 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2250 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2251 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2252 host TPM.
2253 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2254 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2255 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2256 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2257 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2258 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2259 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2260 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
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2261 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2262 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
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2263 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2264 or two sockets.
3734fec7 2265 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
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2266
2267* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2268 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2269 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2270 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2271 anything like that.
2272
e25b5a8d 2273* machined:
e25b5a8d
DH
2274 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2275 removed or added to an existing machine
2276 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2277 difference host, via ssh
e25b5a8d
DH
2278 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2279 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2280 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2281 question
e25b5a8d
DH
2282 - "machinectl history"
2283 - "machinectl diff"
2284 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2285 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2286
abd55b16 2287* udev:
abd55b16 2288 - move to LGPL
abd55b16
KS
2289 - kill scsi_id
2290 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2291 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2292 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2293 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2294
e25b5a8d
DH
2295* coredump:
2296 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2297 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2298 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
87a8baa3
LP
2299
2300* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2301
f38afcd0 2302* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 2303 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 2304 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
e25b5a8d
DH
2305 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2306 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2307 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 2308 - add --test mode
ba405b22
ZJS
2309 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2310 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2311 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
1258097c 2312
af6f0d42
TG
2313* udev-link-config:
2314 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2315 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2316 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2317
88e4d1d7 2318* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2319 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2320 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2321
0a4b9a07 2322* networkd:
c74ecd71
TG
2323 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2324 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2325 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2326 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2327 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2328 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
e25b5a8d
DH
2329 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2330 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2331 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2332 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2333 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
DH
2334 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2335 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2336 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2337 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2338 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2339 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2340 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2341
07eabc2b
LB
2342* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2343
d5e172d2
ZJS
2344* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2345
ac976532 2346* dhcp:
424a8732 2347 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2348
37d8b536
PF
2349* dhcp6:
2350 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2351 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2352 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2353 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 2354 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
37d8b536
PF
2355 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2356 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2357 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2358 or interface down
2359 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2360 this behavior
4a77c53d 2361 - RouteTable= ?