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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
3a9e659a 57 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/early boot
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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
72
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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
f461a28d 78* get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase() and related
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79 calls instead.
80
81* get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
82
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83* Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
84 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
85 libmount for something so trivial.
86
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87* drop set_free_free() and switch things over from string_hash_ops to
88 string_hash_ops_free everywhere, so that destruction is implicit rather than
89 explicit. Similar, for other special hashmap/set/ordered_hashmap destructors.
90
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91* generators sometimes apply C escaping and somethines specifier escaping to
92 paths and similar strings they write out. Sometimes both. We should clean
93 this up, and should probably always apply both, i.e. introduce
94 unit_file_escape() or so, which applies both.
95
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96Deprecations and removals:
97
98* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
99 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
100
3a9e659a 101* remove cgroupv1 support EOY 2023. As per
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102 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
103 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
104 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
105
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106* drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
107 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
9eb41aab 108 is only supported for such old kernels.
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110* drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
111 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
112
9eb41aab 113* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
3345802c 114 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
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115 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
116 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
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117 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
118
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119* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
120 baseline is 5.8.
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122* drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
123 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
124
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125* Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
126 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
127 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
128
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129* Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
130 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
131
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132* remove remaining tpm1.2 support from sd-stub
133
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134Features:
135
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136* vmspawn:
137 - enable hyperv extension by default (https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/i386/hyperv.html)
138 - register with machined
139 - run in scope unit when invoked from command line, and machined registration is off
140 - support --directory= via virtiofs
141 - sd_notify support
142 - --ephemeral support
143 - --read-only support
144 - automatically suspend/resume the VM if the host suspends. Use logind
145 suspend inhibitor to implement this. request clean suspend by generating
146 suspend key presses.
147 - support for "real" networking via "-n" and --network-bridge=
148 - automatically run service "at the side" for swtpm
149 - translate SIGTERM to clean ACPI shutdown event
150
151* systemd-pcrmachine should probably also measure the SMBIOS system UUID.
152
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153* sd-boot: allow synthesizing additional type1 entries via SMBIOS vendor strings
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155* storagetm:
156 - add USB mass storage device logic, so that all local disks are also exposed
157 as mass storage devices on systems that have a USB controller that can
158 operate in device mode
159 - add NVMe authentication
160 - show login details also via plymouth
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162* add support for activating nvme-oF devices at boot automatically via kernel
163 cmdline, and maybe even support a syntax such as
164 root=nvme:<trtype>:<traddr>:<trsvcid>:<nqn>:<partition> to boot directly from
165 nvme-oF
166
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167* pcrlock:
168 - make signed PCR work together with pcrlock
169 - add kernel-install plugin that automatically creates UKI .pcrlock file when
170 UKI is installed, and removes it when it is removed again
171 - automatically install PE measurement of sd-boot on "bootctl install"
172 - write generated pcrlock signature files to the ESP as credential, one for
173 each installed OS & pick up generated pcrlock signature file in sd-stub,
174 pass it via initrd to OS
175 - pre-calc sysext + kernel cmdline measurements
176 - pre-calc cryptsetup root key measurement
177 - maybe make systemd-repart generate .pcrlock for old and new GPT header in
178 /run?
179 - Add support for more than 8 branches per PCR OR
180 - add "systemd-pcrlock lock-kernel-current" or so which synthesizes .pcrlock
181 policy from currently booted kernel/event log, to close gap for first boot
182 for pre-built images
183
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184* add a new systemd-project@.service that is very similar to user@.service but
185 uses DynamicUser=1 and no PAMName= to invoke an unprivileged somewhat
186 light-weight service manager. Use HOME=/var/lib/systemd/projects/%i as home
187 dir. Similar for $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. Start project@%i.target. Use LogField= to
188 add a field identifying the project.
189
190* logind: add a new dbus call Sleep() which automatically redirects to one of
191 Suspend(), Hibernate(), SuspendThenHibernate() depending on what is
192 available, and also subject to some local configuration in
193 logind.conf. Should default to SuspendThenHibernate() if available, and then
194 fallback to Suspend() and finally Hibernate() if not. Then expose this as
195 "systemctl sleep", and tell DEs to default to this.
196
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197* in sd-boot and sd-stub measure the SMBIOS vendor strings to some PCR (at
198 least some subset of them that look like systemd stuff), because apparently
199 some firmware does not, but systemd honours it. avoid duplicate measurement
200 by sd-boot and sd-stub by adding LoaderFeatures/StubFeatures flag for this,
201 so that sd-stub can avoid it if sd-boot already did it.
202
203* cryptsetup: a mechanism that allows signing a volume key with some key that
204 has to be present in the kernel keyring, or similar, to ensure that confext
205 DDIs can be encrypted against the local SRK but signed with the admin's key
206 and thus can authenticated locally before they are decrypted.
207
208* image policy should be extended to allow dictating *how* a disk is unlocked,
209 i.e. root=encrypted-tpm2+encrypted-fido2 would mean "root fs must be
210 encrypted and unlocked via fido2 or tpm2, but not otherwise"
211
212* systemd-repart: add support for formatting dm-crypt + dm-integrity file
213 systems.
214
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215* homed: use systemd-storagetm to expose home dirs via nvme-tcp. Then,
216 teach homed/pam_systemd_homed with a user name such as
217 lennart%nvme_tcp_192.168.100.77_8787 to log in from any linux host with the
218 same home dir. Similar maybe for nbd, iscsi? this should then first ask for
219 the local root pw, to authenticate that logging in like this is ok, and would
220 then be followed by another password prompt asking for the user's own
221 password. Also, do something similar for CIFS: if you log in via
0e9f2297 222 lennart%cifs-someserver_someshare, then set up the homed dir for it
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223 automatically. The PAM module should update the user name used for login to
224 the short version once it set up the user. Some care should be taken, so that
225 the long version can be still be resolved via NSS afterwards, to deal with
226 PAM clients that do not support PAM sessions where PAM_USER changes half-way.
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228* redefine /var/lib/extensions/ as the dir one can place all three of sysext,
229 confext as well is multi-modal DDIs that qualify as both. Then introduce
230 /var/lib/sysexts/ which can be used to place only DDIs that shall be used as
231 sysext
232
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233* in pid1: move out all cgroup state settings from Unit into a new object
234 CGroupState or so which is allocated when we realize the unit into a cgroup,
235 and then remains referenced by it. The new object should also carry an fd to
236 the realized cgroup, to pin it (and later execute all cgroup operations over,
237 once we drop cgroupv1 compat).
238
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239* add new "systemd-ssh-generator", which allows basic ssh config via
240 credentials (host key). It generates sshd.socket for IP, but also
241 sshd-vsock.socket for listening on AF_VSOCK when running in a VM, and
242 sshd-unix.socket on AF_UNIX when running in a container. It also generates a
243 matching sshd.service file with a host key passed in on the cmdline via
244 credentials. Then, add a ssh_config drop-in that matches some suitable
245 hostname pattern and has a ProxyCommand set that allows connecting to any
246 local VM/container that way without any networking configured.
247
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248* Varlinkification of the following command line tools, to open them up to
249 other programs via IPC:
250 - bootctl
251 - journalctl (allowing journal read access via IPC)
252 - coredumpcl
253 - systemd-bless-boot
254 - systemd-measure
255 - systemd-creds (allowing clients to encrypt credentials locally)
256 - systemd-cryptenroll (to allow UIs to enroll FIDO2 keys and such)
257 - systemd-dissect
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258 - systemd-sysupdate
259 - systemd-analyze
260 - kernel-install
261
262* Varlink: add glue code to allow varlink clients to be authenticated via
263 Polkit by passing client pidfd over.
264
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265* in the service manager, pick up ERRNO= + BUSERROR= + VARLINKERROR= error
266 identifiers, and store them along with the exit status of a server and report
267 via "systemctl status".
268
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269* enumerate virtiofs devices during boot-up in a generator, and synthesize
270 mounts for rootfs, /usr/, /home/, /srv/ and some others from it, depending on
02c9d62b 271 the "tag". (waits for: https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd/-/issues/128)
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273* automatically mount one virtiofs during early boot phase to /run/host/,
274 similar to how we do that for nspawn, based on some clear tag.
275
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276* add some service that makes an atomic snapshot of PCR state and event log up
277 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
278
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279* encode type1 entries in some UKI section to add additional entries to the
280 menu.
281
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282* Add ACL-based access management to .socket units. i.e. add AllowPeerUser= +
283 AllowPeerGroup= that installs additional user/group ACL entries on AF_UNIX
284 sockets.
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286* systemd-tpm2-setup should probably have a factory reset logic, i.e. when some
287 kernel command line option is set we reset the TPM (equivalent of tpm2_clear
288 -c owner?).
289
290* systemd-tpm2-setup should support a mode where we refuse booting if the SRK
291 changed. (Must be opt-in, to not break systems which are supposed to be
292 migratable between PCs)
293
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294* when systemd-sysext learns mutable /usr/ (and systemd-confext mutable /etc/)
295 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
296 snapshot logic
297
298* add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
299 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
300 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
fcdd21ec 301 i.e. without recompiling the kernel, taking an upstream OS' kernel and adding
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302 a local key to it.
303
a1f7cdc6 304* PidRef conversion work:
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305 - cg_pid_get_xyz()
306 - pid_from_same_root_fs()
307 - get_ctty_devnr()
1158b06b 308 - pid1: sd_notify() receiver should use SCM_PIDFD to authenticate client
4775b55d 309 - actually wait for POLLIN on pidref's pidfd in service logic
1158b06b 310 - exec_spawn() + safe_fork()
a1f7cdc6 311 - openpt_allocate_in_namespace()
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312 - sd_bus_creds
313 - unit_attach_pid_to_cgroup_via_bus()
314 - cg_attach() – requires new kernel feature
315 - varlink_get_peer_pid()
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317* ddi must be listed as block device fstype
318
319* measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
320 mode.
321
3a9e659a 322* homed: add a basic form of secrets management to homed, that stores
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323 secrets in $HOME somewhere, is protected by the accounts own authentication
324 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
325 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
326 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
327 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
328 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
329
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330* use sd-event ratelimit feature optionally for journal stream clients that log
331 too much
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fcdd21ec 333* systemd-mount should only consider modern file systems when mounting, similar
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334 to systemd-dissect
335
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336* add another PE section ".fname" or so that encodes the intended filename for
337 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
338 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
339 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
340 control of the attacker.
341
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342* also include packaging metadata (á la
343 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
344 same JSON format.
345
346* make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
347 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
348 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
349 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
350 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
351 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
352 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
353 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
354 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
355 newer.
356
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357* in sd-stub: optionally add support for a new PE section .keyring or so that
358 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
359 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
360 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
361 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
362 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
363 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
364 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
365
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366* resolved: take possession of some IPv6 ULA address (let's say
367 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
368 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
369
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370* introduce a .microcode PE section for sd-stub which we'll pass as first initrd
371 to the kernel which will then upload it to the CPU. This should be distinct
372 from .initrd to guarantee right ordering. also, and maybe more importantly
373 support .microcode in PE add-ons, so that a microcode update can be shipped
9a27ef09 374 independently of any kernel.
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376* Maybe add SwitchRootEx() as new bus call that takes env vars to set for new
377 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
378 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
379 requested during switch root.
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381* introduce a .acpitable section for early ACPI table override
382
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383* add proper .osrel matching for PE addons. i.e. refuse applying an addon
384 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
385 matched against OS.
386
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387* figure out what to do about credentials sealed to PCRs in kexec + soft-reboot
388 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
389 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
390
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391* logind: when logging in, always take an fd to the home dir, to keep the dir
392 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
393 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
394 namespaces)
395
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396* mount most file systems with a restrictive uidmap. e.g. mount /usr/ with a
397 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
398
399* mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
400 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
401 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
402
f447b741 403* fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
94d82b59 404 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
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405 "*:foobar:*", to wildcard match both the start and the end of the string.
406 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
407 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
408 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
409
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410* mount /tmp/ and /var/tmp with a uidmap applied that blocks out "nobody" user
411 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
94d82b59 412 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
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413 used transiently, never persistently.
414
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415* rework loopback support in fstab: when "loop" option is used, then
416 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
417 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
418 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
419 based on lo_file_name.
420
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421* remove tomoyo support, it's obsolete and unmaintained apparently
422
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423* In .socket units, add ConnectStream=, ConnectDatagram=,
424 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
425 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
426 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
427 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
428 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
429 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
430 activation-by-message id and similar.
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432* .service with invalid Sockets= starts successfully.
433
512f2da5 434* landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
3a9e659a 435 ability to write anywhere else below /run/. Similar for
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436 StateDirectory=. Benefit would be clear delegation via unit files: services
437 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
438
439* landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
440 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
441 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
442 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
443 similar behaviour for system services, too.
444
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445* Add systemd-mount@.service which is instantiated for a block device and
446 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
447 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
448
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449* udevd: extend memory pressure logic: also kill any idle worker processes
450
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451* udevadm: to make symlink querying with udevadm nicer:
452 - do not enable the pager for queries like 'udevadm info -q -r symlink'
453 - add mode with newlines instead of spaces (for grep)?
454
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455* SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
456 localed, oomd, timedated.
457
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458* repart/gpt-auto/DDIs: maybe introduce a concept of "extension" partitions,
459 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
460 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
461 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
462 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
463 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
627cdcc7 464 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
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465 from the uuid of the original partition it extends. Inspiration for this is
466 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
467 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
468 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
469 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
470 access.
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472* Use CLONE_INTO_CGROUP to spawn systemd-executor, once glibc supports it in
473 posix_spawn().
474
475* Make nspawn to a frontend for systemd-executor, so that we have to ways into
476 the executor: via unit files/dbus/varlink through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI
477 through nspawn.
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479* sd-stub: detect if we are running with uefi console output on serial, and if so
480 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
481
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482* add a utility that can be used with the kernel's
483 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
484 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
485 for all umh processes.
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488 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
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490* homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
491 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
492 resize.
493
494* homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
495 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
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498 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
499 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
500 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
501 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
502 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
503 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
504 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
505 system actually reset.
506
507* systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
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509 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
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512 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
513 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
514 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
515
4cb8a25b 516* sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
1c904337 517 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
fcdd21ec 518 is then useful for network boot, by embedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
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522 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
523 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
524 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
525 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
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528 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
529 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
530 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
531 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
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536 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
7227dd81 537 Use case: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
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539
084ecae5 540* maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
7227dd81 541 cmdline. use case: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
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543* systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
544 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
545 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
546
6d040d84 547* sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
4cb8a25b 548 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
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550* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
551 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
552 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
553 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
554 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
555 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
556 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
557 usual.
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560
561* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
562
563* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
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566 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
567 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
568 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
569 sockaddr.
570
571* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
572 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
573 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
574 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
575 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
576 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
577 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
578 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
579 try to use inode from there.
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582 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
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585 extensions
586
587* gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
588 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
589 for the root fs or /usr/.
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592 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
593 combination thereof.
594
595* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
596 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
597 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
598 ahead of time.
599
600* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
601 aforementioned purpose.
602
603* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
604 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
605
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607 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
608 to figure out:
609 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
610 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
611 subsequent boots?
612
dbc62e59 613* provide an API (probably IPC) to apps to encrypt/decrypt
7227dd81 614 credentials. use case: allow bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd
dbc62e59 615 that way, without shelling out to our tools.
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618 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
619 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
620 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
621 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
622 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
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624 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
625 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
626 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
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629 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
630 used)
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633 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
634 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
635 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
636 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
637
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639 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
640 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
641 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 642 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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644
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646 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
647 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
648
649* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
650 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
651
652* implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
653 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
654 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
655 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
656 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
657 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
658
659* add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
660 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
661 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
662
663* systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
664
665* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
666 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
7227dd81 667 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Use case: remove secondary OS
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669
670* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
671 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
672 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
673 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
674 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
675 only one for each OS.
676
677* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
678 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 679 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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681 boot, for the next.
682
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684 similar behind it, instead of http.
685
686* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
687 boot, or on first boot.
688
689* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
690 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
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693 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
694 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
695 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
696 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
697 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
698 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
699 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
700 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
701 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
702 until users are allowed to log in).
703
704* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
705 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
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708 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
709 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
7227dd81 710 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Use case: systemd-confext
b60e0f57 711 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
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713 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
714 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
b60e0f57 715 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
716 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
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718
719* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
720 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
721 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
722 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
7227dd81 723 enhanced remote attestation quote. Use case: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 724 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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726 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
b60e0f57 727 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
728 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
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730 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
731 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
b60e0f57 732 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
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734 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
735 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
736 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
b60e0f57 737 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
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739 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
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742 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
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745 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
746
747* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
748 instead of manual blocking.
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751 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
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754 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
755 supplied password.
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758 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
759 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
760 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
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763 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
764 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
fcdd21ec 765 convenience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
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767* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
768 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
769 automatically derived from --private-key=).
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772 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
773 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
774
775* Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
776 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
777 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
7227dd81 778 use as additional search condition. Use case: images that combined a sysext
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780
781* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
782 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
783 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
784 modules
785
b60e0f57 786* for systemd-confext: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
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788 a new name with a built-in config?
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791 maybe on kernel command line:
792 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
793 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
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796 hash type, etc)
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800
f461a28d 801* chase(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
4e0ceefe 802 but final node is not a directory
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805 non-VFAT fs is used.
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808
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810 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
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817 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
818 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
819 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
820 affect PCR values.
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823 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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826 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
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829 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
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832 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
833
834* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
835 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
836
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839 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
840 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
841 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
842 use it.
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845 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
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848 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
849 what it was signed.
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852 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
853 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
854 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
855 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
856 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
857 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
858 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
859 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
860 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
861 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
862 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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865 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
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868 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
869 via the credentials logic.
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871 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
872 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
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874 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
875 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
876 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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878 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
879 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
880 file system paths to enable on start.
881 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
882 usr=
883 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
884 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
7227dd81 885 register if not registered yet. Use case: deploy a system, and add an
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888 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
889 pre-built kernels.
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892 runtime state. Then, expose it:
893
894 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
895 about the unit.
896 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
897 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
898 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
899 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
900 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
901 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
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904 what to do if support ended
905
906* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
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e1b45a75 909* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 910 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
7227dd81 911 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Use case: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 912 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 913 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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916 initrd transition. Specifically:
917 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
918 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
919 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
920
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47b86590 922 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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924 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
925 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
926 depending on desired level of persistency.
927
928* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
929 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
1c904337 930 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
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932 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
933 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
934 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
935 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
936
937* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
938 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
939 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
940 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
941
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943
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944* add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
945
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947 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
948 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
7227dd81 949 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Use case: container
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951 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
952 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
953 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
3881fd40 954 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
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956 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
957 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
958 not unprivileged code.
959
960* given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
02c914ef 961 that hooks up userdbctl ssh-key stuff.
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964 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
965 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
966 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
967
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969 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
970 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
971 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
30fd9a2d 972 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
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973 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
974 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
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975 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is the only way to enter developer mode, by
976 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
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978* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
979 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
980 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
981 order.
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984 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
985 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
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988 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
989 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
990 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 991 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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992 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
993 IN_IGNORED again)
994
5b06ad51 995* for vendor-built signed initrds:
a4b329e6 996 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
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997 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
998 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
999 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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1000 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
1001 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
5b06ad51 1002 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
62471289 1003 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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1004 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
1005 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
1006 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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1009 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
1010 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
2df2bb1f 1011
03ede612 1012* sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
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1014 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 1015 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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1016 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
1017 directly to host service manager.
1018
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1019* sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
1020 no api to query the device id
1021
1022* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1023 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1024 also be queried.
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1026* sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
1027 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1028 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1029 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
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1031* sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
1032 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1033 latter).
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1035* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1036
1037* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
1038
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1039* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
1040 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
1041 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
1042 generated by GNU sha256sums.
1043
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1045 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
02c914ef 1046 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
47a9f917 1047 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
7227dd81 1048 to the menu. Use case: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
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1050
1051* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
1052 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
1053 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
5bc9ea07 1054 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
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1055 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
1056 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
1057 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
1058 hence cheap for enumeration.
1059
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1061
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1062* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
1063 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1064 words: show partition labels).
1065
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1067 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
5bc9ea07 1068 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
7227dd81 1069 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. Use case:
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1070 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
1071 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
1072 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
1073
e4f92a62 1074* deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
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1076* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
1077
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1078* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1079 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1080 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1081 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1082 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1083 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1084 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1085 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1086 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1087 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1088
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1090 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
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1092* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
1093 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
1094
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1095* doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
1096 jobs, units
1097
a57d72ce 1098* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
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1100 userspace)
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1105 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1106
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1109
1110* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1111 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
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1113* cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
1114 internal clock.
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1116* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1117 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1118
1119* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1120 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1121 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1122 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
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1125 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1126 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1127
1128* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
1129 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
1130 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
1131 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
1132 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
1133 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
1134 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
1135 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
1136 thread:
1137 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
1138 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
1139 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
1140 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
1141 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
1142 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
1143
1144* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
1145 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
1146 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
1147
1148* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
1149 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
1150 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
1151 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
1152 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
1153 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
1154 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
1155 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
1156 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
1157 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
1158 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1159 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1160 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1161 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1162 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
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1165 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
7227dd81 1166 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Use case: drop a root user JSON record there,
bb5464ad 1167 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
7227dd81 1168 for debugging purposes. Other use case: boot into qemu with regular user
11b957b5 1169 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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1171* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
30fd9a2d 1172 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
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1174
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1176 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1177 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1178 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1179 on-disk storage.
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1182 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1183 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1184 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1185 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1186
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1187* portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
1188 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1189 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
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1191* logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
1192 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
1193 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
1194 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
1195 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
1196 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
1197 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
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1200 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1201 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1202 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1203
3fc0688d 1204* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
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1205 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1206 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1207 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1208 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1209 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1210 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1211 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1212 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1213 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1214 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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1217 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1218 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1220* rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
1221
63a185dc 1222* PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
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1224* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1225 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1226 that images cannot be misused.
1227
aca8ecc3 1228* New udev block device symlink names:
178d3ff2 1229 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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1230 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1231 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1232 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1233
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1235 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1236 - support casync as download mechanism
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1237 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1238 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1239 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1240 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1241 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
1242 override the host's update files.)
1243 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1244 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1245 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1246 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1247
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1248* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1249
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1250* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1251 make dirs appear under right UID.
1252
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1253* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1254 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1255
24063ba1 1256* introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
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1258 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1259 already have it.
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1261* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1262 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1263
1c904337 1264* Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
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1266* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1267 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1268 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1269 /proc/self/fd/3
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1271* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1272 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1273 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1274
1275* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
7227dd81 1276 that is deleted in the fs. Use case would be with ConnectSocket= above.
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1278* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1279 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
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1281* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1282 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1283 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1284 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1285 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
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1288
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199b097d 1290 - acquire from EFI variable?
30fd9a2d 1291 - acquire via ask-password?
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1293 - pass creds via keyring?
1294 - pass creds via memfd?
1295 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1296 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1297 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1298 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1299 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1300 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
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1301 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
1302 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
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1305 firmware indicates there is one.
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1307* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1308 and such
1309
1310* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
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02c914ef 1312* cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
80670e74 1313
7d7c75f1 1314* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1315 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1316
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1317* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1318 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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1321
1322* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1323 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1324
1325* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1326 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1327
1328* cryptsetup:
1329 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1330 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1331
08d33656 1332* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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1335 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1336
f461a28d 1337* special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
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1339
f461a28d 1340* add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
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1341 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1342
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1343* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1344
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1345* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1346
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1347* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1348
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1349* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1350 when it exits
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1353 o turn into dlopen() deps:
cdfd8537 1354 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 1355 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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1357 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1358 since they are so basic and our defaults)
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1361 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1362 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
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1364* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1365 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1366
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1367* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1368
1369* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1370 specific service
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1372* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1373 exists and responds.
1374
91fc013f 1375* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1376 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1377
7e8facb3 1378* unify on openssl:
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1379 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1380 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1381 gnutls
1382 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
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1384* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1385 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1386
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1387* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1388 realname substr searches in varlink API
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1390* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1391
2a4be3c5 1392* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1393
f1eb0ccd 1394* pid1: activation by journal search expression
006c44c1 1395
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1396* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1397 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1398 initrd had set.
1399
173c7873 1400* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1401 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1402 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1403 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1404 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1405 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1406
1407* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1408 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1409 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1410
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1411* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1412 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1413 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1414 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1415 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1416 source.
1417
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1418* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1419 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1420 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1421
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1422* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1423
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1424* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1425 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1426 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1427 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1428 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1429 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1430 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1431 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1432 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1433 hibernation mode. (see
1434 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1435 section 10.2.2.8 and
1436 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1437 at the end).
1438
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1439* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1440 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1441
c6526b8d 1442* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
312dc153 1443
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1444* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1445 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1446 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1447 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1448 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1449 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1450 exec().
1451
1452* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1453
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1454* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1455 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1456
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1457* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1458 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1459
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1460* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1461 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1462 root.
1463
1464* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1465 is issued.
1466
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1467* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1468
1469* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1470
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1471* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1472 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1473 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1474
d238709c 1475* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1476 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1477 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1478
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1479* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1480
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1481* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1482 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1483
06898123 1484* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1485 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1486 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1487 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
06898123 1488
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1489* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1490
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1491* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1492
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1493* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1494 non-zero "tries done" count
1495
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1496* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1497 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1498 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1499 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1500 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1501 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1502 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1503 CODE_FILE.
1504
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1505* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1506 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1507 some explanatory text online.
1508
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1509* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1510
d1797c42 1511* hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
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1513* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1514 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1515
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1516* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1517 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1518 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1519 files and suchlike we operate on.
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1521* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1522
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1523* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1524
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1525* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1526 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1527
5da19043 1528* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1529 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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1531* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1532 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1533 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1534 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1535 unlinked from any dir.
1536
bd1b3f75 1537* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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1539* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1540
1541* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1542
53c70a27 1543* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1544 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1545 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1546 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1547 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1548
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1549* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1550
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1551* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1552 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1553
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1554* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1555 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1556 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1557 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1558 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
7227dd81 1559 different slice too by default. Use case: people who want to put resources on
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1560 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1561 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1562
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1563* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1564 for root, but only then.
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1566* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1567 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1568
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1569* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1570 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1571
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1572* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1573 only when used. Add unit tests.
1574
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1575* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1576 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1577
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1578* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1579 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1580 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1581 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1582 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1583
899feb72 1584* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
c6009ff0 1585
5f7ecd61 1586* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
5962e9db 1587
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1588* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1589 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1590
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1591* blog about fd store and restartable services
1592
1593* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1594
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1595* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1596 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1597
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1598* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1599 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1600 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1601 ID is available.
1602
1603* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1604 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1605 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1606
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1607* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1608 parameters
1609
63a185dc 1610* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1611 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1612 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1613 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1614 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1615 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1616 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
6fc373ee 1617
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1618* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1619 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1620
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1621* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1622 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1623 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1624
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1625* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1626 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1627
1628 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1629
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1630* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1631 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1632 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1633
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1634* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1635 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1636
1637* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1638 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1639 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1640 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1641 natural habitat.
1642
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1643* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1644 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
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1646* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1647 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1648 relative to the configured default value.
1649
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1650* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1651
04397464 1652* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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1654* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1655
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1656* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1657
04397464 1658* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1659
04397464 1660* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1661
04397464 1662* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1663
8ce9b83a 1664* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1665
1666* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1667 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1668 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1669
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1670* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1671 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1672
e40a326c 1673* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 1674
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1675* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1676 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1677 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1678 mapping to work.
1679
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1680* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1681
1682* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1683
1684* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1685
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1686* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1687 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1688
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1689* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1690 reload the unit file anyway
1691
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1692* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1693
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1694* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1695
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1696* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1697 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1698
f9bf1b8f 1699* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1700 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1701 specifications.
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1703* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1704
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1705* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1706
a2088fd0 1707* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1708 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1709 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1710 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
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1712* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1713
931bc195 1714* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
b18d23d7 1715
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1716* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1717 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1718 state.
41d6f3bf 1719 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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1721* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1722 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1723 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1724 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1725 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1726
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1727* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1728
d2f81fb0 1729* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1730 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1731
0a86c1a9 1732* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1733 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1734
e031c227 1735* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1736 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1737
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1738* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1739
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1740* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1741 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1742
25e773ee 1743* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1744
720652b3 1745* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1746
720652b3 1747* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1748
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1749* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1750 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1751
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1752* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1753
9d6db739 1754* resolved:
9d6db739 1755 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1756 - service registration
1757 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1758 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1759 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1760 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1761 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1762 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1763 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1764 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1765
e25b5a8d 1766* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1767
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1768* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1769
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1770* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1771
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1772* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1773
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1774* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1775
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1776* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1777 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1778
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1779* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1780
6a3f892a 1781* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1782 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1783 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1784
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1785* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1786 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1787 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1788
f9bf1b8f 1789* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1790
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1791* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1792 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1793 for ReusePort=
1794
f38afcd0 1795* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1796 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1797 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1798 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1799 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1800 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1801 the hierarchies of child processes
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1802 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1803 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1804
f38afcd0 1805* transient units:
f38afcd0 1806 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1807
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1808* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1809
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1810* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1811
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1812* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1813
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1814* 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
1815
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1816* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1817 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1818 path anyway.
1819
04397464 1820* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1821
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1822* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1823
1824* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1825
07eabc2b 1826* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1827
07eabc2b 1828* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1829
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1830* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1831
1832* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1833 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1834 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1835
1836* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1837 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1838
1839* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1840
1841* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1842
1843* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1844
1845* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1846 needs to be auto-respawned?
1847
1848* pid1:
1849 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1850 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1851 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1852 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1853 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
7227dd81 1854 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Use case:
41d6f3bf 1855 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
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1856 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1857 - move PAM code into its own binary
1858 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1859 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1860 - Support --test based on current system state
1861 - 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().
1862 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1863 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1864 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1865 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1866 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1867 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1868 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1869 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1870 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1871 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1872 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1873 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1874
1875* unit files:
1876 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1877 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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1878 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1879 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1880 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1881 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1882 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1883 - introduce Type=pid-file
1884 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1885 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1886 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1887
1888* timer units:
63a185dc 1889 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1890 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1891
1892* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1893
1894* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1895
1896* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1897
1898* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1899
07eabc2b 1900* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1901
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1902* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1903
1904* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1905
fff87a35 1906* test/:
20d52ab6 1907 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1908
b5c03638 1909* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1910 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1911 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1912 destination.
1913
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1914* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1915 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1916
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1917* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1918
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1920 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1921 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1922
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1923* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1924 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1925
7227dd81 1926* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? use case:
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1927 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1928 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1929 that automatically.
1930
e5ec62c5 1931* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1932
ccddd104 1933* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1934
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1935* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1936
356ce991 1937* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1938
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1939* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1940
1941* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1942
1943* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1944
1945* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1946
1947* sd-bus:
1948 - EBADSLT handling
1949 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1950 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1951 - 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
1952 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1953 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1954 - longer term: priority inheritance
1955 - dbus spec updates:
1956 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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1957 - path escaping
1958 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1959
1960* sd-event
1961 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1962 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1963 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1964 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1965 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1966 here:
1967 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1968
1969* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1970 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1971
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1972* document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
1973
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1974* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1975
1976* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1977
1978* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1979
b44be3ec 1980* EFI:
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1981 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1982 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1983 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1984* bootctl
631427d6 1985 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1986
07eabc2b 1987* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 1988
07eabc2b 1989* bootctl:
483091b0 1990 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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1991 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1992 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
f620a368 1993
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1994* logind:
1995 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1996 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1997 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1998 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1999 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
2000 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
2001 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
2002 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
2003 needs setuid().
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2004 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
2005 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
2006 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
2007 complete.
2008 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2009 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2010 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 2011 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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2012 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2013 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2014 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2015 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2016 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2017 relogins
77b19caf 2018 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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2019 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
2020 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
2021 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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2022
2023* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2024
2025* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2026 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2027 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2028
2029* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2030 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2031
b44be3ec 2032* journal:
57f2a947 2033 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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2034 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2035 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2036 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 2037 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 2038 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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2039 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2040 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2041 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 2042 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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2043 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2044 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 2045 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
02c914ef 2046 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
b44be3ec 2047 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 2048 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 2049 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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2050 - 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.
2051 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2052 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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2053 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2054 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2055 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2056 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 2057 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 2058 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 2059 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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2060 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2061 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2062 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2063 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2064 to syslog when it works again.
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2065 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2066 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2067 journals in.
2068 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2069 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2070 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2071 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2072 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 2073 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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2074 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2075 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2076 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2077 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2078 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2079 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2080 operation.
2081 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
2082 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
2083 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2084 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 2085 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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2086 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2087 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2088 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2089 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 2090 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
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2092* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2093 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2094
2095* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2096 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2097 validated via TPM.
2098
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2100 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2101 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2102
2103* journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2104 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2105 cursors as they happen.
2106
2107* journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2108 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2109 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2110 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2111 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2112 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2113 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2114 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2115 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2116
2117* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2118 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2119 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2120 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
cbcf76b1 2121 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
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2123
2124* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2125 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2126 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2127 records, to be able to order them.
2128
2129* journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2130 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2131 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2132 be safely written to disk, then.
2133
2134* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2135 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2136 inspiration from IMA log)
2137
2138* sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2139 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2140 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2141
2142* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
2143 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
2144 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
2145 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2146 for doing that.
2147
2148* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2149 log.c and sd-journal-send
2150
2151* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2152 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2153 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2154 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2155 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2156 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2157 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2158 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2159 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2160 an NTP sync is acquired.
2161
2162* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
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2164* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2165 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2166 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2167
2168* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2169 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2170 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2171 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2172 cgroup.
2173
2174* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2175 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2176 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2177 logging.
2178
2179* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2180
2181* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2182 from the SIGBUS handler
2183
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2185 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2186 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2187 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2188
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2189* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2190 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2191
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2192* homed:
2193 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2194 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2195 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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2196 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2197 - create on activate?
2198 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2199 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2200 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2201 systemd --user is shut down.
2202 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2203 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2204 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2205 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2206 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2207 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2208 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2209 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2210 - query password from kernel keyring first
2211 - update even if record is "absent"
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2212 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2213 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2214 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2215 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2216 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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2217 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2218 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2219 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 2220 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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2221 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2222 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2223 signature
2224 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2225 and insert a local signature instead.
2226 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2227 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2228 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2229 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2230 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2231 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2232 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2233 easily?
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2234 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2235 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2236 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2237 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2238 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2239 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2240 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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2241 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2242 can easily set overall quota for all users
2243 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2244 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 2245 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 2246 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
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2247 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2248 large.
07eabc2b 2249
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2250* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2251 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2252 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2253
2df2bb1f 2254* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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2255
2256* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2257 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2258 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2259 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2260
2261* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2262
2263* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2264 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2265 something goes wrong on the way.
2266
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LB
2267* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2268 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2269 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2270 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2271
2272* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2273 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2274 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2275 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2276 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2277 automatically.
2278
2279* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2280 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2281
2282* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2283 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2284 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2285 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2286 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2287 fails to apply use the latter.
2288
2289* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2290 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2291
2292* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2293 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2294
2295* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2296 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2297 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
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2298
2299* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2300 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2301
92e72028 2302* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
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ZJS
2303 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2304 during boot.
2305
2306* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2307
b44be3ec 2308* document:
8b8f2591 2309 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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2310 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2311 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2312 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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2313 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2314 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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2315 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2316 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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2317 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2318 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2319 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2320 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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2321
2322* systemctl:
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2323 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2324 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2325 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2326 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2327 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2328 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2329 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2330 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2331 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 2332 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
f38afcd0 2333
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LB
2334* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2335 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2336 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2337
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2338* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2339 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2340 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2341
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LB
2342* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2343 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2344 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 2345
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LB
2346* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2347 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 2348
07eabc2b
LB
2349* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2350 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2351 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2352 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 2353
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LB
2354* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2355 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2356 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2357 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2358
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LB
2359* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2360
2361* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2362
2363* unit install:
2364 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2365 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 2366
b44be3ec 2367* nspawn:
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2368 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2369 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2370 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2371 from the kernel's logs.
2372 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2373 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2374 interface be missing
e25b5a8d
DH
2375 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2376 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2377 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2378 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2379 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2380 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2381 PID 1...
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2382 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2383 running, remove them when shut down.
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CB
2384 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2385 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2386 startup.
2387 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2388 or so, freeze the payload too.
2389 - support time namespaces
2390 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2391 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2392 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2393 "machinectl shell"
2394 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2395 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2396 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2397 - greater control over selinux label?
2398 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2399 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2400 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2401 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2402 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2403 host TPM.
2404 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2405 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2406 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2407 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2408 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2409 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2410 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2411 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
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CB
2412 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2413 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
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CB
2414 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2415 or two sockets.
3734fec7 2416 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
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LB
2417
2418* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2419 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2420 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2421 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2422 anything like that.
2423
e25b5a8d 2424* machined:
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DH
2425 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2426 removed or added to an existing machine
2427 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2428 difference host, via ssh
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DH
2429 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2430 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2431 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2432 question
e25b5a8d
DH
2433 - "machinectl history"
2434 - "machinectl diff"
2435 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2436 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2437
abd55b16 2438* udev:
abd55b16 2439 - move to LGPL
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2440 - kill scsi_id
2441 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2442 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2443 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2444 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2445
e25b5a8d
DH
2446* coredump:
2447 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2448 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2449 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
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LP
2450
2451* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2452
f38afcd0 2453* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 2454 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
beca6b6e 2455 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
614cc34f 2456 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
e25b5a8d
DH
2457 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2458 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2459 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 2460 - add --test mode
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ZJS
2461 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2462 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2463 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
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ZJS
2464 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2465 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
1258097c 2466
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TG
2467* udev-link-config:
2468 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2469 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2470 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2471
88e4d1d7 2472* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2473 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2474 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2475
0a4b9a07 2476* networkd:
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TG
2477 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2478 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2479 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2480 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2481 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2482 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
e25b5a8d
DH
2483 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2484 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2485 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2486 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2487 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
DH
2488 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2489 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2490 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2491 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2492 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2493 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2494 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2495
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LB
2496* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2497
d5e172d2
ZJS
2498* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2499
ac976532 2500* dhcp:
424a8732 2501 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2502
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2503* dhcp6:
2504 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2505 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2506 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2507 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 2508 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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PF
2509 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2510 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2511 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2512 or interface down
2513 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2514 this behavior
4a77c53d 2515 - RouteTable= ?
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2516
2517* shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2518 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2519 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)