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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 11External:
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
19* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
20
21* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
22
23* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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25* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
26
27* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
28
29* register catalog database signature as file magic
30
31* zsh shell completion:
32 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
33 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
76c068b7 34 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
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36* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
37* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
38 after being started.
39
40* write blog stories about:
41 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
42 - enabling dbus services
43 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
44 - remote access
45 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
46 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
47 - auto-restart
48 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
49 - the journal HTTP iface
50 - non-cgroup resource management
51 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
52 - refreshed, longer missions statement
53 - calendar time events
54 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
55 - how to create your own target
56 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
57 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
58
59Regularly:
60
61* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
62
63* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
64
65* pahole
66
67* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
68
69* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
70
71* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
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73Janitorial Clean-ups:
74
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75* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
76
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77* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
78 semantics, like we do for device.c now
79
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80Features:
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82* we should probably drop all use of prefix_roota() and friends, and use
83 chase_symlinks() instead
84
d486b26f 85* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 86 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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87 service restarts, hot reboot, cold reboots (depending on configuration): the
88 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
89 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
90 depending on desired level of persistency.
91
92* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
93 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
94 in oneshit mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
95 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
96 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
97 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
98 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
99 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
100
101* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
102 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
103 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
104 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
105
106* make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
107 usr=
108
109* add ability to set hostname with suffix derived from machine id at boot
110
111* ask dracut to generate usr= on the kernel cmdline so that we don't need to
112 read /etc/fstab from the root fs from the initrd and do daemon-reload
113
114* document that process resource limits are bullshit
115
116* add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
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118* homed/userdb: maybe define a "companion" dir for home directories where apps
119 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
120 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
121 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Usecase: container
122 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
123 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
124 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
125 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
3881fd40 126 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
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127 by. Inform user code about path to this companion dir via env var, so that
128 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
129 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
130 not unprivileged code.
131
132* given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
133 that hooks up userbdctl ssh-key stuff.
134
135* allow embedding a signature blob for PCR hashes into separate section in
136 unified kernel binaries. This section should be picked up by sd-stub, and
137 passed in a file to the booted kernel (via initrd cpio, as usual). Usecase:
138 this way we can implement disk encryption policies that bind to specific
139 kernel PCR state, without breaking things on every kernel update. As long as
140 the kernel includes the PCR signature blob we should be good, as disk
141 encryption can then pass the signature to the TPM to unlock their secrets.
142 Why do this via a separate PE section? That's because the PCR state depends
143 on the measured kernel/initrd of course, thus we cannot put the signature
144 into the kernel/initrd itself, because that would require a time machine.
145 Hence we have to find a separate place. A simple solution is a PE section
146 of its own, because then it is next to the kernel and initrd which after all
147 are stored in PE sections of their own too. Building a unified kernel would
148 thus mean, calculating PCR values for the raw kernel image, and raw initrd
149 image, then signing those PCR values with a vendor key, and then combining
150 sd-stub, raw kernel image, raw initrd, and PCR signature into a unified
151 kernel image.
152
153* a new tool "systemd-trust" or so, that can calculate PCR hashes offline, and
154 optionally sign them. for that we should extend our syntax for specifying pcr
155 policies (e.g. the string like "4+7+9") so that it can also include explicit
156 hash values, i.e.
157 4=sha256:0ef149998289474e4bb31813edda6ad7f3c991b2d8dec6e8fe4db7a1f039f2d1+7=sha256:87428fc522803d31065e7bce3cf03fe475096631e5e07bbd7a0fde60c4cf25c7+9=sha256:0263829989b6fd954f72baaf2fc64bc2e2f01d692d4de72986ea808f6e99813f
158 and file names to calculate hashes from, i.e.
159 4=file:/boot/vmlinuz+7=file:/boot/initrd/+9=file:/etc/fstab"
160 The systemd-trust tool should then be able to resolve any "underspecifed"
161 form into the form with explicit hash values.
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163* maybe add support for binding and connecting AF_UNIX sockets in the file
164 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
165 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
166 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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168* tmpfiles: for f/F/w lines, if the argument columns is left unspecified, look
169 for a service credential named after the file path to write to, and load
170 contents to write from there. Usecase: provision arbitrary files from
171 credentials. Example use: with a line like "f /root/.ssh/authorized-keys
172 0644 root root" in a tmpfiles.d/ snippet add
173 LoadCredential=root.ssh.authorized-keys via drop-in to
174 systemd-tmpfiles.service, and then provision an SSH access key through
175 nspawn's --load-credential=, through qemu's fw_cfg, or via systemd-stub's
176 credntial pick-up. The latter is particularly interesting to implement SSH
177 access to an initrd.
178
179* systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential sysemd.homed.register
180 or so with JSON user records to automatically register if not registered yet.
181 Usecase: deploy a system, and add an account one can directly log into.
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183* add a proper concept of a "developer" mode, i.e. where cryptographic
184 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
185 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
186 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
187 it. when developer mode is entered generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
188 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
189 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
190 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is only way to enter developer mode, by
191 binding it to locality/PCRs so that that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
192
193* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
194 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
195 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
196 order.
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198* TPM2: add auth policy for signed PCR values to make updates easy. i.e. do
199 what tpm2_policyauthorize tool does. To be truly useful scheme needs to be a
200 bit more elaborate though: policy probably must take some nvram based
201 generation counter into account that can only monotonically increase and can
202 be used to invalidate old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to
203 old signed PCR sets whenever they want. Usecase: encrypt the rootfs with LUKS
204 with a key that can only be unlocked via a pristine pre-built Fedora
205 kernel+initrd.
206
207* update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
208 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
209 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
210
211* add a clear concept how the initrd can make up credentials on their own to
212 pass to the system when transitioning into the host OS. usecase: things like
213 cloud-init/ignitation and similar can parameterize the host with data they
214 acquire.
215
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216* Add ConditionCredentialExists= or so, that allows conditionalizing services
217 depending on whether a specific system credential is set. Usecase: a service
218 similar to the ssh keygen service that installs any SSH host key supplied via
219 system credentials into /etc/ssh.
220
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221* drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
222 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
223 is only supported for such old kernels
224
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225* sd-event: compat wd reuse in inotify code: keep a set of removed watch
226 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
227 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
228 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 229 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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230 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
231 IN_IGNORED again)
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233* sd-stub: set efi var indicating stub features, i.e. whether they pick up
234 creds, sysexts and so on. similar to existing variable of sd-boot
235
236* sd-stub: set efi vars declaring TPM PCRs we measured creds/cmdline + sysext
237 into (even if we hardcode them)
238
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239* systemd-fstab-generator: support addition mount specifications via kernel
240 cmdline. Usecase: invoke a VM, and mount a host homedir into it via
241 virtio-fs.
242
243* for vendor-built signed initrds:
62471289 244 - make sysext run in the initrd
5b06ad51 245 - sysext should pick up sysext images from /.extra/ in the initrd, and insist
62471289 246 on verification if in secureboot mode
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247 - kernel-install should be able to install pre-built unified kernel images in
248 type #2 drop-in dir in the ESP.
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249 - kernel-install should be able install encrypted creds automatically for
250 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
251 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
252 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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253 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
254 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
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255 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
256 - pid 1 should look for machine ID in creds
62471289 257 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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258 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
259 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
260 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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261 - sd-stub should measure the kernel/initrd/… into a separate PCR, so that we
262 have one PCR we can bind the encrypted creds to that is not effected by
263 anything else but what we drop in via kernel-install, i.e. by earlier EFI
264 code running (i.e. like PCR 4)
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266* Add a new service type very similar to Type=notify, that goes one step
267 further and extends the protocol to cover reloads. Specifically, SIGHUP will
268 become the official way to reload, and daemon has to respond with sd_notify()
269 to report when it starts reloading, and when it is complete reloading. Care
270 must be taken to remove races from this model. I.e. PID 1 needs to take
271 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, then send SIGHUP, then wait for at least one RELOADING=1
272 message that comes with a newer timestamp, then wait for a READY=1 message.
273 while we are at it, also maybe extend the logic to require handling of some
274 specific SIGRT signal for setting debug log level, that carries the level via
275 the sigqueue() data parameter. With that we extended with minimal logic the
276 service runtime logic quite substantially.
277
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278* firstboot: maybe just default to C.UTF-8 locale if nothing is set, so that we
279 don't query this unnecessarily in entirely uninitialized
280 containers. (i.e. containers with empty /etc).
281
598e4315 282* beef up sd_notify() to support AV_VSOCK in $NOTIFY_SOCKET, so that VM
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283 managers can get ready notifications from VMs, just like container managers
284 from their payload. Also pick up address from qemu/fw_cfg if set there.
285 (which has benefits, given SecureBoot and kernel cmdline are not necessarily
286 friends.)
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288* mirroring this: maybe support binding to AV_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
289 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
290 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
3a258d3a 291 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
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292 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
293 directly to host service manager.
294
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295* maybe write a tool that binds an AF_VFSOCK socket, then invokes qemu,
296 extending the command line to enable vsock on the VM, and using fw_cfg to
297 configure socket address.
298
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299* sd-boot: rework random seed handling following recent kernel changes: always
300 pass seed to kernel, but credit only if secure boot is used
301
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302* sd-boot: also include the hyperv "vm generation id" in the random seed hash,
303 to cover nicely for machine clones. It's found in the ACPI tables, which
304 should be easily accessible from UEFI.
305
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306* sd-boot: add menu item for shutdown? or hotkey?
307
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308* sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
309 no api to query the device id
310
311* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
312 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
313 also be queried.
314
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315* sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
316 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
317 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
318 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
319
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320* sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
321 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
322 latter).
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324* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
325
326* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
327
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328* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
329 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
330 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
331 generated by GNU sha256sums.
332
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333* sd-boot: maybe add support for embedding the various auxiliary resources we
334 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
335 logic: allow combining sd-boot via objcopy with kernels to enumerate, .conf
336 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
337 to the menu. Usecase: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
338 UEFI HTTP boot.
339
340* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
341 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
342 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
343 binary with some minimal info about an URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
344 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
345 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
346 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
347 hence cheap for enumeration.
348
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349* initialize machine ID from systemd credential picked up from the ESP via
350 sd-stub, so that machine ID is stable even on systems where unified kernels
351 are used, and hence kernel cmdline cannot be modified locally
352
353* in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
354 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
355 pre-built kernels.
356
357* sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
358
359* maybe add a "syscfg" concept, that is almost entirely identical to "sysext",
360 but operates on /etc/ instead of /usr/ and /opt/. Use case would be: trusted,
361 authenticated, atomic, additive configuration management primitive: drop in a
362 configuration bundle, and activate it, so that it is instantly visible,
363 comprehensively.
364
365* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
366 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
367 words: show partition labels).
368
369* systemd-nspawn: make boot assessment do something sensible in a
370 container. i.e send an sd_notify() from payload to container manager once
371 boot-up is completed successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with
372 boot counting, implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
373
374* maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
375 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
376 that take an URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
b17a681b 377 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. usecase:
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378 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
379 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
380 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
381
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382* improve scope units to support creation by pidfd instead of by PID
383
e4f92a62 384* deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
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386* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
387
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388* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
389 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
390 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
391 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
392 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
393 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
394 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
395 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
396 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
397 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
398
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399* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
400 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
401 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
402 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
403 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
404 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
405 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
406 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
407 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
408 an NTP sync is acquired.
409
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410* kernel-install:
411 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
412 - maybe add env var that shortcuts kernel-install for installers that want to
413 call it at the end only
414
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415* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
416 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
417
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418* doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
419 jobs, units
420
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421* bootspec: remove tries counter from boot entry ids
422
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423* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
424 sync, i.e. parse out tries in both
425
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426* automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
427
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428* add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
429 json package metadata, and use that when logging
430
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431* systemd-dissect: show GPT disk UUID in output
432
433* Enable RestricFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
434 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
435
436* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
437 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
438
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439* cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
440 internal clock.
441
1ccfb792 442* nspawn: optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP
f08e143c 443 traffic on port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
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445* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
446 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
447
448* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
449 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
450 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
451 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
452
453* sysext: ensure one can build a sysext that can safely apply to *any* system
454 (because it contains only static go binaries in /opt/ or so)
455
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456* userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
457 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
458 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
459
460* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
461 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
462 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
463 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
464 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
465 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
466 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
467 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
468 thread:
469 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
470 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
471 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
472 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
473 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
474 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
475
476* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
477 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
478 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
479
480* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
481 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
482 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
483 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
484 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
485 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
486 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
487 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
488 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
489 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
490 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
491 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
492 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
493 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
494 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
495
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496* add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
497 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
498 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
499 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
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500 for debugging purposes. Other usecase: boot into qemu with regular user
501 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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503* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
504 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us drop drop libcap
505 dep in the base OS image)
506
507* sysext: automatically activate sysext images dropped in via new sd-stub
508 sysext pickup logic.
509
510* add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
511 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
512 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
513 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
514 on-disk storage.
515
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516* userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
517 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
518 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
519 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
520 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
521
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522* logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
523 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
524 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
525 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
526 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
527 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
528 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
529
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530* /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
531 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
532 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
533 externally and provide to us on demand only.
534
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535* add high-level lockdown level for GPT dissection logic: e.g. an enum that can
536 be ANY (to mount anything), TRUSTED (to require that /usr is on signed
537 verity, but rest doesn't matter), LOCKEDDOWN (to require that everything is
538 on signed verity, except for ESP), SUPERLOCKDOWN (like LOCKEDDOWN but ESP not
539 allowed). And then maybe some flavours of that that declare what is expected
540 from home/srv/var… Then, add a new cmdline flag to all tools that parse such
541 images, to configure this. Also, add a kernel cmdline option for this, to be
542 honoured by the gpt auto generator.
543
544* nspawn: maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so
545 that such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as
546 one.
547
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548* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
549 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option tpm2-measure=8 or so to measure it
550 into PCR 8)
551
552* add a "policy" to the dissection logic. i.e. a bit mask what is OK to mount,
553 what must be read-only, what requires encryption, and what requires
554 authentication.
555
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556* in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCRs are being used, store that
557 in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify that
558 the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
559
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560* rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
561
63a185dc 562* PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
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564* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
565 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
566 that images cannot be misused.
567
aca8ecc3 568* New udev block device symlink names:
178d3ff2 569 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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570 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
571 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
572 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
573
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574* sysupdate:
575 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
576 - support casync as download mechanism
577 - direct TPM2 PCR change handling, possible renrolling LUKS2 media if needed.
578 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
579 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
580 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
581 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
582 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
583 override the host's update files.)
584 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
585 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
586 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
587 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
588
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589* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
590
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591* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
592 make dirs appear under right UID.
593
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594* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
595 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
596
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597* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
598 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
599 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
600 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
601 for doing that.
602
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604 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
605 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
606 already have it.
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608* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
609 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
610
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611* add an Open= setting to service unit files that can open arbitrary file
612 system paths at service startup time and pass them to the service process via
613 our usual socket activation protocol. If passed path refers to AF_UNIX
614 socket: connect() to it.
615
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616* Similar, ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
617
618* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
619 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
620 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
621 /proc/self/fd/3
622
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623* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
624 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
625 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
626
627* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
628 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
629
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630* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
631 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
632
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633* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
634 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
635 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
636 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
637 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
638
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639* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
640
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642 - acquire from EFI variable?
643 - acquire via via ask-password?
644 - acquire creds via keyring?
645 - pass creds via keyring?
646 - pass creds via memfd?
647 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
648 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
649 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
650 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
651 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
652 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
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653 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
654 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
199b097d 655
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656* add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
657 firmware indicates there is one.
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659* Add concept for upgrading TPM2 enrollments, maybe a new switch
660 --pcrs=4:<hash> or so, i.e. select a PCR to include in the hash, and then
661 override its hash
662
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663* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
664 and such
665
666* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
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668* cryptsetup: if only recovery keys are registered and no regular passphrases,
669 ask user for "recovery key", not "passphrase"
670
671* cyptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
672
7d7c75f1 673* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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674 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
675
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676* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
677 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
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679* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
680
681* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
682 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
683
684* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
685 systemd-makefs.service instead.
686
687* cryptsetup:
688 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
689 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
690
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691* when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
692 it happens to be set up alright already.
693
694* at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
695
696* userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
697 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
698 default.
699
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700* sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
701 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
702 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
703 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
704 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
705
08d33656 706* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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708* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
709 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
710
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711* change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
712 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
713 temporary dir.
714
715* special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
716 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
717
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718* add a new flag to chase_symlinks() that stops chasing once the first missing
719 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
720
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721* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
722
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723* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
724
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725* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
726 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
727
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728* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
729
730* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
731
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732* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
733 when it exits
734
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735* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
736 o turn into dlopen() deps:
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737 - p11-kit-trust (always)
738 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 739 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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740 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
741 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
742 since they are so basic and our defaults)
743 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
744 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
745
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746* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
747 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
748 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
749
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750* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
751 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
752
a6e1018d 753* All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
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754 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, systemctl,
755 coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
756 systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
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758* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
759
760* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
761 specific service
762
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763* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
764 exists and responds.
765
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766* Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
767 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
768 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
769
91fc013f 770* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 771 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 772
7e8facb3 773* unify on openssl:
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774 - kill gnutls support in resolved
775 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
776 gnutls
777 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
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779* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
780 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
781
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782* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
783 realname substr searches in varlink API
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785* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
786
2a4be3c5 787* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 788
f1eb0ccd 789* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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791* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
792 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
793 initrd had set.
794
173c7873 795* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 796 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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797 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
798 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
799 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
800 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
801
802* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
803 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
804 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
805
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806* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
807 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
808 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
809 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
810 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
811 source.
812
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813* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
814 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
815 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
816
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817* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
818
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819* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
820 the hibernation
821
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822* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
823 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
824 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
825 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
826 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
827 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
828 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
829 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
830 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
831 hibernation mode. (see
832 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
833 section 10.2.2.8 and
834 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
835 at the end).
836
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837* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
838 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 839
c6526b8d 840* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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842* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
843 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
844 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
845 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
846 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
847 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
848 exec().
849
850* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
851
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852* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
853 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
854
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855* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
856 gnome-bluetooth and friends
857
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858* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
859 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
860 root.
861
862* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
863 is issued.
864
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865* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
866
867* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
868
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869* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
870 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
871 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 872
d238709c 873* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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874 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
875 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
876
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877* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
878
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879* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
880 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
881
06898123 882* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 883 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 884 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 885 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
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887* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
888
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889* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
890 log.c and sd-journal-send
891
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892* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
893
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894* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
895
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896* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
897 non-zero "tries done" count
898
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899* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
900 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
901 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
902 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
903 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
904 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
905 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
906 CODE_FILE.
907
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908* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
909 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
910 some explanatory text online.
911
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912* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
913
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914* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
915 original defaults before calling parse_config()
916
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917* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
918 Specifically:
919
920 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
921 properly)
e83419d0 922 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 923 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
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925* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
926 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
927
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928* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
929 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
930 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
931 files and suchlike we operate on.
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933* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
934
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935* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
936
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937* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
938 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
939
5da19043 940* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 941 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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943* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
944 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
945 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
946 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
947 unlinked from any dir.
948
bd1b3f75 949* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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951* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
952
953* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
954
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955* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
956 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
957 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
958 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
959 should reflink the image file itself.
960
961 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
962 specific paths only like this.
963
53c70a27 964* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 965 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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966 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
967 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 968 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 969
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970* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
971
972* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
973
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974* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
975 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
976
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977* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
978 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
979 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
980 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
981 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
982 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
983 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
984 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
985
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986* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
987 for root, but only then.
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989* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
990
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991* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
992 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
993
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994* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
995 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
996
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997* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
998 only when used. Add unit tests.
999
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1000* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1001 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1002
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1003* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1004 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1005 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1006 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1007 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1008
899feb72 1009* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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1011* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
1012 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
1013 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
1014
5f7ecd61 1015* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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1017* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1018 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1019
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1020* blog about fd store and restartable services
1021
1022* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1023
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1024* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1025 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1026
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1027* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1028 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1029 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1030 ID is available.
1031
1032* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1033 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1034 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1035
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1036* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1037 parameters
1038
63a185dc 1039* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1040 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1041 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1042 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1043 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1044 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1045 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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1047* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1048 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1049
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1050* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1051 about it in the resource log message
1052
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1053* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1054 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1055 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1056
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1057* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1058 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1059
1060 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1061
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1062* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1063 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1064 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1065
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1066* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1067 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1068
1069* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1070 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1071 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1072 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1073 natural habitat.
1074
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1075* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
1076
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1077* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1078 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1079 relative to the configured default value.
1080
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1081* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1082
04397464 1083* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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1085* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1086
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1087* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1088
04397464 1089* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1090
04397464 1091* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1092
04397464 1093* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1094
8ce9b83a 1095* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1097* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1098 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1099 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1100
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1101* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1102 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1103
e40a326c 1104* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 1105
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1106* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1107 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1108 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1109 mapping to work.
1110
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1111* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1112
1113* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1114
1115* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1116
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1117* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1118 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1119
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1120* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1121 reload the unit file anyway
1122
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1123* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1124
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1125* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1126
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1127* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1128 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1129
f9bf1b8f 1130* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1131 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1132 specifications.
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1134* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1135
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1136* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1137
a2088fd0 1138* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1139 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1140 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1141 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
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1143* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1144
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1145* initrd-parse-etc.service: can we skip daemon-reload if /sysroot/etc/fstab is missing?
1146 Note that we start initrd-fs.target and initrd-cleanup.target there, so a straightforward
1147 ConditionPathExists= is not enough.
1148
931bc195 1149* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
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1151* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1152 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1153 state.
41d6f3bf 1154 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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1156* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1157 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1158 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1159 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1160 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1161
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1162* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1163
d2f81fb0 1164* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1165 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1166
0a86c1a9 1167* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1168 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1169
e031c227 1170* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1171 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1172
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1173* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1174
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1175* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1176 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1177
25e773ee 1178* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1179
720652b3 1180* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1181
720652b3 1182* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1183
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1184* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
1185
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1186* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1187 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1188
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1189* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1190
9d6db739 1191* resolved:
9d6db739 1192 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1193 - service registration
1194 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1195 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1196 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1197 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1198 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1199 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1200 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1201 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1202
e25b5a8d 1203* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1204
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1205* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1206
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1207* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1208
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1209* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1210
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1211* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1212
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1213* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1214 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1215
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1216* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1217
6a3f892a 1218* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1219 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1220 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1221
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1222* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1223 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1224 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1225
f9bf1b8f 1226* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1227
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1228* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1229 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1230 for ReusePort=
1231
f38afcd0 1232* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1233 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1234 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1235 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1236 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1237 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1238 the hierarchies of child processes
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1239- add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1240 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1241
f38afcd0 1242* transient units:
f38afcd0 1243 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1244
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1245* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1246
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1247* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1248
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1249* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1250
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1251* 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
1252
7f79cd71 1253* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 1254
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1255* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1256 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1257 path anyway.
1258
04397464 1259* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1260
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1261* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1262
1263* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1264
07eabc2b 1265* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1266
07eabc2b 1267* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1268
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1269* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1270
1271* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1272 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1273 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1274
1275* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1276 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1277
1278* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1279
1280* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1281
1282* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1283
1284* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1285 needs to be auto-respawned?
1286
1287* pid1:
1288 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1289 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1290 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1291 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1292 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
07eabc2b 1293 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
41d6f3bf 1294 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
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1295 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1296 - move PAM code into its own binary
1297 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1298 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1299 - Support --test based on current system state
1300 - 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().
1301 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1302 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1303 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1304 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1305 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1306 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1307 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1308 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1309 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1310 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1311 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1312 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1313
1314* unit files:
1315 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1316 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1317 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1318 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1319 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1320 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1321 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1322 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1323 - introduce Type=pid-file
1324 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1325 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1326 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1327
1328* timer units:
63a185dc 1329 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1330 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1331
1332* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1333
1334* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1335
1336* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1337
1338* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1339
07eabc2b 1340* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1341
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1342* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1343
1344* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1345
fff87a35 1346* test/:
20d52ab6 1347 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1348
b5c03638 1349* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1350 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1351 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1352 destination.
1353
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1354* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1355 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1356
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1357* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1358
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1359* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1360 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1361 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1362
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1363* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1364 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1365
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1366* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1367 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1368 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1369 that automatically.
1370
e5ec62c5 1371* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1372
ccddd104 1373* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1374
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1375* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1376
356ce991 1377* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1378
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1379* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1380
1381* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1382
1383* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1384
1385* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1386
1387* sd-bus:
1388 - EBADSLT handling
1389 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1390 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1391 - 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
1392 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1393 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1394 - longer term: priority inheritance
1395 - dbus spec updates:
1396 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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1397 - path escaping
1398 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1399
1400* sd-event
1401 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1402 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1403 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1404 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1405 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1406 here:
1407 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1408
1409* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1410 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1411
1412* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1413
1414* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1415
1416* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1417
1418* firstboot: allow provisioning of /etc/hosts entries, so that we can via the
1419 credentials logic insert host name to resolve into containers/hosts. Usecase:
1420 fork a container, and make it ping some specific address which is defined by
1421 the host on invocation
1422
1423* systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
1424 reading/writing files
1425
1426* firstboot: make it useful to be run immediately after yum --installroot to set up a machine. (most specifically, make --copy-root-password work even if /etc/passwd already exists
1427
1428* sd-boot: define a drop-in dir in the ESP that may contain X.509
1429 certificates. If the firmware is detected to be in setup mode, automatically
1430 enroll them as PK/KEK/db, turn off setup mode and proceed. Optionally,
1431 instead of auto-enrolling them add them to the sd-boot menu, giving the user
1432 the option to manually enroll them, after selecting the menu entry. This way,
1433 installer images can just drop the certfiicates in the ESP, and on first boot
1434 can easily enroll the keys without ever booting up.
1435
1436* efi stub: optionally, load initrd from disk as a separate file, HMAC check it
1437 with key from TPM, bound to PCR, refusing if failing. This would then allow
1438 traditional distros that generate initrds locally to secure them with TPM:
1439 after generating the initrd, do the HMAC calculation, put result in initrd
1440 filename, done. This would then bind the validity of the initrd to the local
1441 host, and used kernel, and means people cannot change initrd or kernel
1442 without booting the kernel + initrd.
1443
b44be3ec 1444* EFI:
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1445 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1446 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1447 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1448* bootctl
631427d6 1449 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1450
07eabc2b 1451* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 1452
07eabc2b 1453* bootctl:
483091b0 1454 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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1455 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1456 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
1457 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
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1458 - bootspec: properly support boot attempt counters when parsing entry file names
1459
1460* kernel-install:
1461 - optionally, support generating type #2 entries instead of type #1, including signing them
e6c6e7af 1462
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1463* logind:
1464 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1465 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1466 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1467 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1468 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1469 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1470 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1471 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1472 needs setuid().
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1473 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1474 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1475 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1476 complete.
1477 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1478 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1479 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 1480 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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1481 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1482 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1483 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1484 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1485 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1486 relogins
77b19caf 1487 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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1488 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
1489 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
1490 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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1491
1492* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1493
1494* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1495 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1496 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1497
1498* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1499 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1500
b44be3ec 1501* journal:
57f2a947 1502 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1503 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1504 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1505 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 1506 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1507 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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1508 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1509 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1510 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 1511 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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1512 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1513 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 1514 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
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1515 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1516 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 1517 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 1518 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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1519 - 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.
1520 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1521 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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1522 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1523 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1524 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1525 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 1526 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 1527 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 1528 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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1529 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1530 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1531 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1532 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1533 to syslog when it works again.
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1534 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1535 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1536 journals in.
1537 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1538 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1539 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1540 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1541 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 1542 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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1543 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1544 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1545 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1546 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1547 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1548 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1549 operation.
1550 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1551 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1552 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1553 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 1554 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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1555 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1556 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1557 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1558 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 1559 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
b44be3ec 1560
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1561* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
1562 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
1563
1564* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
1565 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
1566 validated via TPM.
1567
1568* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
1569 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
1570
1571* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
1572 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
1573 user's journal stream down but not the others.
1574
1575* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
1576 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
1577 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
1578 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
1579 cgroup.
1580
1581* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
1582 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
1583 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
1584 logging.
1585
1586* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
1587
1588* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
1589 from the SIGBUS handler
1590
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1592 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1593 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1594 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1595
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1596* homed:
1597 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
1598 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
1599 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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1600 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
1601 - create on activate?
1602 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
1603 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
1604 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
1605 systemd --user is shut down.
1606 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
1607 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
1608 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
1609 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
1610 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
1611 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
1612 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
1613 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
1614 - query password from kernel keyring first
1615 - update even if record is "absent"
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1616 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
1617 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
1618 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
1619 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
1620 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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1621 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
1622 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
1623 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 1624 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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1625 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
1626 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
1627 signature
1628 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
1629 and insert a local signature instead.
1630 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
1631 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
1632 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
1633 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
1634 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
1635 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
1636 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
1637 easily?
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1638 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
1639 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
1640 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
1641 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
1642 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
1643 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
1644 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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1645 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
1646 can easily set overall quota for all users
1647 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
1648 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 1649 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 1650 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
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1651 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
1652 large.
07eabc2b 1653
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1654* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
1655 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
1656 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
1657
2df2bb1f 1658* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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1659
1660* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
1661 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
1662 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
1663 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
1664
1665* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
1666
1667* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
1668 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
1669 something goes wrong on the way.
1670
1671* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
1672
1673* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
1674 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
1675 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
1676 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
1677
1678* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
1679 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
1680 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
1681 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
1682 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
1683 automatically.
1684
1685* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
1686 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
1687
1688* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
1689 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
1690 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
1691 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
1692 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
1693 fails to apply use the latter.
1694
1695* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
1696 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
1697
1698* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
1699 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
1700
1701* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
1702 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
1703
1704* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
1705 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
1706
b44be3ec 1707* document:
8b8f2591 1708 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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1709 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1710 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 1711 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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1712 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1713 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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1714 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1715 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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1716 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1717 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 1718 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 1719 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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1720
1721* systemctl:
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1722 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1723 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1724 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1725 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1726 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1727 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1728 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 1729 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 1730 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 1731 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
f38afcd0 1732
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1733* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
1734 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
1735 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 1736
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1737* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
1738 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
1739 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
1740 output for them.
d2e83c23 1741
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1742* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
1743 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
1744 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 1745
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1746* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
1747 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
1748 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 1749
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1750* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
1751 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 1752
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1753* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
1754 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
1755 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
1756 do, for example)
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1758* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
1759 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
1760 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
1761 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 1762
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1763* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
1764
1765* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
1766
1767* unit install:
1768 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1769 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
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1772 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1773 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1774 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1775 from the kernel's logs.
1776 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1777 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1778 interface be missing
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1779 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1780 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1781 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1782 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1783 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1784 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1785 PID 1...
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1786 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1787 running, remove them when shut down.
e25b5a8d 1788
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1789* nspawn: add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension=
1790 switch that takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already
1791 during startup.
1792
1793* when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
1794 so, freeze the payload too.
1795
1796* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
1797 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
1798 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
1799 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
1800 anything like that.
1801
1802* nspawn: support time namespaces
1803
1804* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
1805 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
1806
1807* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
1808 fallback in "machinectl shell"
1809
1810* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
1811 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
1812 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
1813
1814* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
1815
1816* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
1817
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1819 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1820 removed or added to an existing machine
1821 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1822 difference host, via ssh
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1823 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1824 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1825 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1826 question
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1827 - "machinectl history"
1828 - "machinectl diff"
1829 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1830 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1831
abd55b16 1832* udev:
abd55b16 1833 - move to LGPL
abd55b16
KS
1834 - kill scsi_id
1835 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 1836 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
b8217b7b 1837
e25b5a8d
DH
1838* coredump:
1839 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 1840 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
87a8baa3
LP
1841
1842* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1843
f38afcd0 1844* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 1845 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 1846 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
e25b5a8d
DH
1847 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1848 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1849 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 1850 - add --test mode
ba405b22
ZJS
1851 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
1852 project quota
1258097c 1853
af6f0d42
TG
1854* udev-link-config:
1855 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1856 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1857 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 1858
88e4d1d7 1859* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 1860 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 1861 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 1862
0a4b9a07 1863* networkd:
c74ecd71
TG
1864 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1865 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 1866 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 1867 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 1868 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 1869 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
e25b5a8d
DH
1870 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1871 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1872 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 1873 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 1874 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
DH
1875 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1876 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1877 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1878 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1879 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1880 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 1881 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 1882
07eabc2b
LB
1883* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
1884
d5e172d2
ZJS
1885* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1886
ac976532 1887* dhcp:
424a8732 1888 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 1889
37d8b536
PF
1890* dhcp6:
1891 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1892 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1893 - write more test cases
37d8b536 1894 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 1895 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
37d8b536
PF
1896 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1897 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1898 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1899 or interface down
1900 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1901 this behavior
4a77c53d 1902 - RouteTable= ?