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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
19* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
20
21* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
22
23* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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25* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
26
27* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
28
29* register catalog database signature as file magic
30
31* zsh shell completion:
32 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
33 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
76c068b7 34 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
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36* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
37* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
38 after being started.
39
40* write blog stories about:
41 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
42 - enabling dbus services
43 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
44 - remote access
45 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
46 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
47 - auto-restart
48 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
49 - the journal HTTP iface
50 - non-cgroup resource management
51 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
52 - refreshed, longer missions statement
53 - calendar time events
54 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
55 - how to create your own target
56 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
57 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
58
59Regularly:
60
61* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
62
63* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
64
65* pahole
66
67* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
68
69* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
70
71* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
72
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73Janitorial Clean-ups:
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75* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
76 semantics, like we do for device.c now
77
f461a28d 78* get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase() and related
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79 calls instead.
80
81* get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
82
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83* Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
84 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
85 libmount for something so trivial.
86
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87Deprecations and removals:
88
89* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
90 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
91
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92* remove cgrouspv1 support EOY 2023. As per
93 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
94 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
95 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
96
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97* drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
98 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
9eb41aab 99 is only supported for such old kernels.
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101* drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
102 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
103
9eb41aab 104* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
3345802c 105 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
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106 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
107 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
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108 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
109
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110* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
111 baseline is 5.8.
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113* drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
114 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
115
3345802c 116* rework our PID tracking in services and so on, to be strictly based on pidfd,
9eb41aab 117 once kernel baseline is 5.13.
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119* Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
120 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
121 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
122
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123* Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
124 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
125
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126* remove remaining tpm1.2 support from sd-stub
127
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128Features:
129
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130* new "systemd-pcrlock" component for dealing with PCR4. Design idea:
131 1. define /{etc,usr,var/lib}/pcrlock.d/<component>/<version>.pcrlock
132 2. these files contain list of hashes that will be measured when component is
133 run, per PCR
134 3. each component involved in the boot that is deterministically measured can
135 place one or more of these files in those dirs (shim, sd-boot,
136 sd-stub/UKI, cryptsetup, pcrphase, pcrfs, …)
137 4. since each component has its own dir, with multiple files in them, package
138 such as kernels (of which there can be multiple installed at the same
139 time) can be grouped together: only one of them is measured at a time.
140 5. whenever a new component is added or an old one removed, or the PCR lock
141 shall be relaxed or tightened the systemd-pcrlock tool is invoked.
142 6. tool iterates through all these files, orders them alphabetically by
143 component, then matches them up with current measurements (as per uefi
144 event log), identifying by hash, accepting that the "beginning" of the
145 measurements might not be recognizable.
146 7. Then calculates expected PCR values starting with the "unrecognized
147 head" from the event log, then continuing with all of components
148 defined via the .pcrlock files (but dropping out the "recognized tail"
149 from the uefi event log). (This might mean combinatorial explosion, if
150 there are multiple shims, multiple sd-boot, and so on.)
151 8. Generates a public/private key pair on the TPM
152 9. Generates a counter object in the TPM, with a policy that allows only
153 one-by-one increase with signature policy by the public/private key pair.
154 10. now signs policies of all expected PCR values with the generated keypair,
155 using all combinations of components defined in the .pcrlock files
156 restricting it to the counter + 1.
157 11. locks down the keypair with a signed policy with its own public key
158 12. generates JSON file of all these policies with their signatures, drops
159 them as singleton in ESP
160 13. increases the counter by one.
161 14. after boot sd-stub picks JSON up from ESP, passes it to userspace via
162 .extra
163 15. JSON contained policies can now be used to unlock disk as well as the
164 public/key itself for signing further policies, as well as increment for
165 the counter
166 16. whenever any of the components above is added/removed new JSON file with
167 signatures for counter + 1 is generated, dropped in ESP, then counter
168 increased. (i.e. this means the "recognized tail" of the event log is
169 deterministically swapped out)
170 17. when firmware update is expected, relaxed signed policy is generated for
171 next boot only valid if counter is increased (this means the
172 "unrecognized head" for the event log can change without losing access)
173 18. on every boot checks if releaxed policy is in effect, if so, new strict
174 policy is generated and counter increased.
175 Net result: Removes downgrade attack surface + Locks OS to firmware + Allows
176 downgrades within bounds
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178* add another PE section ".fname" or so that encodes the intended filename for
179 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
180 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
181 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
182 control of the attacker.
183
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184* also include packaging metadata (á la
185 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
186 same JSON format.
187
188* make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
189 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
190 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
191 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
192 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
193 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
194 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
195 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
196 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
197 newer.
198
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199* in sd-stub: optionally add support for a new PE section .keyring or so that
200 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
201 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
202 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
203 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
204 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
205 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
206 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
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208* resolved: take possession of some IPv6 ULA address (let's say
209 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
210 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
211
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212* introduce a .microcode PE section for sd-stub which we'll pass as first initrd
213 to the kernel which will then upload it to the CPU. This should be distinct
214 from .initrd to guarantee right ordering. also, and maybe more importantly
215 support .microcode in PE add-ons, so that a microcode update can be shipped
9a27ef09 216 independently of any kernel.
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218* Maybe add SwitchRootEx() as new bus call that takes env vars to set for new
219 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
220 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
221 requested during switch root.
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223* introduce a .acpitable section for early ACPI table override
224
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225* add proper .osrel matching for PE addons. i.e. refuse applying an addon
226 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
227 matched against OS.
228
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229* use different sbat for sd-boot and sd-stub (so that people can revoke one
230 without the other)
231
232* in ukify merge sbat info from kernel (if it has any, upstream kernels so far
233 dont), of sd-stub and data supplied by user. Then measure sbat too in
234 sd-stub, explicitly.
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236* figure out what to do about credentials sealed to PCRs in kexec + soft-reboot
237 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
238 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
239
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240* logind: when logging in, always take an fd to the home dir, to keep the dir
241 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
242 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
243 namespaces)
244
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245* refuse using the switch-root operation without /etc/initrd-release. Now
246 that we have a concept of userspace reboot, we can clearly say: switch-root
247 is for transitioning from initrd to host (or initrd to next initrd), while
248 userspace reboot is for switching host to next version of the host.
249
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250* mount most file systems with a restrictive uidmap. e.g. mount /usr/ with a
251 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
252
253* mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
254 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
255 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
256
f447b741 257* fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
94d82b59 258 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
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259 "*:foobar:*", to wildcard match both the start and the end of the string.
260 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
261 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
262 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
263
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264* mount /tmp/ and /var/tmp with a uidmap applied that blocks out "nobody" user
265 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
94d82b59 266 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
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267 used transiently, never persistently.
268
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269* rework loopback support in fstab: when "loop" option is used, then
270 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
271 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
272 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
273 based on lo_file_name.
274
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275* remove tomoyo support, it's obsolete and unmaintained apparently
276
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277* In .socket units, add ConnectStream=, ConnectDatagram=,
278 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
279 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
280 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
281 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
282 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
283 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
284 activation-by-message id and similar.
285
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286* landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
287 ability to write anywehere else below /run/. Similar for
288 StateDirectory=. Benefit would be clear delegation via unit files: services
289 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
290
291* landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
292 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
293 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
294 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
295 similar behaviour for system services, too.
296
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297* Add systemd-mount@.service which is instantiated for a block device and
298 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
299 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
300
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301* udevd: extend memory pressure logic: also kill any idle worker processes
302
303* SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
304 localed, oomd, timedated.
305
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306* in order to make binding to PCR 4 realistic:
307 - generate one keypair "U" and store it in a tpm2 nvindex.
308 - Generate another keypair "P" and store it in a second tpm2 nvindex.
309 - allocate a persistent counter object "C" in the tpm2
310 - Enroll all user objects (i.e. luks volumes, creds, …) to a tpm2 policy
311 signed by U.
312 - Lock both U and P down with a tpm2 policy signed by P (yes, P can only be
313 used if a signature by P itself can be provided)
314 - For regular reboots generate a signature for a restrictive PCR4 + counter C
315 based policy with key P. Place signature in EFI var, so it can be found on
316 next boot
317 - For reboots where a firmware update is expected generate a signature with a
318 more open policy against just counter C. Place signature in same EFI var.
319 - Increase C whenever switching between these two signature types.
320 - During early boot, use the signature from the EFI var to unlock U and P.
321 Use it to generate a signature for unlocking user objects given the current
322 PCR 4 value, store that away into /run somewhere, for user during the whole
323 later boot.
324 - When booting up automatically update the mentioned efi var so that it
325 contains the restrictive signature. But also generate a signature ahead of
326 time that could be used in case during the current boot we later detect we might
327 need to reboot for a firmware update. Store that in /run somewhere, so that
328 it can be placed in the EFI var, if needed.
329
330* repart/gpt-auto/DDIs: maybe introduce a concept of "extension" partitions,
331 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
332 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
333 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
334 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
335 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
627cdcc7 336 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
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337 from the uuid of the original partition it extends. Inspiration for this is
338 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
339 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
340 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
341 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
342 access.
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344* split out execute.c into new "systemd-executor" binary. Then make PID 1 fork
345 that off via vfork(), and then let that executor do the hard work. Ultimately
346 the executor then gets replaced by the real binary sooner or later. Reason:
347 currently the intermediary "stub" process is a CoW trap that doubles memory
348 usage of PID 1 on each service start. Also, strictly speaking we are not
d09df6b9 349 allowed to do NSS from the stub process yet we do anyway. Next steps would
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350 then be maybe use CLONE_INTO_CGROUP for the executor, given that we don't
351 need glibc anymore in the stub process then. Then, switch nspawn to just be a
352 frontend for this too, so that we have to ways into the executor: via unit
353 files/dbus/varlin through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI through nspawn.
354
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355* sd-stub: detect if we are running with uefi console output on serial, and if so
356 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
357
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358* add a utility that can be used with the kernel's
359 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
360 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
361 for all umh processes.
362
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363* systemd-shutdown: keep sending sd_notify() status updates immediately before
364 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
365
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366* homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
367 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
368 resize.
369
370* homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
371 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
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373* timesyncd: when saving/restoring clock try to take boot time into account.
374 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
375 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
376 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
377 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
378 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
379 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
380 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
381 system actually reset.
382
383* systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
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384 userspace to allow ordering boots (for example in journalctl). The counter
385 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
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387* pam_systemd_home: add module parameter to control whether to only accept
388 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
389 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
390 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
391
4cb8a25b 392* sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
1c904337 393 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
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394 is then useful for network boot, by embdedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
395 in sd-boot, which reference remote kernels.
396
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397* maybe prohibit setuid() to the nobody user, to lock things down, via seccomp.
398 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
399 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
400 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
401 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
402
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403* sd-boot: add a new PE section .bls or so that carries a cpio with additional
404 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
405 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
406 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
407 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
408
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409* sd-boot: also allow passing in the cpio as in the previous item via SMBIOS
410
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411* add a new EFI tool "sd-fetch" or so. It looks in a PE section ".url" for an
412 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
413 Usecase: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
414 binaries in place of UKIs, and download them on-the-fly.
415
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416* maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
417 cmdline. usecase: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
418
419* systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
420 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
421 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
422
6d040d84 423* sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
4cb8a25b 424 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
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426* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
427 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
428 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
429 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
430 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
431 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
432 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
433 usual.
434
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435* Lennart: big blog story about DDIs
436
437* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
438
439* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
440
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441* bpf: see if we can use BPF to solve the syslog message cgroup source problem:
442 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
443 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
444 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
445 sockaddr.
446
447* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
448 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
449 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
450 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
451 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
452 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
453 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
454 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
455 try to use inode from there.
456
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457* extend the verity signature partition to permit multiple signatures for the
458 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
459
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460* consider adding a new partition type, just for /opt/ for usage in system
461 extensions
462
463* gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
464 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
465 for the root fs or /usr/.
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467* dissection policy should enforce that unlocking can only take place by
468 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
469 combination thereof.
470
471* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
472 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
473 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
474 ahead of time.
475
476* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
477 aforementioned purpose.
478
479* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
480 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
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483 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
484 to figure out:
485 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
486 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
487 subsequent boots?
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490 credentials. usecase: allow bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd
491 that way, without shelling out to our tools.
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494 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
495 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
496 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
497 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
498 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
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499 default to PCR 15 at least if sd-stub is used (i.e. bind to system identity),
500 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
501 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
502 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
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505 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
506 used)
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509 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
510 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
511 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
512 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
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515 TCG's "Canonical Event Log" format to some file, so that we can reason about
516 how PCR values we manage came to
517 be. https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/canonical-event-log-format/
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520 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
521 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
522 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 523 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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525
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527 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
528 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
529
530* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
531 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
532
533* implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
534 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
535 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
536 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
537 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
538 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
539
540* add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
541 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
542 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
543
544* systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
545
546* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
547 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
548 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Usecase: remove secondary OS
549 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
550
551* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
552 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
553 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
554 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
555 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
556 only one for each OS.
557
558* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
559 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 560 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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562 boot, for the next.
563
564* figure out a sane way when building UKIs how to extract SBAT data from inner
565 kernel, extend it with component info, and add to outer kernel.
566
567* systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
568 similar behind it, instead of http.
569
570* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
571 boot, or on first boot.
572
573* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
574 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
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577 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
578 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
579 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
580 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
581 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
582 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
583 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
584 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
585 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
586 until users are allowed to log in).
587
588* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
589 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
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592 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
593 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
b60e0f57 594 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Usecase: systemd-confext
595 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
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597 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
598 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
b60e0f57 599 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
600 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
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602
603* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
604 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
605 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
606 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
607 enhanced remote attestation quote. Usecase: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 608 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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610 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
b60e0f57 611 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
612 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
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614 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
615 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
b60e0f57 616 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
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618 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
619 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
620 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
b60e0f57 621 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
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623 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
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626 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
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629 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
630
631* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
632 instead of manual blocking.
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635 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
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638 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
639 supplied password.
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642 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
643 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
644 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
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647 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
648 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
649 convencience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
650
651* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
652 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
653 automatically derived from --private-key=).
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656 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
657 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
658
659* Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
660 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
661 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
662 use as additional search condition. Usecase: images that combined a sysext
663 partition with a portable service partition in one.
664
665* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
666 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
667 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
668 modules
669
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672 a new name with a built-in config?
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675 maybe on kernel command line:
676 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
677 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
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680 hash type, etc)
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684
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4e0ceefe 686 but final node is not a directory
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689 non-VFAT fs is used.
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692
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694 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
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700* sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
701 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
702 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
703 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
704 affect PCR values.
705
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707 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
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710 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
711
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713 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
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716 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
717
718* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
719 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
720
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723 equivalent to nspawn's. Maybe be called "systemd-vmspawn". Should imply good
724 settings, i.e. RNG + HyperV enlightenments. Should also result in swtpm
725 instance, plus virtiofsd instances. Translate credentials into smbios type
726 11 strings. Correctly translate SIGTERM into ACPI shutdown events.
727 Listen to logind suspend events and turn these into suspend key pressed +
728 ACPI resume events.
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732 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
733 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
734 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
735 use it.
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738 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
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741 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
742 what it was signed.
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745 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
746 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
747 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
748 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
749 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
750 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
751 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
752 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
753 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
754 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
755 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
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758 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
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761 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
762 via the credentials logic.
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764 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
765 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
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767 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
768 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
769 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
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771 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
772 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
773 file system paths to enable on start.
774 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
775 usr=
776 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
777 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
778 register if not registered yet. Usecase: deploy a system, and add an
779 account one can directly log into.
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781 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
782 pre-built kernels.
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785 runtime state. Then, expose it:
786
787 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
788 about the unit.
789 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
790 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
791 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
792 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
793 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
794 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
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797 what to do if support ended
798
799* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
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e1b45a75 802* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 803 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
e1b45a75 804 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Usecase: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 805 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 806 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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809 initrd transition. Specifically:
810 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
811 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
812 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
813
814* implement varlink introspection
815
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47b86590 817 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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819 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
820 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
821 depending on desired level of persistency.
822
823* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
824 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
1c904337 825 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
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827 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
828 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
829 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
830 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
831
832* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
833 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
834 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
835 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
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842 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
843 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
844 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Usecase: container
845 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
846 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
847 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
848 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
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851 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
852 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
853 not unprivileged code.
854
855* given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
02c914ef 856 that hooks up userdbctl ssh-key stuff.
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859 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
860 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
861 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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864 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
865 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
866 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
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869 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
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871 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
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873* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
874 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
875 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
876 order.
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879 policies: policy probably must take some nvram based generation counter into
880 account that can only monotonically increase and can be used to invalidate
881 old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to old signed PCR sets
882 whenever they want.
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884* update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
885 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
886 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
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889 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
890 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
891 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
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894 IN_IGNORED again)
895
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899 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
900 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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902 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
5b06ad51 903 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
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906 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
907 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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910 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
911 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
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915 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
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918 directly to host service manager.
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922* sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
923 no api to query the device id
924
925* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
926 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
927 also be queried.
928
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929* sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
930 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
931 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
932 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
933
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934* sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
935 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
936 latter).
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938* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
939
940* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
941
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942* support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
943 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
944 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
945 generated by GNU sha256sums.
946
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947* sd-boot: maybe add support for embedding the various auxiliary resources we
948 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
02c914ef 949 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
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950 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
951 to the menu. Usecase: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
952 UEFI HTTP boot.
953
954* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
955 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
956 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
5bc9ea07 957 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
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958 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
959 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
960 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
961 hence cheap for enumeration.
962
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963* sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
964
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965* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
966 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
967 words: show partition labels).
968
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969* maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
970 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
5bc9ea07 971 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
b17a681b 972 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. usecase:
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973 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
974 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
975 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
976
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977* improve scope units to support creation by pidfd instead of by PID
978
e4f92a62 979* deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
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980
981* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
982
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983* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
984 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
985 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
986 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
987 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
988 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
989 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
990 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
991 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
992 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
993
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994* kernel-install:
995 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
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997* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
998 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
999
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1000* doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
1001 jobs, units
1002
a57d72ce 1003* bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
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1004 sync, i.e. parse out architecture field in sd-boot (currently only done in
1005 userspace)
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1007* automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
1008
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1009* add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
1010 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1011
d1666bde 1012* Enable RestrictFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
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1014
1015* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1016 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
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1018* cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
1019 internal clock.
1020
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1021* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1022 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1023
1024* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1025 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1026 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1027 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
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1030 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1031 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1032
1033* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
1034 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
1035 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
1036 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
1037 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
1038 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
1039 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
1040 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
1041 thread:
1042 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
1043 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
1044 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
1045 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
1046 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
1047 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
1048
1049* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
1050 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
1051 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
1052
1053* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
1054 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
1055 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
1056 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
1057 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
1058 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
1059 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
1060 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
1061 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
1062 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
1063 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1064 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1065 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1066 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1067 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
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1070 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
1071 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
1072 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
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1073 for debugging purposes. Other usecase: boot into qemu with regular user
1074 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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1076* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
30fd9a2d 1077 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
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1078 dep in the base OS image)
1079
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1080* add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
1081 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1082 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1083 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1084 on-disk storage.
1085
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1087 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1088 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1089 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1090 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1091
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1092* portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
1093 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1094 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
1095
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1096* logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
1097 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
1098 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
1099 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
1100 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
1101 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
1102 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
1103
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1104* /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
1105 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1106 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1107 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1108
3fc0688d 1109* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
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1110 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1111 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1112 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1113 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1114 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1115 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1116 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1117 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1118 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1119 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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1121* in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
1122 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1123 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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1125* rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
1126
63a185dc 1127* PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
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1129* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1130 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1131 that images cannot be misused.
1132
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178d3ff2 1134 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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1135 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1136 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1137 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1138
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1139* sysupdate:
1140 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1141 - support casync as download mechanism
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1142 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1143 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1144 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1145 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1146 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
1147 override the host's update files.)
1148 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1149 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1150 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1151 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1152
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1153* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1154
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1155* DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1156 make dirs appear under right UID.
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1158* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1159 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1160
24063ba1 1161* introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
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1162 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1163 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1164 already have it.
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1166* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1167 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1168
1c904337 1169* Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
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1171* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1172 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1173 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1174 /proc/self/fd/3
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1176* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1177 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1178 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1179
1180* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1181 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1182
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1183* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1184 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1185
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1186* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1187 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1188 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1189 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1190 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
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1192* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1193
199b097d 1194* credentials system:
199b097d 1195 - acquire from EFI variable?
30fd9a2d 1196 - acquire via ask-password?
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1197 - acquire creds via keyring?
1198 - pass creds via keyring?
1199 - pass creds via memfd?
1200 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1201 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1202 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1203 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1204 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1205 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
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1206 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
1207 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
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1209* add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
1210 firmware indicates there is one.
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1212* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1213 and such
1214
1215* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
80670e74 1216
02c914ef 1217* cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
80670e74 1218
7d7c75f1 1219* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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1220 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1221
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1222* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1223 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
7d7c75f1 1224
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1225* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1226
1227* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1228 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1229
1230* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1231 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1232
1233* cryptsetup:
1234 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1235 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1236
08d33656 1237* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
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1239* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1240 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1241
f461a28d 1242* special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
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1243 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1244
f461a28d 1245* add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
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1246 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1247
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1248* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1249
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1250* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1251
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1252* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
1253
1254* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1255
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1256* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1257 when it exits
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1259* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1260 o turn into dlopen() deps:
cdfd8537 1261 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 1262 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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1263 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1264 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1265 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1266 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
1267 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
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1269* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1270 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1271 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
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1273* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1274 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1275
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1276* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1277
1278* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1279 specific service
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1281* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1282 exists and responds.
1283
91fc013f 1284* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1285 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1286
7e8facb3 1287* unify on openssl:
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1288 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1289 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1290 gnutls
1291 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
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1293* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1294 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1295
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1296* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1297 realname substr searches in varlink API
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1299* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
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2a4be3c5 1301* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1302
f1eb0ccd 1303* pid1: activation by journal search expression
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1305* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1306 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1307 initrd had set.
1308
173c7873 1309* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1310 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1311 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1312 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1313 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1314 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1315
1316* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1317 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1318 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1319
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1320* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1321 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1322 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1323 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1324 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1325 source.
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1327* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1328 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1329 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1330
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1331* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1332
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1333* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1334 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1335 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1336 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1337 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1338 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1339 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1340 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1341 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1342 hibernation mode. (see
1343 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1344 section 10.2.2.8 and
1345 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1346 at the end).
1347
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1348* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1349 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1350
c6526b8d 1351* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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1353* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1354 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1355 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1356 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1357 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1358 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1359 exec().
1360
1361* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1362
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1363* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1364 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1365
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1366* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1367 gnome-bluetooth and friends
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1369* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1370 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1371 root.
1372
1373* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1374 is issued.
1375
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1376* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1377
1378* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1379
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1380* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1381 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1382 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1383
d238709c 1384* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1385 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1386 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1387
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1388* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1389
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1390* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1391 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1392
06898123 1393* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1394 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1395 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1396 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
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1398* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1399
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1400* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1401
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1402* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1403 non-zero "tries done" count
1404
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1405* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1406 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1407 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1408 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1409 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1410 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1411 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1412 CODE_FILE.
1413
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1414* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1415 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1416 some explanatory text online.
1417
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1418* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1419
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1420* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1421 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1422
d1797c42 1423* hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
c633b0a6 1424
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1425* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1426 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1427
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1428* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1429 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1430 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1431 files and suchlike we operate on.
070d0ac9 1432
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1433* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1434
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1435* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1436
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1437* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1438 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1439
5da19043 1440* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1441 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
5da19043 1442
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1443* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1444 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1445 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1446 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1447 unlinked from any dir.
1448
bd1b3f75 1449* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
5da19043 1450
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1451* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1452
1453* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1454
53c70a27 1455* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1456 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1457 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1458 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1459 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1460
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1461* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1462
1463* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1464
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1465* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1466 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1467
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1468* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1469 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1470 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1471 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1472 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1473 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
1474 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1475 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1476
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1477* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1478 for root, but only then.
586a8e93 1479
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1480* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1481 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1482
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1483* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1484 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1485
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1486* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1487 only when used. Add unit tests.
1488
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1489* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1490 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1491
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1492* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1493 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1494 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1495 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1496 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1497
899feb72 1498* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
c6009ff0 1499
5f7ecd61 1500* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
5962e9db 1501
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1502* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1503 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1504
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1505* blog about fd store and restartable services
1506
1507* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1508
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1509* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1510 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1511
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1512* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1513 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1514 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1515 ID is available.
1516
1517* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1518 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1519 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1520
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1521* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1522 parameters
1523
63a185dc 1524* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1525 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1526 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1527 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1528 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1529 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1530 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
6fc373ee 1531
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1532* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1533 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1534
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1535* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1536 about it in the resource log message
1537
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1538* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1539 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1540 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1541
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1542* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1543 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1544
1545 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1546
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1547* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1548 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1549 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1550
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1551* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1552 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1553
1554* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1555 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1556 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1557 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1558 natural habitat.
1559
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1560* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1561 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
8eb7383b 1562
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1563* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1564 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1565 relative to the configured default value.
1566
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1567* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1568
04397464 1569* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
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1571* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1572
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1573* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1574
04397464 1575* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1576
04397464 1577* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1578
04397464 1579* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1580
8ce9b83a 1581* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1582
1583* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1584 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1585 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1586
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1587* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1588 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1589
e40a326c 1590* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 1591
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1592* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1593 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1594 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1595 mapping to work.
1596
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1597* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1598
1599* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1600
1601* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1602
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1603* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1604 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1605
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1606* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1607 reload the unit file anyway
1608
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1609* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1610
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1611* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1612
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1613* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1614 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1615
f9bf1b8f 1616* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1617 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1618 specifications.
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1620* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1621
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1622* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1623
a2088fd0 1624* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1625 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1626 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1627 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
a2088fd0 1628
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1629* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1630
931bc195 1631* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
b18d23d7 1632
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1633* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1634 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1635 state.
41d6f3bf 1636 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
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1638* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1639 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1640 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1641 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1642 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1643
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1644* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1645
d2f81fb0 1646* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1647 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1648
0a86c1a9 1649* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1650 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1651
e031c227 1652* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1653 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1654
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1655* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1656
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1657* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1658 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1659
25e773ee 1660* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1661
720652b3 1662* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1663
720652b3 1664* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1665
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1666* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1667 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1668
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1669* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1670
9d6db739 1671* resolved:
9d6db739 1672 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1673 - service registration
1674 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1675 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1676 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1677 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1678 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1679 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1680 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1681 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1682
e25b5a8d 1683* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1684
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1685* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1686
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1687* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1688
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1689* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1690
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1691* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1692
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1693* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1694 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1695
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1696* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1697
6a3f892a 1698* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1699 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1700 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1701
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1702* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1703 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1704 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1705
f9bf1b8f 1706* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1707
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1708* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1709 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1710 for ReusePort=
1711
f38afcd0 1712* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1713 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1714 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1715 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1716 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1717 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1718 the hierarchies of child processes
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1719- add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1720 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1721
f38afcd0 1722* transient units:
f38afcd0 1723 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1724
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1725* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1726
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1727* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1728
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1729* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1730
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1731* 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
1732
7f79cd71 1733* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 1734
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1735* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1736 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1737 path anyway.
1738
04397464 1739* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1740
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1741* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1742
1743* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1744
07eabc2b 1745* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1746
07eabc2b 1747* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1748
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1749* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1750
1751* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1752 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1753 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1754
1755* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1756 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1757
1758* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1759
1760* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1761
1762* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1763
1764* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1765 needs to be auto-respawned?
1766
1767* pid1:
1768 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1769 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1770 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1771 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1772 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
07eabc2b 1773 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
41d6f3bf 1774 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
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1775 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1776 - move PAM code into its own binary
1777 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1778 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1779 - Support --test based on current system state
1780 - 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().
1781 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1782 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1783 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1784 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1785 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1786 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1787 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1788 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1789 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1790 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1791 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1792 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1793
1794* unit files:
1795 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1796 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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1797 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1798 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1799 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1800 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1801 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1802 - introduce Type=pid-file
1803 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1804 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1805 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1806
1807* timer units:
63a185dc 1808 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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1809 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1810
1811* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1812
1813* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1814
1815* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1816
1817* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1818
07eabc2b 1819* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1820
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1821* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1822
1823* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1824
fff87a35 1825* test/:
20d52ab6 1826 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1827
b5c03638 1828* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1829 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1830 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1831 destination.
1832
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1833* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1834 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1835
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1836* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1837
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1839 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1840 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1841
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1842* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1843 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1844
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1845* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1846 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1847 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1848 that automatically.
1849
e5ec62c5 1850* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1851
ccddd104 1852* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1853
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1854* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1855
356ce991 1856* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1857
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1858* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1859
1860* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1861
1862* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1863
1864* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1865
1866* sd-bus:
1867 - EBADSLT handling
1868 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1869 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1870 - 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
1871 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1872 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1873 - longer term: priority inheritance
1874 - dbus spec updates:
1875 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
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1876 - path escaping
1877 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1878
1879* sd-event
1880 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1881 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1882 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1883 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1884 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1885 here:
1886 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1887
1888* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1889 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1890
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1891* document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
1892
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1893* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1894
1895* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1896
1897* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1898
b44be3ec 1899* EFI:
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1900 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1901 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1902 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1903* bootctl
631427d6 1904 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1905
07eabc2b 1906* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 1907
07eabc2b 1908* bootctl:
483091b0 1909 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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1910 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1911 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
f620a368 1912
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1913* logind:
1914 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1915 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1916 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1917 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1918 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1919 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1920 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1921 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1922 needs setuid().
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1923 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1924 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1925 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1926 complete.
1927 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1928 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1929 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 1930 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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1931 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1932 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1933 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1934 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1935 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1936 relogins
77b19caf 1937 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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1938 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
1939 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
1940 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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1941
1942* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1943
1944* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1945 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1946 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1947
1948* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1949 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1950
b44be3ec 1951* journal:
57f2a947 1952 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1953 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1954 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1955 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 1956 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1957 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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1958 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1959 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1960 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 1961 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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1962 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1963 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 1964 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
02c914ef 1965 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
b44be3ec 1966 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 1967 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 1968 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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1969 - 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.
1970 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1971 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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1972 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1973 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1974 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1975 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 1976 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 1977 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 1978 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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1979 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1980 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1981 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1982 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1983 to syslog when it works again.
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1984 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1985 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1986 journals in.
1987 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1988 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1989 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1990 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1991 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 1992 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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1993 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1994 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1995 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1996 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1997 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1998 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1999 operation.
2000 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
2001 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
2002 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2003 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 2004 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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2005 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2006 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2007 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2008 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 2009 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
b44be3ec 2010
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2011* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2012 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2013
2014* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2015 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2016 validated via TPM.
2017
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2019 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2020 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2021
2022* journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2023 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2024 cursors as they happen.
2025
2026* journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2027 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2028 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2029 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2030 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2031 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2032 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2033 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2034 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2035
2036* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2037 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2038 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2039 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
2040 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculted from the monotonic timestamp in the
2041 log record, adjusted by the delta declared in the structured log record.
2042
2043* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2044 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2045 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2046 records, to be able to order them.
2047
2048* journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2049 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2050 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2051 be safely written to disk, then.
2052
2053* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2054 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2055 inspiration from IMA log)
2056
2057* sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2058 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2059 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2060
2061* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
2062 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
2063 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
2064 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2065 for doing that.
2066
2067* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2068 log.c and sd-journal-send
2069
2070* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2071 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2072 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2073 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2074 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2075 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2076 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2077 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2078 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2079 an NTP sync is acquired.
2080
2081* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
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2082
2083* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2084 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2085 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2086
2087* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2088 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2089 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2090 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2091 cgroup.
2092
2093* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2094 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2095 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2096 logging.
2097
2098* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2099
2100* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2101 from the SIGBUS handler
2102
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2104 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2105 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2106 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2107
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2108* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2109 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2110
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2111* homed:
2112 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2113 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2114 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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2115 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2116 - create on activate?
2117 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2118 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2119 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2120 systemd --user is shut down.
2121 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2122 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2123 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2124 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2125 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2126 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2127 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2128 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2129 - query password from kernel keyring first
2130 - update even if record is "absent"
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2131 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2132 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2133 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2134 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2135 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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2136 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2137 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2138 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 2139 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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2140 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2141 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2142 signature
2143 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2144 and insert a local signature instead.
2145 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2146 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2147 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2148 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2149 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2150 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2151 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2152 easily?
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2153 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2154 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2155 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2156 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2157 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2158 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2159 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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2160 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2161 can easily set overall quota for all users
2162 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2163 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 2164 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 2165 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
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2166 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2167 large.
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2169* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2170 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2171 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2172
2df2bb1f 2173* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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2174
2175* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2176 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2177 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2178 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2179
2180* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2181
2182* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2183 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2184 something goes wrong on the way.
2185
2186* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
2187
2188* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2189 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2190 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2191 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2192
2193* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2194 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2195 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2196 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2197 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2198 automatically.
2199
2200* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2201 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2202
2203* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2204 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2205 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2206 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2207 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2208 fails to apply use the latter.
2209
2210* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2211 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2212
2213* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2214 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2215
2216* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2217 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 2218 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
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2219
2220* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2221 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2222
92e72028 2223* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
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2224 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2225 during boot.
2226
2227* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2228
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8b8f2591 2230 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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2231 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2232 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2233 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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2234 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2235 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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2236 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2237 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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2238 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2239 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2240 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2241 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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2243* systemctl:
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2244 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2245 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2246 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2247 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2248 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2249 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2250 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2251 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2252 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 2253 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
f38afcd0 2254
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LB
2255* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2256 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2257 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2258
07eabc2b
LB
2259* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2260 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2261 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2262
07eabc2b
LB
2263* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2264 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2265 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 2266
07eabc2b
LB
2267* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2268 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
08f95888 2269
07eabc2b
LB
2270* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2271 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2272 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2273 do, for example)
dcfc4b2e 2274
07eabc2b
LB
2275* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2276 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2277 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2278 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2279
07eabc2b
LB
2280* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2281
2282* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2283
2284* unit install:
2285 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2286 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1b89884b 2287
b44be3ec 2288* nspawn:
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DH
2289 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2290 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2291 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2292 from the kernel's logs.
2293 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2294 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2295 interface be missing
e25b5a8d
DH
2296 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2297 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2298 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2299 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2300 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2301 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2302 PID 1...
e25b5a8d
DH
2303 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2304 running, remove them when shut down.
71b77f06
CB
2305 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2306 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2307 startup.
2308 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2309 or so, freeze the payload too.
2310 - support time namespaces
2311 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2312 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2313 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2314 "machinectl shell"
2315 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2316 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2317 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2318 - greater control over selinux label?
2319 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2320 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2321 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2322 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2323 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2324 host TPM.
2325 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2326 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2327 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2328 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2329 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2330 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2331 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2332 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
fdeabf57
CB
2333 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2334 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
3922f982
CB
2335 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2336 or two sockets.
3734fec7 2337 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
07eabc2b
LB
2338
2339* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2340 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2341 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2342 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2343 anything like that.
2344
e25b5a8d 2345* machined:
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DH
2346 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2347 removed or added to an existing machine
2348 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2349 difference host, via ssh
e25b5a8d
DH
2350 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2351 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2352 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2353 question
e25b5a8d
DH
2354 - "machinectl history"
2355 - "machinectl diff"
2356 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2357 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2358
abd55b16 2359* udev:
abd55b16 2360 - move to LGPL
abd55b16
KS
2361 - kill scsi_id
2362 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2363 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2364 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2365 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2366
e25b5a8d
DH
2367* coredump:
2368 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2369 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2370 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
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LP
2371
2372* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2373
f38afcd0 2374* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 2375 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
beca6b6e 2376 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
614cc34f 2377 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
e25b5a8d
DH
2378 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2379 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2380 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 2381 - add --test mode
ba405b22
ZJS
2382 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2383 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2384 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
beca6b6e
ZJS
2385 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2386 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
1258097c 2387
af6f0d42
TG
2388* udev-link-config:
2389 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2390 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2391 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2392
88e4d1d7 2393* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2394 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2395 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2396
0a4b9a07 2397* networkd:
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TG
2398 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2399 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2400 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2401 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2402 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2403 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
e25b5a8d
DH
2404 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2405 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2406 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2407 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2408 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
e25b5a8d
DH
2409 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2410 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2411 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2412 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2413 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2414 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2415 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
155e8b9a 2416
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LB
2417* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2418
d5e172d2
ZJS
2419* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2420
ac976532 2421* dhcp:
424a8732 2422 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2423
37d8b536
PF
2424* dhcp6:
2425 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2426 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2427 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2428 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 2429 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
37d8b536
PF
2430 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2431 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2432 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2433 or interface down
2434 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2435 this behavior
4a77c53d 2436 - RouteTable= ?