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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
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7* Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
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f38afcd0 13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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15* dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
19* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
20
21* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
22
23* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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25* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
26
27* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
28
29* register catalog database signature as file magic
30
31* zsh shell completion:
32 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
33 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
76c068b7 34 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
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36* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
37* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
38 after being started.
39
40* write blog stories about:
41 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
42 - enabling dbus services
43 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
44 - remote access
45 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
46 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
47 - auto-restart
48 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
49 - the journal HTTP iface
50 - non-cgroup resource management
51 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
52 - refreshed, longer missions statement
53 - calendar time events
54 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
55 - how to create your own target
56 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
57 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
58
59Regularly:
60
61* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
62
63* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
64
65* pahole
66
67* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
68
69* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
70
71* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
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73Janitorial Clean-ups:
74
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75* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
76
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77* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
78 semantics, like we do for device.c now
79
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80* get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase_symlinks() and related
81 calls instead.
82
83* get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
84
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85Deprecations and removals:
86
87* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
88 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
89
90* 2019-10 – Remove POINTINGSTICK_CONST_ACCEL references from the hwdb, see #9573
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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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9eb41aab 101* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
3345802c 102 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
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103 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
104 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
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105 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
106
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107* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
108 baseline is 5.8.
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110* drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
111 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
112
3345802c 113* rework our PID tracking in services and so on, to be strictly based on pidfd,
9eb41aab 114 once kernel baseline is 5.13.
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116* ~2023: remove support for TPM_PCR_INDEX_KERNEL_PARAMETERS_COMPAT
117
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118* H2 2023: remove support for unmerged-usr
119
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120Features:
121
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122* We should start measuring all services, containers, and system extensions we
123 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
124 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
125 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
126 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
127
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128* whenever we measure something into a TPM PCR from userspace, write a record in
129 TCG's "Canonical Event Log" format to some file, so that we can reason about
130 how PCR values we manage came to
131 be. https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/canonical-event-log-format/
132
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133* bootspec: permit graceful "update" from type #2 to type #1. If both a type #1
134 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
135 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
136 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
7ff7eadf 137 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
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138 should win over vendor defaults.
139
140* sd-stub: optionally allow users to configure manual kernel command line even
141 in SecureBoot by authenticating it via shim's APIs, integrating with MOK and
142 similar: instead of authenticating just PE code shim should be capable of
143 authenticating any kind of data for us, including files containing kernel
144 command lines.
145
146* write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
147 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
148 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
149
150* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
151 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
152
153* implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
154 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
155 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
156 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
157 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
158 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
159
160* add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
161 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
162 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
163
164* systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
165
166* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
167 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
168 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Usecase: remove secondary OS
169 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
170
171* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
172 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
173 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
174 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
175 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
176 only one for each OS.
177
178* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
179 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
7ff7eadf 180 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
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181 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
182 boot, for the next.
183
184* figure out a sane way when building UKIs how to extract SBAT data from inner
185 kernel, extend it with component info, and add to outer kernel.
186
187* systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
188 similar behind it, instead of http.
189
190* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
191 boot, or on first boot.
192
193* in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
194 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
195
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196* we probably needs .pcrpkeyrd or so as additional PE section in UKIs,
197 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
198 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
199 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
200 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
201 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
202 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
203 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
204 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
205 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
206 until users are allowed to log in).
207
208* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
209 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
210
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211* add support for asymmetric LUKS2 TPM based encryption. i.e. allow preparing
212 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
213 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
214 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Usecase: systemd-syscfg
215 for a central orchestrator to generate syscfg images securely that can only
216 be activated on one specific host (which can be used for installing a bunch
217 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
218 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
219 prepare a syscfg image that can only be activated on a specific host that
220 runs a specific software in a specific time window. syscfg would be
221 automatically invalidated outside of it.
222
223* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
224 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
225 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
226 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
227 enhanced remote attestation quote. Usecase: a simple orchestrator could use
ae24e4e8 228 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
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229 have the orchestrator collect these reports centrally over a 3min time
230 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
231 and generate a small syscfg for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
232 on each node. The syscfg would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
233 proposed above, so that it can only be activated on the specific host, if the
234 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
235 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
236 update syscfg. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
237 config and collected reports in the last 3min time window only, and thus can
238 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
239 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
240 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
241 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via syscfg updates,
242 and via the time window TPM logic invalidated if node doesn't keep itself
243 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
244
245* Always measure the LUKS rootfs volume key into PCR 15, and derive the machine
246 ID from it securely. This would then allow us to bind secrets a specific
247 system securely.
248
249* nspawn: maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image=
250 hash into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and
251 partake in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside
252 of control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
253 host TPM.
254
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255* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to use sd_event_set_signal_exit(), instead
256 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
257
258* tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
259 instead of manual blocking.
260
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261* sd-boot: for each installed OS, grey out older entries (i.e. all but the
262 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
263
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264* automatically propagate LUKS password credential into cryptsetup from host
265 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
266 supplied password.
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268* add ability to path_is_valid() to classify paths that refer to a dir from
269 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
270 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
271 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
272
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273* systemd-measure: allow operating with PEM certificates in addition to PEM
274 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
275 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
276 convencience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
277
278* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
279 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
280 automatically derived from --private-key=).
281
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282* tmpfiles: add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
283
284* tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
285
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286* push people to use ".sysext.raw" as suffix for sysext DDIs (DDI =
287 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
288 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
289
290* Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
291 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
292 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
293 use as additional search condition. Usecase: images that combined a sysext
294 partition with a portable service partition in one.
295
296* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
297 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
298 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
299 modules
300
301* for systemd-syscfg: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
302 sig using squashfs-tools-ng's library. Maybe just systemd-repart called under
303 a new name with a built-in config?
304
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305* gpt-auto: generate mount units that reference partitions via
306 /dev/disk/by-diskseq/… so that they can't be swapped out behind our back.
307
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308* lock down acceptable encrypted credentials at boot, via simple allowlist,
309 maybe on kernel command line:
310 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
311 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
312
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313* Add support for extra verity configuration options to systemd-repart (FEC,
314 hash type, etc)
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316* chase_symlinks(): take inspiraton from path_extract_filename() and return
317 O_DIRECTORY if input path contains trailing slash.
318
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319* chase_symlinks(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
320 but final node is not a directory
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322* chase_symlinks(): add new flag that simply refuses all symlink use in a path,
323 then use that for accessing XBOOTLDR/ESP
324
325* document in boot loader spec that symlinks in XBOOTLDR/ESP are not OK even if
326 non-VFAT fs is used.
327
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328* measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
329
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330* measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
331 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
332
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333* pick up creds from EFI vars
334
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335* sd-stub/sd-boot: write RNG seed to LINUX_EFI_RANDOM_SEED_TABLE_GUID config
336 table as well. (and possibly drop our efi var). Current kernels will pick up
337 the seed from there already, if EFI_RNG_PROTOCOL is not implemented by
338 firmware.
339
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340* sd-boot: include domain specific hash string in hash function for random seed
341 plus sizes of everything. also include DMI/SMBIOS blob
342
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343* sd-stub: invoke random seed logic the same way as in sd-boot, except if
344 random seed EFI variable is already set. That way, the variable set will be
345 set in all cases: if you just use sd-stub, or just sd-boot, or both.
346
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347* sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
348 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
349 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
350 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
351 affect PCR values.
352
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353* systemd-measure tool:
354 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
c0a74f62 355
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356* in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
357 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
358
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359* sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
360 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
361
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362* sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
363 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
364
365* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
366 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
367
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368* add small wrapper around qemu that implements sd_notify/AF_VSOCK + machined and
369 maybe some other stuff and boots it
370
e1b45a75 371* maybe add new flags to gpt partition tables for rootfs and usrfs indicating
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372 purpose, i.e. whether something is supposed to be bootable in a VM, on
373 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
374 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
375 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
376 use it.
377
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378* sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
379 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
380
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381* PID 1 should look for an SMBIOS variable that encodes an AF_VSOCK address it
382 should send sd_notify() ready notifications to. That way a VMM can boot up a
383 system, and generically know when it finished booting.
384
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385* add "systemd-sysext identify" verb, that you can point on any file in /usr/
386 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
387 what it was signed.
388
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389* journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
390 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
391 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
392 be safely written to disk, then.
393
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394* systemd-creds: extend encryption logic to support asymmetric
395 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
396 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
397 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
398 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
399 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
400 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
401 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
402 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
403 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
404 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
405 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
406
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407* building on top of the above, the pub/priv key pair generated on the TPM2
408 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
409
8c776523 410* bootctl: add "gc" verb that loads all type #1 .conf files, and then removes
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411 all files from the set of files from the ESP/XBOOTLDR matching the entry
412 token that are not referenced by any. Then, change kernel-install to use only
413 this to remove auxiliary files, and never remove them explicitly. Benefit:
414 resources such as initrds/kernels/dtb can be shared between entries.
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416* Process credentials in:
417 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
418 via the credentials logic.
419 • fstab-generator: allow defining additional fstab-like mounts via
420 credentials (similar: crypttab-generator, verity-generator,
421 integrity-generator)
422 • getty-generator: allow defining additional getty instances via a credential
423 • run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
424 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
425 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
426 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
427 Similar, allow picking up DNS server IP addresses from credential.
428 • repart: allow defining additional partitions via credential
429 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
430 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
431 file system paths to enable on start.
432 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
433 usr=
434 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
435 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
436 register if not registered yet. Usecase: deploy a system, and add an
437 account one can directly log into.
438 • initialize machine ID from systemd credential picked up from the ESP via
439 sd-stub, so that machine ID is stable even on systems where unified kernels
440 are used, and hence kernel cmdline cannot be modified locally
441 • in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
442 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
443 pre-built kernels.
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445* define a JSON format for units, separating out unit definitions from unit
446 runtime state. Then, expose it:
447
448 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
449 about the unit.
450 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
451 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
452 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
453 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
454 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
455 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
456
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457* show SUPPORT_END= data in "hostnamectl" output (and thus also expose a prop
458 for this on dbus)
459
460* Add SUPPORT_END_URL= field to os-release with more *actionable* information
461 what to do if support ended
462
463* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
464 login time, á la motd
465
e1b45a75 466* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
9c18b363 467 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
e1b45a75 468 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Usecase: embed sd-boot in the
9c18b363 469 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
e1b45a75 470 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
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472* mount /var/ from initrd, so that we can apply sysext and stuff before the
473 initrd transition. Specifically:
474 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
475 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
476 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
477
478* implement varlink introspection
479
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480* we should probably drop all use of prefix_roota() and friends, and use
481 chase_symlinks() instead
482
d486b26f 483* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
47b86590 484 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
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485 service restarts, hot reboot, cold reboots (depending on configuration): the
486 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
487 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
488 depending on desired level of persistency.
489
490* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
491 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
492 in oneshit mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
493 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
494 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
495 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
496 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
497 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
498
499* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
500 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
501 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
502 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
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505
506* ask dracut to generate usr= on the kernel cmdline so that we don't need to
507 read /etc/fstab from the root fs from the initrd and do daemon-reload
508
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512 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
513 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
514 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Usecase: container
515 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
516 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
517 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
518 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
3881fd40 519 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
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521 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
522 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
523 not unprivileged code.
524
525* given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
526 that hooks up userbdctl ssh-key stuff.
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529 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
530 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
531 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
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534 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
535 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
536 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
537 it. when developer mode is entered generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
538 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
539 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
540 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is only way to enter developer mode, by
541 binding it to locality/PCRs so that that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
542
543* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
544 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
545 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
546 order.
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549 policies: policy probably must take some nvram based generation counter into
550 account that can only monotonically increase and can be used to invalidate
551 old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to old signed PCR sets
552 whenever they want.
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554* update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
555 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
556 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
557
558* add a clear concept how the initrd can make up credentials on their own to
559 pass to the system when transitioning into the host OS. usecase: things like
560 cloud-init/ignitation and similar can parameterize the host with data they
561 acquire.
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564 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
565 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
566 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
8ac6b05b 567 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
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569 IN_IGNORED again)
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572 cmdline. Usecase: invoke a VM, and mount a host homedir into it via
573 virtio-fs.
574
575* for vendor-built signed initrds:
62471289 576 - make sysext run in the initrd
5b06ad51 577 - sysext should pick up sysext images from /.extra/ in the initrd, and insist
62471289 578 on verification if in secureboot mode
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580 type #2 drop-in dir in the ESP.
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582 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
583 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
584 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
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586 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
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588 - pid 1 should look for machine ID in creds
62471289 589 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
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591 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
592 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
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595 further and extends the protocol to cover reloads. Specifically, SIGHUP will
596 become the official way to reload, and daemon has to respond with sd_notify()
597 to report when it starts reloading, and when it is complete reloading. Care
598 must be taken to remove races from this model. I.e. PID 1 needs to take
599 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, then send SIGHUP, then wait for at least one RELOADING=1
600 message that comes with a newer timestamp, then wait for a READY=1 message.
601 while we are at it, also maybe extend the logic to require handling of some
602 specific SIGRT signal for setting debug log level, that carries the level via
603 the sigqueue() data parameter. With that we extended with minimal logic the
604 service runtime logic quite substantially.
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607 don't query this unnecessarily in entirely uninitialized
608 containers. (i.e. containers with empty /etc).
609
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612 from their payload. Also pick up address from qemu/fw_cfg if set there.
613 (which has benefits, given SecureBoot and kernel cmdline are not necessarily
614 friends.)
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617 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
618 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
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621 directly to host service manager.
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624 extending the command line to enable vsock on the VM, and using fw_cfg to
625 configure socket address.
626
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628 pass seed to kernel, but credit only if secure boot is used
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631 to cover nicely for machine clones. It's found in the ACPI tables, which
632 should be easily accessible from UEFI.
633
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634* sd-boot: add menu item for shutdown? or hotkey?
635
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637 no api to query the device id
638
639* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
640 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
641 also be queried.
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644 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
645 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
646 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
647
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648* sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
649 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
650 latter).
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652* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
653
654* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
655
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657 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
658 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
659 generated by GNU sha256sums.
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662 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
663 logic: allow combining sd-boot via objcopy with kernels to enumerate, .conf
664 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
665 to the menu. Usecase: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
666 UEFI HTTP boot.
667
668* maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
669 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
670 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
671 binary with some minimal info about an URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
672 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
673 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
674 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
675 hence cheap for enumeration.
676
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678
679* maybe add a "syscfg" concept, that is almost entirely identical to "sysext",
680 but operates on /etc/ instead of /usr/ and /opt/. Use case would be: trusted,
681 authenticated, atomic, additive configuration management primitive: drop in a
682 configuration bundle, and activate it, so that it is instantly visible,
683 comprehensively.
684
685* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
686 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
687 words: show partition labels).
688
689* systemd-nspawn: make boot assessment do something sensible in a
690 container. i.e send an sd_notify() from payload to container manager once
691 boot-up is completed successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with
692 boot counting, implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
693
694* maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
695 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
696 that take an URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
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699 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
700 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
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703
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706* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
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709 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
710 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
711 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
712 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
713 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
714 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
715 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
716 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
717 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
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720 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
721 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
722 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
723 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
724 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
725 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
726 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
727 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
728 an NTP sync is acquired.
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731 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
732 - maybe add env var that shortcuts kernel-install for installers that want to
733 call it at the end only
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736 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
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739 jobs, units
740
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743 userspace)
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748 json package metadata, and use that when logging
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751
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754
755* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
756 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
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759 internal clock.
760
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f08e143c 762 traffic on port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
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765 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
766
767* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
768 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
769 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
770 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
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773 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
774 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
775
776* maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
777 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
778 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
779 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
780 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
781 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
782 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
783 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
784 thread:
785 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
786 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
787 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
788 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
789 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
790 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
791
792* if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
793 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
794 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
795
796* homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
797 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
798 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
799 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
800 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
801 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
802 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
803 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
804 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
805 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
806 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
807 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
808 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
809 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
810 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
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813 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
814 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
815 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
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817 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
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819* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
820 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us drop drop libcap
821 dep in the base OS image)
822
823* sysext: automatically activate sysext images dropped in via new sd-stub
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826* add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
827 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
828 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
829 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
830 on-disk storage.
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833 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
834 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
835 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
836 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
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839 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
840 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
841 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
842 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
843 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
844 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
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847 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
848 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
849 externally and provide to us on demand only.
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852 be ANY (to mount anything), TRUSTED (to require that /usr is on signed
853 verity, but rest doesn't matter), LOCKEDDOWN (to require that everything is
854 on signed verity, except for ESP), SUPERLOCKDOWN (like LOCKEDDOWN but ESP not
855 allowed). And then maybe some flavours of that that declare what is expected
856 from home/srv/var… Then, add a new cmdline flag to all tools that parse such
857 images, to configure this. Also, add a kernel cmdline option for this, to be
858 honoured by the gpt auto generator.
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861 only mount root dir, /home/ dir, /var/ and /srv/, but nothing else. And then
862 minor extension to this, insisting on encryption, for example
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865 take --image= that take the same short string.
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868 that such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as
869 one.
870
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873 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
874 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
875 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
876 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
877 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
878 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
879 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
880 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
881 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
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883* add a "policy" to the dissection logic. i.e. a bit mask what is OK to mount,
884 what must be read-only, what requires encryption, and what requires
885 authentication.
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888 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
889 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
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892
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896 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
897 that images cannot be misused.
898
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178d3ff2 900 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
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902 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
903 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
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906 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
907 - support casync as download mechanism
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909 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
910 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
911 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
912 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
913 override the host's update files.)
914 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
915 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
916 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
917 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
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920
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922 make dirs appear under right UID.
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925 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
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928 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
929 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
930 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
931 for doing that.
932
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935 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
936 already have it.
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938* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
939 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
940
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941* add an Open= setting to service unit files that can open arbitrary file
942 system paths at service startup time and pass them to the service process via
943 our usual socket activation protocol. If passed path refers to AF_UNIX
944 socket: connect() to it.
945
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946* Similar, ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
947
948* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
949 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
950 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
951 /proc/self/fd/3
952
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953* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
954 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
955 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
956
957* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
958 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
959
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960* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
961 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
962
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963* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
964 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
965 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
966 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
967 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
968
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969* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
970
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972 - acquire from EFI variable?
973 - acquire via via ask-password?
974 - acquire creds via keyring?
975 - pass creds via keyring?
976 - pass creds via memfd?
977 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
978 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
979 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
980 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
981 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
982 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
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983 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
984 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
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986* add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
987 firmware indicates there is one.
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989* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
990 and such
991
992* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
80670e74 993
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994* cyptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
995
7d7c75f1 996* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
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997 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
998
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999* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1000 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
7d7c75f1 1001
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1002* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1003
1004* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1005 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1006
1007* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1008 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1009
1010* cryptsetup:
1011 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1012 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1013
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1014* when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
1015 it happens to be set up alright already.
1016
1017* at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
1018
1019* userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
1020 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
1021 default.
1022
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1023* sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
1024 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
1025 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
1026 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
1027 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
1028
08d33656 1029* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
d775d8e6 1030
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1031* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1032 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1033
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1034* change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
1035 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
1036 temporary dir.
1037
1038* special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
1039 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1040
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1041* add a new flag to chase_symlinks() that stops chasing once the first missing
1042 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1043
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1044* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1045
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1046* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1047
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1048* pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
1049
1050* pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1051
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1052* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1053 when it exits
1054
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1055* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1056 o turn into dlopen() deps:
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1057 - p11-kit-trust (always)
1058 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
a52dc0b6 1059 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
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1060 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1061 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1062 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1063 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
1064 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
1065
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1066* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1067 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1068 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1069
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1070* systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1071 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1072
a6e1018d 1073* All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
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1074 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: systemctl, coredumpctl.
1075 (Already done: bootctl, systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
612d3a68 1076 systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
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1078* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1079
1080* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1081 specific service
1082
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1083* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1084 exists and responds.
1085
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1086* Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
1087 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
1088 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
1089
91fc013f 1090* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
86b52a39 1091 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
91fc013f 1092
7e8facb3 1093* unify on openssl:
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1094 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1095 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1096 gnutls
1097 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
492f91d8 1098
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1099* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1100 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1101
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1102* userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1103 realname substr searches in varlink API
006c44c1 1104
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1105* userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1106
2a4be3c5 1107* userdb: allow existence checks
006c44c1 1108
f1eb0ccd 1109* pid1: activation by journal search expression
006c44c1 1110
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1111* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1112 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1113 initrd had set.
1114
173c7873 1115* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
84a1ff94 1116 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
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1117 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1118 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1119 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1120 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1121
1122* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1123 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1124 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1125
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1126* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1127 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1128 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1129 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1130 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1131 source.
1132
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1133* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1134 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1135 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1136
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1137* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1138
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1139* beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
1140 the hibernation
1141
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1142* beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1143 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1144 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1145 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1146 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1147 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1148 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1149 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1150 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1151 hibernation mode. (see
1152 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1153 section 10.2.2.8 and
1154 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1155 at the end).
1156
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1157* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1158 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
9c230b8f 1159
c6526b8d 1160* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
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1162* introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1163 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1164 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1165 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1166 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1167 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1168 exec().
1169
1170* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1171
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1172* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1173 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1174
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1175* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1176 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1177
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1178* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1179 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1180 root.
1181
1182* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1183 is issued.
1184
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1185* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1186
1187* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1188
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1189* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1190 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1191 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
d7b659ef 1192
d238709c 1193* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
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1194 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1195 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1196
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1197* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1198
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1199* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1200 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1201
06898123 1202* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
309c6b19 1203 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
9ae4ef49 1204 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
8b213bf1 1205 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
06898123 1206
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1207* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1208
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1209* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
1210 log.c and sd-journal-send
1211
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1212* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1213
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1214* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
1215
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1216* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1217 non-zero "tries done" count
1218
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1219* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1220 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1221 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1222 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1223 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1224 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1225 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1226 CODE_FILE.
1227
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1228* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1229 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1230 some explanatory text online.
1231
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1232* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1233
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1234* When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1235 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1236
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1237* hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
1238 Specifically:
1239
1240 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
1241 properly)
e83419d0 1242 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
46c41478 1243 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
c633b0a6 1244
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1245* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1246 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1247
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1248* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1249 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1250 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1251 files and suchlike we operate on.
070d0ac9 1252
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1253* importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1254
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1255* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1256
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1257* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1258 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1259
5da19043 1260* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
63a185dc 1261 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
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1263* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1264 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1265 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1266 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1267 unlinked from any dir.
1268
bd1b3f75 1269* port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
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1271* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1272
1273* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1274
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1275* introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
1276 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
1277 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
1278 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
1279 should reflink the image file itself.
1280
1281 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
1282 specific paths only like this.
1283
53c70a27 1284* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
5238e957 1285 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
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1286 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1287 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
2aed63f4 1288 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
53c70a27 1289
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1290* show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1291
1292* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1293
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1294* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1295 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1296
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1297* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1298 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1299 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1300 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1301 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1302 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
1303 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1304 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1305
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1306* maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1307 for root, but only then.
586a8e93 1308
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1309* be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
1310
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1311* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1312 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1313
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1314* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1315 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1316
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1317* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1318 only when used. Add unit tests.
1319
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1320* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1321 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1322
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1323* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1324 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1325 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1326 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1327 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1328
899feb72 1329* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
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1331* add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
1332 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
1333 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
1334
5f7ecd61 1335* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
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1337* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1338 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1339
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1340* blog about fd store and restartable services
1341
1342* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1343
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1344* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1345 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1346
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1347* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1348 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1349 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1350 ID is available.
1351
1352* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1353 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1354 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1355
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1356* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1357 parameters
1358
63a185dc 1359* maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
d51c4fca 1360 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
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1361 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1362 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1363 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1364 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1365 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
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1367* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1368 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1369
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1370* expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1371 about it in the resource log message
1372
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1373* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1374 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1375 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1376
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1377* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1378 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1379
1380 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1381
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1382* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1383 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1384 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1385
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1386* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1387 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1388
1389* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1390 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1391 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1392 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1393 natural habitat.
1394
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1395* gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1396 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
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1398* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1399 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1400 relative to the configured default value.
1401
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1402* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1403
04397464 1404* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
d82047be 1405
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1406* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1407
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1408* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1409
04397464 1410* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
42d61ded 1411
04397464 1412* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
563a69f4 1413
04397464 1414* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2c5f2958 1415
8ce9b83a 1416* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
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1417
1418* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1419 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1420 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1421
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1422* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1423 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1424
e40a326c 1425* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
89f193fa 1426
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1427* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1428 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1429 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1430 mapping to work.
1431
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1432* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1433
1434* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1435
1436* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1437
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1438* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1439 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1440
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1441* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1442 reload the unit file anyway
1443
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1444* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1445
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1446* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1447
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1448* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1449 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1450
f9bf1b8f 1451* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
de7399eb 1452 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
f9bf1b8f 1453 specifications.
de7399eb 1454
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1455* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1456
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1457* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1458
a2088fd0 1459* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
5238e957 1460 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
a2088fd0 1461 prefixed with /sys generally special.
41d6f3bf 1462 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
a2088fd0 1463
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1464* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1465
931bc195 1466* docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
b18d23d7 1467
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1468* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1469 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1470 state.
41d6f3bf 1471 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
60d17b74 1472
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1473* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1474 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1475 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1476 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1477 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1478
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1479* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1480
d2f81fb0 1481* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
41d6f3bf 1482 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
98cd2651 1483
0a86c1a9 1484* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
41d6f3bf 1485 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
0a86c1a9 1486
e031c227 1487* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
41d6f3bf 1488 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
0a86c1a9 1489
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1490* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1491
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1492* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1493 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1494
25e773ee 1495* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 1496
720652b3 1497* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 1498
720652b3 1499* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 1500
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1501* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
1502
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1503* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1504 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1505
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1506* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1507
9d6db739 1508* resolved:
9d6db739 1509 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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1510 - service registration
1511 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 1512 - avahi compat
9d6db739 1513 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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1514 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1515 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1516 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
720652b3 1517 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3efb871a 1518 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
3f77a1b1 1519
e25b5a8d 1520* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 1521
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1522* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1523
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1524* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1525
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1526* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1527
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1528* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1529
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1530* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1531 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 1532
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1533* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1534
6a3f892a 1535* gpt-auto-generator:
2a781fc9 1536 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 1537 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 1538
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1539* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1540 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1541 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 1542
f9bf1b8f 1543* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
eda8f067 1544
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1545* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1546 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1547 for ReusePort=
1548
f38afcd0 1549* cgroups:
f38afcd0 1550 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
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1551 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1552 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1553 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1554 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1555 the hierarchies of child processes
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1556- add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1557 maybe use them for user@.service
0bee65f0 1558
f38afcd0 1559* transient units:
f38afcd0 1560 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
ebcf1f97 1561
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1562* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1563
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1564* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1565
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1566* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1567
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1568* 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
1569
7f79cd71 1570* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
0aafd43d 1571
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1572* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1573 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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1574 path anyway.
1575
04397464 1576* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
fcba531e 1577
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1578* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1579
1580* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1581
07eabc2b 1582* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
f38afcd0 1583
07eabc2b 1584* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
eb01ba5d 1585
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1586* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1587
1588* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1589 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1590 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1591
1592* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1593 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1594
1595* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1596
1597* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1598
1599* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1600
1601* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1602 needs to be auto-respawned?
1603
1604* pid1:
1605 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1606 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1607 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1608 that are not supported...
41d6f3bf 1609 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
07eabc2b 1610 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
41d6f3bf 1611 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
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1612 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1613 - move PAM code into its own binary
1614 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1615 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1616 - Support --test based on current system state
1617 - 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().
1618 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1619 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1620 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1621 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1622 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1623 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1624 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1625 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1626 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1627 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1628 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1629 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1630
1631* unit files:
1632 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1633 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1634 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1635 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1636 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1637 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1638 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1639 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1640 - introduce Type=pid-file
1641 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1642 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1643 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1644
1645* timer units:
63a185dc 1646 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
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LB
1647 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1648
1649* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1650
1651* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1652
1653* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1654
1655* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1656
07eabc2b 1657* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
461bd8e4 1658
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1659* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1660
1661* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1662
fff87a35 1663* test/:
20d52ab6 1664 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
b8b4d3dd 1665
b5c03638 1666* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 1667 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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1668 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1669 destination.
1670
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1671* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1672 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1673
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1674* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1675
6daebf9e
ZJS
1676* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1677 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1678 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1679
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1680* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1681 compliant boot loader is installed.
795607b2 1682
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LP
1683* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1684 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1685 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1686 that automatically.
1687
e5ec62c5 1688* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 1689
ccddd104 1690* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 1691
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1692* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1693
356ce991 1694* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 1695
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LB
1696* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1697
1698* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1699
1700* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1701
1702* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1703
1704* sd-bus:
1705 - EBADSLT handling
1706 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1707 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1708 - 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
1709 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1710 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1711 - longer term: priority inheritance
1712 - dbus spec updates:
1713 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
07eabc2b
LB
1714 - path escaping
1715 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1716
1717* sd-event
1718 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1719 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1720 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1721 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1722 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1723 here:
1724 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1725
1726* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1727 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1728
1729* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1730
1731* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1732
1733* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1734
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LB
1735* systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
1736 reading/writing files
1737
1738* firstboot: make it useful to be run immediately after yum --installroot to set up a machine. (most specifically, make --copy-root-password work even if /etc/passwd already exists
1739
b44be3ec 1740* EFI:
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1741 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1742 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 1743 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
631427d6 1744* bootctl
631427d6 1745 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
e4181484 1746
07eabc2b 1747* bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
e9fd44b7 1748
07eabc2b 1749* bootctl:
483091b0 1750 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
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1751 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1752 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
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1753
1754* kernel-install:
1755 - optionally, support generating type #2 entries instead of type #1, including signing them
e6c6e7af 1756
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1757* logind:
1758 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
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1759 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1760 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1761 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
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1762 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1763 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1764 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1765 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1766 needs setuid().
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1767 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1768 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1769 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1770 complete.
1771 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1772 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1773 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
28423d9a 1774 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
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1775 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1776 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1777 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1778 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1779 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1780 relogins
77b19caf 1781 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
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ZJS
1782 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
1783 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
1784 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
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1785
1786* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1787
1788* logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1789 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1790 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1791
1792* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1793 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1794
b44be3ec 1795* journal:
57f2a947 1796 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
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1797 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1798 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1799 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2aed63f4 1800 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 1801 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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1802 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1803 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1804 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
5238e957 1805 message that works, but already after a short timeout
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1806 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1807 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
f47ec8eb 1808 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
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1809 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1810 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
06847d0f 1811 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
038cf334 1812 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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1813 - 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.
1814 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1815 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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1816 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1817 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1818 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1819 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 1820 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 1821 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 1822 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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1823 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1824 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1825 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1826 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1827 to syslog when it works again.
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1828 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1829 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1830 journals in.
1831 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1832 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1833 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1834 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1835 the most common operations.
e25b5a8d 1836 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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1837 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1838 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1839 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1840 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1841 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1842 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1843 operation.
1844 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1845 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1846 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1847 binary logs data
e25b5a8d 1848 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
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1849 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1850 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1851 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1852 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
06847d0f 1853 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
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1855* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
1856 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
1857
1858* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
1859 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
1860 validated via TPM.
1861
1862* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
1863 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
1864
1865* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
1866 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
1867 user's journal stream down but not the others.
1868
1869* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
1870 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
1871 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
1872 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
1873 cgroup.
1874
1875* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
1876 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
1877 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
1878 logging.
1879
1880* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
1881
1882* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
1883 from the SIGBUS handler
1884
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1886 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1887 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1888 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1889
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1890* homed:
1891 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
1892 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
1893 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
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1894 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
1895 - create on activate?
1896 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
1897 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
1898 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
1899 systemd --user is shut down.
1900 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
1901 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
1902 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
1903 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
1904 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
1905 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
1906 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
1907 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
1908 - query password from kernel keyring first
1909 - update even if record is "absent"
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1910 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
1911 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
1912 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
1913 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
1914 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
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1915 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
1916 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
1917 doesn't mean user B sees it
9c53de8b 1918 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
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1919 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
1920 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
1921 signature
1922 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
1923 and insert a local signature instead.
1924 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
1925 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
1926 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
1927 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
1928 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
1929 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
1930 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
1931 easily?
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1932 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
1933 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
1934 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
1935 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
1936 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
1937 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
1938 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
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1939 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
1940 can easily set overall quota for all users
1941 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
1942 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
f1a147f2 1943 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
288bd406 1944 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
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1945 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
1946 large.
07eabc2b 1947
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1948* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
1949 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
1950 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
1951
2df2bb1f 1952* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
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1953
1954* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
1955 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
1956 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
1957 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
1958
1959* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
1960
1961* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
1962 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
1963 something goes wrong on the way.
1964
1965* systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
1966
1967* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
1968 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
1969 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
1970 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
1971
1972* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
1973 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
1974 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
1975 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
1976 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
1977 automatically.
1978
1979* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
1980 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
1981
1982* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
1983 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
1984 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
1985 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
1986 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
1987 fails to apply use the latter.
1988
1989* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
1990 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
1991
1992* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
1993 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
1994
1995* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
1996 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
d01d9197 1997 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
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1999* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2000 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2001
92e72028 2002* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
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2003 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2004 during boot.
2005
2006* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2007
b44be3ec 2008* document:
8b8f2591 2009 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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2010 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2011 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 2012 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
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2013 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2014 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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2015 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2016 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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2017 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2018 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
f38afcd0 2019 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
17ec531f 2020 - document root=gpt-auto properly
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2021
2022* systemctl:
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2023 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2024 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2025 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2026 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2027 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2028 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2029 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 2030 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 2031 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
61233823 2032 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
f38afcd0 2033
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2034* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2035 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2036 it should skip the variant type string though.
8b04b925 2037
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2038* add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
2039 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
2040 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
2041 output for them.
d2e83c23 2042
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2043* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2044 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2045 the slices, and the units attached to them.
a19554ed 2046
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2047* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2048 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2049 wait to retrieve their exit data.
a7a3f28b 2050
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2051* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2052 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
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2054* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2055 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2056 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2057 do, for example)
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2059* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2060 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2061 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2062 returning from the "systemctl stop".
71ef24d0 2063
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2064* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2065
2066* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2067
2068* unit install:
2069 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2070 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
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2073 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2074 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2075 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2076 from the kernel's logs.
2077 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2078 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2079 interface be missing
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2080 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2081 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2082 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2083 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2084 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2085 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2086 PID 1...
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2087 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2088 running, remove them when shut down.
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2090* nspawn: add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension=
2091 switch that takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already
2092 during startup.
2093
2094* when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
2095 so, freeze the payload too.
2096
2097* machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2098 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2099 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2100 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2101 anything like that.
2102
2103* nspawn: support time namespaces
2104
2105* nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
2106 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2107
2108* nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
2109 fallback in "machinectl shell"
2110
2111* nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
2112 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
2113 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2114
2115* nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
2116
2117* nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2118
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2120 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2121 removed or added to an existing machine
2122 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2123 difference host, via ssh
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2124 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2125 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2126 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2127 question
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2128 - "machinectl history"
2129 - "machinectl diff"
2130 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2131 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2132
abd55b16 2133* udev:
abd55b16 2134 - move to LGPL
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2135 - kill scsi_id
2136 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 2137 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
75723d31 2138 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
8cfde28b 2139 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
b8217b7b 2140
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2141* coredump:
2142 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
73a99163 2143 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1a0281a3 2144 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
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2145
2146* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2147
f38afcd0 2148* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 2149 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
614cc34f 2150 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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2151 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2152 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2153 calls follow symlinks.
36f57e02 2154 - add --test mode
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2155 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2156 project quota
a9b0d0a2 2157 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
1258097c 2158
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2159* udev-link-config:
2160 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2161 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2162 on Path= matching
af6f0d42 2163
88e4d1d7 2164* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 2165 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 2166 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 2167
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2169 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2170 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
e8d842a0 2171 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
798e174a 2172 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
a8eaaee7 2173 - work with non-Ethernet devices
e25b5a8d 2174 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
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2175 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2176 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2177 - expose in the API the following bits:
e2da6491 2178 - option 15, domain name
38b38500 2179 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
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2180 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2181 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2182 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2183 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2184 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2185 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
e25b5a8d 2186 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
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2188* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2189
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2190* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2191
ac976532 2192* dhcp:
424a8732 2193 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
ac976532 2194
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2195* dhcp6:
2196 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2197 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2198 - write more test cases
37d8b536 2199 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 2200 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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2201 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2202 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2203 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2204 or interface down
2205 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2206 this behavior
4a77c53d 2207 - RouteTable= ?