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1Bugfixes:
2
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.
6
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.
10
11External:
12
13* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
14
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* 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=
20
21* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
22
23* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
24
25* zsh shell completion:
26 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
27 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
28 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
29
30* systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
31* If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
32 after being started.
33
34* write blog stories about:
35 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
36 - enabling dbus services
37 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
38 - remote access
39 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
40 - auto-restart
41 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
42 - the journal HTTP iface
43 - non-cgroup resource management
44 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
45 - refreshed, longer missions statement
46 - calendar time events
47 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
48 - how to create your own target
49 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
50 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/early boot
51
52Regularly:
53
54* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
55
56* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
57
58* pahole
59
60* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
61
62* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
63
64Janitorial Clean-ups:
65
66* rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
67 semantics, like we do for device.c now
68
69* Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
70 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
71 libmount for something so trivial.
72
73* drop set_free_free() and switch things over from string_hash_ops to
74 string_hash_ops_free everywhere, so that destruction is implicit rather than
75 explicit. Similar, for other special hashmap/set/ordered_hashmap destructors.
76
77* generators sometimes apply C escaping and sometimes specifier escaping to
78 paths and similar strings they write out. Sometimes both. We should clean
79 this up, and should probably always apply both, i.e. introduce
80 unit_file_escape() or so, which applies both.
81
82* xopenat() should pin the parent dir of the inode it creates before doing its
83 thing, so that it can create, open, label somewhat atomically.
84
85* use CHASE_MUST_BE_DIRECTORY and CHASE_MUST_BE_REGULAR at more places (the
86 majority of places that currently employ chase() probably should use this)
87
88Deprecations and removals:
89
90* Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
91 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
92
93* remove cgroups v1 support EOY 2023. As per
94 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
95 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
96 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
97
98* drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
99 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
100 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
101 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
102 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
103
104* drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
105 baseline is 5.8.
106
107* drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
108 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
109
110* Once baseline is 5.10, remove support or MS_NOSYMFOLLOW-less kernels
111
112* Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
113 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
114 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
115
116* In v260: remove support for deprecated FactoryReset EFI variable in
117 systemd-repart, replaced by FactoryResetRequest.
118
119* Consider removing root=gpt-auto, and push people to use root=dissect instead.
120
121* Once
122 https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/commit/508fb0e7ac103b68531a59db2a4473897853ab52
123 has hit the prominent distributions, revert --issue-file= hack in units/*getty*service.in
124
125* Once kernel baseline is 5.7, obsolete DefaultMemoryMin/Low= and DefaultStartupMemoryLow=
126 since we can systematically enable memory_recursiveprot on cgroupfs and have those
127 enforced by the kernel
128
129Features:
130
131* journald: log pidfid as another field, i.e. _PIDFDID=
132
133* systemd-nspawn: something like --volatile= but that isn't volatile, but
134 stores the data in some separate dir on disk. Usecase: keep always up-to-date
135 DDIs of some OS in your home dir, but combine its /usr/ with a locally
136 maintained root fs in a regular dir to maintain local state. (idea: call it
137 --mutable= and take dir or DDI and merge in)
138
139* maybe rework systemd-modules-load to be a generator that just instantiates
140 modprobe@.service a bunch of times
141
142* Split vconsole-setup in two, of which the second is started via udev (instead
143 of the "restart" job it currently fires). That way, boot becomes purely
144 positive again, and we can nicely order the two against each other.
145
146* Add ELF section to make systemd main binary recognizable cleanly, the same
147 way as we make sd-boot recognizable via PE section.
148
149* Add knob to cryptsetup, to trigger automatic reboot on failure to unlock
150 disk. Enable this by default for rootfs, also in gpt-auto-generator
151
152* Add RebootUptimeMinSec= knob to PID 1, that makes systemd-shutdown sleep
153 until the specified uptime has passed, to lengthen tight boot loops.
154
155* replace bootctl's PE version check to actually use APIs from pe-binary.[ch]
156 to find binary version.
157
158* replace symlink_label(), mknodat_label(), btrfs_subvol_make_label(),
159 mkdir_label() and related calls by flags-based calls that use
160 label_ops_pre()/label_ops_post().
161
162* maybe reconsider whether virtualization consoles (hvc1) are considered local
163 or remote. i.e. are they more like an ssh login, or more like a /dev/tty1
164 login? Lennart used to believe the former, but maybe the latter is more
165 appropriate? This has effect on polkit interactivity, since it would mean
166 questions via hvc0 would suddenly use the local polkit property. But this
167 also raises the question whether such sessions shall be considered active or
168 not
169
170* automatically reset specific EFI vars on factory reset (make this generic
171 enough so that infrac can be used to erase shim's mok vars?)
172
173* similar: add a plugin for factory reset logic that erases certain parts of
174 the ESP, but leaves others in place.
175
176* systemd-repart: add --defer-partitions-factory-reset or so, as a flavour of
177 --defer-partitions= that picks all partitions that are marked for factory
178 reset. for an installer this is usually the partitions not to copy, too.
179
180* flush_fd() should probably try to be smart and stop reading once we know that
181 all further queued data was enqueued after flush_fd() was originally
182 called. For that, try SIOCINQ if fd refers to stream socket, and look at
183 timestamps for datagram sockets.
184
185* Similar flush_accept() should look at sockdiag queued sockets count and exit
186 once we flushed out the specified number of connections.
187
188* maybe introduce a new per-unit drop-in directory .confext.d/ that may contain
189 symlinks to confext images to enable for the unit.
190
191* nspawn: map foreign UID range through 1:1
192
193* replace all uses of fopen_temporary() by fopen_tmpfile_linkable() +
194 flink_tmpfile() and then get rid of fopen_temporary(). Benefit: use O_TMPFILE
195 pervasively, and avoid rename() wherever we can.
196
197* loginctl: show argv[] of "leader" process in tabular list-sessions output
198
199* loginctl: show "service identifier" in tabular list-sessions output, to make
200 run0 sessions easily visible.
201
202* run0: maybe enable utmp for run0 sessions, so that they are easily visible.
203
204* maybe beef up sd-event: optionally, allow sd-event to query the timestamp of
205 next pending datagram inside a SOCK_DGRAM IO fd, and order event source
206 dispatching by that. Enable this on the native + syslog sockets in journald,
207 so that we add correct ordering between the two. Use MSG_PEEK + SCM_TIMESTAMP
208 for this.
209
210* maybe replace nss-machines with logic in networkd that registers records with
211 systemd-resolved, based on DHCP leases, so that we gain compat with VMs.
212 Implementation idea: encode in an ifaltname the intended local name to expose this
213 under and then parse that out and map it to the combined A/AAAA of all handed
214 out leases.
215
216* bsod: add target "bsod.target" or so, which invokes systemd-bsod.target and
217 waits and then reboots. Then use OnFailure=bsod.target from various jobs that
218 should result in system reboots, such as TPM tamper detection cases.
219
220* honour validatefs xattrs in dissect-image.c too
221
222* pcrextend: maybe add option to disable measurements entirely via kernel cmdline
223
224* tpm2-setup: reboot if we detect SRK changed
225
226* validatefs: validate more things: check if image id + os id of initrd match
227 target mount, so that we refuse early any attempts to boot into different
228 images with the wrong kernels. check min/max kernel version too. all encoded
229 via xattrs in the target fs.
230
231* pcrextend: when we fail to measure, reboot the system (at least optionally).
232 important because certain measurements are supposed to "destroy" tpm object
233 access.
234
235* pcrextend: after measuring get an immediate quote from the TPM, and validate
236 it. if it doesn't check out, i.e. the measurement we made doesn't appear in
237 the PCR then also reboot.
238
239* cryptsetup: add boolean for disabling use of any password/recovery key slots.
240 (i.e. that we can operate in a tpm-only mode, and thus protect us from rogue
241 root disks)
242
243* complete varlink introspection comments:
244 - io.systemd.BootControl
245 - io.systemd.Hostname
246 - io.systemd.ManagedOOM
247 - io.systemd.Network
248 - io.systemd.PCRExtend
249 - io.systemd.PCRLock
250 - io.systemd.Resolve.Monitor
251 - io.systemd.Resolve
252 - io.systemd.oom
253 - io.systemd.sysext
254
255* maybe define a /etc/machine-info field for the ANSI color to associate with a
256 hostname. Then use it for the shell prompt to highlight the hostname. If no
257 color is explicitly set, hash a color automatically from the hostname as a
258 fallback, in a reasonable way. Take inspiration from the ANSI_COLOR= field
259 that already exists in /etc/os-release, i.e. use the same field name and
260 syntax. When hashing the color, use the hsv_to_rgb() helper we already have,
261 fixate S and V to something reasonable and constant, and derive the H from
262 the hostname. Ultimate goal with this: give people a visual hint about the
263 system they are on if the have many to deal with, by giving each a color
264 identity. This code should be placed in hostnamed, so that clients can query
265 the color via varlink or dbus.
266
267* unify how blockdev_get_root() and sysupdate find the default root block device
268
269* Maybe rename pkcs7 and public verbs of systemd-keyutil to be more verb like.
270
271* maybe extend the capsule concept to the per-user instance too: invokes a
272 systemd --user instance with a subdir of $HOME as $HOME, and a subdir of
273 $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR as $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR.
274
275* add "homectl export" and "homectl import" that gets you an "atomic" snapshot
276 of your homedir, i.e. either a tarball or a snapshot of the underlying disk
277 (use FREEZE/THAW to make it consistent, btrfs snapshots)
278
279* maybe introduce a new partition that we can store debug logs and similar at
280 the very last moment of shutdown. idea would be to store reference to block
281 device (major + minor + partition id + diskeq?) in /run somewhere, than use
282 that from systemd-shutdown, just write a raw JSON blob into the partition.
283 Include timestamp, boot id and such, plus kmsg. on next boot immediately
284 import into journal. maybe use timestamp for making clock more monotonic.
285 also use this to detect unclean shutdowns, boot into special target if
286 detected
287
288* fix homed/homectl confusion around terminology, i.e. "home directory"
289 vs. "home" vs. "home area". Stick to one term for the concept, and it
290 probably shouldn't contain "area".
291
292* sd-boot: do something useful if we find exactly zero entries (ignoring items
293 such as reboot/poweroff/factory reset). Show a help text or so.
294
295* sd-boot: optionally ask for confirmation before executing certain operations
296 (e.g. factory resets, storagetm with world access, and so on)
297
298* add field to bls type 1 and type 2 profiles that ensures an item is never
299 considered for automatic selection
300
301* add "conditions" for bls type 1 and type 2 profiles that allow suppressing
302 them under various conditions: 1. if tpm2 is available or not available;
303 2. if sb is on or off; 3. if we are netbooted or not; …
304
305* logind: invoke a service manager for "area" logins too. i.e. instantiate
306 user@.service also for logins where XDG_AREA is set, in per-area fashion, and
307 ref count it properly. Benefit: graphical logins should start working with
308 the area logic.
309
310* repart: introduce concept of "ghost" partitions, that we setup in almost all
311 ways like other partitions, but do not actually register in the actual gpt
312 table, but only tell the kernel about via BLKPG ioctl. These partitions are
313 disk backed (hence can be large), but not persistent (as they are invisible
314 on next boot). Could be used by live media and similar, to boot up as usual
315 but automatically start at zero on each boot. There should also be a way to
316 make ghost partitions properly persistent on request.
317
318* repart: introduce MigrateFileSystem= or so which is a bit like
319 CopyFiles=/CopyBlocks= but operates via btrfs device logic: adds target as
320 new device then removes source from btrfs. Usecase: a live medium which uses
321 "ghost" partitions as suggested above, which can become persistent on request
322 on another device.
323
324* make nspawn containers, portable services and vmspawn VMs optionally survive
325 soft reboot wholesale.
326
327* Turn systemd-networkd-wait-online into a small varlink service that people
328 can talk to and specify exactly what to wait for via a method call, and get a
329 response back once that level of "online" is reached.
330
331* introduce a small "systemd-installer" tool or so, that glues
332 systemd-repart-as-installer and bootctl-install into one. Would just
333 interactively ask user for target disk (with completion and so on), and then do
334 two varlink calls to the the two tools with the right parameters. To support
335 "offline" operation, optionally invoke the two tools directly as child
336 processes with varlink communication over socketpair(). This all should be
337 useful as blueprint for graphical installers which should do the same.
338
339* Make run0 forward various signals to the forked process so that sending
340 signals to a child process works roughly the same regardless of whether the
341 child process is spawned via run0 or not.
342
343* write a document explaining how to write correct udev rules. Mention things
344 such as:
345 1. do not do lists of vid/pid matches, use hwdb for that
346 2. add|change action matches are typically wrong, should be != remove
347 3. use GOTO, make rules short
348 4. people shouldn't try to make rules file non-world-readable
349
350* make killing more debuggable: when we kill a service do so setting the
351 .si_code field with a little bit of info. Specifically, we can set a
352 recognizable value to first of all indicate that it's systemd that did the
353 killing. Secondly, we can give a reason for the killing, i.e. OOM or so, and
354 also the phase we are in, and which process we think we are killing (i.e.
355 main vs control process, useful in case of sd_notify() MAINPID= debugging).
356 Net result: people who try to debug why their process gets killed should have
357 some minimal, nice metadata directly on the signal event.
358
359* sd-boot/sd-stub: install a uefi "handle" to a sidecar dir of bls type #1
360 entries with an "uki" or "uki-url" stanza, and make sd-stub look for
361 that. That way we can parameterize type #1 entries nicely.
362
363* add a system-wide seccomp filter list for syscalls, kill "acct()" "@obsolete"
364 and a few other legacy syscalls that way.
365
366* maybe introduce "@icky" as a seccomp filter group, which contains acct() and
367 certain other syscalls that aren't quite obsolete, but certainly icky.
368
369* revisit how we pass fs images and initrd to the kernel. take uefi http boot
370 ramdisks as inspiration: for any confext/sysext/initrd erofs/DDI image simply
371 generate a fake pmem region in the UEFI memory tables, that Linux then turns
372 into /dev/pmemX. Then turn of cpio-based initrd logic in linux kernel,
373 instead let kernel boot directly into /dev/pmem0. In order to allow our usual
374 cpio-based parameterization, teach PID 1 to just uncompress cpio ourselves
375 early on, from another pmem device. (Related to this, maybe introduce a new
376 PE section .ramdisk that just synthesizes pmem devices from arbitrary
377 blobs. Could be particularly useful in add-ons)
378
379* also parse out primary GPT disk label uuid from gpt partition device path at
380 boot and pass it as efi var to OS.
381
382* storagetm: maybe also serve the specified disk via HTTP? we have glue for
383 microhttpd anyway already. Idea would also be serve currently booted UKI as
384 separate HTTP resource, so that EFI http boot on another system could
385 directly boot from our system, with full access to the hdd.
386
387* support specifying download hash sum in systemd-import-generator expression
388 to pin image/tarball.
389
390* support boot into nvme-over-tcp: add generator that allows specifying nvme
391 devices on kernel cmdline + credentials. Also maybe add interactive mode
392 (where the user is prompted for nvme info), in order to boot from other
393 system's HDD.
394
395* ptyfwd: use osc context information in vmspawn/nspawn/… to optionally only
396 listen to ^]]] key when no further vmspawn/nspawn context is allocated
397
398* ptyfwd: usec osc context information to propagate status messages from
399 vmspawn/nspawn to service manager's "status" string, reporting what is
400 currently in the fg
401
402* nspawn/vmspawn: define hotkey that one can hit on the primary interface to
403 ask for a friendly, acpi style shutdown.
404
405* for better compat with major clouds: implement simple PTP device support in
406 timesyncd
407
408* for better compat with major clouds: recognize clouds via hwdb on DMI device,
409 and add udev properties to it that help with handling IMDS, i.e. entrypoint
410 URL, which fields to find ip hostname, ssh key, …
411
412* for better compat with major clouds: introduce imds mini client service that
413 sets up primary netif in a private netns (ipvlan?) to query imds without
414 affecting rest of the host. pick up literal credentials from there plus the
415 fields the hwdb reports for the other fields and turn them into credentials.
416 then write generator that used detected virtualization info and plugs this
417 service into the early boot, waiting for the DMI and network device to show
418 up.
419
420* Add UKI profile conditioning so that profles are only available if secure
421 boot is turned off, or only on. similar, add conditions on TPM availability,
422 network boot, and other conditions.
423
424* fix bug around run0 background color on ls in fresh terminal
425
426* Reset TPM2 DA bit on each successful boot
427
428* systemd-repart: add --installer or so, that will intractively ask for a
429 target disk, maybe ask for confirmation, and install something on disk. Then,
430 hook that into installer.target or so, so that it can be used to
431 install/replicate installs
432
433* systemd-cryptenroll: add --firstboot or so, that will interactively ask user
434 whether recovery key shall be enrolled and do so
435
436* bootctl: add tool for registering BootXXX entry that boots from some http
437 server of your choice (i.e. like kernel-bootcfg --add-uri=)
438
439* maybe introduce container-shell@.service or so, to match
440 container-getty.service but skips authentication, so you get a shell prompt
441 directly. Usecase: wsl-like stuff (they have something pretty much like
442 that). Question: how to pick user for this. Instance parameter? somehow from
443 credential (would probably require some binary that converts credential to
444 User= parameter?
445
446* systemd-firstboot: optionally install an ssh key for root for offline use.
447
448* Allocate UIDs/GIDs automatically in userdbctl load-credentials if none are
449 included in the user/group record credentials
450
451* introduce new ANSI sequence for communicating log level and structured error
452 metadata to terminals.
453
454* in pid1: include ExecStart= cmdlines (and other Exec*= cmdlines) in polkit
455 request, so that policies can match against command lines.
456
457* allow dynamic modifications of ConcurrencyHardMax= and ConcurrencySoftMax=
458 via DBus (and with that also by daemon-reload)
459
460* importd: introduce a per-user instance, that downloads into per-user DDI dirs
461
462* sysupdated: similar
463
464* portabled: similar
465
466* machined: implement a per-user instance, that manages per-user DDI dirs for
467 images. systemd-nspawn/systemd-vmspawn should probably register with both the
468 system and the user scoped machined instance. The former to get the machine
469 name registered as hostname, and the latter so that the image stuff is nicely
470 per-user managed.
471
472* resolved: make resolved process DNR DHCP info
473
474* maybe introduce an OSC sequence that signals when we ask for a password, so
475 that terminal emulators can maybe connect a password manager or so, and
476 highlight things specially.
477
478* start using STATX_SUBVOL in btrfs_is_subvol(). Also, make use of it
479 generically, so that image discovery recognizes bcachefs subvols too.
480
481* "systemd-export tar" should reuse the libarchive export code from systemd-dissect
482 --archive.
483
484* "systemd-import tar" should be moved to libarchive
485
486* foreign uid:
487 - add support to export-fs, import-fs, import-tar, export-tar
488 - add tool for deleting foreign UID held container images
489 - systemd-dissect should learn mappings, too, when doing mtree and such
490
491* format-table: introduce new cell type for strings with ansi sequences in
492 them. display them in regular output mode (via strip_tab_ansi()), but
493 suppress them in json mode.
494
495* resolved: report ttl in resolution replies if we know it. This data is useful
496 for tools such as wireguard which want to periodically re-resolve DNS names,
497 and might want to use the TTL has hint for that.
498
499* journald: beef up ClientContext logic to store pidfd_id of peer, to validate
500 we really use the right cache entry
501
502* journald: log client's pidfd id as a new automatic field _PIDFDID= or so.
503
504* journald: split up ClientContext cache in two: one cache keyed by pid/pidfdid
505 with process information, and another one keyed by cgroup path/cgroupid with
506 cgroup information. This way if a service consisting of many logging
507 processes can take benefit of the cgroup caching.
508
509* system lsmbpf policy that prohibits creating files owned by "nobody"
510 system-wide
511
512* system lsmpbf policy that prohibits creating or opening device nodes outside
513 of devtmpfs/tmpfs, except if they are the pseudo-devices /dev/null,
514 /dev/zero, /dev/urandom and so on.
515
516* system lsmbpf policy that enforces that block device backed mounts may only
517 be established on top of dm-crypt or dm-verity devices, or an allowlist of
518 file systems (which should probably include vfat, for compat with the ESP)
519
520* $LISTEN_PID, $SYSTEMD_EXECPID env vars that the service manager sets should
521 be augmented with $LISTEN_PIDFDID, and $SYSTEMD_EXECPIDFD (and similar for
522 other env vars we might send).
523
524* port copy.c over to use LabelOps for all labelling.
525
526* port remaining getmntent() users over to libmount. There are subtle
527 differences in the parsers (see #25371 for example), and it hence makes sense
528 if we stick to one set of parsers on this, not mix both. Specifically:
529 systemd-fstab-generator, cryptsetup, remount-fs.
530
531* get rid of compat with libidn.so.11 (retain only for libidn.so.12)
532
533* get rid of compat with libbpf.so.0 (retainly only for libbpf.so.1)
534
535* define a generic "report" varlink interface, which services can implement to
536 provide health/statistics data about themselves. then define a dir somewhere
537 in /run/ where components can bind such sockets. Then make journald, logind,
538 and pid1 itself implement this and expose various stats on things there. Then
539 issue parallel calls to these interfaces from the systemd-report tool,
540 combine into one json document, and include measurement logs and tpm
541 quote. tpm quote should protect the json doc via the nonce field
542 studd. Allow shipping this off elsewhere for analyze.
543
544* The bind(AF_UNSPEC) construct (for resetting sockets to their initial state)
545 should be blocked in many cases because it punches holes in many sandboxes.
546
547* find a nice way to opt-in into auto-masking SIGCHLD on first
548 sd_event_add_child(), and then get rid of many more explicit sigprocmask()
549 calls.
550
551* introduce new structure Tpm2CombinedPolicy, that combines the various TPm2
552 policy bits into one structure, i.e. public key info, pcr masks, pcrlock
553 stuff, pin and so on. Then pass that around in tpm2_seal() and tpm2_unseal().
554
555* look at nsresourced, mountfsd, homed, importd, and try to come up with a way
556 how the forked off worker processes can be moved into transient services with
557 sandboxing, without breaking notify socket stuff and so on.
558
559* replace all \x1b, \x1B, \033 C string escape sequences in our codebase with a
560 more readable \e. It's a GNU extension, but a ton more readable than the
561 others, and most importantly it doesn't result in confusing errors if you
562 suffix the escape sequence with one more decimal digit, because compilers
563 think you might actually specify a value outside the 8bit range with that.
564
565* confext/sysext: instead of mounting the overlayfs directly on /etc/ + /usr/,
566 insert an intermediary bind mount on itself there. This has the benefit that
567 services where mount propagation from the root fs is off, an still have
568 confext/sysext propagated in.
569
570* generic interface for varlink for setting log level and stuff that all our daemons can implement
571
572* maybe teach repart.d/ dropins a new setting MakeMountNodes= or so, which is
573 just like MakeDirectories=, but uses an access mode of 0000 and sets the +i
574 chattr bit. This is useful as protection against early uses of /var/ or /tmp/
575 before their contents is mounted.
576
577* go through all uses of table_new() in our codebase, and make sure we support
578 all three of:
579 1. --no-legend properly
580 2. --json= properly
581 3. --no-pager properly
582
583* go through all --help texts in our codebases, and make sure:
584 1. the one sentence description of the tool is highlighted via ANSI how we
585 usually do it
586 2. If more than one or two commands are supported (as opposed to switches),
587 separate commands + switches from each other, using underlined --help sections.
588 3. If there are many switches, consider adding additional --help sections.
589
590* go through our codebase, and convert "vertical tables" (i.e. things such as
591 "systemctl status") to use table_new_vertical() for output
592
593* pcrlock: add support for multi-profile UKIs
594
595* initrd: when transitioning from initrd to host, validate that
596 /lib/modules/`uname -r` exists, refuse otherwise
597
598* signed bpf loading: to address need for signature verification for bpf
599 programs when they are loaded, and given the bpf folks don't think this is
600 realistic in kernel space, maybe add small daemon that facilitates this
601 loading on request of clients, validates signatures and then loads the
602 programs. This daemon should be the only daemon with privs to do load BPF on
603 the system. It might be a good idea to run this daemon already in the initrd,
604 and leave it around during the initrd transition, to continue serve requests.
605 Should then live in its own fs namespace that inherits from the initrd's
606 fs tree, not from the host, to isolate it properly. Should set
607 PR_SET_DUMPABLE so that it cannot be ptraced from the host. Should have
608 CAP_SYS_BPF as only service around.
609
610* add a mechanism we can drop capabilities from pid1 *before* transitioning
611 from initrd to host. i.e. before we transition into the slightly lower trust
612 domain that is the host systems we might want to get rid of some caps.
613 Example: CAP_SYS_BPF in the signed bpf loading logic above. (We already have
614 CapabilityBoundingSet= in system.conf, but that is enforced when pid 1
615 initializes, rather then when it transitions to the next.)
616
617* maybe add a new standard slice where process that are started in the initrd
618 and stick around for the whole system runtime (i.e. root fs storage daemons,
619 the bpf loader daemon discussed above, and such) are placed. maybe
620 protected.slice or so? Then write docs that suggest that services like this
621 set Slice=protected.sice, RefuseManualStart=yes, RefuseManualStop=yes and a
622 couple of other things.
623
624* rough proposed implementation design for remote attestation infra: add a tool
625 that generates a quote of local PCRs and NvPCRs, along with synchronous log
626 snapshot. use "audit session" logic for that, so that we get read-outs and
627 signature in one step. Then turn this into a JSON object. Use the "TCG TSS 2.0
628 JSON Data Types and Policy Language" format to encode the signature. And CEL
629 for the measurement log.
630
631* creds: add a new cred format that reused the JSON structures we use in the
632 LUKS header, so that we get the various newer policies for free.
633
634* systemd-analyze: port "pcrs" verb to talk directly to TPM device, instead of
635 using sysfs interface (well, or maybe not, as that would require privileges?)
636
637* pcrextend/tpm2-util: add a concept of "rotation" to event log. i.e. allow
638 trailing parts of the logs if time or disk space limit is hit. Protect the
639 boot-time measurements however (i.e. up to some point where things are
640 settled), since we need those for pcrlock measurements and similar. When
641 deleting entries for rotation, place an event that declares how many items
642 have been dropped, and what the hash before and after that.
643
644* measure information about all DDIs as we activate them to an NvPCR. We
645 probably should measure the dm-verity root hash from the kernel side, but
646 DDI meta info from userspace.
647
648* use name_to_handle_at() with AT_HANDLE_FID instead of .st_ino (inode
649 number) for identifying inodes, for example in copy.c when finding hard
650 links, or loop-util.c for tracking backing files, and other places.
651
652* cryptenroll/cryptsetup/homed: add unlock mechanism that combines tpm2 and
653 fido2, as well as tpm2 + ssh-agent, inspired by ChromeOS' logic: encrypt the
654 volume key with the TPM, with a policy that insists that a nonce is signed by
655 the fido2 device's key or ssh-agent key. Thus, add unlock/login time the TPM
656 generates a nonce, which is sent as a challenge to the fido2/ssh-agent, which
657 returns a signature which is handed to the tpm, which then reveals the volume
658 key to the PC.
659
660* cryptenroll/cryptsetup/homed: similar to this, implement TOTP backed by TPM.
661
662* expose the handoff timestamp fully via the D-Bus properties that contain
663 ExecStatus information
664
665* properly serialize the ExecStatus data from all ExecCommand objects
666 associated with services, sockets, mounts and swaps. Currently, the data is
667 flushed out on reload, which is quite a limitation.
668
669* Clean up "reboot argument" handling, i.e. set it through some IPC service
670 instead of directly via /run/, so that it can be sensible set remotely.
671
672* systemd-tpm2-support: add a some logic that detects if system is in DA
673 lockout mode, and queries the user for TPM recovery PIN then.
674
675* systemd-repart should probably enable btrfs' "temp_fsid" feature for all file
676 systems it creates, as we have no interest in RAID for repart, and it should
677 make sure that we can mount them trivially everywhere.
678
679* systemd-nspawn should get the same SSH key support that vmspawn now has.
680
681* move documentation about our common env vars (SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL,
682 SYSTEMD_PAGER, …) into a man page of its own, and just link it from our
683 various man pages that so far embed the whole list again and again, in an
684 attempt to reduce clutter and noise a bid.
685
686* vmspawn switch default swtpm PCR bank to SHA384-only (away from SHA256), at
687 least on 64bit archs, simply because SHA384 is typically double the hashing
688 speed than SHA256 on 64bit archs (since based on 64bit words unlike SHA256
689 which uses 32bit words).
690
691* In vmspawn/nspawn/machined wait for X_SYSTEMD_UNIT_ACTIVE=ssh-active.target
692 and X_SYSTEMD_SIGNALS_LEVEL=2 as indication whether/when SSH and the POSIX
693 signals are available. Similar for D-Bus (but just use sockets.target for
694 that). Report as property for the machine.
695
696* teach nspawn/machined a new bus call/verb that gets you a
697 shell in containers that have no sensible pid1, via joining the container,
698 and invoking a shell directly. Then provide another new bus call/vern that is
699 somewhat automatic: if we detect that pid1 is running and fully booted up we
700 provide a proper login shell, otherwise just a joined shell. Then expose that
701 as primary way into the container.
702
703* make vmspawn/nspawn/importd/machined a bit more usable in a WSL-like
704 fashion. i.e. teach unpriv systemd-vmspawn/systemd-nspawn a reasonable
705 --bind-user= behaviour that mounts the calling user through into the
706 machine. Then, ship importd with a small database of well known distro images
707 along with their pinned signature keys. Then add some minimal glue that binds
708 this together: downloads a suitable image if not done so yet, starts it in
709 the bg via vmspawn/nspawn if not done so yet and then requests a shell inside
710 it for the invoking user.
711
712* add a new specifier to unit files that figures out the DDI the unit file is
713 from, tracing through overlayfs, DM, loopback block device.
714
715* importd/importctl
716 - port tar handling to libarchive
717 - complete varlink interface
718 - download images into .v/ dirs
719
720* in os-release define a field that can be initialized at build time from
721 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (maybe even under that name?). Would then be used to
722 initialize the timestamp logic of ConditionNeedsUpdate=.
723
724* nspawn/vmspawn/pid1: add ability to easily insert fully booted VMs/FOSC into
725 shell pipelines, i.e. add easy to use switch that turns off console status
726 output, and generates the right credentials for systemd-run-generator so that
727 a program is invoked, and its output captured, with correct EOF handling and
728 exit code propagation
729
730* Introduce a CGroupRef structure, inspired by PidRef. Should contain cgroup
731 path, cgroup id, and cgroup fd. Use it to continuously pin all v2 cgroups via
732 a cgroup_ref field in the CGroupRuntime structure. Eventually switch things
733 over to do all cgroupfs access only via that structure's fd.
734
735* Get rid of the symlinks in /run/systemd/units/* and exclusively use cgroupfs
736 xattrs to convey info about invocation ids, logging settings and so on.
737 support for cgroupfs xattrs in the "trusted." namespace was added in linux
738 3.7, i.e. which we don't pretend to support anymore.
739
740* rewrite bpf-devices in libbpf/C code, rather than home-grown BPF assembly, to
741 match bpf-restrict-fs, bpf-restrict-ifaces, bpf-socket-bind
742
743* ditto: rewrite bpf-firewall in libbpf/C code
744
745* credentials: if we ever acquire a secure way to derive cgroup id of socket
746 peers (i.e. SO_PEERCGROUPID), then extend the "scoped" credential logic to
747 allow cgroup-scoped (i.e. app or service scoped) credentials. Then, as next
748 step use this to implement per-app/per-service encrypted directories, where
749 we set up fscrypt on the StateDirectory= with a randomized key which is
750 stored as xattr on the directory, encrypted as a credential.
751
752* credentials: optionally include a per-user secret in scoped user-credential
753 encryption keys. should come from homed in some way, derived from the luks
754 volume key or fscrypt directory key.
755
756* credentials: add a flag to the scoped credentials that if set require PK
757 reauthentication when unlocking a secret.
758
759* extend the smbios11 logic for passing credentials so that instead of passing
760 the credential data literally it can also just reference an AF_VSOCK CID/port
761 to read them from. This way the data doesn't remain in the SMBIOS blob during
762 runtime, but only in the credentials fs.
763
764* machined: optionally track nspawn unix-export/ runtime for each machined, and
765 then update systemd-ssh-proxy so that it can connect to that.
766
767* introduce mntid_t, and make it 64bit, as apparently the kernel switched to
768 64bit mount ids
769
770* mountfsd/nsresourced
771 - userdb: maybe allow callers to map one uid to their own uid
772 - bpflsm: allow writes if resulting UID on disk would be userns' owner UID
773 - make encrypted DDIs work (password…)
774 - add API for creating a new file system from scratch (together with some
775 dm-integrity/HMAC key). Should probably work using systemd-repart (access
776 via varlink).
777 - add api to make an existing file "trusted" via dm-integry/HMAC key
778 - port: portabled
779 - port: tmpfiles, sysusers and similar
780 - lets see if we can make runtime bind mounts into unpriv nspawn work
781
782* add a kernel cmdline switch (and cred?) for marking a system to be
783 "headless", in which case we never open /dev/console for reading, only for
784 writing. This would then mean: systemd-firstboot would process creds but not
785 ask interactively, getty would not be started and so on.
786
787* cryptsetup: new crypttab option to auto-grow a luks device to its backing
788 partition size. new crypttab option to reencrypt a luks device with a new
789 volume key.
790
791* we probably should have some infrastructure to acquire sysexts with
792 drivers/firmware for local hardware automatically. Idea: reuse the modalias
793 logic of the kernel for this: make the main OS image install a hwdb file
794 that matches against local modalias strings, and adds properties to relevant
795 devices listing names of sysexts needed to support the hw. Then provide some
796 tool that goes through all devices and tries to acquire/download the
797 specified images.
798
799* repart + cryptsetup: support file systems that are encrypted and use verity
800 on top. Usecase: confexts that shall be signed by the admin but also be
801 confidential. Then, add a new --make-ddi=confext-encrypted for this.
802
803* tmpfiles: add new line type for moving files from some source dir to some
804 target dir. then use that to move sysexts/confexts and stuff from initrd
805 tmpfs to /run/, so that host can pick things up.
806
807* tiny varlink service that takes a fd passed in and serves it via http. Then
808 make use of that in networkd, and expose some EFI binary of choice for
809 DHCP/HTTP base EFI boot.
810
811* bootctl: add reboot-to-disk which takes a block device name, and
812 automatically sets things up so that system reboots into that device next.
813
814* maybe: in PID1, when we detect we run in an initrd, make superblock read-only
815 early on, but provide opt-out via kernel cmdline.
816
817* systemd-pcrextend:
818 - support measuring to nvindex with PCR update semantics ("fake PCRs")
819 - add api for "allocating" such an nvindex
820 - once we have that start measuring every sysext we apply, every confext,
821 every RootImage= we apply, every nspawn and so on. All in separate fake
822 PCRs.
823
824* vmspawn:
825 - --ephemeral support
826 - --read-only support
827 - automatically suspend/resume the VM if the host suspends. Use logind
828 suspend inhibitor to implement this. request clean suspend by generating
829 suspend key presses.
830 - support for "real" networking via "-n" and --network-bridge=
831 - translate SIGTERM to clean ACPI shutdown event
832 - implement hotkeys ^]^]r and ^]^]p like nspawn
833
834* systemd-pcrmachine should probably also measure the SMBIOS system UUID.
835
836* storagetm:
837 - add USB mass storage device logic, so that all local disks are also exposed
838 as mass storage devices on systems that have a USB controller that can
839 operate in device mode
840 - add NVMe authentication
841
842* add support for activating nvme-oF devices at boot automatically via kernel
843 cmdline, and maybe even support a syntax such as
844 root=nvme:<trtype>:<traddr>:<trsvcid>:<nqn>:<partition> to boot directly from
845 nvme-oF
846
847* pcrlock:
848 - add kernel-install plugin that automatically creates UKI .pcrlock file when
849 UKI is installed, and removes it when it is removed again
850 - automatically install PE measurement of sd-boot on "bootctl install"
851 - pre-calc sysext + kernel cmdline measurements
852 - pre-calc cryptsetup root key measurement
853 - maybe make systemd-repart generate .pcrlock for old and new GPT header in
854 /run?
855 - Add support for more than 8 branches per PCR OR
856 - add "systemd-pcrlock lock-kernel-current" or so which synthesizes .pcrlock
857 policy from currently booted kernel/event log, to close gap for first boot
858 for pre-built images
859
860* in sd-boot and sd-stub measure the SMBIOS vendor strings to some PCR (at
861 least some subset of them that look like systemd stuff), because apparently
862 some firmware does not, but systemd honours it. avoid duplicate measurement
863 by sd-boot and sd-stub by adding LoaderFeatures/StubFeatures flag for this,
864 so that sd-stub can avoid it if sd-boot already did it.
865
866* cryptsetup: a mechanism that allows signing a volume key with some key that
867 has to be present in the kernel keyring, or similar, to ensure that confext
868 DDIs can be encrypted against the local SRK but signed with the admin's key
869 and thus can authenticated locally before they are decrypted.
870
871* image policy should be extended to allow dictating *how* a disk is unlocked,
872 i.e. root=encrypted-tpm2+encrypted-fido2 would mean "root fs must be
873 encrypted and unlocked via fido2 or tpm2, but not otherwise"
874
875* systemd-repart: add support for formatting dm-crypt + dm-integrity file
876 systems.
877
878* homed: use systemd-storagetm to expose home dirs via nvme-tcp. Then,
879 teach homed/pam_systemd_homed with a user name such as
880 lennart%nvme_tcp_192.168.100.77_8787 to log in from any linux host with the
881 same home dir. Similar maybe for nbd, iscsi? this should then first ask for
882 the local root pw, to authenticate that logging in like this is ok, and would
883 then be followed by another password prompt asking for the user's own
884 password. Also, do something similar for CIFS: if you log in via
885 lennart%cifs-someserver_someshare, then set up the homed dir for it
886 automatically. The PAM module should update the user name used for login to
887 the short version once it set up the user. Some care should be taken, so that
888 the long version can be still be resolved via NSS afterwards, to deal with
889 PAM clients that do not support PAM sessions where PAM_USER changes half-way.
890
891* redefine /var/lib/extensions/ as the dir one can place all three of sysext,
892 confext as well is multi-modal DDIs that qualify as both. Then introduce
893 /var/lib/sysexts/ which can be used to place only DDIs that shall be used as
894 sysext
895
896* Varlinkification of the following command line tools, to open them up to
897 other programs via IPC:
898 - bootctl
899 - journalctl (allowing journal read access via IPC)
900 - coredumpcl
901 - systemd-bless-boot
902 - systemd-measure
903 - systemd-cryptenroll (to allow UIs to enroll FIDO2 keys and such)
904 - systemd-dissect
905 - systemd-sysupdate
906 - systemd-analyze
907 - kernel-install
908 - systemd-mount (with PK so that desktop environments could use it to mount disks)
909
910* enumerate virtiofs devices during boot-up in a generator, and synthesize
911 mounts for rootfs, /usr/, /home/, /srv/ and some others from it, depending on
912 the "tag". (waits for: https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd/-/issues/128)
913
914* automatically mount one virtiofs during early boot phase to /run/host/,
915 similar to how we do that for nspawn, based on some clear tag.
916
917* add some service that makes an atomic snapshot of PCR state and event log up
918 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
919
920* encode type1 entries in some UKI section to add additional entries to the
921 menu.
922
923* Add ACL-based access management to .socket units. i.e. add AllowPeerUser= +
924 AllowPeerGroup= that installs additional user/group ACL entries on AF_UNIX
925 sockets.
926
927* systemd-tpm2-setup should support a mode where we refuse booting if the SRK
928 changed. (Must be opt-in, to not break systems which are supposed to be
929 migratable between PCs)
930
931* when systemd-sysext learns mutable /usr/ (and systemd-confext mutable /etc/)
932 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
933 snapshot logic
934
935* add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
936 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
937 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
938 i.e. without recompiling the kernel, taking an upstream OS' kernel and adding
939 a local key to it.
940
941* PidRef conversion work:
942 - cg_pid_get_xyz()
943 - pid_from_same_root_fs()
944 - get_ctty_devnr()
945 - actually wait for POLLIN on pidref's pidfd in service logic
946 - openpt_allocate_in_namespace()
947 - unit_attach_pid_to_cgroup_via_bus()
948 - cg_attach() – requires new kernel feature
949 - journald's process cache
950
951* ddi must be listed as block device fstype
952
953* measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
954 mode.
955
956* similar, measure some string via pcrphase whenever we resume from hibernate
957
958* homed: add a basic form of secrets management to homed, that stores
959 secrets in $HOME somewhere, is protected by the accounts own authentication
960 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
961 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
962 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
963 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
964 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
965
966* use sd-event ratelimit feature optionally for journal stream clients that log
967 too much
968
969* systemd-mount should only consider modern file systems when mounting, similar
970 to systemd-dissect
971
972* add another PE section ".fname" or so that encodes the intended filename for
973 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
974 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
975 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
976 control of the attacker.
977
978* also include packaging metadata (á la
979 https://systemd.io/PACKAGE_METADATA_FOR_EXECUTABLE_FILES/) in our UEFI PE
980 binaries, using the same JSON format.
981
982* make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
983 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
984 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
985 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
986 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
987 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
988 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
989 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
990 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
991 newer.
992
993* in sd-stub: optionally add support for a new PE section .keyring or so that
994 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
995 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
996 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
997 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
998 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
999 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
1000 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
1001
1002* resolved: take possession of some IPv6 ULA address (let's say
1003 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
1004 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
1005
1006* Maybe add SwitchRootEx() as new bus call that takes env vars to set for new
1007 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
1008 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
1009 requested during switch root.
1010
1011* introduce a .acpitable section for early ACPI table override
1012
1013* add proper .osrel matching for PE addons. i.e. refuse applying an addon
1014 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
1015 matched against OS.
1016
1017* figure out what to do about credentials sealed to PCRs in kexec + soft-reboot
1018 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
1019 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
1020
1021* logind: when logging in, always take an fd to the home dir, to keep the dir
1022 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
1023 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
1024 namespaces)
1025
1026* mount most file systems with a restrictive uidmap. e.g. mount /usr/ with a
1027 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
1028
1029* mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
1030 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
1031 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
1032
1033* fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
1034 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
1035 "*:foobar:*", to wildcard match both the start and the end of the string.
1036 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
1037 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
1038 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
1039
1040* mount /tmp/ and /var/tmp with a uidmap applied that blocks out "nobody" user
1041 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
1042 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
1043 used transiently, never persistently.
1044
1045* rework loopback support in fstab: when "loop" option is used, then
1046 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
1047 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
1048 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
1049 based on lo_file_name.
1050
1051* teach systemd-nspawn the boot assessment logic: hook up vpick's try counters
1052 with success notifications from nspawn payloads. When this is enabled,
1053 automatically support reverting back to older OS version images if newer ones
1054 fail to boot.
1055
1056* implement new "systemd-fsrebind" tool that works like gpt-auto-generator but
1057 looks at a root dir and then applies vpick on various dirs/images to pick a
1058 root tree, a /usr/ tree, a /home/, a /srv/, a /var/ tree and so on. Dirs
1059 could also be btrfs subvols (combine with btrfs auto-snapshort approach for
1060 creating versions like these automatically).
1061
1062* remove tomoyo support, it's obsolete and unmaintained apparently
1063
1064* In .socket units, add ConnectStream=, ConnectDatagram=,
1065 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
1066 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
1067 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
1068 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
1069 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
1070 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
1071 activation-by-message id and similar.
1072
1073* .service with invalid Sockets= starts successfully.
1074
1075* landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
1076 ability to write anywhere else below /run/. Similar for
1077 StateDirectory=. Benefit would be clear delegation via unit files: services
1078 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
1079
1080* landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
1081 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
1082 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
1083 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
1084 similar behaviour for system services, too.
1085
1086* Add systemd-mount@.service which is instantiated for a block device and
1087 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
1088 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
1089
1090* udevd: extend memory pressure logic: also kill any idle worker processes
1091
1092* udevadm: to make symlink querying with udevadm nicer:
1093 - do not enable the pager for queries like 'udevadm info -q symlink -r'
1094 - add mode with newlines instead of spaces (for grep)?
1095
1096* SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
1097 localed, oomd, timedated.
1098
1099* repart/gpt-auto/DDIs: maybe introduce a concept of "extension" partitions,
1100 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
1101 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
1102 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
1103 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
1104 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
1105 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
1106 from the uuid of the original partition it extends. Inspiration for this is
1107 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
1108 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
1109 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
1110 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
1111 access.
1112
1113* Make nspawn to a frontend for systemd-executor, so that we have to ways into
1114 the executor: via unit files/dbus/varlink through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI
1115 through nspawn.
1116
1117* sd-stub: detect if we are running with uefi console output on serial, and if so
1118 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
1119
1120* add a utility that can be used with the kernel's
1121 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
1122 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
1123 for all umh processes.
1124
1125* homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
1126 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
1127 resize.
1128
1129* homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
1130 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
1131
1132* timesyncd: when saving/restoring clock try to take boot time into account.
1133 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
1134 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
1135 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
1136 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
1137 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
1138 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
1139 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
1140 system actually reset.
1141
1142* systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
1143 userspace to allow ordering boots (for example in journalctl). The counter
1144 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
1145
1146* pam_systemd_home: add module parameter to control whether to only accept
1147 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
1148 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
1149 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
1150
1151* maybe prohibit setuid() to the nobody user, to lock things down, via seccomp.
1152 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
1153 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
1154 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
1155 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
1156
1157* systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
1158 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
1159 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
1160
1161* sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
1162 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
1163
1164* tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
1165 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
1166 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
1167 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
1168 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
1169 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
1170 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
1171 usual.
1172
1173* Lennart: big blog story about DDIs
1174
1175* Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
1176
1177* Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
1178
1179* bpf: see if we can use BPF to solve the syslog message cgroup source problem:
1180 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
1181 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
1182 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
1183 sockaddr.
1184
1185* bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
1186 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
1187 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
1188 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
1189 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
1190 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
1191 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
1192 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
1193 try to use inode from there.
1194
1195* extend the verity signature partition to permit multiple signatures for the
1196 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
1197
1198* consider adding a new partition type, just for /opt/ for usage in system
1199 extensions
1200
1201* dissection policy should enforce that unlocking can only take place by
1202 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
1203 combination thereof.
1204
1205* make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
1206 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
1207 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
1208 ahead of time.
1209
1210* systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
1211 aforementioned purpose.
1212
1213* in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
1214 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
1215
1216* Add systemd-sysupdate-initrd.service or so that runs systemd-sysupdate in the
1217 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
1218 to figure out:
1219 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
1220 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
1221 subsequent boots?
1222
1223* To mimic the new tpm2-measure-pcr= crypttab option add the same to veritytab
1224 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
1225 used)
1226
1227* We should start measuring all services, containers, and system extensions we
1228 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
1229 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
1230 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
1231 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
1232
1233* bootspec: permit graceful "update" from type #2 to type #1. If both a type #1
1234 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
1235 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
1236 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
1237 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
1238 should win over vendor defaults.
1239
1240* write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
1241 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
1242 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
1243
1244* automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
1245 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
1246
1247* systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
1248
1249* systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
1250 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
1251 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Use case: remove secondary OS
1252 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
1253
1254* systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
1255 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
1256 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
1257 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
1258 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
1259 only one for each OS.
1260
1261* systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
1262 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
1263 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
1264 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
1265 boot, for the next.
1266
1267* systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
1268 similar behind it, instead of http.
1269
1270* systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
1271 boot, or on first boot.
1272
1273* we probably needs .pcrpkeyrd or so as additional PE section in UKIs,
1274 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
1275 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
1276 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
1277 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
1278 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
1279 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
1280 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
1281 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
1282 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
1283 until users are allowed to log in).
1284
1285* Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
1286 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
1287
1288* add support for asymmetric LUKS2 TPM based encryption. i.e. allow preparing
1289 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
1290 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
1291 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Use case: systemd-confext
1292 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
1293 be activated on one specific host (which can be used for installing a bunch
1294 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
1295 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
1296 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
1297 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
1298 automatically invalidated outside of it.
1299
1300* maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
1301 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
1302 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
1303 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
1304 enhanced remote attestation quote. Use case: a simple orchestrator could use
1305 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
1306 have the orchestrator collect these reports centrally over a 3min time
1307 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
1308 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
1309 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
1310 proposed above, so that it can only be activated on the specific host, if the
1311 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
1312 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
1313 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
1314 config and collected reports in the last 3min time window only, and thus can
1315 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
1316 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
1317 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
1318 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
1319 and via the time window TPM logic invalidated if node doesn't keep itself
1320 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
1321
1322* in the initrd, once the rootfs encryption key has been measured to PCR 15,
1323 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
1324
1325* sd-boot: for each installed OS, grey out older entries (i.e. all but the
1326 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
1327
1328* automatically propagate LUKS password credential into cryptsetup from host
1329 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
1330 supplied password.
1331
1332* add ability to path_is_valid() to classify paths that refer to a dir from
1333 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
1334 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
1335 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
1336
1337* systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
1338 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
1339 automatically derived from --private-key=).
1340
1341* Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
1342 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
1343 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
1344 use as additional search condition. Use case: images that combined a sysext
1345 partition with a portable service partition in one.
1346
1347* On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
1348 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
1349 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
1350 modules
1351
1352* lock down acceptable encrypted credentials at boot, via simple allowlist,
1353 maybe on kernel command line:
1354 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
1355 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
1356
1357* Merge systemd-creds options --uid= (which accepts user names) and --user.
1358
1359* Add support for extra verity configuration options to systemd-repart (FEC,
1360 hash type, etc)
1361
1362* chase(): take inspiration from path_extract_filename() and return
1363 O_DIRECTORY if input path contains trailing slash.
1364
1365* document in boot loader spec that symlinks in XBOOTLDR/ESP are not OK even if
1366 non-VFAT fs is used.
1367
1368* measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
1369
1370* measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
1371 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
1372
1373* pick up creds from EFI vars
1374
1375* Add and pickup tpm2 metadata for creds structure.
1376
1377* sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
1378 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
1379 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
1380 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
1381 affect PCR values.
1382
1383* systemd-measure tool:
1384 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
1385
1386* sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
1387 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
1388
1389* sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
1390 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
1391
1392* maybe add new flags to gpt partition tables for rootfs and usrfs indicating
1393 purpose, i.e. whether something is supposed to be bootable in a VM, on
1394 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
1395 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
1396 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
1397 use it.
1398
1399* sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
1400 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
1401
1402* add "systemd-sysext identify" verb, that you can point on any file in /usr/
1403 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
1404 what it was signed.
1405
1406* systemd-creds: extend encryption logic to support asymmetric
1407 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
1408 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
1409 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
1410 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
1411 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
1412 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
1413 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
1414 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
1415 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
1416 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
1417 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
1418
1419* building on top of the above, the pub/priv key pair generated on the TPM2
1420 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
1421
1422* Process credentials in:
1423 • crypttab-generator: allow defining additional crypttab-like volumes via
1424 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
1425 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
1426 • run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
1427 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
1428 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
1429 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
1430 • repart: allow defining additional partitions via credential
1431 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
1432 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
1433 file system paths to enable on start.
1434 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
1435 usr=
1436 • in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
1437 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
1438 pre-built kernels.
1439
1440* define a JSON format for units, separating out unit definitions from unit
1441 runtime state. Then, expose it:
1442
1443 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
1444 about the unit.
1445 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
1446 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
1447 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
1448 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
1449 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
1450 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
1451
1452* Add SUPPORT_END_URL= field to os-release with more *actionable* information
1453 what to do if support ended
1454
1455* pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
1456 login time, à la motd
1457
1458* sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
1459 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
1460 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Use case: embed sd-boot in the
1461 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
1462 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
1463
1464* mount /var/ from initrd, so that we can apply sysext and stuff before the
1465 initrd transition. Specifically:
1466 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
1467 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
1468 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
1469
1470* make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
1471 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
1472 service restarts, hot reboot, cold reboots (depending on configuration): the
1473 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
1474 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
1475 depending on desired level of persistency.
1476
1477* sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
1478 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
1479 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
1480 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
1481 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
1482 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
1483 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
1484 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
1485
1486* if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
1487 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
1488 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
1489 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
1490
1491* add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
1492
1493* homed/userdb: maybe define a "companion" dir for home directories where apps
1494 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
1495 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
1496 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Use case: container
1497 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
1498 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
1499 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
1500 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
1501 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
1502 by. Inform user code about path to this companion dir via env var, so that
1503 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
1504 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
1505 not unprivileged code.
1506
1507* maybe add support for binding and connecting AF_UNIX sockets in the file
1508 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
1509 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
1510 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
1511
1512* add a proper concept of a "developer" mode, i.e. where cryptographic
1513 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
1514 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
1515 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
1516 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
1517 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
1518 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
1519 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is the only way to enter developer mode, by
1520 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
1521
1522* services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
1523 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
1524 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
1525 order.
1526
1527* update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
1528 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
1529 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
1530
1531* sd-event: compat wd reuse in inotify code: keep a set of removed watch
1532 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
1533 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
1534 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
1535 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
1536 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
1537 IN_IGNORED again)
1538
1539* for vendor-built signed initrds:
1540 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
1541 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
1542 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
1543 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
1544 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
1545 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
1546 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
1547 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
1548
1549* Maybe extend the service protocol to support handling of some specific SIGRT
1550 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
1551 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
1552
1553* sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
1554 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
1555 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
1556 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
1557 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
1558 directly to host service manager.
1559
1560* sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1561 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1562 also be queried.
1563
1564* sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
1565 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1566 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1567 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
1568
1569* sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
1570 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1571 latter).
1572
1573* sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1574
1575* sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
1576
1577* sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
1578
1579* systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
1580 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1581 words: show partition labels).
1582
1583* systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
1584
1585* per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1586 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1587 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1588 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1589 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1590 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1591 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1592 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1593 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1594 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1595
1596* doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
1597 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
1598
1599* doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
1600 jobs, units
1601
1602* automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
1603
1604* add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
1605 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1606
1607* Enable RestrictFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
1608 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
1609
1610* Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1611 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
1612
1613* cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
1614 internal clock.
1615
1616* man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1617 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1618
1619* sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1620 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1621 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1622 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
1623
1624* userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
1625 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1626 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1627
1628* homed: if the homed shell fallback thing has access to an SSH agent, try to
1629 use it to unlock home dir (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled). We
1630 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1631 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1632 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1633 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1634 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
1635
1636* drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
1637 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
1638 dep in the base OS image)
1639
1640* userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
1641 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1642 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1643 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1644 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1645
1646* portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
1647 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1648 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
1649
1650* /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
1651 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1652 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1653 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1654
1655* we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
1656 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1657 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1658 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1659 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1660 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1661 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1662 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1663 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1664 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1665 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
1666
1667* in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
1668 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1669 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
1670
1671* rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
1672
1673* when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1674 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1675 that images cannot be misused.
1676
1677* sysupdate:
1678 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1679 - support casync as download mechanism
1680 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1681 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1682 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1683 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1684 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1685 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1686 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1687
1688* in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1689
1690* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1691 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1692
1693* whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1694 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1695
1696* Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
1697
1698* Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1699 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1700 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1701 /proc/self/fd/3
1702
1703* add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1704 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1705 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1706
1707* Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1708 that is deleted in the fs. Use case would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1709
1710* importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1711 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1712
1713* add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1714 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1715 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1716 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1717 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
1718
1719* expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1720
1721* credentials system:
1722 - acquire from EFI variable?
1723 - acquire via ask-password?
1724 - acquire creds via keyring?
1725 - pass creds via keyring?
1726 - pass creds via memfd?
1727 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1728 - make macsec code in networkd read key via creds logic (copy logic from
1729 wireguard)
1730 - make gatewayd/remote read key via creds logic
1731 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
1732
1733* TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1734 and such
1735
1736* introduce a new group to own TPM devices
1737
1738* cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
1739
1740* cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
1741 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1742
1743* cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1744 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
1745
1746* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1747
1748* cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1749 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1750
1751* cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1752 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1753
1754* cryptsetup:
1755 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1756 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1757
1758* systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
1759
1760* systemd-analyze inspect-elf should show other notes too, at least build-id.
1761
1762* Figure out naming of verbs in systemd-analyze: we have (singular) capability,
1763 exit-status, but (plural) filesystems, architectures.
1764
1765* Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1766 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1767
1768* special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
1769 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1770
1771* add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
1772 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1773
1774* make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np().
1775
1776* if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1777
1778* pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1779 when it exits
1780
1781* make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1782 o turn into dlopen() deps:
1783 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
1784 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1785
1786* seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1787 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1788 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1789
1790* systemd-path: Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum, mapping to
1791 $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1792
1793* seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1794
1795* seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1796 specific service
1797
1798* busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1799 exists and responds.
1800
1801* socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
1802 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
1803
1804* unify on openssl:
1805 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1806 gnutls
1807 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
1808
1809* add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1810 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1811
1812* userdb: allow existence checks
1813
1814* pid1: activation by journal search expression
1815
1816* when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1817 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1818 initrd had set.
1819
1820* sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
1821 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
1822 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1823 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1824 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1825 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1826
1827* tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1828 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1829 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1830
1831* maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1832 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1833 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1834 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1835 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1836 source.
1837
1838* coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1839 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1840 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1841
1842* teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1843
1844* We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1845 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
1846
1847* maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
1848
1849* let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1850
1851* when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1852 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1853
1854* make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1855 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1856
1857* make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1858 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1859 root.
1860
1861* maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1862 is issued.
1863
1864* when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1865
1866* when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1867
1868* Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1869 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1870 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
1871
1872* rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
1873 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first while
1874 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1875
1876* when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1877
1878* add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1879 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1880
1881* paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
1882 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
1883 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
1884 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
1885
1886* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1887
1888* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1889
1890* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1891 non-zero "tries done" count
1892
1893* augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1894 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1895 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1896 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1897 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1898 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1899 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1900 CODE_FILE.
1901
1902* Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1903 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1904 some explanatory text online.
1905
1906* maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1907
1908* hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
1909
1910* cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1911 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1912
1913* beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1914 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1915 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1916 files and suchlike we operate on.
1917
1918* add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1919
1920* sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable service (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1921 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1922
1923* Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
1924 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
1925
1926* Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1927 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1928 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1929 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1930 unlinked from any dir.
1931
1932* systemctl, machinectl, loginctl: port "status" commands over to
1933 format-table.c's vertical output logic.
1934
1935* pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1936
1937* add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1938
1939* add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
1940 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
1941 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1942 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
1943 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
1944
1945* bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1946
1947* add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1948 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1949
1950* introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1951 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1952 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1953 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1954 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1955 different slice too by default. Use case: people who want to put resources on
1956 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1957 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1958
1959* calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1960 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1961
1962* sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1963 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1964
1965* sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1966 only when used. Add unit tests.
1967
1968* make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1969 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1970
1971* add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1972 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1973 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1974 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1975 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1976
1977* deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
1978
1979* support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
1980
1981* add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1982 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1983
1984* blog about fd store and restartable services
1985
1986* document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1987
1988* rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1989 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1990
1991* in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1992 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1993 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1994 ID is available.
1995
1996* optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1997 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1998 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1999
2000* beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
2001 parameters
2002
2003* In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
2004 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
2005
2006* Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
2007 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
2008 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
2009
2010* add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
2011 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
2012
2013 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
2014
2015* Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
2016 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
2017 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
2018
2019* track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
2020 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
2021
2022* add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
2023 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
2024 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
2025 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
2026 natural habitat.
2027
2028* add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
2029 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
2030 relative to the configured default value.
2031
2032* enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
2033
2034* Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
2035
2036* define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
2037
2038* ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
2039
2040* ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
2041
2042* ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
2043
2044* ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
2045
2046* RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
2047
2048* ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
2049 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
2050 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
2051
2052* Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
2053 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
2054
2055* make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
2056
2057* in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
2058 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
2059 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
2060 mapping to work.
2061
2062* add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
2063
2064* add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
2065
2066* add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
2067
2068* rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
2069 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
2070
2071* transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
2072 reload the unit file anyway
2073
2074* optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
2075
2076* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
2077
2078* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
2079 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
2080
2081* add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
2082 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
2083 specifications.
2084
2085* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
2086
2087* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
2088
2089* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
2090 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
2091 prefixed with /sys generally special.
2092 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
2093
2094* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
2095
2096* docs: bring https://systemd.io/MY_SERVICE_CANT_GET_REALTIME up to date
2097
2098* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
2099 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
2100 state.
2101 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
2102
2103* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
2104 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
2105 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
2106 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
2107 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
2108
2109* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
2110
2111* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
2112 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
2113
2114* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
2115 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
2116
2117* as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
2118 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
2119
2120* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
2121
2122* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
2123 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
2124
2125* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
2126
2127* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
2128
2129* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
2130
2131* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
2132 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
2133
2134* drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
2135
2136* resolved:
2137 - mDNS/DNS-SD
2138 - service registration
2139 - service/domain/types browsing
2140 - avahi compat
2141 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
2142 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
2143 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
2144 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
2145 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
2146 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
2147
2148* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
2149
2150* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
2151
2152* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
2153
2154* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
2155
2156* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
2157
2158* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
2159 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
2160
2161* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
2162
2163* gpt-auto-generator:
2164 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
2165
2166* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
2167 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
2168 when it is otherwise off
2169
2170* MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
2171
2172* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
2173 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
2174 for ReusePort=
2175
2176* cgroups:
2177 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
2178 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
2179 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
2180 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
2181 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
2182 the hierarchies of child processes
2183 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
2184 maybe use them for user@.service
2185
2186* transient units:
2187 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
2188
2189* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
2190
2191* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
2192
2193* 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
2194
2195* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
2196 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
2197 path anyway.
2198
2199* refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
2200
2201* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
2202
2203* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
2204
2205* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
2206
2207* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
2208
2209* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
2210 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
2211 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
2212
2213* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
2214 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
2215
2216* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
2217
2218* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
2219
2220* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
2221
2222* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
2223 needs to be auto-respawned?
2224
2225* pid1:
2226 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
2227 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
2228 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
2229 that are not supported...
2230 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
2231 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
2232 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
2233 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
2234 - Support --test based on current system state
2235 - 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().
2236 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
2237 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
2238 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
2239 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
2240 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
2241 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
2242 but much rather a disconnect on success.
2243 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
2244 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
2245 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
2246 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
2247 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
2248 - ExtensionImages= deduplication for services is currently only applied to disk images without GPT envelope.
2249 This should be extended to work with proper DDIs too, as well as directory confext/sysext. Moreover,
2250 system-wide confext/sysext should support this too.
2251 - Pin the mount namespace via FD by sending it back from sd-exec to the manager, and use it
2252 for live mounting, instead of doing it via PID
2253
2254* unit files:
2255 - allow port=0 in .socket units
2256 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
2257 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
2258 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
2259 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
2260 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
2261 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
2262 - introduce Type=pid-file
2263 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
2264 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
2265 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
2266
2267* timer units:
2268 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
2269 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
2270
2271* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
2272
2273* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
2274
2275* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?)
2276
2277* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
2278
2279* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
2280
2281* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
2282
2283* test/:
2284 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
2285
2286* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
2287 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
2288 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
2289 destination.
2290
2291* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
2292 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
2293
2294* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
2295
2296* Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
2297 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
2298 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
2299
2300* BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
2301 compliant boot loader is installed.
2302
2303* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? use case:
2304 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
2305 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
2306 that automatically.
2307
2308* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
2309
2310* remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
2311
2312* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
2313
2314* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
2315
2316* add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
2317
2318* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
2319
2320* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
2321
2322* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
2323
2324* sd-bus:
2325 - EBADSLT handling
2326 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
2327 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
2328 - 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
2329 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
2330 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
2331 - longer term: priority inheritance
2332 - dbus spec updates:
2333 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
2334 - path escaping
2335 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
2336
2337* sd-event
2338 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
2339 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
2340 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
2341 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
2342 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
2343 here:
2344 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
2345
2346* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
2347 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
2348
2349* document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
2350
2351* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
2352
2353* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
2354
2355* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
2356
2357* EFI:
2358 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
2359 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
2360* bootctl
2361 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
2362
2363* bootctl:
2364 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
2365 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
2366 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
2367
2368* logind:
2369 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
2370 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
2371 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
2372 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
2373 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
2374 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
2375 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
2376 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
2377 needs setuid().
2378 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
2379 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
2380 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
2381 complete.
2382 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2383 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2384 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
2385 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
2386 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2387 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2388 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2389 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2390 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2391 relogins
2392 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
2393
2394* move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2395
2396* delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2397 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2398
2399* journal:
2400 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
2401 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2402 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2403 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2404 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
2405 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
2406 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2407 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2408 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
2409 message that works, but already after a short timeout
2410 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2411 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
2412 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
2413 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
2414 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
2415 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
2416 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
2417 - 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.
2418 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2419 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
2420 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2421 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2422 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2423 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
2424 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
2425 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
2426 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
2427 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2428 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2429 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2430 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2431 to syslog when it works again.
2432 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2433 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to manage uid ranges to split
2434 journals in.
2435 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary.
2436 journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --invocation=-1
2437 - systemctl: change 'status' to show logs for the last invocation, not a fixed
2438 number of lines
2439 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2440 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2441 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2442 the most common operations.
2443 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
2444 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2445 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2446 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2447 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2448 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2449 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2450 operation.
2451 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
2452 written to as FAIL, but instead show that they are being written to.
2453 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2454 binary logs data
2455 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
2456 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2457 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2458 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2459 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
2460 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
2461
2462* journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2463 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2464
2465* Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2466 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2467 validated via TPM.
2468
2469* rework journalctl -M to be based on a machined method that generates a mount
2470 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2471 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2472
2473* journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2474 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2475 cursors as they happen.
2476
2477* journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2478 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2479 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2480 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2481 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2482 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2483 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2484 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2485 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2486
2487* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2488 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2489 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2490 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
2491 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
2492 log record, adjusted by the delta declared in the structured log record.
2493
2494* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2495 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2496 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2497 records, to be able to order them.
2498
2499* journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2500 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2501 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2502 be safely written to disk, then.
2503
2504* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2505 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2506 inspiration from IMA log)
2507
2508* sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2509 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2510 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2511
2512* bsod: maybe use graphical mode. Use DRM APIs directly, see
2513 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2514 for doing that.
2515
2516* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2517 log.c and sd-journal-send
2518
2519* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2520 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2521 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2522 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2523 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2524 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2525 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2526 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2527 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2528 an NTP sync is acquired.
2529
2530* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
2531
2532* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2533 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2534 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2535
2536* tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2537 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2538 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2539 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2540 cgroup.
2541
2542* maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2543 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2544 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2545 logging.
2546
2547* journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2548
2549* journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2550 from the SIGBUS handler
2551
2552* add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
2553 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2554 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2555 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2556
2557* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2558 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2559
2560* homed:
2561 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2562 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2563 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
2564 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2565 - create on activate?
2566 - properties: icon url?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2567 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2568 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2569 systemd --user is shut down.
2570 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2571 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2572 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2573 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2574 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2575 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2576 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2577 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2578 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2579 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2580 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2581 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
2582 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2583 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2584 doesn't mean user B sees it
2585 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
2586 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2587 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2588 signature
2589 - add a way to "take possession" of a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2590 and insert a local signature instead.
2591 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2592 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2593 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2594 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2595 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2596 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2597 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2598 easily?
2599 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2600 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
2601 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2602 can easily set overall quota for all users
2603 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2604 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
2605 - add "homectl unbind" command to remove local user record of an inactive
2606 home dir
2607
2608* add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2609 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2610 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2611
2612* systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
2613
2614* systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2615 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2616 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2617 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2618
2619* systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2620
2621* systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2622 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2623 something goes wrong on the way.
2624
2625* systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2626 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2627 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2628 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2629
2630* systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2631 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2632 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2633 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2634 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2635 automatically.
2636
2637* systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2638 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2639
2640* systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2641 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2642 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2643 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2644 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2645 fails to apply use the latter.
2646
2647* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2648 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2649
2650* systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2651 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2652
2653* systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2654 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
2655 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
2656
2657* systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2658 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2659
2660* systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
2661 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2662 during boot.
2663
2664* systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2665
2666* document:
2667 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
2668 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2669 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
2670 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
2671 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2672 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
2673 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2674 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
2675 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2676 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
2677 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
2678 - document root=gpt-auto properly
2679
2680* systemctl:
2681 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2682 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2683 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2684 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
2685 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
2686 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
2687
2688* introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2689 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2690 it should skip the variant type string though.
2691
2692* Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2693 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2694 the slices, and the units attached to them.
2695
2696* add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2697 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2698 wait to retrieve their exit data.
2699
2700* show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2701 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
2702
2703* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2704 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2705 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2706 do, for example)
2707
2708* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2709
2710* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2711
2712* unit install:
2713 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2714 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
2715
2716* nspawn:
2717 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2718 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2719 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2720 from the kernel's logs.
2721 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2722 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2723 interface be missing
2724 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2725 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2726 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2727 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2728 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2729 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2730 PID 1...
2731 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2732 running, remove them when shut down.
2733 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2734 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2735 startup.
2736 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2737 or so, freeze the payload too.
2738 - support time namespaces
2739 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2740 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2741 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2742 "machinectl shell"
2743 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2744 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2745 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2746 - greater control over selinux label?
2747 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2748 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2749 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2750 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2751 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2752 host TPM.
2753 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2754 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2755 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2756 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2757 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2758 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2759 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2760 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
2761 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2762 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
2763 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2764 or two sockets.
2765
2766* machined:
2767 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2768 removed or added to an existing machine
2769 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2770 difference host, via ssh
2771 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2772 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2773 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2774 question
2775 - "machinectl history"
2776 - "machinectl diff"
2777 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2778 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2779
2780* udev:
2781 - move to LGPL
2782 - kill scsi_id
2783 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
2784 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
2785 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
2786 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
2787
2788* coredump:
2789 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
2790 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
2791 - add examples for other distros in PACKAGE_METADATA_FOR_EXECUTABLE_FILES
2792
2793* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2794
2795* tmpfiles:
2796 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
2797 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
2798 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2799 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2800 calls follow symlinks.
2801 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2802 project quota
2803 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
2804 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2805 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
2806 - add -n as shortcut for --dry-run in tmpfiles & sysusers & possibly other places
2807
2808* udev-link-config:
2809 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2810 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2811 on Path= matching
2812
2813* sd-rtnl:
2814 - add support for more attribute types
2815 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
2816
2817* networkd:
2818 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2819 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
2820 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
2821 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
2822 - work with non-Ethernet devices
2823 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
2824 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2825 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2826 - expose in the API the following bits:
2827 - option 15, domain name
2828 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
2829 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2830 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2831 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2832 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2833 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2834 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
2835 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
2836
2837* in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2838
2839* Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2840
2841* dhcp:
2842 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
2843
2844* dhcp6:
2845 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2846 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2847 - write more test cases
2848 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
2849 - implement support for temporary addresses (IA_TA)
2850 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2851 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2852 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2853 or interface down
2854 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2855 this behavior
2856 - RouteTable= ?
2857
2858* shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2859 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2860 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)
2861
2862* Hook up systemd-journal-upload with RESTART_RESET=1 logic (should probably
2863 be conditioned on the num of successfully uploaded entries?)