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1 Bugfixes:
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
11 External:
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 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
20
21 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
22
23 * fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
24
25 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
26
27 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
28
29 * register catalog database signature as file magic
30
31 * zsh shell completion:
32 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
33 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
34 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
35
36 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
37 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
38 after being started.
39
40 * write blog stories about:
41 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
42 - enabling dbus services
43 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
44 - remote access
45 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
46 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
47 - auto-restart
48 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
49 - the journal HTTP iface
50 - non-cgroup resource management
51 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
52 - refreshed, longer missions statement
53 - calendar time events
54 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
55 - how to create your own target
56 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
57 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
58
59 Regularly:
60
61 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
62
63 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
64
65 * pahole
66
67 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
68
69 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
70
71 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
72
73 Janitorial Clean-ups:
74
75 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
76 semantics, like we do for device.c now
77
78 * get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase() and related
79 calls instead.
80
81 * get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
82
83 * Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
84 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
85 libmount for something so trivial.
86
87 * drop set_free_free() and switch things over from string_hash_ops to
88 string_hash_ops_free everywhere, so that destruction is implicit rather than
89 explicit. Similar, for other special hashmap/set/ordered_hashmap destructors.
90
91 * generators sometimes apply C escaping and somethines specifier escaping to
92 paths and similar strings they write out. Sometimes both. We should clean
93 this up, and should probably always apply both, i.e. introduce
94 unit_file_escape() or so, which applies both.
95
96 Deprecations and removals:
97
98 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
99 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
100
101 * remove cgrouspv1 support EOY 2023. As per
102 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
103 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
104 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
105
106 * drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
107 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
108 is only supported for such old kernels.
109
110 * drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
111 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
112
113 * drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
114 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
115 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
116 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
117 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
118
119 * drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
120 baseline is 5.8.
121
122 * drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
123 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
124
125 * Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
126 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
127 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
128
129 * Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
130 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
131
132 * remove remaining tpm1.2 support from sd-stub
133
134 Features:
135
136 * in the service manager, pick up ERRNO= + BUSERROR= + VARLINKERROR= error
137 identifiers, and store them along with the exit status of a server and report
138 via "systemctl status".
139
140 * enumerate virtiofs devices during boot-up in a generator, and synthesize
141 mounts for rootfs, /usr/, /home/, /srv/ and some others from it, depending on
142 the "tag". (waits for: https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd/-/issues/128)
143
144 * automatically mount one virtiofs during early boot phase to /run/host/,
145 similar to how we do that for nspawn, based on some clear tag.
146
147 * make systemd-pcrextend accessible via varlink so that clients can measure
148 things reasonably freely, and get a proper entry in the TPM event log we
149 maintain, correctly synchronized
150
151 * add some service that makes an atomic snapshot of PCR state and event log up
152 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
153
154 * encode type1 entries in some UKI section to add additional entries to the
155 menu.
156
157 * extend the various CLI tools we have that output JSON already to also read
158 their command to execute from JSON in varlink format, so that you can fork
159 them off and talk to them fully via varlink.
160
161 * add a "varlinkctl" tool that allows interacting with varlink services from
162 the shell. In particular add a "--exec=" switch, which allows specifying a
163 binary to invoke to which to talk via stdin/stdout
164
165 * make tools that speak varlink over stdin/stdout trivially sockect
166 activatable. i.e. once bootctl, kernel-install, systemd-measure and similar
167 speak varlink make them available via a .socket unit with Accept=yes, so that
168 they can be talked to via IPC out-of-process
169
170 * beef up .service units that are socket activated with Accept=yes with options
171 AllowPeerUser= + AllowPeerGroup= to allow trivially simple access control
172 when invoked via socket as IPC services
173
174 * when systemd-sysext learns mutable /usr/ (and systemd-confext mutable /etc/)
175 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
176 snapshot logic
177
178 * add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
179 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
180 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
181 i.e. without recompiling the kernel, taking an upstrem OS' kernel and adding
182 a local key to it.
183
184 * PidRef conversion work:
185 - pid_is_unwaited() → pidref_is_unwaited()
186 - pid_is_alive() → pidref_is_alive()
187 - unit_watch_pid() → unit_watch_pidref()
188 - actually wait for POLLIN on pidref's pidfd in service logic
189 - exec_spawn()
190 - serialization of control/main pid in service, socket, mount, swap units
191 - cg_pid_get_unit()
192 - openpt_allocate_in_namespace()
193 - scope dbus PIDs property needs to gain PIDFDs companion
194
195 * ddi must be listed as block device fstype
196
197 * measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
198 mode.
199
200 * homed: add a basic form of of secrets management to homed, that stores
201 secrets in $HOME somewhere, is protected by the accounts own authentication
202 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
203 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
204 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
205 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
206 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
207
208 * add ConditionSecurity=stub-measured or so that checks if we are booted with
209 systemd-stub and its measurements
210
211 * sd-boot should probably measure its configuration file to PCR 5 at boot, as
212 per TCG PC Client Platform Firmware Profile Spec.
213
214 * use sd-event ratelimit feature optionally for .socket units to "pause" overly
215 busy sockets temporarily. (as a less drastic version of the trigger
216 ratelimit)
217
218 * similar, add the same for journal stream clients that log too much
219
220 * systemd-mount sould only consider modern file systems when mounting, similar
221 to systemd-dissect
222
223 * new "systemd-pcrlock" component for dealing with PCR4. Design idea:
224 1. define /{etc,usr,var/lib}/pcrlock.d/<component>/<version>.pcrlock
225 2. these files contain list of hashes that will be measured when component is
226 run, per PCR
227 3. each component involved in the boot that is deterministically measured can
228 place one or more of these files in those dirs (shim, sd-boot,
229 sd-stub/UKI, cryptsetup, pcrphase, pcrfs, …)
230 4. since each component has its own dir, with multiple files in them, package
231 such as kernels (of which there can be multiple installed at the same
232 time) can be grouped together: only one of them is measured at a time.
233 5. whenever a new component is added or an old one removed, or the PCR lock
234 shall be relaxed or tightened the systemd-pcrlock tool is invoked.
235 6. tool iterates through all these files, orders them alphabetically by
236 component, then matches them up with current measurements (as per uefi
237 event log), identifying by hash, accepting that the "beginning" of the
238 measurements might not be recognizable.
239 7. Then calculates expected PCR values starting with the "unrecognized
240 head" from the event log, then continuing with all of components
241 defined via the .pcrlock files (but dropping out the "recognized tail"
242 from the uefi event log). (This might mean combinatorial explosion, if
243 there are multiple shims, multiple sd-boot, and so on.)
244 8. Generates a public/private key pair on the TPM
245 9. Generates a counter object in the TPM, with a policy that allows only
246 one-by-one increase with signature policy by the public/private key pair.
247 10. now signs policies of all expected PCR values with the generated keypair,
248 using all combinations of components defined in the .pcrlock files
249 restricting it to the counter + 1.
250 11. locks down the keypair with a signed policy with its own public key
251 12. generates JSON file of all these policies with their signatures, drops
252 them as singleton in ESP
253 13. increases the counter by one.
254 14. after boot sd-stub picks JSON up from ESP, passes it to userspace via
255 .extra
256 15. JSON contained policies can now be used to unlock disk as well as the
257 public/key itself for signing further policies, as well as increment for
258 the counter
259 16. whenever any of the components above is added/removed new JSON file with
260 signatures for counter + 1 is generated, dropped in ESP, then counter
261 increased. (i.e. this means the "recognized tail" of the event log is
262 deterministically swapped out)
263 17. when firmware update is expected, relaxed signed policy is generated for
264 next boot only valid if counter is increased (this means the
265 "unrecognized head" for the event log can change without losing access)
266 18. on every boot checks if releaxed policy is in effect, if so, new strict
267 policy is generated and counter increased.
268 Net result: Removes downgrade attack surface + Locks OS to firmware + Allows
269 downgrades within bounds
270
271 * add another PE section ".fname" or so that encodes the intended filename for
272 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
273 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
274 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
275 control of the attacker.
276
277 * also include packaging metadata (á la
278 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
279 same JSON format.
280
281 * make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
282 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
283 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
284 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
285 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
286 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
287 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
288 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
289 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
290 newer.
291
292 * in sd-stub: optionally add support for a new PE section .keyring or so that
293 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
294 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
295 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
296 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
297 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
298 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
299 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
300
301 * resolved: take possession of some IPv6 ULA address (let's say
302 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
303 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
304
305 * introduce a .microcode PE section for sd-stub which we'll pass as first initrd
306 to the kernel which will then upload it to the CPU. This should be distinct
307 from .initrd to guarantee right ordering. also, and maybe more importantly
308 support .microcode in PE add-ons, so that a microcode update can be shipped
309 independently of any kernel.
310
311 * Maybe add SwitchRootEx() as new bus call that takes env vars to set for new
312 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
313 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
314 requested during switch root.
315
316 * introduce a .acpitable section for early ACPI table override
317
318 * add proper .osrel matching for PE addons. i.e. refuse applying an addon
319 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
320 matched against OS.
321
322 * use different sbat for sd-boot and sd-stub (so that people can revoke one
323 without the other)
324
325 * in ukify merge sbat info from kernel (if it has any, upstream kernels so far
326 dont), of sd-stub and data supplied by user. Then measure sbat too in
327 sd-stub, explicitly.
328
329 * figure out what to do about credentials sealed to PCRs in kexec + soft-reboot
330 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
331 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
332
333 * logind: when logging in, always take an fd to the home dir, to keep the dir
334 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
335 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
336 namespaces)
337
338 * mount most file systems with a restrictive uidmap. e.g. mount /usr/ with a
339 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
340
341 * mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
342 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
343 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
344
345 * fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
346 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
347 "*:foobar:*", to wildcard match both the start and the end of the string.
348 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
349 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
350 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
351
352 * mount /tmp/ and /var/tmp with a uidmap applied that blocks out "nobody" user
353 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
354 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
355 used transiently, never persistently.
356
357 * rework loopback support in fstab: when "loop" option is used, then
358 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
359 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
360 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
361 based on lo_file_name.
362
363 * remove tomoyo support, it's obsolete and unmaintained apparently
364
365 * In .socket units, add ConnectStream=, ConnectDatagram=,
366 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
367 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
368 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
369 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
370 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
371 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
372 activation-by-message id and similar.
373
374 * .service with invalid Sockets= starts successfully.
375
376 * landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
377 ability to write anywehere else below /run/. Similar for
378 StateDirectory=. Benefit would be clear delegation via unit files: services
379 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
380
381 * landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
382 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
383 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
384 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
385 similar behaviour for system services, too.
386
387 * Add systemd-mount@.service which is instantiated for a block device and
388 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
389 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
390
391 * udevd: extend memory pressure logic: also kill any idle worker processes
392
393 * SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
394 localed, oomd, timedated.
395
396 * in order to make binding to PCR 4 realistic:
397 - generate one keypair "U" and store it in a tpm2 nvindex.
398 - Generate another keypair "P" and store it in a second tpm2 nvindex.
399 - allocate a persistent counter object "C" in the tpm2
400 - Enroll all user objects (i.e. luks volumes, creds, …) to a tpm2 policy
401 signed by U.
402 - Lock both U and P down with a tpm2 policy signed by P (yes, P can only be
403 used if a signature by P itself can be provided)
404 - For regular reboots generate a signature for a restrictive PCR4 + counter C
405 based policy with key P. Place signature in EFI var, so it can be found on
406 next boot
407 - For reboots where a firmware update is expected generate a signature with a
408 more open policy against just counter C. Place signature in same EFI var.
409 - Increase C whenever switching between these two signature types.
410 - During early boot, use the signature from the EFI var to unlock U and P.
411 Use it to generate a signature for unlocking user objects given the current
412 PCR 4 value, store that away into /run somewhere, for user during the whole
413 later boot.
414 - When booting up automatically update the mentioned efi var so that it
415 contains the restrictive signature. But also generate a signature ahead of
416 time that could be used in case during the current boot we later detect we might
417 need to reboot for a firmware update. Store that in /run somewhere, so that
418 it can be placed in the EFI var, if needed.
419
420 * repart/gpt-auto/DDIs: maybe introduce a concept of "extension" partitions,
421 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
422 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
423 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
424 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
425 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
426 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
427 from the uuid of the original partition it extends. Inspiration for this is
428 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
429 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
430 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
431 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
432 access.
433
434 * split out execute.c into new "systemd-executor" binary. Then make PID 1 fork
435 that off via vfork(), and then let that executor do the hard work. Ultimately
436 the executor then gets replaced by the real binary sooner or later. Reason:
437 currently the intermediary "stub" process is a CoW trap that doubles memory
438 usage of PID 1 on each service start. Also, strictly speaking we are not
439 allowed to do NSS from the stub process yet we do anyway. Next steps would
440 then be maybe use CLONE_INTO_CGROUP for the executor, given that we don't
441 need glibc anymore in the stub process then. Then, switch nspawn to just be a
442 frontend for this too, so that we have to ways into the executor: via unit
443 files/dbus/varlin through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI through nspawn.
444
445 * sd-stub: detect if we are running with uefi console output on serial, and if so
446 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
447
448 * add a utility that can be used with the kernel's
449 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
450 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
451 for all umh processes.
452
453 * systemd-shutdown: keep sending sd_notify() status updates immediately before
454 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
455
456 * homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
457 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
458 resize.
459
460 * homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
461 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
462
463 * timesyncd: when saving/restoring clock try to take boot time into account.
464 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
465 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
466 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
467 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
468 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
469 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
470 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
471 system actually reset.
472
473 * systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
474 userspace to allow ordering boots (for example in journalctl). The counter
475 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
476
477 * pam_systemd_home: add module parameter to control whether to only accept
478 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
479 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
480 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
481
482 * sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
483 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
484 is then useful for network boot, by embdedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
485 in sd-boot, which reference remote kernels.
486
487 * maybe prohibit setuid() to the nobody user, to lock things down, via seccomp.
488 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
489 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
490 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
491 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
492
493 * sd-boot: add a new PE section .bls or so that carries a cpio with additional
494 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
495 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
496 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
497 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
498
499 * sd-boot: also allow passing in the cpio as in the previous item via SMBIOS
500
501 * add a new EFI tool "sd-fetch" or so. It looks in a PE section ".url" for an
502 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
503 Use case: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
504 binaries in place of UKIs, and download them on-the-fly.
505
506 * maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
507 cmdline. use case: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
508
509 * systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
510 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
511 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
512
513 * sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
514 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
515
516 * tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
517 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
518 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
519 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
520 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
521 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
522 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
523 usual.
524
525 * Lennart: big blog story about DDIs
526
527 * Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
528
529 * Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
530
531 * bpf: see if we can use BPF to solve the syslog message cgroup source problem:
532 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
533 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
534 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
535 sockaddr.
536
537 * bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
538 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
539 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
540 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
541 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
542 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
543 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
544 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
545 try to use inode from there.
546
547 * extend the verity signature partition to permit multiple signatures for the
548 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
549
550 * consider adding a new partition type, just for /opt/ for usage in system
551 extensions
552
553 * gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
554 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
555 for the root fs or /usr/.
556
557 * dissection policy should enforce that unlocking can only take place by
558 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
559 combination thereof.
560
561 * make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
562 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
563 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
564 ahead of time.
565
566 * systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
567 aforementioned purpose.
568
569 * in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
570 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
571
572 * Add systemd-sysupdate-initrd.service or so that runs systemd-sysupdate in the
573 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
574 to figure out:
575 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
576 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
577 subsequent boots?
578
579 * provide an API (probably IPC) to apps to encrypt/decrypt
580 credentials. use case: allow bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd
581 that way, without shelling out to our tools.
582
583 * revisit default PCR bindings in cryptenroll and systemd-creds. Currently they
584 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
585 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
586 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
587 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
588 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
589 default to PCR 15 at least if sd-stub is used (i.e. bind to system identity),
590 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
591 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
592 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
593
594 * To mimic the new tpm2-measure-pcr= crypttab option add the same to veritytab
595 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
596 used)
597
598 * We should start measuring all services, containers, and system extensions we
599 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
600 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
601 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
602 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
603
604 * whenever we measure something into a TPM PCR from userspace, write a record in
605 TCG's "Canonical Event Log" format to some file, so that we can reason about
606 how PCR values we manage came to
607 be. https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/canonical-event-log-format/
608
609 * bootspec: permit graceful "update" from type #2 to type #1. If both a type #1
610 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
611 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
612 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
613 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
614 should win over vendor defaults.
615
616 * write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
617 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
618 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
619
620 * automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
621 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
622
623 * implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
624 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
625 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
626 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
627 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
628 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
629
630 * add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
631 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
632 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
633
634 * systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
635
636 * systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
637 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
638 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Use case: remove secondary OS
639 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
640
641 * systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
642 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
643 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
644 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
645 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
646 only one for each OS.
647
648 * systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
649 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
650 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
651 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
652 boot, for the next.
653
654 * figure out a sane way when building UKIs how to extract SBAT data from inner
655 kernel, extend it with component info, and add to outer kernel.
656
657 * systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
658 similar behind it, instead of http.
659
660 * systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
661 boot, or on first boot.
662
663 * in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
664 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
665
666 * we probably needs .pcrpkeyrd or so as additional PE section in UKIs,
667 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
668 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
669 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
670 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
671 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
672 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
673 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
674 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
675 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
676 until users are allowed to log in).
677
678 * Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
679 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
680
681 * add support for asymmetric LUKS2 TPM based encryption. i.e. allow preparing
682 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
683 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
684 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Use case: systemd-confext
685 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
686 be activated on one specific host (which can be used for installing a bunch
687 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
688 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
689 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
690 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
691 automatically invalidated outside of it.
692
693 * maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
694 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
695 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
696 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
697 enhanced remote attestation quote. Use case: a simple orchestrator could use
698 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
699 have the orchestrator collect these reports centrally over a 3min time
700 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
701 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
702 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
703 proposed above, so that it can only be activated on the specific host, if the
704 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
705 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
706 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
707 config and collected reports in the last 3min time window only, and thus can
708 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
709 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
710 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
711 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
712 and via the time window TPM logic invalidated if node doesn't keep itself
713 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
714
715 * in the initrd, once the rootfs encryption key has been measured to PCR 15,
716 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
717
718 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to use sd_event_set_signal_exit(), instead
719 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
720
721 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
722 instead of manual blocking.
723
724 * sd-boot: for each installed OS, grey out older entries (i.e. all but the
725 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
726
727 * automatically propagate LUKS password credential into cryptsetup from host
728 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
729 supplied password.
730
731 * add ability to path_is_valid() to classify paths that refer to a dir from
732 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
733 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
734 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
735
736 * systemd-measure: allow operating with PEM certificates in addition to PEM
737 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
738 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
739 convencience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
740
741 * systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
742 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
743 automatically derived from --private-key=).
744
745 * push people to use ".sysext.raw" as suffix for sysext DDIs (DDI =
746 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
747 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
748
749 * Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
750 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
751 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
752 use as additional search condition. Use case: images that combined a sysext
753 partition with a portable service partition in one.
754
755 * On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
756 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
757 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
758 modules
759
760 * for systemd-confext: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
761 sig using squashfs-tools-ng's library. Maybe just systemd-repart called under
762 a new name with a built-in config?
763
764 * lock down acceptable encrypted credentials at boot, via simple allowlist,
765 maybe on kernel command line:
766 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
767 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
768
769 * Add support for extra verity configuration options to systemd-repart (FEC,
770 hash type, etc)
771
772 * chase(): take inspiration from path_extract_filename() and return
773 O_DIRECTORY if input path contains trailing slash.
774
775 * chase(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
776 but final node is not a directory
777
778 * document in boot loader spec that symlinks in XBOOTLDR/ESP are not OK even if
779 non-VFAT fs is used.
780
781 * measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
782
783 * measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
784 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
785
786 * pick up creds from EFI vars
787
788 * Add and pickup tpm2 metadata for creds structure.
789
790 * sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
791 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
792 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
793 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
794 affect PCR values.
795
796 * systemd-measure tool:
797 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
798
799 * in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
800 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
801
802 * sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
803 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
804
805 * sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
806 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
807
808 * sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
809 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
810
811 * add small wrapper around qemu that implements sd_notify/AF_VSOCK + machined and
812 maybe some other stuff and boots it. Should implement command line roughly
813 equivalent to nspawn's. Maybe be called "systemd-vmspawn". Should imply good
814 settings, i.e. RNG + HyperV enlightenments. Should also result in swtpm
815 instance, plus virtiofsd instances. Translate credentials into smbios type
816 11 strings. Correctly translate SIGTERM into ACPI shutdown events.
817 Listen to logind suspend events and turn these into suspend key pressed +
818 ACPI resume events.
819
820 * maybe add new flags to gpt partition tables for rootfs and usrfs indicating
821 purpose, i.e. whether something is supposed to be bootable in a VM, on
822 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
823 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
824 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
825 use it.
826
827 * sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
828 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
829
830 * add "systemd-sysext identify" verb, that you can point on any file in /usr/
831 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
832 what it was signed.
833
834 * systemd-creds: extend encryption logic to support asymmetric
835 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
836 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
837 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
838 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
839 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
840 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
841 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
842 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
843 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
844 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
845 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
846
847 * building on top of the above, the pub/priv key pair generated on the TPM2
848 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
849
850 * Process credentials in:
851 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
852 via the credentials logic.
853 • crypttab-generator: allow defining additional crypttab-like volumes via
854 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
855 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
856 • run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
857 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
858 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
859 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
860 • repart: allow defining additional partitions via credential
861 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
862 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
863 file system paths to enable on start.
864 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
865 usr=
866 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
867 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
868 register if not registered yet. Use case: deploy a system, and add an
869 account one can directly log into.
870 • in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
871 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
872 pre-built kernels.
873
874 * define a JSON format for units, separating out unit definitions from unit
875 runtime state. Then, expose it:
876
877 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
878 about the unit.
879 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
880 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
881 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
882 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
883 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
884 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
885
886 * Add SUPPORT_END_URL= field to os-release with more *actionable* information
887 what to do if support ended
888
889 * pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
890 login time, à la motd
891
892 * sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
893 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
894 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Use case: embed sd-boot in the
895 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
896 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
897
898 * mount /var/ from initrd, so that we can apply sysext and stuff before the
899 initrd transition. Specifically:
900 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
901 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
902 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
903
904 * implement varlink introspection
905
906 * make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
907 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
908 service restarts, hot reboot, cold reboots (depending on configuration): the
909 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
910 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
911 depending on desired level of persistency.
912
913 * sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
914 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
915 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
916 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
917 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
918 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
919 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
920 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
921
922 * if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
923 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
924 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
925 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
926
927 * add ability to set hostname with suffix derived from machine id at boot
928
929 * add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
930
931 * homed/userdb: maybe define a "companion" dir for home directories where apps
932 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
933 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
934 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Use case: container
935 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
936 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
937 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
938 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
939 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
940 by. Inform user code about path to this companion dir via env var, so that
941 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
942 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
943 not unprivileged code.
944
945 * given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
946 that hooks up userdbctl ssh-key stuff.
947
948 * maybe add support for binding and connecting AF_UNIX sockets in the file
949 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
950 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
951 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
952
953 * add a proper concept of a "developer" mode, i.e. where cryptographic
954 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
955 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
956 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
957 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
958 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
959 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
960 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is the only way to enter developer mode, by
961 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
962
963 * services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
964 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
965 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
966 order.
967
968 * TPM2: extend unlock policy to protect against version downgrades in signed
969 policies: policy probably must take some nvram based generation counter into
970 account that can only monotonically increase and can be used to invalidate
971 old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to old signed PCR sets
972 whenever they want.
973
974 * update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
975 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
976 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
977
978 * sd-event: compat wd reuse in inotify code: keep a set of removed watch
979 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
980 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
981 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
982 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
983 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
984 IN_IGNORED again)
985
986 * for vendor-built signed initrds:
987 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
988 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
989 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
990 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
991 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
992 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
993 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
994 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
995 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
996 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
997 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
998
999 * Maybe extend the service protocol to support handling of some specific SIGRT
1000 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
1001 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
1002
1003 * sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
1004 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
1005 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
1006 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
1007 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
1008 directly to host service manager.
1009
1010 * sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
1011 no api to query the device id
1012
1013 * sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1014 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1015 also be queried.
1016
1017 * sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
1018 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1019 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1020 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
1021
1022 * sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
1023 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1024 latter).
1025
1026 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1027
1028 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
1029
1030 * support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
1031 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
1032 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
1033 generated by GNU sha256sums.
1034
1035 * sd-boot: maybe add support for embedding the various auxiliary resources we
1036 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
1037 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
1038 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
1039 to the menu. Use case: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
1040 UEFI HTTP boot.
1041
1042 * maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
1043 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
1044 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
1045 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
1046 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
1047 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
1048 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
1049 hence cheap for enumeration.
1050
1051 * sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
1052
1053 * systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
1054 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1055 words: show partition labels).
1056
1057 * maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
1058 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
1059 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
1060 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. Use case:
1061 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
1062 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
1063 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
1064
1065 * improve scope units to support creation by pidfd instead of by PID
1066
1067 * deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
1068
1069 * systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
1070
1071 * per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1072 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1073 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1074 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1075 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1076 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1077 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1078 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1079 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1080 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1081
1082 * kernel-install:
1083 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
1084
1085 * doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
1086 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
1087
1088 * doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
1089 jobs, units
1090
1091 * bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
1092 sync, i.e. parse out architecture field in sd-boot (currently only done in
1093 userspace)
1094
1095 * automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
1096
1097 * add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
1098 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1099
1100 * Enable RestrictFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
1101 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
1102
1103 * Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1104 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
1105
1106 * cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
1107 internal clock.
1108
1109 * man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1110 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1111
1112 * sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1113 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1114 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1115 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
1116
1117 * userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
1118 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1119 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1120
1121 * maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
1122 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
1123 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
1124 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
1125 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
1126 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
1127 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
1128 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
1129 thread:
1130 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
1131 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
1132 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
1133 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
1134 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
1135 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
1136
1137 * if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
1138 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
1139 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
1140
1141 * homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
1142 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
1143 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
1144 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
1145 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
1146 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
1147 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
1148 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
1149 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
1150 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
1151 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1152 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1153 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1154 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1155 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
1156
1157 * add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
1158 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
1159 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Use case: drop a root user JSON record there,
1160 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
1161 for debugging purposes. Other use case: boot into qemu with regular user
1162 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
1163
1164 * drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
1165 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
1166 dep in the base OS image)
1167
1168 * add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
1169 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1170 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1171 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1172 on-disk storage.
1173
1174 * userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
1175 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1176 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1177 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1178 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1179
1180 * portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
1181 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1182 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
1183
1184 * logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
1185 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
1186 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
1187 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
1188 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
1189 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
1190 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
1191
1192 * /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
1193 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1194 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1195 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1196
1197 * we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
1198 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1199 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1200 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1201 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1202 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1203 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1204 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1205 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1206 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1207 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
1208
1209 * in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
1210 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1211 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
1212
1213 * rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
1214
1215 * PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
1216
1217 * when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1218 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1219 that images cannot be misused.
1220
1221 * New udev block device symlink names:
1222 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
1223 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1224 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1225 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1226
1227 * sysupdate:
1228 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1229 - support casync as download mechanism
1230 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1231 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1232 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1233 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1234 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
1235 override the host's update files.)
1236 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1237 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1238 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1239 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1240
1241 * in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1242
1243 * DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1244 make dirs appear under right UID.
1245
1246 * systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1247 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1248
1249 * introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
1250 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1251 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1252 already have it.
1253
1254 * whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1255 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1256
1257 * Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
1258
1259 * Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1260 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1261 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1262 /proc/self/fd/3
1263
1264 * add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1265 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1266 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1267
1268 * Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1269 that is deleted in the fs. Use case would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1270
1271 * importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1272 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1273
1274 * add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1275 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1276 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1277 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1278 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
1279
1280 * expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1281
1282 * credentials system:
1283 - acquire from EFI variable?
1284 - acquire via ask-password?
1285 - acquire creds via keyring?
1286 - pass creds via keyring?
1287 - pass creds via memfd?
1288 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1289 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1290 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1291 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1292 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1293 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
1294 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
1295 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
1296
1297 * add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
1298 firmware indicates there is one.
1299
1300 * TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1301 and such
1302
1303 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
1304
1305 * cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
1306
1307 * cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
1308 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1309
1310 * cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1311 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
1312
1313 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1314
1315 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1316 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1317
1318 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1319 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1320
1321 * cryptsetup:
1322 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1323 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1324
1325 * systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
1326
1327 * Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1328 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1329
1330 * special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
1331 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1332
1333 * add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
1334 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1335
1336 * make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1337
1338 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1339
1340 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1341
1342 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1343 when it exits
1344
1345 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1346 o turn into dlopen() deps:
1347 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
1348 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
1349 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1350 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1351 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1352 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
1353 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
1354
1355 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1356 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1357 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1358
1359 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1360 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1361
1362 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1363
1364 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1365 specific service
1366
1367 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1368 exists and responds.
1369
1370 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
1371 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
1372
1373 * unify on openssl:
1374 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1375 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1376 gnutls
1377 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
1378
1379 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1380 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1381
1382 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1383 realname substr searches in varlink API
1384
1385 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1386
1387 * userdb: allow existence checks
1388
1389 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
1390
1391 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1392 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1393 initrd had set.
1394
1395 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
1396 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
1397 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1398 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1399 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1400 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1401
1402 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1403 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1404 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1405
1406 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1407 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1408 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1409 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1410 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1411 source.
1412
1413 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1414 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1415 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1416
1417 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1418
1419 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1420 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1421 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1422 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1423 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1424 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1425 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1426 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1427 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1428 hibernation mode. (see
1429 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1430 section 10.2.2.8 and
1431 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1432 at the end).
1433
1434 * We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1435 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
1436
1437 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
1438
1439 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1440 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1441 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1442 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1443 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1444 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1445 exec().
1446
1447 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1448
1449 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1450 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1451
1452 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1453 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1454
1455 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1456 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1457 root.
1458
1459 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1460 is issued.
1461
1462 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1463
1464 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1465
1466 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1467 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1468 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
1469
1470 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
1471 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1472 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1473
1474 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1475
1476 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1477 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1478
1479 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
1480 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
1481 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
1482 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
1483
1484 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1485
1486 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1487
1488 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1489 non-zero "tries done" count
1490
1491 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1492 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1493 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1494 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1495 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1496 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1497 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1498 CODE_FILE.
1499
1500 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1501 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1502 some explanatory text online.
1503
1504 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1505
1506 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1507 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1508
1509 * hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
1510
1511 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1512 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1513
1514 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1515 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1516 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1517 files and suchlike we operate on.
1518
1519 * importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1520
1521 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1522
1523 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1524 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1525
1526 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
1527 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
1528
1529 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1530 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1531 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1532 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1533 unlinked from any dir.
1534
1535 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
1536
1537 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1538
1539 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1540
1541 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
1542 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
1543 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1544 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
1545 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
1546
1547 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1548
1549 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1550
1551 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1552 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1553
1554 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1555 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1556 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1557 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1558 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1559 different slice too by default. Use case: people who want to put resources on
1560 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1561 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1562
1563 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1564 for root, but only then.
1565
1566 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1567 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1568
1569 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1570 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1571
1572 * sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1573 only when used. Add unit tests.
1574
1575 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1576 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1577
1578 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1579 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1580 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1581 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1582 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1583
1584 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
1585
1586 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
1587
1588 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1589 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1590
1591 * blog about fd store and restartable services
1592
1593 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1594
1595 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1596 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1597
1598 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1599 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1600 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1601 ID is available.
1602
1603 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1604 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1605 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1606
1607 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1608 parameters
1609
1610 * maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
1611 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
1612 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1613 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1614 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1615 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1616 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
1617
1618 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1619 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1620
1621 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1622 about it in the resource log message
1623
1624 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1625 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1626 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1627
1628 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1629 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1630
1631 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1632
1633 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1634 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1635 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1636
1637 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1638 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1639
1640 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1641 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1642 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1643 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1644 natural habitat.
1645
1646 * gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1647 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
1648
1649 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1650 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1651 relative to the configured default value.
1652
1653 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1654
1655 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
1656
1657 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1658
1659 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1660
1661 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
1662
1663 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
1664
1665 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
1666
1667 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
1668
1669 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1670 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1671 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1672
1673 * Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1674 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1675
1676 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
1677
1678 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1679 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1680 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1681 mapping to work.
1682
1683 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1684
1685 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1686
1687 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1688
1689 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1690 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1691
1692 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1693 reload the unit file anyway
1694
1695 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1696
1697 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1698
1699 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1700 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1701
1702 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
1703 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
1704 specifications.
1705
1706 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1707
1708 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1709
1710 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
1711 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
1712 prefixed with /sys generally special.
1713 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
1714
1715 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1716
1717 * docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
1718
1719 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1720 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1721 state.
1722 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
1723
1724 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1725 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1726 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1727 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1728 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1729
1730 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1731
1732 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
1733 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
1734
1735 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
1736 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
1737
1738 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
1739 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
1740
1741 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1742
1743 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1744 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1745
1746 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
1747
1748 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
1749
1750 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
1751
1752 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1753 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1754
1755 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1756
1757 * resolved:
1758 - mDNS/DNS-SD
1759 - service registration
1760 - service/domain/types browsing
1761 - avahi compat
1762 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
1763 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1764 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1765 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
1766 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
1767 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
1768
1769 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
1770
1771 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1772
1773 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1774
1775 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1776
1777 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1778
1779 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1780 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
1781
1782 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1783
1784 * gpt-auto-generator:
1785 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
1786 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
1787
1788 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1789 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1790 when it is otherwise off
1791
1792 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
1793
1794 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1795 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1796 for ReusePort=
1797
1798 * cgroups:
1799 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
1800 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1801 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1802 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1803 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1804 the hierarchies of child processes
1805 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1806 maybe use them for user@.service
1807
1808 * transient units:
1809 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
1810
1811 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1812
1813 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1814
1815 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1816
1817 * 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
1818
1819 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
1820
1821 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1822 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
1823 path anyway.
1824
1825 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
1826
1827 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1828
1829 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1830
1831 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1832
1833 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1834
1835 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1836
1837 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1838 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1839 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1840
1841 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1842 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1843
1844 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1845
1846 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1847
1848 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1849
1850 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1851 needs to be auto-respawned?
1852
1853 * pid1:
1854 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1855 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1856 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1857 that are not supported...
1858 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1859 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Use case:
1860 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1861 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1862 - move PAM code into its own binary
1863 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1864 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1865 - Support --test based on current system state
1866 - 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().
1867 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1868 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1869 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1870 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1871 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1872 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1873 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1874 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1875 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1876 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1877 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1878 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1879
1880 * unit files:
1881 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1882 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1883 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1884 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1885 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1886 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1887 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1888 - introduce Type=pid-file
1889 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1890 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1891 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1892
1893 * timer units:
1894 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
1895 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1896
1897 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1898
1899 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1900
1901 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1902
1903 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1904
1905 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1906
1907 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1908
1909 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1910
1911 * test/:
1912 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
1913
1914 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
1915 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
1916 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1917 destination.
1918
1919 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1920 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1921
1922 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1923
1924 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1925 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1926 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1927
1928 * BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1929 compliant boot loader is installed.
1930
1931 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? use case:
1932 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1933 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1934 that automatically.
1935
1936 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
1937
1938 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
1939
1940 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1941
1942 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
1943
1944 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1945
1946 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1947
1948 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1949
1950 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1951
1952 * sd-bus:
1953 - EBADSLT handling
1954 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1955 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1956 - 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
1957 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1958 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1959 - longer term: priority inheritance
1960 - dbus spec updates:
1961 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
1962 - path escaping
1963 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1964
1965 * sd-event
1966 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1967 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1968 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1969 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1970 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1971 here:
1972 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1973
1974 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1975 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1976
1977 * document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
1978
1979 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1980
1981 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1982
1983 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1984
1985 * EFI:
1986 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1987 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
1988 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
1989 * bootctl
1990 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
1991
1992 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
1993
1994 * bootctl:
1995 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
1996 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1997 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
1998
1999 * logind:
2000 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
2001 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
2002 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
2003 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
2004 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
2005 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
2006 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
2007 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
2008 needs setuid().
2009 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
2010 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
2011 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
2012 complete.
2013 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2014 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2015 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
2016 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
2017 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2018 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2019 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2020 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2021 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2022 relogins
2023 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
2024 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
2025 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
2026 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
2027
2028 * move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2029
2030 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2031 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2032 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2033
2034 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2035 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2036
2037 * journal:
2038 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
2039 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2040 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2041 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2042 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
2043 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
2044 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2045 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2046 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
2047 message that works, but already after a short timeout
2048 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2049 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
2050 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
2051 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
2052 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
2053 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
2054 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
2055 - 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.
2056 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2057 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
2058 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2059 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2060 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2061 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
2062 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
2063 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
2064 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
2065 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2066 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2067 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2068 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2069 to syslog when it works again.
2070 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2071 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2072 journals in.
2073 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2074 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2075 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2076 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2077 the most common operations.
2078 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
2079 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2080 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2081 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2082 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2083 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2084 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2085 operation.
2086 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
2087 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
2088 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2089 binary logs data
2090 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
2091 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2092 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2093 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2094 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
2095 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
2096
2097 * journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2098 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2099
2100 * Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2101 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2102 validated via TPM.
2103
2104 * rework journalctl -M to be based on a machined method that generates a mount
2105 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2106 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2107
2108 * journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2109 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2110 cursors as they happen.
2111
2112 * journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2113 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2114 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2115 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2116 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2117 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2118 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2119 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2120 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2121
2122 * in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2123 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2124 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2125 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
2126 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
2127 log record, adjusted by the delta declared in the structured log record.
2128
2129 * in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2130 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2131 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2132 records, to be able to order them.
2133
2134 * journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2135 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2136 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2137 be safely written to disk, then.
2138
2139 * hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2140 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2141 inspiration from IMA log)
2142
2143 * sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2144 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2145 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2146
2147 * maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
2148 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
2149 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
2150 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2151 for doing that.
2152
2153 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2154 log.c and sd-journal-send
2155
2156 * journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2157 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2158 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2159 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2160 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2161 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2162 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2163 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2164 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2165 an NTP sync is acquired.
2166
2167 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
2168
2169 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2170 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2171 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2172
2173 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2174 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2175 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2176 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2177 cgroup.
2178
2179 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2180 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2181 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2182 logging.
2183
2184 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2185
2186 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2187 from the SIGBUS handler
2188
2189 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
2190 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2191 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2192 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2193
2194 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2195 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2196
2197 * homed:
2198 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2199 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2200 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
2201 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2202 - create on activate?
2203 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2204 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2205 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2206 systemd --user is shut down.
2207 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2208 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2209 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2210 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2211 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2212 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2213 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2214 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2215 - query password from kernel keyring first
2216 - update even if record is "absent"
2217 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2218 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2219 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2220 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2221 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
2222 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2223 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2224 doesn't mean user B sees it
2225 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
2226 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2227 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2228 signature
2229 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2230 and insert a local signature instead.
2231 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2232 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2233 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2234 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2235 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2236 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2237 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2238 easily?
2239 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2240 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2241 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2242 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2243 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2244 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2245 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
2246 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2247 can easily set overall quota for all users
2248 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2249 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
2250 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
2251 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
2252 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2253 large.
2254
2255 * add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2256 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2257 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2258
2259 * systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
2260
2261 * systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2262 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2263 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2264 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2265
2266 * systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2267
2268 * systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2269 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2270 something goes wrong on the way.
2271
2272 * systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
2273
2274 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2275 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2276 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2277 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2278
2279 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2280 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2281 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2282 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2283 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2284 automatically.
2285
2286 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2287 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2288
2289 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2290 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2291 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2292 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2293 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2294 fails to apply use the latter.
2295
2296 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2297 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2298
2299 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2300 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2301
2302 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2303 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
2304 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
2305
2306 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2307 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2308
2309 * systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
2310 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2311 during boot.
2312
2313 * systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2314
2315 * document:
2316 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
2317 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2318 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
2319 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
2320 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2321 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
2322 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2323 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
2324 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2325 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
2326 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
2327 - document root=gpt-auto properly
2328
2329 * systemctl:
2330 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2331 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2332 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2333 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2334 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2335 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2336 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
2337 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
2338 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
2339 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
2340
2341 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2342 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2343 it should skip the variant type string though.
2344
2345 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2346 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2347 the slices, and the units attached to them.
2348
2349 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2350 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2351 wait to retrieve their exit data.
2352
2353 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2354 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
2355
2356 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2357 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2358 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2359 do, for example)
2360
2361 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2362 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2363 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2364 returning from the "systemctl stop".
2365
2366 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2367
2368 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2369
2370 * unit install:
2371 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2372 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
2373
2374 * nspawn:
2375 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2376 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2377 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2378 from the kernel's logs.
2379 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2380 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2381 interface be missing
2382 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2383 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2384 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2385 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2386 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2387 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2388 PID 1...
2389 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2390 running, remove them when shut down.
2391 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2392 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2393 startup.
2394 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2395 or so, freeze the payload too.
2396 - support time namespaces
2397 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2398 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2399 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2400 "machinectl shell"
2401 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2402 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2403 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2404 - greater control over selinux label?
2405 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2406 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2407 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2408 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2409 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2410 host TPM.
2411 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2412 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2413 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2414 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2415 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2416 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2417 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2418 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
2419 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2420 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
2421 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2422 or two sockets.
2423 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
2424
2425 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2426 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2427 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2428 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2429 anything like that.
2430
2431 * machined:
2432 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2433 removed or added to an existing machine
2434 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2435 difference host, via ssh
2436 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2437 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2438 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2439 question
2440 - "machinectl history"
2441 - "machinectl diff"
2442 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2443 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2444
2445 * udev:
2446 - move to LGPL
2447 - kill scsi_id
2448 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
2449 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
2450 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
2451 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
2452
2453 * coredump:
2454 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
2455 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
2456 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
2457
2458 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2459
2460 * tmpfiles:
2461 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
2462 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
2463 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
2464 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2465 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2466 calls follow symlinks.
2467 - add --test mode
2468 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2469 project quota
2470 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
2471 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2472 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
2473
2474 * udev-link-config:
2475 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2476 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2477 on Path= matching
2478
2479 * sd-rtnl:
2480 - add support for more attribute types
2481 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
2482
2483 * networkd:
2484 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2485 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
2486 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
2487 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
2488 - work with non-Ethernet devices
2489 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
2490 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2491 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2492 - expose in the API the following bits:
2493 - option 15, domain name
2494 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
2495 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2496 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2497 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2498 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2499 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2500 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
2501 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
2502
2503 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2504
2505 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2506
2507 * dhcp:
2508 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
2509
2510 * dhcp6:
2511 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2512 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2513 - write more test cases
2514 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
2515 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
2516 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2517 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2518 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2519 or interface down
2520 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2521 this behavior
2522 - RouteTable= ?
2523
2524 * shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2525 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2526 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)