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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 * userdbctl: "Password OK: yes" is shown even when there are no passwords
8 or the password is locked.
9
10 * Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
11 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
12 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
13
14 External:
15
16 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
17
18 * dbus:
19 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
20 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
21
22 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
23
24 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
25
26 * 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=
27
28 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
29
30 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
31
32 * register catalog database signature as file magic
33
34 * zsh shell completion:
35 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
36 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
37
38 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
39 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
40 after being started.
41
42 * write blog stories about:
43 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
44 - enabling dbus services
45 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
46 - remote access
47 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
48 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
49 - auto-restart
50 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
51 - the journal HTTP iface
52 - non-cgroup resource management
53 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
54 - refreshed, longer missions statement
55 - calendar time events
56 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
57 - how to create your own target
58 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
59 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
60
61 Regularly:
62
63 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
64
65 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
66
67 * pahole
68
69 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
70
71 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
72
73 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
74
75 Janitorial Clean-ups:
76
77 * Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
78
79 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
80 semantics, like we do for device.c now
81
82 Features:
83
84 * add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
85 json package metadata, and use that when logging
86
87 * systemd-dissect: show GPT disk UUID in output
88
89 * Enable RestricFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
90 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
91
92 * Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
93 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
94
95 * cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
96 internal clock.
97
98 * nspawn: optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP
99 traffic on port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
100
101 * man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
102 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
103
104 * sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
105 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
106 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
107 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
108
109 * sysext: ensure one can build a sysext that can safely apply to *any* system
110 (because it contains only static go binaries in /opt/ or so)
111
112 * userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
113 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
114 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
115
116 * maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
117 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
118 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
119 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
120 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
121 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
122 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
123 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
124 thread:
125 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
126 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
127 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
128 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
129 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
130 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
131
132 * if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
133 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
134 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
135
136 * homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
137 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
138 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
139 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
140 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
141 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
142 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
143 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
144 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
145 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
146 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
147 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
148 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
149 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
150 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
151
152 * add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
153 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
154 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
155 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
156 for debugging purposes.
157
158 * drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
159 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us drop drop libcap
160 dep in the base OS image)
161
162 * sysext: automatically activate sysext images dropped in via new sd-stub
163 sysext pickup logic.
164
165 * add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
166 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
167 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
168 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
169 on-disk storage.
170
171 * sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP and synthesize initrd from
172 it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as microcode does that on its
173 own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
174
175 * userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
176 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
177 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
178 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
179 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
180
181 * logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
182 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
183 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
184 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
185 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
186 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
187 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
188
189 * /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
190 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
191 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
192 externally and provide to us on demand only.
193
194 * add high-level lockdown level for GPT dissection logic: e.g. an enum that can
195 be ANY (to mount anything), TRUSTED (to require that /usr is on signed
196 verity, but rest doesn't matter), LOCKEDDOWN (to require that everything is
197 on signed verity, except for ESP), SUPERLOCKDOWN (like LOCKEDDOWN but ESP not
198 allowed). And then maybe some flavours of that that declare what is expected
199 from home/srv/var… Then, add a new cmdline flag to all tools that parse such
200 images, to configure this. Also, add a kernel cmdline option for this, to be
201 honoured by the gpt auto generator.
202
203 * nspawn: maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so
204 that such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as
205 one.
206
207 * we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
208 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option tpm2-measure=8 or so to measure it
209 into PCR 8)
210
211 * add a "policy" to the dissection logic. i.e. a bit mask what is OK to mount,
212 what must be read-only, what requires encryption, and what requires
213 authentication.
214
215 * in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCRs are being used, store that
216 in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify that
217 the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
218
219 * rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
220
221 * PAM: pick auf one authentication token from credentials
222
223 * tpm2: figure out if we need to do anything for TPM2 parameter encryption? And
224 if so, what precisely?
225
226 * when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
227 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
228 that images cannot be misused.
229
230 * New udev block device symlink names:
231 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>/<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
232 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
233 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
234 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
235
236 * in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
237
238 * DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
239 make dirs appear under right UID.
240
241 * systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
242 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
243
244 * maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
245 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
246 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
247 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
248 for doing that.
249
250 * pass systemd-detect-virt result to generators as env var. Modifying behaviour
251 based on whether we are virtualized or not is a pretty common thing, hence
252 maybe just pass that info along for free in an env var. We cache the result
253 anyway, so it's basically free.
254
255 * introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
256 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
257 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
258 already have it.
259
260 * whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
261 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
262
263 * add an Open= setting to service unit files that can open arbitrary file
264 system paths at service startup time and pass them to the service process via
265 our usual socket activation protocol. If passed path refers to AF_UNIX
266 socket: connect() to it.
267
268 * add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
269 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
270 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
271
272 * Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
273 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
274
275 * importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
276 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
277
278 * sysext: optionally, if the merged trees allow it use bind mounts instead of
279 overlayfs
280
281 * add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
282 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
283 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
284 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
285 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
286
287 * expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
288
289 * make LoadCredential= automatically find credentials in /etc/creds,
290 /run/creds, … and so on, if path component is unqualified
291
292 * teach LoadCredential=/LoadCredentialEncrypted= to load credentials from
293 kernel cmdline, maybe: LoadCredentialEncrypted=foobar:proc-cmdline:foobar
294
295 * credentials system:
296 - acquire from kernel command line
297 - acquire from EFI variable?
298 - acquire via via ask-password?
299 - acquire creds via keyring?
300 - pass creds via keyring?
301 - pass creds via memfd?
302 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
303 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
304 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
305 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
306 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
307 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
308
309 * teach LoadCredential= the ability to load all files from a specified dir as
310 individual creds
311
312 * add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
313 firmware indicates there is one.
314
315 * tpm2: support a PIN policy, i.e. allowing windows-style short authentication
316 passwords by using the TPM2 to enforce ratelimiting and such, use for
317 cryptsetup and homed
318
319 * Add concept for upgrading TPM2 enrollments, maybe a new switch
320 --pcrs=4:<hash> or so, i.e. select a PCR to include in the hash, and then
321 override its hash
322
323 * TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
324 and such
325
326 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
327
328 * cryptsetup: if only recovery keys are registered and no regular passphrases,
329 ask user for "recovery key", not "passphrase"
330
331 * cyptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
332
333 * cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
334 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
335
336 * cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
337 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
338
339 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
340
341 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
342 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
343
344 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
345 systemd-makefs.service instead.
346
347 * cryptsetup:
348 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
349 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
350
351 * when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
352 it happens to be set up alright already.
353
354 * at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
355
356 * userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
357 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
358 default.
359
360 * sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
361 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
362 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
363 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
364 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
365
366 * systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
367
368 * Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
369 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
370
371 * change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
372 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
373 temporary dir.
374
375 * special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
376 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
377
378 * add a new flag to chase_symlinks() that stops chasing once the first missing
379 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
380
381 * make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
382
383 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
384
385 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
386 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
387
388 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
389
390 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
391
392 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
393 when it exits
394
395 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
396 o turn into dlopen() deps:
397 - p11-kit-trust (always)
398 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
399 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
400 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
401 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
402 since they are so basic and our defaults)
403 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
404 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
405
406 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
407 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
408 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
409
410 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
411 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
412
413 * All tools that support --root= should also learn --image= so that they can
414 operate on disk images directly. Specifically: bootctl, systemctl,
415 coredumpctl. (Already done: systemd-nspawn, systemd-firstboot,
416 systemd-repart, systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-sysusers, journalctl)
417
418 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
419
420 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
421 specific service
422
423 * seccomp: maybe merge all filters we install into one with that libseccomp API that allows merging.
424
425 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
426 exists and responds.
427
428 * Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
429 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
430 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
431
432 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
433 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
434
435 * unify on openssl:
436 - port journald + fsprg over from libgcrypt
437 - when that's done: kill gnutls support in resolved
438
439 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
440 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
441
442 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
443 realname substr searches in varlink API
444
445 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
446
447 * userdb: allow existence checks
448
449 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
450
451 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
452 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
453 initrd had set.
454
455 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
456 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
457 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
458 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
459 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
460 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
461
462 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
463 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
464 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
465
466 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
467 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
468 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
469 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
470 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
471 source.
472
473 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
474 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
475 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
476
477 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
478
479 * beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
480 the hibernation
481
482 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
483 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
484 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
485 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
486 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
487 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
488 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
489 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
490 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
491 hibernation mode. (see
492 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
493 section 10.2.2.8 and
494 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
495 at the end).
496
497 * We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
498 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
499
500 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
501
502 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
503 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
504 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
505 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
506 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
507 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
508 exec().
509
510 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
511
512 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
513 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
514
515 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
516 gnome-bluetooth and friends
517
518 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
519 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
520 root.
521
522 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
523 is issued.
524
525 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
526
527 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
528
529 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
530 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
531 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
532
533 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
534 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
535 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
536
537 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
538
539 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
540 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
541
542 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
543 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
544 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
545 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
546
547 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
548
549 * support the bind/connect/sendmsg cgroup stuff for sandboxing, and possibly
550 patching around
551
552 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
553 log.c and sd-journal-send
554
555 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
556
557 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
558
559 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
560 non-zero "tries done" count
561
562 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
563 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
564 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
565 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
566 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
567 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
568 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
569 CODE_FILE.
570
571 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
572 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
573 some explanatory text online.
574
575 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
576
577 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
578 original defaults before calling parse_config()
579
580 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
581 Specifically:
582
583 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
584 properly)
585 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
586 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
587
588 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
589 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
590
591 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
592 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
593 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
594 files and suchlike we operate on.
595
596 * importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
597
598 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
599
600 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
601 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
602
603 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
604 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it. Also
605 DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH should probably add an extra "-" into account for negative
606 numbers.
607
608 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
609 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
610 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
611 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
612 unlinked from any dir.
613
614 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
615
616 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
617
618 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
619
620 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
621 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
622 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
623 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
624 should reflink the image file itself.
625
626 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
627 specific paths only like this.
628
629 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
630 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
631 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
632 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
633 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
634
635 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
636
637 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
638
639 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
640 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
641
642 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
643 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
644 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
645 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
646 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
647 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
648 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
649 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
650
651 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
652 for root, but only then.
653
654 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
655
656 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
657 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
658
659 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
660 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
661
662 * sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
663 only when used. Add unit tests.
664
665 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
666 host-side interface pointing to the container.
667
668 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
669 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
670 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
671 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
672 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
673
674 * taint systemd if there are fewer than 65536 users assigned (userns) to the system.
675
676 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
677
678 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
679 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
680 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
681
682 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
683
684 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
685 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
686
687 * blog about fd store and restartable services
688
689 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
690
691 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
692 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
693
694 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
695 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
696 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
697 ID is available.
698
699 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
700 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
701 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
702
703 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
704 parameters
705
706 * maybe hook of xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
707 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
708 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
709 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
710 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
711 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
712 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
713
714 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
715 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
716
717 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
718 about it in the resource log message
719
720 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
721 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
722 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
723
724 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
725 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
726
727 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
728
729 * hostnamed: populate form factor data from a new hwdb database, so that old
730 yogas can be recognized as "convertible" too, even if they predate the DMI
731 "convertible" form factor
732
733 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
734 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
735 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
736
737 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
738 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
739
740 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
741 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
742 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
743 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
744 natural habitat.
745
746 * gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
747
748 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
749 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
750 relative to the configured default value.
751
752 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
753
754 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
755
756 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
757
758 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
759
760 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
761
762 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
763
764 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
765
766 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
767
768 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
769 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
770 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
771
772 * Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
773 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
774
775 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
776
777 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
778 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
779 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
780 mapping to work.
781
782 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
783
784 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
785
786 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
787
788 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
789 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
790
791 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
792 reload the unit file anyway
793
794 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
795
796 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
797
798 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
799 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
800
801 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
802 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
803 specifications.
804
805 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
806
807 * push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller
808
809 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
810
811 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
812 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
813 prefixed with /sys generally special.
814 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
815
816 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
817
818 * initrd-parse-etc.service: can we skip daemon-reload if /sysroot/etc/fstab is missing?
819 Note that we start initrd-fs.target and initrd-cleanup.target there, so a straightforward
820 ConditionPathExists= is not enough.
821
822 * docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
823
824 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
825 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
826 state.
827 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
828
829 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
830 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
831 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
832 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
833 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
834
835 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
836
837 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
838 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
839
840 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
841 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
842
843 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
844 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
845
846 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
847
848 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
849 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
850
851 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
852
853 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
854
855 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
856
857 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
858
859 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
860 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
861
862 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
863
864 * resolved:
865 - mDNS/DNS-SD
866 - service registration
867 - service/domain/types browsing
868 - avahi compat
869 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
870 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
871 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
872 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
873 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
874 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
875
876 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
877
878 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
879
880 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
881
882 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
883
884 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
885
886 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
887 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
888
889 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
890
891 * gpt-auto-generator:
892 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
893 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
894
895 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
896 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
897 when it is otherwise off
898
899 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
900
901 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
902 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
903 for ReusePort=
904
905 * cgroups:
906 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
907 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
908 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
909 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
910 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
911 the hierarchies of child processes
912
913 * transient units:
914 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
915
916 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
917
918 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
919
920 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
921
922 * 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
923
924 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
925
926 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
927 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
928 path anyway.
929
930 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
931
932 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
933
934 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
935
936 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
937
938 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
939
940 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
941
942 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
943 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
944 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
945
946 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
947 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
948
949 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
950
951 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
952
953 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
954
955 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
956 needs to be auto-respawned?
957
958 * pid1:
959 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
960 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
961 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
962 that are not supported...
963 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
964 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
965 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
966 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
967 - move PAM code into its own binary
968 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
969 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
970 - Support --test based on current system state
971 - 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().
972 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
973 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
974 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
975 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
976 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
977 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
978 but much rather a disconnect on success.
979 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
980 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
981 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
982 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
983 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
984
985 * unit files:
986 - allow port=0 in .socket units
987 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
988 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
989 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
990 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
991 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
992 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
993 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
994 - introduce Type=pid-file
995 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
996 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
997 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
998
999 * timer units:
1000 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
1001 o DST changes
1002 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1003
1004 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1005
1006 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1007
1008 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1009
1010 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1011
1012 * hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
1013
1014 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1015
1016 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1017
1018 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1019
1020 * test/:
1021 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
1022
1023 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
1024 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
1025 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1026 destination.
1027
1028 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1029 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1030
1031 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1032
1033 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1034 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1035 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1036
1037 * BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1038 compliant boot loader is installed.
1039
1040 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1041 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1042 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1043 that automatically.
1044
1045 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
1046
1047 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
1048
1049 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1050
1051 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
1052
1053 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1054
1055 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1056
1057 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1058
1059 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1060
1061 * sd-bus:
1062 - EBADSLT handling
1063 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1064 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1065 - 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
1066 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1067 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1068 - longer term: priority inheritance
1069 - dbus spec updates:
1070 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
1071 - GVariant
1072 - path escaping
1073 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1074
1075 * sd-event
1076 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1077 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1078 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1079 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1080 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1081 here:
1082 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1083
1084 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1085 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1086
1087 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1088
1089 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1090
1091 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1092
1093 * firstboot: allow provisioning of /etc/hosts entries, so that we can via the
1094 credentials logic insert host name to resolve into containers/hosts. Usecase:
1095 fork a container, and make it ping some specific address which is defined by
1096 the host on invocation
1097
1098 * systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
1099 reading/writing files
1100
1101 * firstboot: make it useful to be run immediately after yum --installroot to set up a machine. (most specifically, make --copy-root-password work even if /etc/passwd already exists
1102
1103 * sd-boot: define a drop-in dir in the ESP that may contain X.509
1104 certificates. If the firmware is detected to be in setup mode, automatically
1105 enroll them as PK/KEK/db, turn off setup mode and proceed. Optionally,
1106 instead of auto-enrolling them add them to the sd-boot menu, giving the user
1107 the option to manually enroll them, after selecting the menu entry. This way,
1108 installer images can just drop the certfiicates in the ESP, and on first boot
1109 can easily enroll the keys without ever booting up.
1110
1111 * efi stub: optionally, load initrd from disk as a separate file, HMAC check it
1112 with key from TPM, bound to PCR, refusing if failing. This would then allow
1113 traditional distros that generate initrds locally to secure them with TPM:
1114 after generating the initrd, do the HMAC calculation, put result in initrd
1115 filename, done. This would then bind the validity of the initrd to the local
1116 host, and used kernel, and means people cannot change initrd or kernel
1117 without booting the kernel + initrd.
1118
1119 * EFI:
1120 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1121 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
1122 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
1123 * bootctl
1124 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
1125
1126 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
1127
1128 * bootctl:
1129 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1130 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
1131 - make it operate on loopback files, dissecting enough to find ESP to operate on
1132
1133 * logind:
1134 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
1135 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1136 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1137 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
1138 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1139 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1140 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1141 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1142 needs setuid().
1143 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1144 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1145 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1146 complete.
1147 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1148 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1149 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
1150 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
1151 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1152 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1153 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1154 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1155 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1156 relogins
1157 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
1158
1159 * move logind udev rules to top-level rule.d/ directory
1160
1161 * move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1162
1163 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1164 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1165 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1166
1167 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1168 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1169
1170 * journal:
1171 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
1172 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1173 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1174 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
1175 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
1176 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
1177 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1178 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1179 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
1180 message that works, but already after a short timeout
1181 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1182 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
1183 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
1184 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1185 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
1186 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
1187 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
1188 - 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.
1189 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1190 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
1191 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1192 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1193 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1194 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
1195 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
1196 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
1197 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
1198 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1199 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1200 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1201 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1202 to syslog when it works again.
1203 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1204 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1205 journals in.
1206 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1207 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1208 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1209 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1210 the most common operations.
1211 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
1212 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1213 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1214 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1215 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1216 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1217 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1218 operation.
1219 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1220 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1221 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1222 binary logs data
1223 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
1224 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1225 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1226 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1227 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
1228 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
1229
1230 * journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
1231 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
1232
1233 * Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
1234 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
1235 validated via TPM.
1236
1237 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
1238 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
1239
1240 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
1241 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
1242 user's journal stream down but not the others.
1243
1244 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
1245 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
1246 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
1247 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
1248 cgroup.
1249
1250 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
1251 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
1252 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
1253 logging.
1254
1255 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
1256
1257 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
1258 from the SIGBUS handler
1259
1260 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
1261 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
1262 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
1263 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
1264
1265 * homed:
1266 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
1267 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
1268 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
1269 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
1270 - create on activate?
1271 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
1272 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
1273 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
1274 systemd --user is shut down.
1275 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
1276 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
1277 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
1278 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
1279 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
1280 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
1281 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
1282 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
1283 - query password from kernel keyring first
1284 - update even if record is "absent"
1285 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
1286 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
1287 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
1288 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
1289 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
1290 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
1291 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
1292 doesn't mean user B sees it
1293 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
1294 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
1295 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
1296 signature
1297 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
1298 and insert a local signature instead.
1299 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
1300 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
1301 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
1302 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
1303 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
1304 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
1305 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
1306 easily?
1307 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
1308 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
1309 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
1310 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
1311 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
1312 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
1313 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
1314 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
1315 can easily set overall quota for all users
1316 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
1317 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
1318
1319 * add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
1320 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
1321 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
1322
1323 * systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_PATH
1324
1325 * systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
1326 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
1327 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
1328 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
1329
1330 * systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
1331
1332 * systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
1333 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
1334 something goes wrong on the way.
1335
1336 * systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
1337
1338 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
1339 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
1340 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
1341 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
1342
1343 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
1344 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
1345 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
1346 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
1347 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
1348 automatically.
1349
1350 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
1351 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
1352
1353 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
1354 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
1355 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
1356 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
1357 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
1358 fails to apply use the latter.
1359
1360 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
1361 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
1362
1363 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
1364 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
1365
1366 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
1367 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
1368
1369 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
1370 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
1371
1372 * document:
1373 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
1374 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
1375 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
1376 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
1377 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
1378 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
1379 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
1380 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
1381 - man: add more examples to man pages,
1382 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
1383 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
1384 - document root=gpt-auto properly
1385
1386 * systemctl:
1387 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
1388 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
1389 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
1390 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
1391 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
1392 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
1393 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
1394 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
1395 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
1396 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
1397
1398 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
1399 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
1400 it should skip the variant type string though.
1401
1402 * add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
1403 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
1404 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
1405 output for them.
1406
1407 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
1408 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
1409 the slices, and the units attached to them.
1410
1411 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
1412 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
1413 wait to retrieve their exit data.
1414
1415 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
1416 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
1417
1418 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
1419 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
1420 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
1421 do, for example)
1422
1423 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
1424 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
1425 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
1426 returning from the "systemctl stop".
1427
1428 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
1429
1430 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
1431
1432 * unit install:
1433 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
1434 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
1435
1436 * nspawn:
1437 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
1438 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
1439 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
1440 from the kernel's logs.
1441 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
1442 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
1443 interface be missing
1444 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
1445 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
1446 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
1447 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
1448 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
1449 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
1450 PID 1...
1451 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
1452 running, remove them when shut down.
1453
1454 * nspawn: add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension=
1455 switch that takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already
1456 during startup.
1457
1458 * when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU or
1459 so, freeze the payload too.
1460
1461 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
1462 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
1463 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
1464 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
1465 anything like that.
1466
1467 * nspawn: support time namespaces
1468
1469 * nspawn: on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events,
1470 so that we make cgroup agent logic safe
1471
1472 * nspawn/machined: add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as
1473 fallback in "machinectl shell"
1474
1475 * nspawn: make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a
1476 hangup when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait
1477 for hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
1478
1479 * nspawn: greater control over selinux label?
1480
1481 * nspawn: support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
1482
1483 * machined:
1484 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
1485 removed or added to an existing machine
1486 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
1487 difference host, via ssh
1488 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
1489 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
1490 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
1491 question
1492 - "machinectl history"
1493 - "machinectl diff"
1494 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
1495 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
1496
1497 * udev:
1498 - move to LGPL
1499 - kill scsi_id
1500 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
1501 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
1502
1503 * coredump:
1504 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
1505 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
1506
1507 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
1508
1509 * tmpfiles:
1510 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
1511 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
1512 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
1513 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
1514 calls follow symlinks.
1515 - add --test mode
1516 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
1517 project quota
1518
1519 * udev-link-config:
1520 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
1521 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
1522 on Path= matching
1523
1524 * sd-rtnl:
1525 - add support for more attribute types
1526 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
1527
1528 * networkd:
1529 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
1530 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
1531 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
1532 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
1533 - work with non-Ethernet devices
1534 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
1535 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
1536 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
1537 - expose in the API the following bits:
1538 - option 15, domain name
1539 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
1540 - option 123, 144, geolocation
1541 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
1542 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
1543 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
1544 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
1545 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
1546 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
1547
1548 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
1549
1550 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
1551
1552 * dhcp:
1553 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
1554
1555 * dhcp6:
1556 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
1557 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
1558 - write more test cases
1559 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
1560 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
1561 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
1562 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
1563 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
1564 or interface down
1565 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
1566 this behavior
1567 - RouteTable= ?