]> git.ipfire.org Git - thirdparty/systemd.git/blob - TODO
test: set ReadWritePaths= for test-.services when built w/ coverage
[thirdparty/systemd.git] / TODO
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 Deprecations and removals:
88
89 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
90 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
91
92 * 2019-10 – Remove POINTINGSTICK_CONST_ACCEL references from the hwdb, see #9573
93
94 * remove cgrouspv1 support EOY 2023. As per
95 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
96 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
97 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
98
99 * drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
100 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
101 is only supported for such old kernels.
102
103 * drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
104 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
105
106 * drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
107 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
108 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
109 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
110 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
111
112 * drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
113 baseline is 5.8.
114
115 * drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
116 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
117
118 * rework our PID tracking in services and so on, to be strictly based on pidfd,
119 once kernel baseline is 5.13.
120
121 * H2 2023: remove support for unmerged-usr
122
123 * Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
124 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
125 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
126
127 * Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
128 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
129
130 Features:
131
132 * fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
133 that hwdb patters can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
134 "*:foobar:*", to wildcard match both the start and the end of the string.
135 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
136 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
137 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
138
139 * mount /tmp/ and /var/tmp with a uidmap applied that blocks out "nobody" user
140 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
141 way noone can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
142 used transiently, never persistently.
143
144 * set MS_NOSYMFOLLOW for ESP and XBOOTLDR mounts both in gpt-generator and in
145 dissect.c
146
147 * rework loopback support in fstab: when "loop" option is used, then
148 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
149 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
150 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
151 based on lo_file_name.
152
153 * remove tomoyo support, it's obsolete and unmaintained apparently
154
155 * journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
156 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
157 cursors as they happen.
158
159 * In .socket units, add ConnectStream=, ConnectDatagram=,
160 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
161 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
162 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
163 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
164 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
165 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
166 activation-by-message id and similar.
167
168 * landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
169 ability to write anywehere else below /run/. Similar for
170 StateDirectory=. Benefit would be clear delegation via unit files: services
171 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
172
173 * landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
174 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
175 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
176 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
177 similar behaviour for system services, too.
178
179 * Add systemd-mount@.service which is instantiated for a block device and
180 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
181 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
182
183 * udevd: extend memory pressure logic: also kill any idle worker processes
184
185 * SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
186 localed, oomd, timedated.
187
188 * journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
189 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
190 info of the newest entry of the specificy boot (as identified by the boot
191 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
192 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
193 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
194 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
195 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
196 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
197
198 * sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
199 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
200 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
201
202 * in order to make binding to PCR 4 realistic:
203 - generate one keypair "U" and store it in a tpm2 nvindex.
204 - Generate another keypair "P" and store it in a second tpm2 nvindex.
205 - allocate a persistent counter object "C" in the tpm2
206 - Enroll all user objects (i.e. luks volumes, creds, …) to a tpm2 policy
207 signed by U.
208 - Lock both U and P down with a tpm2 policy signed by P (yes, P can only be
209 used if a signature by P itself can be provided)
210 - For regular reboots generate a signature for a restrictive PCR4 + counter C
211 based policy with key P. Place signature in EFI var, so it can be found on
212 next boot
213 - For reboots where a firmware update is expected generate a signature with a
214 more open policy against just counter C. Place signature in same EFI var.
215 - Increase C whenever switching between these two signature types.
216 - During early boot, use the signature from the EFI var to unlock U and P.
217 Use it to generate a signature for unlocking user objects given the current
218 PCR 4 value, store that away into /run somewhere, for user during the whole
219 later boot.
220 - When booting up automatically update the mentioned efi var so that it
221 contains the restrictive signature. But also generate a signature ahead of
222 time that could be used in case during the current boot we later detect we might
223 need to reboot for a firmware update. Store that in /run somewhere, so that
224 it can be placed in the EFI var, if needed.
225
226 * repart/gpt-auto/DDIs: maybe introduce a concept of "extension" partitions,
227 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
228 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
229 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
230 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
231 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
232 identifiying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
233 from the uuid of the original partition it extends. Inspiration for this is
234 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
235 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
236 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
237 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
238 access.
239
240 * split out execute.c into new "systemd-executor" binary. Then make PID 1 fork
241 that off via vfork(), and then let that executor do the hard work. Ultimately
242 the executor then gets replaced by the real binary sooner or later. Reason:
243 currently the intermediary "stub" process is a CoW trap that doubles memory
244 usage of PID 1 on each service start. Also, strictly speaking we are not
245 allowed to do NSS from the stub process yet we do anyway. Next steps would
246 then be maybe use CLONE_INTO_CGROUP for the executor, given that we don't
247 need glibc anymore in the stub process then. Then, switch nspawn to just be a
248 frontend for this too, so that we have to ways into the executor: via unit
249 files/dbus/varlin through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI through nspawn.
250
251 * sd-stub: detect if we are running with uefi console output on serial, and if so
252 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
253
254 * add a utility that can be used with the kernel's
255 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
256 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
257 for all umh processes.
258
259 * systemd-shutdown: keep sending sd_notify() status updates immediately before
260 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
261
262 * homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
263 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
264 resize.
265
266 * homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
267 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
268
269 * in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
270 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
271 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
272 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
273 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculted from the monotonic timestamp in the
274 log record, adjusted by the delta declared in the structured log record.
275
276 * in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
277 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
278 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
279 records, to be able to order them.
280
281 * timesyncd: when saving/restoring clock try to take boot time into account.
282 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
283 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
284 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
285 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
286 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
287 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
288 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
289 system actually reset.
290
291 * systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
292 userspace to allow ordering boots (for example in journalctl). The counter
293 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
294
295 * systemd-sysext: for sysext DDIs picked up via EFI stub, set much stricter
296 image policy by default
297
298 * pam_systemd_home: add module parameter to control whether to only accept
299 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
300 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
301 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
302
303 * sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
304 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
305 is then useful for network boot, by embdedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
306 in sd-boot, which reference remote kernels.
307
308 * fix systemd-gpt-auto-generator in case a UKI is spawned from XBOOTLDR without
309 sd-boot. In that case LoaderDevicePartUUID will point to the XBOOTLDR, and we
310 should then derive the root disk from that, and then the ESP/XBOOTLDR from
311 that. Right now we will only mount ESP if it matches LoaderDEvicePartUUID
312 which isn't quite the same.
313
314 * maybe prohibit setuid() to the nobody user, to lock things down, via seccomp.
315 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
316 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
317 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
318 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
319
320 * sd-boot: add a new PE section .bls or so that carries a cpio with additional
321 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
322 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
323 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
324 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
325
326 * sd-boot: also allow passing in the cpio as in the previous item via SMBIOS
327
328 * add a new EFI tool "sd-fetch" or so. It looks in a PE section ".url" for an
329 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
330 Usecase: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
331 binaries in place of UKIs, and download them on-the-fly.
332
333 * bootctl: warn if ESP is mounted world-readable (and in particular the seed).
334
335 * maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
336 cmdline. usecase: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
337
338 * systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
339 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
340 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
341
342 * sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
343 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
344
345 * tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
346 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
347 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
348 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
349 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
350 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
351 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
352 usual.
353
354 * Lennart: big blog story about DDIs
355
356 * Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
357
358 * Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
359
360 * bpf: see if we can use BPF to solve the syslog message cgroup source problem:
361 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
362 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
363 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
364 sockaddr.
365
366 * bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
367 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
368 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
369 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
370 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
371 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
372 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
373 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
374 try to use inode from there.
375
376 * extend the verity signature partition to permit multiple signatures for the
377 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
378
379 * consider adding a new partition type, just for /opt/ for usage in system
380 extensions
381
382 * gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
383 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
384 for the root fs or /usr/.
385
386 * dissection policy should enforce that unlocking can only take place by
387 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
388 combination thereof.
389
390 * make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
391 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
392 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
393 ahead of time.
394
395 * systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
396 aforementioned purpose.
397
398 * in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
399 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
400
401 * Add systemd-sysupdate-initrd.service or so that runs systemd-sysupdate in the
402 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
403 to figure out:
404 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
405 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
406 subsequent boots?
407
408 * hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
409 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
410 inspiration from IMA log)
411
412 * provide an API to apps to encrypt/decrypt credentials. usecase: allow
413 bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd that way, without shelling
414 out to our tools.
415
416 * revisit default PCR bindings in cryptenroll and systemd-creds. Currently they
417 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
418 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
419 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
420 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
421 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
422 default to PCR 15 at least if sd-stub is used (i.e. bind to system identity),
423 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
424 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
425 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
426
427 * To mimic the new tpm2-measure-pcr= crypttab option add the same to veritytab
428 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
429 used)
430
431 * We should start measuring all services, containers, and system extensions we
432 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
433 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
434 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
435 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
436
437 * whenever we measure something into a TPM PCR from userspace, write a record in
438 TCG's "Canonical Event Log" format to some file, so that we can reason about
439 how PCR values we manage came to
440 be. https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/canonical-event-log-format/
441
442 * bootspec: permit graceful "update" from type #2 to type #1. If both a type #1
443 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
444 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
445 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
446 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
447 should win over vendor defaults.
448
449 * sd-stub: optionally allow users to configure manual kernel command line even
450 in SecureBoot by authenticating it via shim's APIs, integrating with MOK and
451 similar: instead of authenticating just PE code shim should be capable of
452 authenticating any kind of data for us, including files containing kernel
453 command lines.
454
455 * write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
456 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
457 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
458
459 * automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
460 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
461
462 * implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
463 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
464 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
465 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
466 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
467 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
468
469 * add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
470 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
471 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
472
473 * systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
474
475 * systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
476 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
477 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Usecase: remove secondary OS
478 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
479
480 * systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
481 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
482 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
483 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
484 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
485 only one for each OS.
486
487 * systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
488 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
489 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
490 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
491 boot, for the next.
492
493 * figure out a sane way when building UKIs how to extract SBAT data from inner
494 kernel, extend it with component info, and add to outer kernel.
495
496 * systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
497 similar behind it, instead of http.
498
499 * systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
500 boot, or on first boot.
501
502 * in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
503 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
504
505 * we probably needs .pcrpkeyrd or so as additional PE section in UKIs,
506 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
507 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
508 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
509 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
510 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
511 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
512 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
513 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
514 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
515 until users are allowed to log in).
516
517 * Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
518 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
519
520 * add support for asymmetric LUKS2 TPM based encryption. i.e. allow preparing
521 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
522 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
523 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Usecase: systemd-syscfg
524 for a central orchestrator to generate syscfg images securely that can only
525 be activated on one specific host (which can be used for installing a bunch
526 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
527 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
528 prepare a syscfg image that can only be activated on a specific host that
529 runs a specific software in a specific time window. syscfg would be
530 automatically invalidated outside of it.
531
532 * maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
533 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
534 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
535 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
536 enhanced remote attestation quote. Usecase: a simple orchestrator could use
537 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
538 have the orchestrator collect these reports centrally over a 3min time
539 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
540 and generate a small syscfg for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
541 on each node. The syscfg would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
542 proposed above, so that it can only be activated on the specific host, if the
543 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
544 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
545 update syscfg. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
546 config and collected reports in the last 3min time window only, and thus can
547 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
548 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
549 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
550 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via syscfg updates,
551 and via the time window TPM logic invalidated if node doesn't keep itself
552 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
553
554 * in the initrd, once the rootfs encryption key has been measured to PCR 15,
555 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
556
557 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to use sd_event_set_signal_exit(), instead
558 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
559
560 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
561 instead of manual blocking.
562
563 * sd-boot: for each installed OS, grey out older entries (i.e. all but the
564 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
565
566 * automatically propagate LUKS password credential into cryptsetup from host
567 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
568 supplied password.
569
570 * add ability to path_is_valid() to classify paths that refer to a dir from
571 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
572 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
573 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
574
575 * systemd-measure: allow operating with PEM certificates in addition to PEM
576 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
577 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
578 convencience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
579
580 * systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
581 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
582 automatically derived from --private-key=).
583
584 * push people to use ".sysext.raw" as suffix for sysext DDIs (DDI =
585 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
586 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
587
588 * Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
589 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
590 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
591 use as additional search condition. Usecase: images that combined a sysext
592 partition with a portable service partition in one.
593
594 * On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
595 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
596 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
597 modules
598
599 * for systemd-syscfg: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
600 sig using squashfs-tools-ng's library. Maybe just systemd-repart called under
601 a new name with a built-in config?
602
603 * gpt-auto: generate mount units that reference partitions via
604 /dev/disk/by-diskseq/… so that they can't be swapped out behind our back.
605
606 * lock down acceptable encrypted credentials at boot, via simple allowlist,
607 maybe on kernel command line:
608 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
609 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
610
611 * Add support for extra verity configuration options to systemd-repart (FEC,
612 hash type, etc)
613
614 * chase(): take inspiration from path_extract_filename() and return
615 O_DIRECTORY if input path contains trailing slash.
616
617 * chase(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
618 but final node is not a directory
619
620 * chase(): add new flag that simply refuses all symlink use in a path,
621 then use that for accessing XBOOTLDR/ESP
622
623 * document in boot loader spec that symlinks in XBOOTLDR/ESP are not OK even if
624 non-VFAT fs is used.
625
626 * measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
627
628 * measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
629 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
630
631 * pick up creds from EFI vars
632
633 * sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
634 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
635 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
636 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
637 affect PCR values.
638
639 * systemd-measure tool:
640 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
641
642 * in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
643 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
644
645 * sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
646 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
647
648 * sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
649 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
650
651 * sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
652 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
653
654 * add small wrapper around qemu that implements sd_notify/AF_VSOCK + machined and
655 maybe some other stuff and boots it
656
657 * maybe add new flags to gpt partition tables for rootfs and usrfs indicating
658 purpose, i.e. whether something is supposed to be bootable in a VM, on
659 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
660 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
661 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
662 use it.
663
664 * sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
665 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
666
667 * add "systemd-sysext identify" verb, that you can point on any file in /usr/
668 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
669 what it was signed.
670
671 * journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
672 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
673 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
674 be safely written to disk, then.
675
676 * systemd-creds: extend encryption logic to support asymmetric
677 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
678 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
679 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
680 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
681 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
682 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
683 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
684 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
685 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
686 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
687 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
688
689 * building on top of the above, the pub/priv key pair generated on the TPM2
690 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
691
692 * Process credentials in:
693 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
694 via the credentials logic.
695 • fstab-generator: allow defining additional fstab-like mounts via
696 credentials (similar: crypttab-generator, verity-generator,
697 integrity-generator)
698 • getty-generator: allow defining additional getty instances via a credential
699 • run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
700 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
701 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
702 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
703 • repart: allow defining additional partitions via credential
704 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
705 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
706 file system paths to enable on start.
707 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
708 usr=
709 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
710 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
711 register if not registered yet. Usecase: deploy a system, and add an
712 account one can directly log into.
713 • initialize machine ID from systemd credential picked up from the ESP via
714 sd-stub, so that machine ID is stable even on systems where unified kernels
715 are used, and hence kernel cmdline cannot be modified locally
716 • in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
717 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
718 pre-built kernels.
719
720 * define a JSON format for units, separating out unit definitions from unit
721 runtime state. Then, expose it:
722
723 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
724 about the unit.
725 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
726 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
727 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
728 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
729 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
730 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
731
732 * Add SUPPORT_END_URL= field to os-release with more *actionable* information
733 what to do if support ended
734
735 * pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
736 login time, à la motd
737
738 * sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
739 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
740 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Usecase: embed sd-boot in the
741 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
742 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
743
744 * mount /var/ from initrd, so that we can apply sysext and stuff before the
745 initrd transition. Specifically:
746 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
747 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
748 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
749
750 * implement varlink introspection
751
752 * we should probably drop all use of prefix_roota() and friends, and use
753 chase() instead
754
755 * make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
756 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
757 service restarts, hot reboot, cold reboots (depending on configuration): the
758 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
759 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
760 depending on desired level of persistency.
761
762 * sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
763 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
764 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
765 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
766 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
767 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
768 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
769 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
770
771 * if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
772 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
773 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
774 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
775
776 * add ability to set hostname with suffix derived from machine id at boot
777
778 * add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
779
780 * homed/userdb: maybe define a "companion" dir for home directories where apps
781 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
782 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
783 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Usecase: container
784 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
785 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
786 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
787 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
788 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
789 by. Inform user code about path to this companion dir via env var, so that
790 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
791 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
792 not unprivileged code.
793
794 * given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
795 that hooks up userbdctl ssh-key stuff.
796
797 * maybe add support for binding and connecting AF_UNIX sockets in the file
798 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
799 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
800 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
801
802 * add a proper concept of a "developer" mode, i.e. where cryptographic
803 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
804 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
805 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
806 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
807 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
808 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
809 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is the only way to enter developer mode, by
810 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
811
812 * services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
813 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
814 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
815 order.
816
817 * TPM2: extend unlock policy to protect against version downgrades in signed
818 policies: policy probably must take some nvram based generation counter into
819 account that can only monotonically increase and can be used to invalidate
820 old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to old signed PCR sets
821 whenever they want.
822
823 * update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
824 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
825 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
826
827 * add a clear concept how the initrd can make up credentials on their own to
828 pass to the system when transitioning into the host OS. usecase: things like
829 cloud-init/ignitation and similar can parameterize the host with data they
830 acquire.
831
832 * sd-event: compat wd reuse in inotify code: keep a set of removed watch
833 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
834 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
835 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
836 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
837 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
838 IN_IGNORED again)
839
840 * systemd-fstab-generator: support addition mount specifications via kernel
841 cmdline. Usecase: invoke a VM, and mount a host homedir into it via
842 virtio-fs.
843
844 * for vendor-built signed initrds:
845 - make sysext run in the initrd
846 - sysext should pick up sysext images from /.extra/ in the initrd, and insist
847 on verification if in secureboot mode
848 - kernel-install should be able to install pre-built unified kernel images in
849 type #2 drop-in dir in the ESP.
850 - kernel-install should be able install encrypted creds automatically for
851 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
852 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
853 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
854 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
855 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
856 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
857 - pid 1 should look for machine ID in creds
858 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
859 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
860 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
861 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
862
863 * Maybe extend the service protocol to support handling of some specific SIGRT
864 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
865 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
866
867 * firstboot: maybe just default to C.UTF-8 locale if nothing is set, so that we
868 don't query this unnecessarily in entirely uninitialized
869 containers. (i.e. containers with empty /etc).
870
871 * sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
872 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
873 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
874 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
875 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
876 directly to host service manager.
877
878 * maybe write a tool that binds an AF_VFSOCK socket, then invokes qemu,
879 extending the command line to enable vsock on the VM, and using fw_cfg to
880 configure socket address.
881
882 * sd-boot: add menu item for shutdown? or hotkey?
883
884 * sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
885 no api to query the device id
886
887 * sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
888 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
889 also be queried.
890
891 * sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
892 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
893 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
894 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
895
896 * sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
897 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
898 latter).
899
900 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
901
902 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
903
904 * support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
905 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
906 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
907 generated by GNU sha256sums.
908
909 * sd-boot: maybe add support for embedding the various auxiliary resources we
910 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
911 logic: allow combining sd-boot via objcopy with kernels to enumerate, .conf
912 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
913 to the menu. Usecase: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
914 UEFI HTTP boot.
915
916 * maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
917 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
918 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
919 binary with some minimal info about an URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
920 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
921 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
922 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
923 hence cheap for enumeration.
924
925 * sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
926
927 * maybe add a "syscfg" concept, that is almost entirely identical to "sysext",
928 but operates on /etc/ instead of /usr/ and /opt/. Use case would be: trusted,
929 authenticated, atomic, additive configuration management primitive: drop in a
930 configuration bundle, and activate it, so that it is instantly visible,
931 comprehensively.
932
933 * systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
934 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
935 words: show partition labels).
936
937 * maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
938 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
939 that take an URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
940 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. usecase:
941 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
942 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
943 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
944
945 * improve scope units to support creation by pidfd instead of by PID
946
947 * deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
948
949 * systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
950
951 * per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
952 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
953 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
954 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
955 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
956 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
957 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
958 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
959 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
960 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
961
962 * journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
963 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
964 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
965 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
966 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
967 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
968 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
969 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
970 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
971 an NTP sync is acquired.
972
973 * kernel-install:
974 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
975 - maybe add env var that shortcuts kernel-install for installers that want to
976 call it at the end only
977
978 * doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
979 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
980
981 * doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
982 jobs, units
983
984 * bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
985 sync, i.e. parse out architecture field in sd-boot (currently only done in
986 userspace)
987
988 * automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
989
990 * add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
991 json package metadata, and use that when logging
992
993 * Enable RestrictFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
994 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
995
996 * Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
997 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
998
999 * cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
1000 internal clock.
1001
1002 * man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1003 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1004
1005 * sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1006 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1007 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1008 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
1009
1010 * userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
1011 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1012 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1013
1014 * maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
1015 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
1016 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
1017 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
1018 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
1019 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
1020 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
1021 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
1022 thread:
1023 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
1024 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
1025 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
1026 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
1027 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
1028 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
1029
1030 * if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
1031 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
1032 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
1033
1034 * homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
1035 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
1036 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
1037 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
1038 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
1039 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
1040 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
1041 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
1042 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
1043 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
1044 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1045 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1046 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1047 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1048 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
1049
1050 * add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
1051 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
1052 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
1053 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
1054 for debugging purposes. Other usecase: boot into qemu with regular user
1055 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
1056
1057 * drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
1058 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
1059 dep in the base OS image)
1060
1061 * sysext: automatically activate sysext images dropped in via new sd-stub
1062 sysext pickup logic. (must insist on verity + signature on those though)
1063
1064 * add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
1065 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1066 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1067 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1068 on-disk storage.
1069
1070 * userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
1071 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1072 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1073 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1074 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1075
1076 * portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
1077 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1078 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
1079
1080 * logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
1081 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
1082 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
1083 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
1084 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
1085 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
1086 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
1087
1088 * /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
1089 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1090 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1091 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1092
1093 * add high-level lockdown level for GPT dissection logic: e.g. an enum that can
1094 be ANY (to mount anything), TRUSTED (to require that /usr is on signed
1095 verity, but rest doesn't matter), LOCKEDDOWN (to require that everything is
1096 on signed verity, except for ESP), SUPERLOCKDOWN (like LOCKEDDOWN but ESP not
1097 allowed). And then maybe some flavours of that that declare what is expected
1098 from home/srv/var… Then, add a new cmdline flag to all tools that parse such
1099 images, to configure this. Also, add a kernel cmdline option for this, to be
1100 honoured by the gpt auto generator.
1101
1102 Alternative idea: add "systemd.gpt_auto_policy=rhvs" to allow gpt-auto to
1103 only mount root dir, /home/ dir, /var/ and /srv/, but nothing else. And then
1104 minor extension to this, insisting on encryption, for example
1105 "systemd.gpt_auto_policy=r+v+h" to require encryption for root and var but not
1106 for /home/, and similar. Similar add --image-dissect-policy= to tools that
1107 take --image= that take the same short string.
1108
1109 * we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
1110 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1111 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1112 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1113 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1114 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1115 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1116 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1117 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1118 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1119 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
1120
1121 * add a "policy" to the dissection logic. i.e. a bit mask what is OK to mount,
1122 what must be read-only, what requires encryption, and what requires
1123 authentication.
1124
1125 * in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
1126 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1127 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
1128
1129 * rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
1130
1131 * PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
1132
1133 * when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1134 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1135 that images cannot be misused.
1136
1137 * New udev block device symlink names:
1138 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
1139 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1140 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1141 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1142
1143 * sysupdate:
1144 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1145 - support casync as download mechanism
1146 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1147 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1148 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1149 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1150 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
1151 override the host's update files.)
1152 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1153 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1154 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1155 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1156
1157 * in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1158
1159 * DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1160 make dirs appear under right UID.
1161
1162 * systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1163 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1164
1165 * maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
1166 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
1167 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
1168 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
1169 for doing that.
1170
1171 * introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
1172 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1173 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1174 already have it.
1175
1176 * whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1177 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1178
1179 * Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
1180
1181 * Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1182 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1183 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1184 /proc/self/fd/3
1185
1186 * add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1187 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1188 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1189
1190 * Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1191 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1192
1193 * importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1194 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1195
1196 * add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1197 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1198 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1199 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1200 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
1201
1202 * expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1203
1204 * credentials system:
1205 - acquire from EFI variable?
1206 - acquire via ask-password?
1207 - acquire creds via keyring?
1208 - pass creds via keyring?
1209 - pass creds via memfd?
1210 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1211 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1212 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1213 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1214 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1215 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
1216 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
1217 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
1218
1219 * add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
1220 firmware indicates there is one.
1221
1222 * TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1223 and such
1224
1225 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
1226
1227 * cyptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
1228
1229 * cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
1230 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1231
1232 * cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1233 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
1234
1235 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1236
1237 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1238 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1239
1240 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1241 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1242
1243 * cryptsetup:
1244 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1245 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1246
1247 * when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
1248 it happens to be set up alright already.
1249
1250 * at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
1251
1252 * userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
1253 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
1254 default.
1255
1256 * sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
1257 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
1258 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
1259 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
1260 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
1261
1262 * systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
1263
1264 * Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1265 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1266
1267 * change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
1268 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
1269 temporary dir.
1270
1271 * special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
1272 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1273
1274 * add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
1275 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1276
1277 * make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1278
1279 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1280
1281 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
1282
1283 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1284
1285 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1286 when it exits
1287
1288 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1289 o turn into dlopen() deps:
1290 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
1291 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
1292 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1293 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1294 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1295 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
1296 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
1297
1298 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1299 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1300 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1301
1302 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1303 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1304
1305 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1306
1307 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1308 specific service
1309
1310 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1311 exists and responds.
1312
1313 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
1314 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
1315
1316 * unify on openssl:
1317 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1318 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1319 gnutls
1320 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
1321
1322 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1323 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1324
1325 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1326 realname substr searches in varlink API
1327
1328 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1329
1330 * userdb: allow existence checks
1331
1332 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
1333
1334 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1335 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1336 initrd had set.
1337
1338 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
1339 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
1340 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1341 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1342 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1343 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1344
1345 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1346 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1347 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1348
1349 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1350 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1351 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1352 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1353 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1354 source.
1355
1356 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1357 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1358 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1359
1360 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1361
1362 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1363 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1364 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1365 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1366 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1367 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1368 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1369 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1370 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1371 hibernation mode. (see
1372 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1373 section 10.2.2.8 and
1374 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1375 at the end).
1376
1377 * We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1378 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
1379
1380 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
1381
1382 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1383 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1384 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1385 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1386 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1387 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1388 exec().
1389
1390 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1391
1392 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1393 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1394
1395 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1396 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1397
1398 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1399 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1400 root.
1401
1402 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1403 is issued.
1404
1405 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1406
1407 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1408
1409 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1410 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1411 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
1412
1413 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
1414 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1415 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1416
1417 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1418
1419 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1420 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1421
1422 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
1423 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
1424 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
1425 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
1426
1427 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1428
1429 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
1430 log.c and sd-journal-send
1431
1432 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1433
1434 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
1435
1436 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1437 non-zero "tries done" count
1438
1439 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1440 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1441 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1442 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1443 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1444 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1445 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1446 CODE_FILE.
1447
1448 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1449 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1450 some explanatory text online.
1451
1452 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1453
1454 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1455 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1456
1457 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
1458 Specifically:
1459
1460 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
1461 properly)
1462 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
1463 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
1464
1465 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1466 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1467
1468 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1469 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1470 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1471 files and suchlike we operate on.
1472
1473 * importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1474
1475 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1476
1477 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1478 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1479
1480 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
1481 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
1482
1483 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1484 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1485 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1486 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1487 unlinked from any dir.
1488
1489 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
1490
1491 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1492
1493 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1494
1495 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
1496 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
1497 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
1498 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
1499 should reflink the image file itself.
1500
1501 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
1502 specific paths only like this.
1503
1504 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
1505 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
1506 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1507 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
1508 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
1509
1510 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1511
1512 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1513
1514 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1515 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1516
1517 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1518 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1519 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1520 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1521 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1522 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
1523 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1524 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1525
1526 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1527 for root, but only then.
1528
1529 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
1530
1531 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1532 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1533
1534 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1535 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1536
1537 * sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1538 only when used. Add unit tests.
1539
1540 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1541 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1542
1543 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1544 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1545 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1546 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1547 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1548
1549 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
1550
1551 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
1552 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
1553 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
1554
1555 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
1556
1557 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1558 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1559
1560 * blog about fd store and restartable services
1561
1562 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1563
1564 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1565 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1566
1567 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1568 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1569 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1570 ID is available.
1571
1572 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1573 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1574 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1575
1576 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1577 parameters
1578
1579 * maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
1580 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
1581 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1582 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1583 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1584 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1585 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
1586
1587 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1588 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1589
1590 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1591 about it in the resource log message
1592
1593 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1594 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1595 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1596
1597 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1598 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1599
1600 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1601
1602 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1603 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1604 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1605
1606 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1607 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1608
1609 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1610 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1611 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1612 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1613 natural habitat.
1614
1615 * gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1616 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
1617
1618 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1619 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1620 relative to the configured default value.
1621
1622 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1623
1624 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
1625
1626 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1627
1628 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1629
1630 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
1631
1632 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
1633
1634 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
1635
1636 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
1637
1638 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1639 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1640 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1641
1642 * Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1643 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1644
1645 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
1646
1647 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1648 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1649 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1650 mapping to work.
1651
1652 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1653
1654 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1655
1656 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1657
1658 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1659 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1660
1661 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1662 reload the unit file anyway
1663
1664 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1665
1666 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1667
1668 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1669 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1670
1671 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
1672 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
1673 specifications.
1674
1675 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1676
1677 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1678
1679 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
1680 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
1681 prefixed with /sys generally special.
1682 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
1683
1684 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1685
1686 * docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
1687
1688 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1689 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1690 state.
1691 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
1692
1693 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1694 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1695 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1696 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1697 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1698
1699 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1700
1701 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
1702 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
1703
1704 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
1705 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
1706
1707 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
1708 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
1709
1710 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1711
1712 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1713 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1714
1715 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
1716
1717 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
1718
1719 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
1720
1721 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
1722
1723 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1724 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1725
1726 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1727
1728 * resolved:
1729 - mDNS/DNS-SD
1730 - service registration
1731 - service/domain/types browsing
1732 - avahi compat
1733 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
1734 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1735 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1736 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
1737 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
1738 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
1739
1740 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
1741
1742 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1743
1744 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1745
1746 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1747
1748 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1749
1750 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1751 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
1752
1753 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1754
1755 * gpt-auto-generator:
1756 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
1757 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
1758
1759 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1760 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1761 when it is otherwise off
1762
1763 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
1764
1765 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1766 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1767 for ReusePort=
1768
1769 * cgroups:
1770 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
1771 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1772 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1773 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1774 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1775 the hierarchies of child processes
1776 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1777 maybe use them for user@.service
1778
1779 * transient units:
1780 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
1781
1782 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1783
1784 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1785
1786 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1787
1788 * 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
1789
1790 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
1791
1792 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1793 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
1794 path anyway.
1795
1796 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
1797
1798 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1799
1800 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1801
1802 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1803
1804 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1805
1806 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1807
1808 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1809 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1810 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1811
1812 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1813 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1814
1815 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1816
1817 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1818
1819 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1820
1821 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1822 needs to be auto-respawned?
1823
1824 * pid1:
1825 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1826 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1827 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1828 that are not supported...
1829 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1830 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1831 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1832 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1833 - move PAM code into its own binary
1834 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1835 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1836 - Support --test based on current system state
1837 - 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().
1838 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1839 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1840 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1841 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1842 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1843 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1844 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1845 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1846 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1847 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1848 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1849 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1850
1851 * unit files:
1852 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1853 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1854 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1855 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1856 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1857 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1858 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1859 - introduce Type=pid-file
1860 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1861 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1862 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1863
1864 * timer units:
1865 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
1866 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1867
1868 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1869
1870 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1871
1872 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1873
1874 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1875
1876 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1877
1878 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1879
1880 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1881
1882 * test/:
1883 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
1884
1885 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
1886 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
1887 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1888 destination.
1889
1890 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1891 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1892
1893 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1894
1895 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1896 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1897 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1898
1899 * BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1900 compliant boot loader is installed.
1901
1902 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1903 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1904 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1905 that automatically.
1906
1907 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
1908
1909 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
1910
1911 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1912
1913 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
1914
1915 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1916
1917 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1918
1919 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1920
1921 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1922
1923 * sd-bus:
1924 - EBADSLT handling
1925 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1926 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1927 - 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
1928 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1929 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1930 - longer term: priority inheritance
1931 - dbus spec updates:
1932 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
1933 - path escaping
1934 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1935
1936 * sd-event
1937 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1938 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1939 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1940 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1941 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1942 here:
1943 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1944
1945 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1946 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1947
1948 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1949
1950 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1951
1952 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1953
1954 * systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase() before
1955 reading/writing files
1956
1957 * 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
1958
1959 * EFI:
1960 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1961 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
1962 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
1963 * bootctl
1964 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
1965
1966 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
1967
1968 * bootctl:
1969 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
1970 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1971 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
1972
1973 * kernel-install:
1974 - optionally, support generating type #2 entries instead of type #1, including signing them
1975
1976 * logind:
1977 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
1978 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1979 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1980 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
1981 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1982 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1983 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1984 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1985 needs setuid().
1986 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1987 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1988 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1989 complete.
1990 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1991 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1992 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
1993 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
1994 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1995 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1996 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1997 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1998 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1999 relogins
2000 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
2001 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
2002 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
2003 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
2004
2005 * move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2006
2007 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2008 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2009 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2010
2011 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2012 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2013
2014 * journal:
2015 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
2016 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2017 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2018 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2019 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
2020 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
2021 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2022 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2023 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
2024 message that works, but already after a short timeout
2025 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2026 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
2027 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
2028 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
2029 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
2030 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
2031 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
2032 - 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.
2033 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2034 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
2035 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2036 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2037 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2038 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
2039 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
2040 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
2041 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
2042 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2043 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2044 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2045 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2046 to syslog when it works again.
2047 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2048 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2049 journals in.
2050 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2051 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2052 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2053 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2054 the most common operations.
2055 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
2056 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2057 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2058 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2059 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2060 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2061 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2062 operation.
2063 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
2064 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
2065 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2066 binary logs data
2067 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
2068 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2069 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2070 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2071 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
2072 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
2073
2074 * journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2075 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2076
2077 * Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2078 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2079 validated via TPM.
2080
2081 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2082 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2083
2084 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2085 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2086 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2087
2088 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2089 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2090 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2091 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2092 cgroup.
2093
2094 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2095 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2096 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2097 logging.
2098
2099 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2100
2101 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2102 from the SIGBUS handler
2103
2104 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
2105 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2106 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2107 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2108
2109 * homed:
2110 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2111 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2112 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
2113 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2114 - create on activate?
2115 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2116 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2117 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2118 systemd --user is shut down.
2119 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2120 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2121 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2122 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2123 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2124 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2125 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2126 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2127 - query password from kernel keyring first
2128 - update even if record is "absent"
2129 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2130 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2131 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2132 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2133 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
2134 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2135 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2136 doesn't mean user B sees it
2137 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
2138 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2139 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2140 signature
2141 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2142 and insert a local signature instead.
2143 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2144 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2145 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2146 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2147 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2148 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2149 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2150 easily?
2151 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2152 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2153 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2154 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2155 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2156 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2157 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
2158 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2159 can easily set overall quota for all users
2160 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2161 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
2162 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
2163 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
2164 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2165 large.
2166
2167 * add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2168 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2169 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2170
2171 * systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
2172
2173 * systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2174 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2175 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2176 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2177
2178 * systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2179
2180 * systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2181 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2182 something goes wrong on the way.
2183
2184 * systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
2185
2186 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2187 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2188 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2189 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2190
2191 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2192 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2193 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2194 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2195 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2196 automatically.
2197
2198 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2199 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2200
2201 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2202 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2203 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2204 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2205 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2206 fails to apply use the latter.
2207
2208 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2209 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2210
2211 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2212 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2213
2214 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2215 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
2216 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
2217
2218 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2219 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2220
2221 * systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
2222 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2223 during boot.
2224
2225 * systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2226
2227 * document:
2228 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
2229 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2230 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
2231 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
2232 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2233 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
2234 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2235 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
2236 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2237 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
2238 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
2239 - document root=gpt-auto properly
2240
2241 * systemctl:
2242 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2243 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2244 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2245 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2246 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2247 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2248 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
2249 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
2250 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
2251 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
2252
2253 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2254 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2255 it should skip the variant type string though.
2256
2257 * add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
2258 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
2259 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
2260 output for them.
2261
2262 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2263 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2264 the slices, and the units attached to them.
2265
2266 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2267 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2268 wait to retrieve their exit data.
2269
2270 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2271 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
2272
2273 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2274 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2275 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2276 do, for example)
2277
2278 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2279 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2280 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2281 returning from the "systemctl stop".
2282
2283 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2284
2285 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2286
2287 * unit install:
2288 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2289 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
2290
2291 * nspawn:
2292 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2293 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2294 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2295 from the kernel's logs.
2296 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2297 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2298 interface be missing
2299 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2300 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2301 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2302 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2303 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2304 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2305 PID 1...
2306 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2307 running, remove them when shut down.
2308 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2309 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2310 startup.
2311 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2312 or so, freeze the payload too.
2313 - support time namespaces
2314 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2315 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2316 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2317 "machinectl shell"
2318 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2319 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2320 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2321 - greater control over selinux label?
2322 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2323 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2324 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2325 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2326 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2327 host TPM.
2328 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2329 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2330 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2331 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2332 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2333 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2334 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2335 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
2336 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2337 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
2338 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2339 or two sockets.
2340 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
2341
2342 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2343 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2344 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2345 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2346 anything like that.
2347
2348 * machined:
2349 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2350 removed or added to an existing machine
2351 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2352 difference host, via ssh
2353 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2354 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2355 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2356 question
2357 - "machinectl history"
2358 - "machinectl diff"
2359 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2360 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2361
2362 * udev:
2363 - move to LGPL
2364 - kill scsi_id
2365 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
2366 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
2367 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
2368 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
2369
2370 * coredump:
2371 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
2372 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
2373 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
2374
2375 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2376
2377 * tmpfiles:
2378 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
2379 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
2380 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
2381 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2382 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2383 calls follow symlinks.
2384 - add --test mode
2385 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2386 project quota
2387 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
2388 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2389 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
2390
2391 * udev-link-config:
2392 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2393 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2394 on Path= matching
2395
2396 * sd-rtnl:
2397 - add support for more attribute types
2398 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
2399
2400 * networkd:
2401 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2402 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
2403 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
2404 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
2405 - work with non-Ethernet devices
2406 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
2407 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2408 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2409 - expose in the API the following bits:
2410 - option 15, domain name
2411 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
2412 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2413 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2414 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2415 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2416 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2417 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
2418 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
2419
2420 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2421
2422 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2423
2424 * dhcp:
2425 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
2426
2427 * dhcp6:
2428 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2429 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2430 - write more test cases
2431 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
2432 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
2433 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2434 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2435 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2436 or interface down
2437 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2438 this behavior
2439 - RouteTable= ?