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1 Bugfixes:
2
3 * Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
6
7 * Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
10
11 External:
12
13 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
14
15 * dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
19 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
20
21 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
22
23 * fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
24
25 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
26
27 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
28
29 * register catalog database signature as file magic
30
31 * zsh shell completion:
32 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
33 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
34 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
35
36 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
37 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
38 after being started.
39
40 * write blog stories about:
41 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
42 - enabling dbus services
43 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
44 - remote access
45 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
46 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
47 - auto-restart
48 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
49 - the journal HTTP iface
50 - non-cgroup resource management
51 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
52 - refreshed, longer missions statement
53 - calendar time events
54 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
55 - how to create your own target
56 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
57 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
58
59 Regularly:
60
61 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
62
63 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
64
65 * pahole
66
67 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
68
69 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
70
71 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
72
73 Janitorial Clean-ups:
74
75 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
76 semantics, like we do for device.c now
77
78 * get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase_symlinks() 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 Features:
128
129 * split out execute.c into new "systemd-executor" binary. Then make PID 1 fork
130 that off via vfork(), and then let that executor do the hard work. Ultimately
131 the executor then gets replaced by the real binary sooner or later. Reason:
132 currently the intermediary "stub" process is a CoW trap that doubles memory
133 usage of PID 1 on each service start. Also, strictly speaking we are not
134 allowd to do NSS from the stub process yet we do anyway. Next steps would
135 then be maybe use CLONE_INTO_CGROUP for the executor, given that we don't
136 need glibc anymore in the stub process then. Then, switch nspawn to just be a
137 frontend for this too, so that we have to ways into the executor: via unit
138 files/dbus/varlin through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI through nspawn.
139
140 * sd-stub: detect if we are running with uefi console output on serial, and if so
141 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
142
143 * add a utility that can be used with the kernel's
144 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
145 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
146 for all umh processes.
147
148 * systemd-shutdown: keep sending sd_notify() status updates immediately before
149 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
150
151 * homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
152 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
153 resize.
154
155 * homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
156 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
157
158 * in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
159 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
160 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
161 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
162 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculted from the monotonic timestamp in the
163 log record, adjusted by the delta declared in the structured log record.
164
165 * in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
166 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
167 and new new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
168 records, to be able to order them.
169
170 * timesyncd: when saving/restoring clock try to take boot time into account.
171 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
172 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
173 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
174 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
175 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
176 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
177 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
178 system actually reset.
179
180 * systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
181 userspace to allow ordering boots (for example in journalctl). The counter
182 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
183
184 * systemd-sysext: for sysext DDIs picked up via EFI stub, set much stricter
185 image policy by default
186
187 * systemd-dissect: maybe add "--attach" and "--detach" verbs which
188 synchronously attach a DDI to a loopback device but not actually mount them.
189
190 * pam_systemd_home: add module parameter to control whether to only accept
191 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
192 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
193 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
194
195 * sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
196 lines. THen, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
197 is then useful for network boot, by embdedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
198 in sd-boot, which reference remote kernels.
199
200 * fix systemd-gpt-auto-generator in case a UKI is spawned from XBOOTLDR without
201 sd-boot. In that case LoaderDevicePartUUID will point to the XBOOTLDR, and we
202 should then derive the root disk from that, and then the ESP/XBOOTLDR from
203 that. Right now we will only mount ESP if it matches LoaderDEvicePartUUID
204 which isn't quite the same.
205
206 * maybe prohibit setuid() to the nobody user, to lock things down, via seccomp.
207 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
208 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
209 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
210 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
211
212 * sd-boot: add a new PE section .bls or so that carries a cpio with additional
213 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
214 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
215 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
216 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
217
218 * sd-boot: also allow passing in the cpio as in the previous item via SMBIOS
219
220 * add a new EFI tool "sd-fetch" or so. It looks in a PE section ".url" for an
221 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
222 Usecase: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
223 binaries in place of UKIs, and download them on-the-fly.
224
225 * bootctl: warn if ESP is mounted world-readable (and in particular the seed).
226
227 * maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
228 cmdline. usecase: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
229
230 * systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
231 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
232 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
233
234 * sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
235 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
236
237 * tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
238 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
239 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
240 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
241 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
242 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
243 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
244 usual.
245
246 * Lennart: big blog story about DDIs
247
248 * Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
249
250 * Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
251
252 * bpf: see if we can use BPF to solve the syslog message cgroup source problem:
253 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
254 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
255 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
256 sockaddr.
257
258 * bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
259 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
260 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
261 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
262 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
263 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
264 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
265 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
266 try to use inode from there.
267
268 * extend the verity signature partition to permit multiple signatures for the
269 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
270
271 * consider adding a new partition type, just for /opt/ for usage in system
272 extensions
273
274 * gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
275 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
276 for the root fs or /usr/.
277
278 * dissection policy should enforce that unlocking can only take place by
279 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
280 combination thereof.
281
282 * make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
283 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
284 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
285 ahead of time.
286
287 * systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
288 aforementioned purpose.
289
290 * in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
291 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
292
293 * Add systemd-sysupdate-initrd.service or so that runs systemd-sysupdate in the
294 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
295 to figure out:
296 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
297 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
298 subsequent boots?
299
300 * hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
301 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
302 inspiration from IMA log)
303
304 * provide an API to apps to encrypt/decrypt credentials. usecase: allow
305 bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd that way, without shelling
306 out to our tools.
307
308 * revisit default PCR bindings in cryptenroll and systemd-creds. Currently they
309 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
310 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
311 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
312 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
313 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
314 default to PCR 15 at least if sd-stub is used (i.e. bind to system identity),
315 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
316 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
317 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
318
319 * move discoverable partition spec and boot loader spec over to uapi group
320
321 * maybe measure UUIDs of important mounted file systems (after mount, via the
322 new ioctls to query them) into PCR 15? Add "x-systemd.measure-pcr=" or so for
323 this that pulls in a per mount service?
324
325 * measure /etc/machine-id during early boot into PCR 15?
326
327 * To mimic the new tpm2-measure-pcr= crypttab option add the same to veritytab
328 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
329 used)
330
331 * We should start measuring all services, containers, and system extensions we
332 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
333 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
334 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
335 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
336
337 * whenever we measure something into a TPM PCR from userspace, write a record in
338 TCG's "Canonical Event Log" format to some file, so that we can reason about
339 how PCR values we manage came to
340 be. https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/canonical-event-log-format/
341
342 * bootspec: permit graceful "update" from type #2 to type #1. If both a type #1
343 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
344 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
345 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
346 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
347 should win over vendor defaults.
348
349 * sd-stub: optionally allow users to configure manual kernel command line even
350 in SecureBoot by authenticating it via shim's APIs, integrating with MOK and
351 similar: instead of authenticating just PE code shim should be capable of
352 authenticating any kind of data for us, including files containing kernel
353 command lines.
354
355 * write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
356 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
357 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
358
359 * automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
360 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
361
362 * implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
363 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
364 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
365 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
366 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
367 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
368
369 * add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
370 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
371 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
372
373 * systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
374
375 * systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
376 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
377 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Usecase: remove secondary OS
378 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
379
380 * systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
381 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
382 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
383 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
384 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
385 only one for each OS.
386
387 * systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
388 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
389 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
390 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
391 boot, for the next.
392
393 * figure out a sane way when building UKIs how to extract SBAT data from inner
394 kernel, extend it with component info, and add to outer kernel.
395
396 * systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
397 similar behind it, instead of http.
398
399 * systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
400 boot, or on first boot.
401
402 * in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
403 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
404
405 * we probably needs .pcrpkeyrd or so as additional PE section in UKIs,
406 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
407 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
408 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
409 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
410 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
411 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
412 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
413 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
414 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
415 until users are allowed to log in).
416
417 * Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
418 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
419
420 * add support for asymmetric LUKS2 TPM based encryption. i.e. allow preparing
421 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
422 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
423 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Usecase: systemd-syscfg
424 for a central orchestrator to generate syscfg images securely that can only
425 be activated on one specific host (which can be used for installing a bunch
426 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
427 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
428 prepare a syscfg image that can only be activated on a specific host that
429 runs a specific software in a specific time window. syscfg would be
430 automatically invalidated outside of it.
431
432 * maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
433 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
434 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
435 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
436 enhanced remote attestation quote. Usecase: a simple orchestrator could use
437 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
438 have the orchestrator collect these reports centrally over a 3min time
439 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
440 and generate a small syscfg for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
441 on each node. The syscfg would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
442 proposed above, so that it can only be activated on the specific host, if the
443 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
444 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
445 update syscfg. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
446 config and collected reports in the last 3min time window only, and thus can
447 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
448 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
449 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
450 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via syscfg updates,
451 and via the time window TPM logic invalidated if node doesn't keep itself
452 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
453
454 * Always measure the LUKS rootfs volume key into PCR 15, and derive the machine
455 ID from it securely. This would then allow us to bind secrets a specific
456 system securely.
457
458 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to use sd_event_set_signal_exit(), instead
459 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
460
461 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
462 instead of manual blocking.
463
464 * sd-boot: for each installed OS, grey out older entries (i.e. all but the
465 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
466
467 * automatically propagate LUKS password credential into cryptsetup from host
468 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
469 supplied password.
470
471 * add ability to path_is_valid() to classify paths that refer to a dir from
472 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
473 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
474 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
475
476 * systemd-measure: allow operating with PEM certificates in addition to PEM
477 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
478 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
479 convencience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
480
481 * systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
482 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
483 automatically derived from --private-key=).
484
485 * tmpfiles: add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
486
487 * tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
488
489 * push people to use ".sysext.raw" as suffix for sysext DDIs (DDI =
490 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
491 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
492
493 * Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
494 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
495 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
496 use as additional search condition. Usecase: images that combined a sysext
497 partition with a portable service partition in one.
498
499 * On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
500 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
501 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
502 modules
503
504 * for systemd-syscfg: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
505 sig using squashfs-tools-ng's library. Maybe just systemd-repart called under
506 a new name with a built-in config?
507
508 * gpt-auto: generate mount units that reference partitions via
509 /dev/disk/by-diskseq/… so that they can't be swapped out behind our back.
510
511 * lock down acceptable encrypted credentials at boot, via simple allowlist,
512 maybe on kernel command line:
513 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
514 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
515
516 * Add support for extra verity configuration options to systemd-repart (FEC,
517 hash type, etc)
518
519 * chase_symlinks(): take inspiration from path_extract_filename() and return
520 O_DIRECTORY if input path contains trailing slash.
521
522 * chase_symlinks(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
523 but final node is not a directory
524
525 * chase_symlinks(): add new flag that simply refuses all symlink use in a path,
526 then use that for accessing XBOOTLDR/ESP
527
528 * document in boot loader spec that symlinks in XBOOTLDR/ESP are not OK even if
529 non-VFAT fs is used.
530
531 * measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
532
533 * measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
534 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
535
536 * pick up creds from EFI vars
537
538 * sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
539 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
540 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
541 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
542 affect PCR values.
543
544 * systemd-measure tool:
545 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
546
547 * in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
548 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
549
550 * sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
551 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
552
553 * sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
554 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
555
556 * sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
557 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
558
559 * add small wrapper around qemu that implements sd_notify/AF_VSOCK + machined and
560 maybe some other stuff and boots it
561
562 * maybe add new flags to gpt partition tables for rootfs and usrfs indicating
563 purpose, i.e. whether something is supposed to be bootable in a VM, on
564 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
565 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
566 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
567 use it.
568
569 * sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
570 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
571
572 * add "systemd-sysext identify" verb, that you can point on any file in /usr/
573 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
574 what it was signed.
575
576 * journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
577 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
578 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
579 be safely written to disk, then.
580
581 * systemd-creds: extend encryption logic to support asymmetric
582 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
583 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
584 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
585 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
586 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
587 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
588 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
589 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
590 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
591 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
592 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
593
594 * building on top of the above, the pub/priv key pair generated on the TPM2
595 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
596
597 * bootctl: add "gc" verb that loads all type #1 .conf files, and then removes
598 all files from the set of files from the ESP/XBOOTLDR matching the entry
599 token that are not referenced by any. Then, change kernel-install to use only
600 this to remove auxiliary files, and never remove them explicitly. Benefit:
601 resources such as initrds/kernels/dtb can be shared between entries.
602
603 * Process credentials in:
604 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
605 via the credentials logic.
606 • fstab-generator: allow defining additional fstab-like mounts via
607 credentials (similar: crypttab-generator, verity-generator,
608 integrity-generator)
609 • getty-generator: allow defining additional getty instances via a credential
610 • run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
611 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
612 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
613 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
614 • repart: allow defining additional partitions via credential
615 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
616 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
617 file system paths to enable on start.
618 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
619 usr=
620 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
621 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
622 register if not registered yet. Usecase: deploy a system, and add an
623 account one can directly log into.
624 • initialize machine ID from systemd credential picked up from the ESP via
625 sd-stub, so that machine ID is stable even on systems where unified kernels
626 are used, and hence kernel cmdline cannot be modified locally
627 • in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
628 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
629 pre-built kernels.
630
631 * define a JSON format for units, separating out unit definitions from unit
632 runtime state. Then, expose it:
633
634 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
635 about the unit.
636 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
637 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
638 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
639 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
640 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
641 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
642
643 * show SUPPORT_END= data in "hostnamectl" output (and thus also expose a prop
644 for this on dbus)
645
646 * Add SUPPORT_END_URL= field to os-release with more *actionable* information
647 what to do if support ended
648
649 * pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
650 login time, á la motd
651
652 * sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
653 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
654 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Usecase: embed sd-boot in the
655 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
656 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
657
658 * mount /var/ from initrd, so that we can apply sysext and stuff before the
659 initrd transition. Specifically:
660 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
661 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
662 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
663
664 * implement varlink introspection
665
666 * we should probably drop all use of prefix_roota() and friends, and use
667 chase_symlinks() instead
668
669 * make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
670 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
671 service restarts, hot reboot, cold reboots (depending on configuration): the
672 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
673 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
674 depending on desired level of persistency.
675
676 * sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
677 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
678 in oneshit mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
679 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
680 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
681 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
682 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
683 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
684
685 * if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
686 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
687 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
688 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
689
690 * add ability to set hostname with suffix derived from machine id at boot
691
692 * add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
693
694 * homed/userdb: maybe define a "companion" dir for home directories where apps
695 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
696 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
697 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Usecase: container
698 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
699 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
700 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
701 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
702 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
703 by. Inform user code about path to this companion dir via env var, so that
704 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
705 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
706 not unprivileged code.
707
708 * given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
709 that hooks up userbdctl ssh-key stuff.
710
711 * maybe add support for binding and connecting AF_UNIX sockets in the file
712 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
713 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
714 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
715
716 * add a proper concept of a "developer" mode, i.e. where cryptographic
717 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
718 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
719 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
720 it. when developer mode is entered generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
721 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
722 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
723 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is only way to enter developer mode, by
724 binding it to locality/PCRs so that that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
725
726 * services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
727 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
728 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
729 order.
730
731 * TPM2: extend unlock policy to protect against version downgrades in signed
732 policies: policy probably must take some nvram based generation counter into
733 account that can only monotonically increase and can be used to invalidate
734 old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to old signed PCR sets
735 whenever they want.
736
737 * update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
738 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
739 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
740
741 * add a clear concept how the initrd can make up credentials on their own to
742 pass to the system when transitioning into the host OS. usecase: things like
743 cloud-init/ignitation and similar can parameterize the host with data they
744 acquire.
745
746 * sd-event: compat wd reuse in inotify code: keep a set of removed watch
747 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
748 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
749 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
750 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
751 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
752 IN_IGNORED again)
753
754 * systemd-fstab-generator: support addition mount specifications via kernel
755 cmdline. Usecase: invoke a VM, and mount a host homedir into it via
756 virtio-fs.
757
758 * for vendor-built signed initrds:
759 - make sysext run in the initrd
760 - sysext should pick up sysext images from /.extra/ in the initrd, and insist
761 on verification if in secureboot mode
762 - kernel-install should be able to install pre-built unified kernel images in
763 type #2 drop-in dir in the ESP.
764 - kernel-install should be able install encrypted creds automatically for
765 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
766 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
767 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
768 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
769 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
770 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
771 - pid 1 should look for machine ID in creds
772 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
773 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
774 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
775 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
776
777 * Maybe extend the service protocol to support handling of some specific SIGRT
778 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
779 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
780
781 * firstboot: maybe just default to C.UTF-8 locale if nothing is set, so that we
782 don't query this unnecessarily in entirely uninitialized
783 containers. (i.e. containers with empty /etc).
784
785 * sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
786 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
787 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
788 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
789 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
790 directly to host service manager.
791
792 * maybe write a tool that binds an AF_VFSOCK socket, then invokes qemu,
793 extending the command line to enable vsock on the VM, and using fw_cfg to
794 configure socket address.
795
796 * sd-boot: add menu item for shutdown? or hotkey?
797
798 * sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
799 no api to query the device id
800
801 * sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
802 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
803 also be queried.
804
805 * sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
806 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
807 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
808 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
809
810 * sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
811 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
812 latter).
813
814 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
815
816 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
817
818 * support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
819 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
820 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
821 generated by GNU sha256sums.
822
823 * sd-boot: maybe add support for embedding the various auxiliary resources we
824 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
825 logic: allow combining sd-boot via objcopy with kernels to enumerate, .conf
826 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
827 to the menu. Usecase: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
828 UEFI HTTP boot.
829
830 * maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
831 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
832 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
833 binary with some minimal info about an URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
834 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
835 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
836 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
837 hence cheap for enumeration.
838
839 * sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
840
841 * maybe add a "syscfg" concept, that is almost entirely identical to "sysext",
842 but operates on /etc/ instead of /usr/ and /opt/. Use case would be: trusted,
843 authenticated, atomic, additive configuration management primitive: drop in a
844 configuration bundle, and activate it, so that it is instantly visible,
845 comprehensively.
846
847 * systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
848 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
849 words: show partition labels).
850
851 * maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
852 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
853 that take an URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
854 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. usecase:
855 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
856 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
857 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
858
859 * improve scope units to support creation by pidfd instead of by PID
860
861 * deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
862
863 * systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
864
865 * per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
866 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
867 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
868 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
869 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
870 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
871 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
872 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
873 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
874 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
875
876 * journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
877 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
878 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
879 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
880 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
881 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
882 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
883 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
884 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
885 an NTP sync is acquired.
886
887 * kernel-install:
888 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
889 - maybe add env var that shortcuts kernel-install for installers that want to
890 call it at the end only
891
892 * doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
893 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
894
895 * doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
896 jobs, units
897
898 * bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
899 sync, i.e. parse out architecture field in sd-boot (currently only done in
900 userspace)
901
902 * automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
903
904 * add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
905 json package metadata, and use that when logging
906
907 * Enable RestrictFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
908 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
909
910 * Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
911 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
912
913 * cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
914 internal clock.
915
916 * man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
917 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
918
919 * sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
920 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
921 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
922 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
923
924 * userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
925 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
926 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
927
928 * maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
929 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
930 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
931 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
932 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
933 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
934 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
935 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
936 thread:
937 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
938 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
939 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
940 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
941 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
942 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
943
944 * if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
945 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
946 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
947
948 * homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
949 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
950 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
951 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
952 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
953 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
954 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
955 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
956 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
957 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
958 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
959 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
960 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
961 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
962 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
963
964 * add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
965 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
966 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
967 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
968 for debugging purposes. Other usecase: boot into qemu with regular user
969 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
970
971 * drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
972 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us drop drop libcap
973 dep in the base OS image)
974
975 * sysext: automatically activate sysext images dropped in via new sd-stub
976 sysext pickup logic. (must insist on verity + signature on those though)
977
978 * add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
979 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
980 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
981 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
982 on-disk storage.
983
984 * userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
985 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
986 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
987 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
988 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
989
990 * portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
991 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
992 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
993
994 * logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
995 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
996 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
997 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
998 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
999 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
1000 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
1001
1002 * /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
1003 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1004 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1005 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1006
1007 * add high-level lockdown level for GPT dissection logic: e.g. an enum that can
1008 be ANY (to mount anything), TRUSTED (to require that /usr is on signed
1009 verity, but rest doesn't matter), LOCKEDDOWN (to require that everything is
1010 on signed verity, except for ESP), SUPERLOCKDOWN (like LOCKEDDOWN but ESP not
1011 allowed). And then maybe some flavours of that that declare what is expected
1012 from home/srv/var… Then, add a new cmdline flag to all tools that parse such
1013 images, to configure this. Also, add a kernel cmdline option for this, to be
1014 honoured by the gpt auto generator.
1015
1016 Alternative idea: add "systemd.gpt_auto_policy=rhvs" to allow gpt-auto to
1017 only mount root dir, /home/ dir, /var/ and /srv/, but nothing else. And then
1018 minor extension to this, insisting on encryption, for example
1019 "systemd.gpt_auto_policy=r+v+h" to require encryption for root and var but not
1020 for /home/, and similar. Similar add --image-dissect-policy= to tools that
1021 take --image= that take the same short string.
1022
1023 * we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
1024 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1025 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1026 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1027 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1028 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1029 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1030 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1031 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1032 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1033 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
1034
1035 * add a "policy" to the dissection logic. i.e. a bit mask what is OK to mount,
1036 what must be read-only, what requires encryption, and what requires
1037 authentication.
1038
1039 * in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
1040 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1041 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
1042
1043 * rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
1044
1045 * PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
1046
1047 * when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1048 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1049 that images cannot be misused.
1050
1051 * New udev block device symlink names:
1052 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
1053 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1054 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1055 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1056
1057 * sysupdate:
1058 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1059 - support casync as download mechanism
1060 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1061 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1062 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1063 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1064 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
1065 override the host's update files.)
1066 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1067 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1068 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1069 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1070
1071 * in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1072
1073 * DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1074 make dirs appear under right UID.
1075
1076 * systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1077 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1078
1079 * maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
1080 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
1081 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
1082 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
1083 for doing that.
1084
1085 * introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
1086 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1087 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1088 already have it.
1089
1090 * whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1091 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1092
1093 * add an Open= setting to service unit files that can open arbitrary file
1094 system paths at service startup time and pass them to the service process via
1095 our usual socket activation protocol. If passed path refers to AF_UNIX
1096 socket: connect() to it.
1097
1098 * Similar, ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
1099
1100 * Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1101 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1102 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1103 /proc/self/fd/3
1104
1105 * add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1106 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1107 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1108
1109 * Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1110 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1111
1112 * importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1113 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1114
1115 * add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1116 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1117 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1118 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1119 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
1120
1121 * expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1122
1123 * credentials system:
1124 - acquire from EFI variable?
1125 - acquire via via ask-password?
1126 - acquire creds via keyring?
1127 - pass creds via keyring?
1128 - pass creds via memfd?
1129 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1130 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1131 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1132 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1133 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1134 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
1135 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
1136 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
1137
1138 * add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
1139 firmware indicates there is one.
1140
1141 * TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1142 and such
1143
1144 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
1145
1146 * cyptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
1147
1148 * cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
1149 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1150
1151 * cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1152 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
1153
1154 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1155
1156 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1157 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1158
1159 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1160 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1161
1162 * cryptsetup:
1163 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1164 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1165
1166 * when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
1167 it happens to be set up alright already.
1168
1169 * at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
1170
1171 * userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
1172 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
1173 default.
1174
1175 * sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
1176 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
1177 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
1178 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
1179 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
1180
1181 * systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
1182
1183 * Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1184 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1185
1186 * change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
1187 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
1188 temporary dir.
1189
1190 * special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
1191 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1192
1193 * add a new flag to chase_symlinks() that stops chasing once the first missing
1194 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1195
1196 * make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1197
1198 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1199
1200 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
1201
1202 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1203
1204 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1205 when it exits
1206
1207 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1208 o turn into dlopen() deps:
1209 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
1210 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
1211 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1212 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1213 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1214 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
1215 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
1216
1217 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1218 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1219 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1220
1221 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1222 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1223
1224 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1225
1226 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1227 specific service
1228
1229 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1230 exists and responds.
1231
1232 * Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
1233 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
1234 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
1235
1236 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
1237 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
1238
1239 * unify on openssl:
1240 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1241 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1242 gnutls
1243 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
1244
1245 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1246 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1247
1248 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1249 realname substr searches in varlink API
1250
1251 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1252
1253 * userdb: allow existence checks
1254
1255 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
1256
1257 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1258 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1259 initrd had set.
1260
1261 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
1262 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
1263 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1264 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1265 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1266 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1267
1268 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1269 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1270 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1271
1272 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1273 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1274 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1275 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1276 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1277 source.
1278
1279 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1280 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1281 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1282
1283 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1284
1285 * beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
1286 the hibernation
1287
1288 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1289 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1290 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1291 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1292 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1293 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1294 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1295 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1296 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1297 hibernation mode. (see
1298 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1299 section 10.2.2.8 and
1300 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1301 at the end).
1302
1303 * We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1304 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
1305
1306 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
1307
1308 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1309 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1310 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1311 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1312 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1313 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1314 exec().
1315
1316 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1317
1318 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1319 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1320
1321 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1322 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1323
1324 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1325 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1326 root.
1327
1328 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1329 is issued.
1330
1331 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1332
1333 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1334
1335 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1336 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1337 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
1338
1339 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
1340 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1341 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1342
1343 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1344
1345 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1346 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1347
1348 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
1349 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
1350 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
1351 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
1352
1353 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1354
1355 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
1356 log.c and sd-journal-send
1357
1358 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1359
1360 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
1361
1362 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1363 non-zero "tries done" count
1364
1365 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1366 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1367 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1368 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1369 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1370 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1371 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1372 CODE_FILE.
1373
1374 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1375 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1376 some explanatory text online.
1377
1378 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1379
1380 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1381 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1382
1383 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
1384 Specifically:
1385
1386 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
1387 properly)
1388 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
1389 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
1390
1391 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1392 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1393
1394 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1395 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1396 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1397 files and suchlike we operate on.
1398
1399 * importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1400
1401 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1402
1403 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1404 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1405
1406 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
1407 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
1408
1409 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1410 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1411 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1412 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1413 unlinked from any dir.
1414
1415 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
1416
1417 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1418
1419 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1420
1421 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
1422 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
1423 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
1424 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
1425 should reflink the image file itself.
1426
1427 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
1428 specific paths only like this.
1429
1430 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
1431 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
1432 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1433 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
1434 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
1435
1436 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1437
1438 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1439
1440 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1441 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1442
1443 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1444 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1445 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1446 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1447 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1448 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
1449 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1450 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1451
1452 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1453 for root, but only then.
1454
1455 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
1456
1457 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1458 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1459
1460 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1461 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1462
1463 * sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1464 only when used. Add unit tests.
1465
1466 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1467 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1468
1469 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1470 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1471 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1472 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1473 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1474
1475 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
1476
1477 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
1478 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
1479 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
1480
1481 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
1482
1483 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1484 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1485
1486 * blog about fd store and restartable services
1487
1488 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1489
1490 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1491 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1492
1493 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1494 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1495 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1496 ID is available.
1497
1498 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1499 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1500 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1501
1502 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1503 parameters
1504
1505 * maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
1506 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
1507 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1508 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1509 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1510 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1511 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
1512
1513 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1514 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1515
1516 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1517 about it in the resource log message
1518
1519 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1520 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1521 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1522
1523 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1524 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1525
1526 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1527
1528 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1529 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1530 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1531
1532 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1533 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1534
1535 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1536 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1537 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1538 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1539 natural habitat.
1540
1541 * gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1542 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
1543
1544 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1545 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1546 relative to the configured default value.
1547
1548 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1549
1550 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
1551
1552 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1553
1554 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1555
1556 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
1557
1558 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
1559
1560 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
1561
1562 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
1563
1564 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1565 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1566 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1567
1568 * Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1569 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1570
1571 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
1572
1573 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1574 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1575 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1576 mapping to work.
1577
1578 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1579
1580 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1581
1582 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1583
1584 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1585 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1586
1587 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1588 reload the unit file anyway
1589
1590 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1591
1592 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1593
1594 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1595 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1596
1597 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
1598 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
1599 specifications.
1600
1601 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1602
1603 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1604
1605 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
1606 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
1607 prefixed with /sys generally special.
1608 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
1609
1610 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1611
1612 * docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
1613
1614 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1615 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1616 state.
1617 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
1618
1619 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1620 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1621 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1622 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1623 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1624
1625 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1626
1627 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
1628 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
1629
1630 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
1631 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
1632
1633 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
1634 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
1635
1636 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1637
1638 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1639 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1640
1641 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
1642
1643 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
1644
1645 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
1646
1647 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
1648
1649 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1650 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1651
1652 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1653
1654 * resolved:
1655 - mDNS/DNS-SD
1656 - service registration
1657 - service/domain/types browsing
1658 - avahi compat
1659 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
1660 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1661 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1662 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
1663 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
1664 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
1665
1666 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
1667
1668 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1669
1670 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1671
1672 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1673
1674 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1675
1676 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1677 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
1678
1679 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1680
1681 * gpt-auto-generator:
1682 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
1683 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
1684
1685 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1686 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1687 when it is otherwise off
1688
1689 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
1690
1691 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1692 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1693 for ReusePort=
1694
1695 * cgroups:
1696 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
1697 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1698 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1699 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1700 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1701 the hierarchies of child processes
1702 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1703 maybe use them for user@.service
1704
1705 * transient units:
1706 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
1707
1708 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1709
1710 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1711
1712 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1713
1714 * 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
1715
1716 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
1717
1718 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1719 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
1720 path anyway.
1721
1722 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
1723
1724 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1725
1726 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1727
1728 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1729
1730 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1731
1732 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1733
1734 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1735 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1736 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1737
1738 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1739 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1740
1741 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1742
1743 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1744
1745 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1746
1747 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1748 needs to be auto-respawned?
1749
1750 * pid1:
1751 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1752 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1753 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1754 that are not supported...
1755 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1756 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1757 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1758 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1759 - move PAM code into its own binary
1760 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1761 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1762 - Support --test based on current system state
1763 - 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().
1764 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1765 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1766 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1767 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1768 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1769 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1770 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1771 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1772 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1773 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1774 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1775 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1776
1777 * unit files:
1778 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1779 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1780 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1781 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1782 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1783 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1784 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1785 - introduce Type=pid-file
1786 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1787 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1788 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1789
1790 * timer units:
1791 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
1792 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1793
1794 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1795
1796 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1797
1798 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1799
1800 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1801
1802 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1803
1804 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1805
1806 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1807
1808 * test/:
1809 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
1810
1811 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
1812 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
1813 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1814 destination.
1815
1816 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1817 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1818
1819 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1820
1821 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1822 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1823 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1824
1825 * BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1826 compliant boot loader is installed.
1827
1828 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1829 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1830 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1831 that automatically.
1832
1833 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
1834
1835 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
1836
1837 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1838
1839 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
1840
1841 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1842
1843 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1844
1845 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1846
1847 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1848
1849 * sd-bus:
1850 - EBADSLT handling
1851 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1852 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1853 - 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
1854 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1855 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1856 - longer term: priority inheritance
1857 - dbus spec updates:
1858 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
1859 - path escaping
1860 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1861
1862 * sd-event
1863 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1864 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1865 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1866 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1867 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1868 here:
1869 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1870
1871 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1872 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1873
1874 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1875
1876 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1877
1878 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1879
1880 * systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
1881 reading/writing files
1882
1883 * 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
1884
1885 * EFI:
1886 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1887 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
1888 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
1889 * bootctl
1890 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
1891
1892 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
1893
1894 * bootctl:
1895 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
1896 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1897 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
1898
1899 * kernel-install:
1900 - optionally, support generating type #2 entries instead of type #1, including signing them
1901
1902 * logind:
1903 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
1904 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1905 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1906 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
1907 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1908 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1909 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1910 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1911 needs setuid().
1912 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1913 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1914 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1915 complete.
1916 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1917 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1918 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
1919 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
1920 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1921 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1922 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1923 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1924 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1925 relogins
1926 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
1927 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
1928 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
1929 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
1930
1931 * move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1932
1933 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1934 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1935 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1936
1937 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1938 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1939
1940 * journal:
1941 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
1942 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1943 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1944 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
1945 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
1946 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
1947 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1948 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1949 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
1950 message that works, but already after a short timeout
1951 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1952 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
1953 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
1954 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1955 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
1956 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
1957 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
1958 - 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.
1959 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1960 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
1961 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1962 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1963 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1964 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
1965 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
1966 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
1967 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
1968 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1969 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1970 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1971 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1972 to syslog when it works again.
1973 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1974 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1975 journals in.
1976 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1977 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1978 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1979 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1980 the most common operations.
1981 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
1982 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1983 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1984 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1985 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1986 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1987 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1988 operation.
1989 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1990 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1991 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1992 binary logs data
1993 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
1994 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1995 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1996 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1997 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
1998 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
1999
2000 * journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2001 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2002
2003 * Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2004 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2005 validated via TPM.
2006
2007 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2008 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2009
2010 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2011 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2012 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2013
2014 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2015 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2016 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2017 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2018 cgroup.
2019
2020 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2021 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2022 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2023 logging.
2024
2025 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2026
2027 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2028 from the SIGBUS handler
2029
2030 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
2031 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2032 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2033 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2034
2035 * homed:
2036 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2037 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2038 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
2039 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2040 - create on activate?
2041 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2042 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2043 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2044 systemd --user is shut down.
2045 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2046 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2047 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2048 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2049 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2050 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2051 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2052 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2053 - query password from kernel keyring first
2054 - update even if record is "absent"
2055 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2056 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2057 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2058 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2059 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
2060 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2061 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2062 doesn't mean user B sees it
2063 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
2064 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2065 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2066 signature
2067 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2068 and insert a local signature instead.
2069 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2070 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2071 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2072 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2073 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2074 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2075 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2076 easily?
2077 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2078 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2079 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2080 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2081 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2082 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2083 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
2084 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2085 can easily set overall quota for all users
2086 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2087 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
2088 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
2089 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
2090 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2091 large.
2092
2093 * add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2094 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2095 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2096
2097 * systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
2098
2099 * systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2100 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2101 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2102 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2103
2104 * systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2105
2106 * systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2107 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2108 something goes wrong on the way.
2109
2110 * systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
2111
2112 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2113 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2114 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2115 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2116
2117 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2118 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2119 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2120 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2121 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2122 automatically.
2123
2124 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2125 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2126
2127 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2128 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2129 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2130 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2131 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2132 fails to apply use the latter.
2133
2134 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2135 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2136
2137 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2138 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2139
2140 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2141 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
2142 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
2143
2144 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2145 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2146
2147 * systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
2148 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2149 during boot.
2150
2151 * systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2152
2153 * document:
2154 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
2155 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2156 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
2157 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
2158 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2159 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
2160 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2161 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
2162 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2163 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
2164 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
2165 - document root=gpt-auto properly
2166
2167 * systemctl:
2168 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2169 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2170 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2171 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2172 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2173 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2174 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
2175 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
2176 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
2177 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
2178
2179 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2180 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2181 it should skip the variant type string though.
2182
2183 * add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
2184 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
2185 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
2186 output for them.
2187
2188 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2189 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2190 the slices, and the units attached to them.
2191
2192 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2193 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2194 wait to retrieve their exit data.
2195
2196 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2197 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
2198
2199 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2200 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2201 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2202 do, for example)
2203
2204 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2205 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2206 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2207 returning from the "systemctl stop".
2208
2209 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2210
2211 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2212
2213 * unit install:
2214 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2215 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
2216
2217 * nspawn:
2218 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2219 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2220 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2221 from the kernel's logs.
2222 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2223 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2224 interface be missing
2225 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2226 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2227 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2228 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2229 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2230 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2231 PID 1...
2232 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2233 running, remove them when shut down.
2234 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2235 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2236 startup.
2237 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2238 or so, freeze the payload too.
2239 - support time namespaces
2240 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2241 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2242 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2243 "machinectl shell"
2244 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2245 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2246 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2247 - greater control over selinux label?
2248 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2249 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2250 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2251 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2252 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2253 host TPM.
2254 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2255 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2256 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2257 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2258 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2259 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2260 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2261 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
2262 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2263 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
2264 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2265 or two sockets.
2266 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
2267
2268 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2269 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2270 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2271 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2272 anything like that.
2273
2274 * machined:
2275 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2276 removed or added to an existing machine
2277 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2278 difference host, via ssh
2279 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2280 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2281 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2282 question
2283 - "machinectl history"
2284 - "machinectl diff"
2285 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2286 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2287
2288 * udev:
2289 - move to LGPL
2290 - kill scsi_id
2291 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
2292 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
2293 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
2294 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
2295
2296 * coredump:
2297 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
2298 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
2299 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
2300
2301 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2302
2303 * tmpfiles:
2304 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
2305 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
2306 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2307 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2308 calls follow symlinks.
2309 - add --test mode
2310 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2311 project quota
2312 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
2313
2314 * udev-link-config:
2315 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2316 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2317 on Path= matching
2318
2319 * sd-rtnl:
2320 - add support for more attribute types
2321 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
2322
2323 * networkd:
2324 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2325 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
2326 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
2327 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
2328 - work with non-Ethernet devices
2329 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
2330 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2331 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2332 - expose in the API the following bits:
2333 - option 15, domain name
2334 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
2335 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2336 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2337 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2338 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2339 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2340 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
2341 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
2342
2343 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2344
2345 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2346
2347 * dhcp:
2348 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
2349
2350 * dhcp6:
2351 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2352 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2353 - write more test cases
2354 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
2355 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
2356 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2357 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2358 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2359 or interface down
2360 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2361 this behavior
2362 - RouteTable= ?