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1 Bugfixes:
2
3 * Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
6
7 * Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
10
11 External:
12
13 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
14
15 * dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
19 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
20
21 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
22
23 * fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
24
25 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
26
27 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
28
29 * register catalog database signature as file magic
30
31 * zsh shell completion:
32 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
33 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
34 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
35
36 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
37 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
38 after being started.
39
40 * write blog stories about:
41 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
42 - enabling dbus services
43 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
44 - remote access
45 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
46 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
47 - auto-restart
48 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
49 - the journal HTTP iface
50 - non-cgroup resource management
51 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
52 - refreshed, longer missions statement
53 - calendar time events
54 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
55 - how to create your own target
56 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
57 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
58
59 Regularly:
60
61 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
62
63 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
64
65 * pahole
66
67 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
68
69 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
70
71 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
72
73 Janitorial Clean-ups:
74
75 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
76 semantics, like we do for device.c now
77
78 * get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase() and related
79 calls instead.
80
81 * get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
82
83 * Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
84 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
85 libmount for something so trivial.
86
87 * drop set_free_free() and switch things over from string_hash_ops to
88 string_hash_ops_free everywhere, so that destruction is implicit rather than
89 explicit. Similar, for other special hashmap/set/ordered_hashmap destructors.
90
91 * generators sometimes apply C escaping and somethines specifier escaping to
92 paths and similar strings they write out. Sometimes both. We should clean
93 this up, and should probably always apply both, i.e. introduce
94 unit_file_escape() or so, which applies both.
95
96 Deprecations and removals:
97
98 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
99 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
100
101 * remove cgrouspv1 support EOY 2023. As per
102 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
103 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
104 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
105
106 * drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
107 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
108 is only supported for such old kernels.
109
110 * drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
111 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
112
113 * drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
114 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
115 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
116 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
117 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
118
119 * drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
120 baseline is 5.8.
121
122 * drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
123 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
124
125 * Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
126 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
127 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
128
129 * Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
130 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
131
132 * remove remaining tpm1.2 support from sd-stub
133
134 Features:
135
136 * in pid1: move out all cgroup state settings from Unit into a new object
137 CGroupState or so which is allocated when we realize the unit into a cgroup,
138 and then remains referenced by it. The new object should also carry an fd to
139 the realized cgroup, to pin it (and later execute all cgroup operations over,
140 once we drop cgroupv1 compat).
141
142 * add new "systemd-ssh-generator", which allows basic ssh config via
143 credentials (host key). It generates sshd.socket for IP, but also
144 sshd-vsock.socket for listening on AF_VSOCK when running in a VM, and
145 sshd-unix.socket on AF_UNIX when running in a container. It also generates a
146 matching sshd.service file with a host key passed in on the cmdline via
147 credentials. Then, add a ssh_config drop-in that matches some suitable
148 hostname pattern and has a ProxyCommand set that allows connecting to any
149 local VM/container that way without any networking configured.
150
151 * Varlinkification of the following command line tools, to open them up to
152 other programs via IPC:
153 - bootctl
154 - journalctl (allowing journal read access via IPC)
155 - coredumpcl
156 - systemd-bless-boot
157 - systemd-measure
158 - systemd-creds (allowing clients to encrypt credentials locally)
159 - systemd-cryptenroll (to allow UIs to enroll FIDO2 keys and such)
160 - systemd-dissect
161 - systemd-sysext
162 - systemd-sysupdate
163 - systemd-analyze
164 - kernel-install
165
166 * Varlink: add glue code to allow varlink clients to be authenticated via
167 Polkit by passing client pidfd over.
168
169 * in the service manager, pick up ERRNO= + BUSERROR= + VARLINKERROR= error
170 identifiers, and store them along with the exit status of a server and report
171 via "systemctl status".
172
173 * enumerate virtiofs devices during boot-up in a generator, and synthesize
174 mounts for rootfs, /usr/, /home/, /srv/ and some others from it, depending on
175 the "tag". (waits for: https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd/-/issues/128)
176
177 * automatically mount one virtiofs during early boot phase to /run/host/,
178 similar to how we do that for nspawn, based on some clear tag.
179
180 * add some service that makes an atomic snapshot of PCR state and event log up
181 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
182
183 * encode type1 entries in some UKI section to add additional entries to the
184 menu.
185
186 * Add ACL-based access management to .socket units. i.e. add AllowPeerUser= +
187 AllowPeerGroup= that installs additional user/group ACL entries on AF_UNIX
188 sockets.
189
190 * systemd-tpm2-setup should probably have a factory reset logic, i.e. when some
191 kernel command line option is set we reset the TPM (equivalent of tpm2_clear
192 -c owner?).
193
194 * systemd-tpm2-setup should support a mode where we refuse booting if the SRK
195 changed. (Must be opt-in, to not break systems which are supposed to be
196 migratable between PCs)
197
198 * when systemd-sysext learns mutable /usr/ (and systemd-confext mutable /etc/)
199 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
200 snapshot logic
201
202 * add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
203 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
204 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
205 i.e. without recompiling the kernel, taking an upstream OS' kernel and adding
206 a local key to it.
207
208 * PidRef conversion work:
209 - pid_is_unwaited() → pidref_is_unwaited()
210 - pid_is_alive() → pidref_is_alive()
211 - is_kernel_thread() → pidref_is_kernel_thread()
212 - pid_is_my_child() → pidref_is_my_child()
213 - get_process_uid() → pidref_get_uid()
214 - actually wait for POLLIN on pidref's pidfd in service logic
215 - exec_spawn()
216 - cg_pid_get_unit()
217 - openpt_allocate_in_namespace()
218 - sd_bus_creds
219 - unit_attach_pid_to_cgroup_via_bus()
220 - cg_attach() – requires new kernel feature
221 - varlink_get_peer_pid()
222
223 * ddi must be listed as block device fstype
224
225 * measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
226 mode.
227
228 * homed: add a basic form of of secrets management to homed, that stores
229 secrets in $HOME somewhere, is protected by the accounts own authentication
230 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
231 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
232 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
233 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
234 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
235
236 * sd-boot should probably measure its configuration file to PCR 5 at boot, as
237 per TCG PC Client Platform Firmware Profile Spec.
238
239 * use sd-event ratelimit feature optionally for .socket units to "pause" overly
240 busy sockets temporarily. (as a less drastic version of the trigger
241 ratelimit)
242
243 * similar, add the same for journal stream clients that log too much
244
245 * systemd-mount should only consider modern file systems when mounting, similar
246 to systemd-dissect
247
248 * new "systemd-pcrlock" component for dealing with PCR4. Design idea:
249 1. define /{etc,usr,var/lib}/pcrlock.d/<component>/<version>.pcrlock
250 2. these files contain list of hashes that will be measured when component is
251 run, per PCR
252 3. each component involved in the boot that is deterministically measured can
253 place one or more of these files in those dirs (shim, sd-boot,
254 sd-stub/UKI, cryptsetup, pcrphase, pcrfs, …)
255 4. since each component has its own dir, with multiple files in them, package
256 such as kernels (of which there can be multiple installed at the same
257 time) can be grouped together: only one of them is measured at a time.
258 5. whenever a new component is added or an old one removed, or the PCR lock
259 shall be relaxed or tightened the systemd-pcrlock tool is invoked.
260 6. tool iterates through all these files, orders them alphabetically by
261 component, then matches them up with current measurements (as per uefi
262 event log), identifying by hash, accepting that the "beginning" of the
263 measurements might not be recognizable.
264 7. Then calculates expected PCR values starting with the "unrecognized
265 head" from the event log, then continuing with all of components
266 defined via the .pcrlock files (but dropping out the "recognized tail"
267 from the uefi event log). (This might mean combinatorial explosion, if
268 there are multiple shims, multiple sd-boot, and so on.)
269 8. Generates a public/private key pair on the TPM
270 9. Generates a counter object in the TPM, with a policy that allows only
271 one-by-one increase with signature policy by the public/private key pair.
272 10. now signs policies of all expected PCR values with the generated keypair,
273 using all combinations of components defined in the .pcrlock files
274 restricting it to the counter + 1.
275 11. locks down the keypair with a signed policy with its own public key
276 12. generates JSON file of all these policies with their signatures, drops
277 them as singleton in ESP
278 13. increases the counter by one.
279 14. after boot sd-stub picks JSON up from ESP, passes it to userspace via
280 .extra
281 15. JSON contained policies can now be used to unlock disk as well as the
282 public/key itself for signing further policies, as well as increment for
283 the counter
284 16. whenever any of the components above is added/removed new JSON file with
285 signatures for counter + 1 is generated, dropped in ESP, then counter
286 increased. (i.e. this means the "recognized tail" of the event log is
287 deterministically swapped out)
288 17. when firmware update is expected, relaxed signed policy is generated for
289 next boot only valid if counter is increased (this means the
290 "unrecognized head" for the event log can change without losing access)
291 18. on every boot checks if releaxed policy is in effect, if so, new strict
292 policy is generated and counter increased.
293 Net result: Removes downgrade attack surface + Locks OS to firmware + Allows
294 downgrades within bounds
295
296 * add another PE section ".fname" or so that encodes the intended filename for
297 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
298 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
299 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
300 control of the attacker.
301
302 * also include packaging metadata (á la
303 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
304 same JSON format.
305
306 * make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
307 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
308 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
309 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
310 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
311 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
312 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
313 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
314 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
315 newer.
316
317 * in sd-stub: optionally add support for a new PE section .keyring or so that
318 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
319 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
320 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
321 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
322 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
323 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
324 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
325
326 * resolved: take possession of some IPv6 ULA address (let's say
327 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
328 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
329
330 * introduce a .microcode PE section for sd-stub which we'll pass as first initrd
331 to the kernel which will then upload it to the CPU. This should be distinct
332 from .initrd to guarantee right ordering. also, and maybe more importantly
333 support .microcode in PE add-ons, so that a microcode update can be shipped
334 independently of any kernel.
335
336 * Maybe add SwitchRootEx() as new bus call that takes env vars to set for new
337 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
338 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
339 requested during switch root.
340
341 * introduce a .acpitable section for early ACPI table override
342
343 * add proper .osrel matching for PE addons. i.e. refuse applying an addon
344 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
345 matched against OS.
346
347 * use different sbat for sd-boot and sd-stub (so that people can revoke one
348 without the other)
349
350 * in ukify merge sbat info from kernel (if it has any, upstream kernels so far
351 dont), of sd-stub and data supplied by user. Then measure sbat too in
352 sd-stub, explicitly.
353
354 * figure out what to do about credentials sealed to PCRs in kexec + soft-reboot
355 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
356 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
357
358 * logind: when logging in, always take an fd to the home dir, to keep the dir
359 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
360 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
361 namespaces)
362
363 * mount most file systems with a restrictive uidmap. e.g. mount /usr/ with a
364 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
365
366 * mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
367 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
368 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
369
370 * fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
371 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
372 "*:foobar:*", to wildcard match both the start and the end of the string.
373 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
374 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
375 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
376
377 * mount /tmp/ and /var/tmp with a uidmap applied that blocks out "nobody" user
378 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
379 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
380 used transiently, never persistently.
381
382 * rework loopback support in fstab: when "loop" option is used, then
383 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
384 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
385 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
386 based on lo_file_name.
387
388 * remove tomoyo support, it's obsolete and unmaintained apparently
389
390 * In .socket units, add ConnectStream=, ConnectDatagram=,
391 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
392 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
393 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
394 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
395 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
396 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
397 activation-by-message id and similar.
398
399 * .service with invalid Sockets= starts successfully.
400
401 * landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
402 ability to write anywehere else below /run/. Similar for
403 StateDirectory=. Benefit would be clear delegation via unit files: services
404 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
405
406 * landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
407 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
408 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
409 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
410 similar behaviour for system services, too.
411
412 * Add systemd-mount@.service which is instantiated for a block device and
413 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
414 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
415
416 * udevd: extend memory pressure logic: also kill any idle worker processes
417
418 * udevadm: to make symlink querying with udevadm nicer:
419 - do not enable the pager for queries like 'udevadm info -q -r symlink'
420 - add mode with newlines instead of spaces (for grep)?
421
422 * SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
423 localed, oomd, timedated.
424
425 * in order to make binding to PCR 4 realistic:
426 - generate one keypair "U" and store it in a tpm2 nvindex.
427 - Generate another keypair "P" and store it in a second tpm2 nvindex.
428 - allocate a persistent counter object "C" in the tpm2
429 - Enroll all user objects (i.e. luks volumes, creds, …) to a tpm2 policy
430 signed by U.
431 - Lock both U and P down with a tpm2 policy signed by P (yes, P can only be
432 used if a signature by P itself can be provided)
433 - For regular reboots generate a signature for a restrictive PCR4 + counter C
434 based policy with key P. Place signature in EFI var, so it can be found on
435 next boot
436 - For reboots where a firmware update is expected generate a signature with a
437 more open policy against just counter C. Place signature in same EFI var.
438 - Increase C whenever switching between these two signature types.
439 - During early boot, use the signature from the EFI var to unlock U and P.
440 Use it to generate a signature for unlocking user objects given the current
441 PCR 4 value, store that away into /run somewhere, for user during the whole
442 later boot.
443 - When booting up automatically update the mentioned efi var so that it
444 contains the restrictive signature. But also generate a signature ahead of
445 time that could be used in case during the current boot we later detect we might
446 need to reboot for a firmware update. Store that in /run somewhere, so that
447 it can be placed in the EFI var, if needed.
448
449 * repart/gpt-auto/DDIs: maybe introduce a concept of "extension" partitions,
450 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
451 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
452 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
453 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
454 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
455 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
456 from the uuid of the original partition it extends. Inspiration for this is
457 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
458 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
459 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
460 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
461 access.
462
463 * split out execute.c into new "systemd-executor" binary. Then make PID 1 fork
464 that off via vfork(), and then let that executor do the hard work. Ultimately
465 the executor then gets replaced by the real binary sooner or later. Reason:
466 currently the intermediary "stub" process is a CoW trap that doubles memory
467 usage of PID 1 on each service start. Also, strictly speaking we are not
468 allowed to do NSS from the stub process yet we do anyway. Next steps would
469 then be maybe use CLONE_INTO_CGROUP for the executor, given that we don't
470 need glibc anymore in the stub process then. Then, switch nspawn to just be a
471 frontend for this too, so that we have to ways into the executor: via unit
472 files/dbus/varlin through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI through nspawn.
473
474 * sd-stub: detect if we are running with uefi console output on serial, and if so
475 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
476
477 * add a utility that can be used with the kernel's
478 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
479 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
480 for all umh processes.
481
482 * systemd-shutdown: keep sending sd_notify() status updates immediately before
483 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
484
485 * homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
486 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
487 resize.
488
489 * homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
490 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
491
492 * timesyncd: when saving/restoring clock try to take boot time into account.
493 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
494 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
495 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
496 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
497 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
498 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
499 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
500 system actually reset.
501
502 * systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
503 userspace to allow ordering boots (for example in journalctl). The counter
504 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
505
506 * pam_systemd_home: add module parameter to control whether to only accept
507 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
508 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
509 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
510
511 * sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
512 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
513 is then useful for network boot, by embedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
514 in sd-boot, which reference remote kernels.
515
516 * maybe prohibit setuid() to the nobody user, to lock things down, via seccomp.
517 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
518 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
519 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
520 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
521
522 * sd-boot: add a new PE section .bls or so that carries a cpio with additional
523 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
524 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
525 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
526 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
527
528 * sd-boot: also allow passing in the cpio as in the previous item via SMBIOS
529
530 * add a new EFI tool "sd-fetch" or so. It looks in a PE section ".url" for an
531 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
532 Use case: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
533 binaries in place of UKIs, and download them on-the-fly.
534
535 * maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
536 cmdline. use case: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
537
538 * systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
539 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
540 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
541
542 * sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
543 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
544
545 * tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
546 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
547 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
548 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
549 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
550 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
551 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
552 usual.
553
554 * Lennart: big blog story about DDIs
555
556 * Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
557
558 * Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
559
560 * bpf: see if we can use BPF to solve the syslog message cgroup source problem:
561 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
562 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
563 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
564 sockaddr.
565
566 * bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
567 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
568 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
569 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
570 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
571 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
572 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
573 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
574 try to use inode from there.
575
576 * extend the verity signature partition to permit multiple signatures for the
577 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
578
579 * consider adding a new partition type, just for /opt/ for usage in system
580 extensions
581
582 * gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
583 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
584 for the root fs or /usr/.
585
586 * dissection policy should enforce that unlocking can only take place by
587 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
588 combination thereof.
589
590 * make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
591 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
592 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
593 ahead of time.
594
595 * systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
596 aforementioned purpose.
597
598 * in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
599 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
600
601 * Add systemd-sysupdate-initrd.service or so that runs systemd-sysupdate in the
602 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
603 to figure out:
604 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
605 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
606 subsequent boots?
607
608 * provide an API (probably IPC) to apps to encrypt/decrypt
609 credentials. use case: allow bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd
610 that way, without shelling out to our tools.
611
612 * revisit default PCR bindings in cryptenroll and systemd-creds. Currently they
613 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
614 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
615 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
616 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
617 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
618 default to PCR 15 at least if sd-stub is used (i.e. bind to system identity),
619 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
620 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
621 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
622
623 * To mimic the new tpm2-measure-pcr= crypttab option add the same to veritytab
624 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
625 used)
626
627 * We should start measuring all services, containers, and system extensions we
628 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
629 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
630 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
631 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
632
633 * whenever we measure something into a TPM PCR from userspace, write a record in
634 TCG's "Canonical Event Log" format to some file, so that we can reason about
635 how PCR values we manage came to
636 be. https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/canonical-event-log-format/
637
638 * bootspec: permit graceful "update" from type #2 to type #1. If both a type #1
639 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
640 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
641 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
642 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
643 should win over vendor defaults.
644
645 * write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
646 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
647 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
648
649 * automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
650 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
651
652 * implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
653 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
654 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
655 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
656 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
657 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
658
659 * add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
660 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
661 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
662
663 * systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
664
665 * systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
666 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
667 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Use case: remove secondary OS
668 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
669
670 * systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
671 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
672 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
673 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
674 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
675 only one for each OS.
676
677 * systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
678 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
679 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
680 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
681 boot, for the next.
682
683 * figure out a sane way when building UKIs how to extract SBAT data from inner
684 kernel, extend it with component info, and add to outer kernel.
685
686 * systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
687 similar behind it, instead of http.
688
689 * systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
690 boot, or on first boot.
691
692 * in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
693 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
694
695 * we probably needs .pcrpkeyrd or so as additional PE section in UKIs,
696 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
697 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
698 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
699 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
700 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
701 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
702 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
703 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
704 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
705 until users are allowed to log in).
706
707 * Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
708 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
709
710 * add support for asymmetric LUKS2 TPM based encryption. i.e. allow preparing
711 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
712 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
713 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Use case: systemd-confext
714 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
715 be activated on one specific host (which can be used for installing a bunch
716 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
717 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
718 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
719 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
720 automatically invalidated outside of it.
721
722 * maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
723 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
724 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
725 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
726 enhanced remote attestation quote. Use case: a simple orchestrator could use
727 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
728 have the orchestrator collect these reports centrally over a 3min time
729 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
730 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
731 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
732 proposed above, so that it can only be activated on the specific host, if the
733 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
734 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
735 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
736 config and collected reports in the last 3min time window only, and thus can
737 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
738 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
739 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
740 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
741 and via the time window TPM logic invalidated if node doesn't keep itself
742 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
743
744 * in the initrd, once the rootfs encryption key has been measured to PCR 15,
745 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
746
747 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to use sd_event_set_signal_exit(), instead
748 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
749
750 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
751 instead of manual blocking.
752
753 * sd-boot: for each installed OS, grey out older entries (i.e. all but the
754 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
755
756 * automatically propagate LUKS password credential into cryptsetup from host
757 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
758 supplied password.
759
760 * add ability to path_is_valid() to classify paths that refer to a dir from
761 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
762 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
763 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
764
765 * systemd-measure: allow operating with PEM certificates in addition to PEM
766 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
767 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
768 convenience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
769
770 * systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
771 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
772 automatically derived from --private-key=).
773
774 * push people to use ".sysext.raw" as suffix for sysext DDIs (DDI =
775 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
776 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
777
778 * Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
779 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
780 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
781 use as additional search condition. Use case: images that combined a sysext
782 partition with a portable service partition in one.
783
784 * On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
785 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
786 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
787 modules
788
789 * for systemd-confext: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
790 sig using squashfs-tools-ng's library. Maybe just systemd-repart called under
791 a new name with a built-in config?
792
793 * lock down acceptable encrypted credentials at boot, via simple allowlist,
794 maybe on kernel command line:
795 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
796 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
797
798 * Add support for extra verity configuration options to systemd-repart (FEC,
799 hash type, etc)
800
801 * chase(): take inspiration from path_extract_filename() and return
802 O_DIRECTORY if input path contains trailing slash.
803
804 * chase(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
805 but final node is not a directory
806
807 * document in boot loader spec that symlinks in XBOOTLDR/ESP are not OK even if
808 non-VFAT fs is used.
809
810 * measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
811
812 * measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
813 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
814
815 * pick up creds from EFI vars
816
817 * Add and pickup tpm2 metadata for creds structure.
818
819 * sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
820 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
821 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
822 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
823 affect PCR values.
824
825 * systemd-measure tool:
826 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
827
828 * in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
829 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
830
831 * sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
832 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
833
834 * sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
835 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
836
837 * sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
838 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
839
840 * add small wrapper around qemu that implements sd_notify/AF_VSOCK + machined and
841 maybe some other stuff and boots it. Should implement command line roughly
842 equivalent to nspawn's. Maybe be called "systemd-vmspawn". Should imply good
843 settings, i.e. RNG + HyperV enlightenments. Should also result in swtpm
844 instance, plus virtiofsd instances. Translate credentials into smbios type
845 11 strings. Correctly translate SIGTERM into ACPI shutdown events.
846 Listen to logind suspend events and turn these into suspend key pressed +
847 ACPI resume events.
848
849 * maybe add new flags to gpt partition tables for rootfs and usrfs indicating
850 purpose, i.e. whether something is supposed to be bootable in a VM, on
851 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
852 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
853 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
854 use it.
855
856 * sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
857 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
858
859 * add "systemd-sysext identify" verb, that you can point on any file in /usr/
860 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
861 what it was signed.
862
863 * systemd-creds: extend encryption logic to support asymmetric
864 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
865 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
866 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
867 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
868 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
869 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
870 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
871 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
872 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
873 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
874 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
875
876 * building on top of the above, the pub/priv key pair generated on the TPM2
877 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
878
879 * Process credentials in:
880 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
881 via the credentials logic.
882 • crypttab-generator: allow defining additional crypttab-like volumes via
883 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
884 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
885 • run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
886 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
887 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
888 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
889 • repart: allow defining additional partitions via credential
890 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
891 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
892 file system paths to enable on start.
893 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
894 usr=
895 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
896 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
897 register if not registered yet. Use case: deploy a system, and add an
898 account one can directly log into.
899 • in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
900 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
901 pre-built kernels.
902
903 * define a JSON format for units, separating out unit definitions from unit
904 runtime state. Then, expose it:
905
906 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
907 about the unit.
908 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
909 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
910 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
911 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
912 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
913 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
914
915 * Add SUPPORT_END_URL= field to os-release with more *actionable* information
916 what to do if support ended
917
918 * pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
919 login time, à la motd
920
921 * sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
922 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
923 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Use case: embed sd-boot in the
924 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
925 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
926
927 * mount /var/ from initrd, so that we can apply sysext and stuff before the
928 initrd transition. Specifically:
929 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
930 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
931 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
932
933 * make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
934 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
935 service restarts, hot reboot, cold reboots (depending on configuration): the
936 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
937 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
938 depending on desired level of persistency.
939
940 * sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
941 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
942 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
943 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
944 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
945 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
946 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
947 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
948
949 * if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
950 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
951 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
952 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
953
954 * add ability to set hostname with suffix derived from machine id at boot
955
956 * add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
957
958 * homed/userdb: maybe define a "companion" dir for home directories where apps
959 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
960 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
961 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Use case: container
962 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
963 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
964 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
965 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
966 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
967 by. Inform user code about path to this companion dir via env var, so that
968 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
969 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
970 not unprivileged code.
971
972 * given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
973 that hooks up userdbctl ssh-key stuff.
974
975 * maybe add support for binding and connecting AF_UNIX sockets in the file
976 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
977 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
978 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
979
980 * add a proper concept of a "developer" mode, i.e. where cryptographic
981 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
982 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
983 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
984 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
985 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
986 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
987 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is the only way to enter developer mode, by
988 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
989
990 * services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
991 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
992 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
993 order.
994
995 * TPM2: extend unlock policy to protect against version downgrades in signed
996 policies: policy probably must take some nvram based generation counter into
997 account that can only monotonically increase and can be used to invalidate
998 old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to old signed PCR sets
999 whenever they want.
1000
1001 * update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
1002 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
1003 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
1004
1005 * sd-event: compat wd reuse in inotify code: keep a set of removed watch
1006 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
1007 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
1008 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
1009 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
1010 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
1011 IN_IGNORED again)
1012
1013 * for vendor-built signed initrds:
1014 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
1015 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
1016 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
1017 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
1018 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
1019 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
1020 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
1021 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
1022 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
1023 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
1024 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
1025
1026 * Maybe extend the service protocol to support handling of some specific SIGRT
1027 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
1028 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
1029
1030 * sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
1031 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
1032 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
1033 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
1034 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
1035 directly to host service manager.
1036
1037 * sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
1038 no api to query the device id
1039
1040 * sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1041 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1042 also be queried.
1043
1044 * sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
1045 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1046 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1047 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
1048
1049 * sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
1050 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1051 latter).
1052
1053 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1054
1055 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
1056
1057 * support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
1058 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
1059 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
1060 generated by GNU sha256sums.
1061
1062 * sd-boot: maybe add support for embedding the various auxiliary resources we
1063 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
1064 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
1065 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
1066 to the menu. Use case: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
1067 UEFI HTTP boot.
1068
1069 * maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
1070 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
1071 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
1072 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
1073 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
1074 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
1075 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
1076 hence cheap for enumeration.
1077
1078 * sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
1079
1080 * systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
1081 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1082 words: show partition labels).
1083
1084 * maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
1085 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
1086 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
1087 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. Use case:
1088 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
1089 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
1090 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
1091
1092 * improve scope units to support creation by pidfd instead of by PID
1093
1094 * deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
1095
1096 * systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
1097
1098 * per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1099 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1100 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1101 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1102 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1103 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1104 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1105 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1106 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1107 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1108
1109 * kernel-install:
1110 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
1111
1112 * doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
1113 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
1114
1115 * doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
1116 jobs, units
1117
1118 * bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
1119 sync, i.e. parse out architecture field in sd-boot (currently only done in
1120 userspace)
1121
1122 * automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
1123
1124 * add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
1125 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1126
1127 * Enable RestrictFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
1128 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
1129
1130 * Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1131 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
1132
1133 * cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
1134 internal clock.
1135
1136 * man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1137 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1138
1139 * sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1140 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1141 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1142 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
1143
1144 * userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
1145 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1146 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1147
1148 * maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
1149 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
1150 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
1151 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
1152 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
1153 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
1154 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
1155 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
1156 thread:
1157 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
1158 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
1159 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
1160 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
1161 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
1162 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
1163
1164 * if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
1165 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
1166 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
1167
1168 * homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
1169 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
1170 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
1171 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
1172 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
1173 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
1174 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
1175 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
1176 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
1177 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
1178 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1179 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1180 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1181 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1182 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
1183
1184 * add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
1185 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
1186 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Use case: drop a root user JSON record there,
1187 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
1188 for debugging purposes. Other use case: boot into qemu with regular user
1189 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
1190
1191 * drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
1192 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
1193 dep in the base OS image)
1194
1195 * add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
1196 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1197 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1198 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1199 on-disk storage.
1200
1201 * userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
1202 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1203 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1204 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1205 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1206
1207 * portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
1208 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1209 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
1210
1211 * logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
1212 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
1213 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
1214 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
1215 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
1216 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
1217 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
1218
1219 * /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
1220 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1221 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1222 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1223
1224 * we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
1225 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1226 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1227 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1228 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1229 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1230 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1231 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1232 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1233 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1234 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
1235
1236 * in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
1237 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1238 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
1239
1240 * rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
1241
1242 * PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
1243
1244 * when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1245 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1246 that images cannot be misused.
1247
1248 * New udev block device symlink names:
1249 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
1250 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1251 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1252 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1253
1254 * sysupdate:
1255 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1256 - support casync as download mechanism
1257 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1258 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1259 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1260 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1261 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
1262 override the host's update files.)
1263 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1264 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1265 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1266 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1267
1268 * in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1269
1270 * DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1271 make dirs appear under right UID.
1272
1273 * systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1274 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1275
1276 * introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
1277 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1278 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1279 already have it.
1280
1281 * whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1282 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1283
1284 * Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
1285
1286 * Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1287 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1288 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1289 /proc/self/fd/3
1290
1291 * add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1292 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1293 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1294
1295 * Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1296 that is deleted in the fs. Use case would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1297
1298 * importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1299 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1300
1301 * add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1302 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1303 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1304 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1305 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
1306
1307 * expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1308
1309 * credentials system:
1310 - acquire from EFI variable?
1311 - acquire via ask-password?
1312 - acquire creds via keyring?
1313 - pass creds via keyring?
1314 - pass creds via memfd?
1315 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1316 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1317 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1318 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1319 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1320 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
1321 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
1322 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
1323
1324 * add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
1325 firmware indicates there is one.
1326
1327 * TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1328 and such
1329
1330 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
1331
1332 * cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
1333
1334 * cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
1335 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1336
1337 * cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1338 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
1339
1340 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1341
1342 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1343 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1344
1345 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1346 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1347
1348 * cryptsetup:
1349 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1350 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1351
1352 * systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
1353
1354 * Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1355 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1356
1357 * special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
1358 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1359
1360 * add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
1361 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1362
1363 * make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1364
1365 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1366
1367 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1368
1369 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1370 when it exits
1371
1372 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1373 o turn into dlopen() deps:
1374 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
1375 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
1376 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1377 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1378 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1379 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
1380 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
1381
1382 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1383 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1384 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1385
1386 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1387 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1388
1389 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1390
1391 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1392 specific service
1393
1394 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1395 exists and responds.
1396
1397 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
1398 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
1399
1400 * unify on openssl:
1401 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1402 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1403 gnutls
1404 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
1405
1406 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1407 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1408
1409 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1410 realname substr searches in varlink API
1411
1412 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1413
1414 * userdb: allow existence checks
1415
1416 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
1417
1418 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1419 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1420 initrd had set.
1421
1422 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
1423 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
1424 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1425 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1426 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1427 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1428
1429 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1430 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1431 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1432
1433 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1434 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1435 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1436 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1437 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1438 source.
1439
1440 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1441 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1442 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1443
1444 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1445
1446 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1447 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1448 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1449 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1450 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1451 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1452 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1453 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1454 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1455 hibernation mode. (see
1456 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1457 section 10.2.2.8 and
1458 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1459 at the end).
1460
1461 * We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1462 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
1463
1464 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
1465
1466 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1467 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1468 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1469 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1470 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1471 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1472 exec().
1473
1474 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1475
1476 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1477 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1478
1479 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1480 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1481
1482 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1483 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1484 root.
1485
1486 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1487 is issued.
1488
1489 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1490
1491 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1492
1493 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1494 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1495 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
1496
1497 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
1498 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1499 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1500
1501 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1502
1503 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1504 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1505
1506 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
1507 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
1508 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
1509 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
1510
1511 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1512
1513 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1514
1515 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1516 non-zero "tries done" count
1517
1518 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1519 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1520 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1521 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1522 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1523 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1524 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1525 CODE_FILE.
1526
1527 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1528 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1529 some explanatory text online.
1530
1531 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1532
1533 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1534 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1535
1536 * hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
1537
1538 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1539 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1540
1541 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1542 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1543 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1544 files and suchlike we operate on.
1545
1546 * importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1547
1548 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1549
1550 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1551 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1552
1553 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
1554 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
1555
1556 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1557 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1558 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1559 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1560 unlinked from any dir.
1561
1562 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
1563
1564 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1565
1566 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1567
1568 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
1569 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
1570 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1571 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
1572 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
1573
1574 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1575
1576 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1577
1578 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1579 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1580
1581 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1582 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1583 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1584 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1585 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1586 different slice too by default. Use case: people who want to put resources on
1587 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1588 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1589
1590 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1591 for root, but only then.
1592
1593 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1594 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1595
1596 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1597 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1598
1599 * sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1600 only when used. Add unit tests.
1601
1602 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1603 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1604
1605 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1606 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1607 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1608 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1609 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1610
1611 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
1612
1613 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
1614
1615 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1616 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1617
1618 * blog about fd store and restartable services
1619
1620 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1621
1622 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1623 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1624
1625 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1626 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1627 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1628 ID is available.
1629
1630 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1631 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1632 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1633
1634 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1635 parameters
1636
1637 * maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
1638 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
1639 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1640 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1641 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1642 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1643 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
1644
1645 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1646 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1647
1648 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1649 about it in the resource log message
1650
1651 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1652 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1653 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1654
1655 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1656 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1657
1658 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1659
1660 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1661 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1662 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1663
1664 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1665 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1666
1667 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1668 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1669 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1670 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1671 natural habitat.
1672
1673 * gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1674 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
1675
1676 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1677 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1678 relative to the configured default value.
1679
1680 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1681
1682 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
1683
1684 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1685
1686 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1687
1688 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
1689
1690 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
1691
1692 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
1693
1694 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
1695
1696 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1697 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1698 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1699
1700 * Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1701 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1702
1703 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
1704
1705 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1706 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1707 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1708 mapping to work.
1709
1710 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1711
1712 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1713
1714 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1715
1716 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1717 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1718
1719 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1720 reload the unit file anyway
1721
1722 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1723
1724 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1725
1726 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1727 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1728
1729 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
1730 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
1731 specifications.
1732
1733 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1734
1735 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1736
1737 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
1738 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
1739 prefixed with /sys generally special.
1740 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
1741
1742 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1743
1744 * docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
1745
1746 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1747 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1748 state.
1749 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
1750
1751 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1752 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1753 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1754 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1755 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1756
1757 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1758
1759 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
1760 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
1761
1762 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
1763 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
1764
1765 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
1766 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
1767
1768 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1769
1770 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1771 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1772
1773 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
1774
1775 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
1776
1777 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
1778
1779 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1780 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1781
1782 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1783
1784 * resolved:
1785 - mDNS/DNS-SD
1786 - service registration
1787 - service/domain/types browsing
1788 - avahi compat
1789 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
1790 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1791 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1792 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
1793 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
1794 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
1795
1796 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
1797
1798 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1799
1800 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1801
1802 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1803
1804 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1805
1806 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1807 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
1808
1809 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1810
1811 * gpt-auto-generator:
1812 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
1813 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
1814
1815 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1816 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1817 when it is otherwise off
1818
1819 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
1820
1821 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1822 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1823 for ReusePort=
1824
1825 * cgroups:
1826 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
1827 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1828 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1829 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1830 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1831 the hierarchies of child processes
1832 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1833 maybe use them for user@.service
1834
1835 * transient units:
1836 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
1837
1838 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1839
1840 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1841
1842 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1843
1844 * 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
1845
1846 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
1847
1848 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1849 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
1850 path anyway.
1851
1852 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
1853
1854 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1855
1856 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1857
1858 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1859
1860 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1861
1862 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1863
1864 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1865 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1866 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1867
1868 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1869 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1870
1871 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1872
1873 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1874
1875 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1876
1877 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1878 needs to be auto-respawned?
1879
1880 * pid1:
1881 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1882 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1883 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1884 that are not supported...
1885 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1886 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Use case:
1887 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1888 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1889 - move PAM code into its own binary
1890 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1891 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1892 - Support --test based on current system state
1893 - 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().
1894 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1895 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1896 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1897 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1898 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1899 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1900 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1901 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1902 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1903 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1904 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1905 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1906
1907 * unit files:
1908 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1909 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1910 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1911 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1912 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1913 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1914 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1915 - introduce Type=pid-file
1916 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1917 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1918 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1919
1920 * timer units:
1921 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
1922 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1923
1924 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1925
1926 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1927
1928 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1929
1930 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1931
1932 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1933
1934 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1935
1936 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1937
1938 * test/:
1939 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
1940
1941 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
1942 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
1943 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1944 destination.
1945
1946 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1947 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1948
1949 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1950
1951 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1952 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1953 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1954
1955 * BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1956 compliant boot loader is installed.
1957
1958 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? use case:
1959 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1960 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1961 that automatically.
1962
1963 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
1964
1965 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
1966
1967 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1968
1969 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
1970
1971 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1972
1973 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1974
1975 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1976
1977 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1978
1979 * sd-bus:
1980 - EBADSLT handling
1981 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1982 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1983 - 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
1984 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1985 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1986 - longer term: priority inheritance
1987 - dbus spec updates:
1988 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
1989 - path escaping
1990 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1991
1992 * sd-event
1993 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1994 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1995 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1996 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1997 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1998 here:
1999 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
2000
2001 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
2002 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
2003
2004 * document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
2005
2006 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
2007
2008 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
2009
2010 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
2011
2012 * EFI:
2013 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
2014 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
2015 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
2016 * bootctl
2017 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
2018
2019 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
2020
2021 * bootctl:
2022 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
2023 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
2024 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
2025
2026 * logind:
2027 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
2028 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
2029 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
2030 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
2031 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
2032 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
2033 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
2034 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
2035 needs setuid().
2036 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
2037 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
2038 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
2039 complete.
2040 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2041 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2042 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
2043 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
2044 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2045 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2046 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2047 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2048 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2049 relogins
2050 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
2051 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
2052 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
2053 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
2054
2055 * move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2056
2057 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2058 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2059 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2060
2061 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2062 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2063
2064 * journal:
2065 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
2066 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2067 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2068 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2069 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
2070 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
2071 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2072 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2073 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
2074 message that works, but already after a short timeout
2075 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2076 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
2077 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
2078 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
2079 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
2080 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
2081 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
2082 - 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.
2083 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2084 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
2085 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2086 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2087 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2088 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
2089 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
2090 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
2091 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
2092 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2093 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2094 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2095 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2096 to syslog when it works again.
2097 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2098 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2099 journals in.
2100 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2101 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2102 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2103 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2104 the most common operations.
2105 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
2106 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2107 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2108 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2109 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2110 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2111 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2112 operation.
2113 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
2114 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
2115 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2116 binary logs data
2117 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
2118 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2119 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2120 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2121 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
2122 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
2123
2124 * journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2125 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2126
2127 * Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2128 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2129 validated via TPM.
2130
2131 * rework journalctl -M to be based on a machined method that generates a mount
2132 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2133 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2134
2135 * journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2136 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2137 cursors as they happen.
2138
2139 * journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2140 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2141 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2142 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2143 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2144 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2145 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2146 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2147 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2148
2149 * in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2150 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2151 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2152 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
2153 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
2154 log record, adjusted by the delta declared in the structured log record.
2155
2156 * in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2157 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2158 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2159 records, to be able to order them.
2160
2161 * journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2162 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2163 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2164 be safely written to disk, then.
2165
2166 * hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2167 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2168 inspiration from IMA log)
2169
2170 * sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2171 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2172 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2173
2174 * maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
2175 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
2176 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
2177 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2178 for doing that.
2179
2180 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2181 log.c and sd-journal-send
2182
2183 * journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2184 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2185 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2186 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2187 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2188 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2189 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2190 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2191 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2192 an NTP sync is acquired.
2193
2194 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
2195
2196 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2197 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2198 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2199
2200 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2201 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2202 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2203 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2204 cgroup.
2205
2206 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2207 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2208 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2209 logging.
2210
2211 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2212
2213 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2214 from the SIGBUS handler
2215
2216 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
2217 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2218 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2219 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2220
2221 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2222 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2223
2224 * homed:
2225 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2226 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2227 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
2228 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2229 - create on activate?
2230 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2231 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2232 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2233 systemd --user is shut down.
2234 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2235 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2236 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2237 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2238 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2239 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2240 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2241 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2242 - query password from kernel keyring first
2243 - update even if record is "absent"
2244 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2245 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2246 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2247 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2248 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
2249 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2250 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2251 doesn't mean user B sees it
2252 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
2253 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2254 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2255 signature
2256 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2257 and insert a local signature instead.
2258 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2259 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2260 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2261 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2262 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2263 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2264 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2265 easily?
2266 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2267 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2268 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2269 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2270 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2271 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2272 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
2273 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2274 can easily set overall quota for all users
2275 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2276 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
2277 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
2278 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
2279 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2280 large.
2281
2282 * add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2283 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2284 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2285
2286 * systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
2287
2288 * systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2289 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2290 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2291 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2292
2293 * systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2294
2295 * systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2296 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2297 something goes wrong on the way.
2298
2299 * systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
2300
2301 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2302 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2303 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2304 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2305
2306 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2307 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2308 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2309 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2310 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2311 automatically.
2312
2313 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2314 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2315
2316 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2317 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2318 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2319 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2320 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2321 fails to apply use the latter.
2322
2323 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2324 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2325
2326 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2327 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2328
2329 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2330 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
2331 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
2332
2333 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2334 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2335
2336 * systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
2337 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2338 during boot.
2339
2340 * systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2341
2342 * document:
2343 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
2344 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2345 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
2346 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
2347 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2348 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
2349 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2350 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
2351 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2352 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
2353 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
2354 - document root=gpt-auto properly
2355
2356 * systemctl:
2357 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2358 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2359 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2360 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2361 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2362 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2363 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
2364 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
2365 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
2366 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
2367
2368 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2369 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2370 it should skip the variant type string though.
2371
2372 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2373 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2374 the slices, and the units attached to them.
2375
2376 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2377 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2378 wait to retrieve their exit data.
2379
2380 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2381 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
2382
2383 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2384 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2385 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2386 do, for example)
2387
2388 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2389 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2390 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2391 returning from the "systemctl stop".
2392
2393 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2394
2395 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2396
2397 * unit install:
2398 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2399 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
2400
2401 * nspawn:
2402 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2403 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2404 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2405 from the kernel's logs.
2406 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2407 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2408 interface be missing
2409 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2410 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2411 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2412 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2413 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2414 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2415 PID 1...
2416 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2417 running, remove them when shut down.
2418 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2419 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2420 startup.
2421 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2422 or so, freeze the payload too.
2423 - support time namespaces
2424 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2425 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2426 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2427 "machinectl shell"
2428 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2429 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2430 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2431 - greater control over selinux label?
2432 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2433 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2434 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2435 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2436 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2437 host TPM.
2438 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2439 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2440 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2441 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2442 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2443 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2444 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2445 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
2446 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2447 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
2448 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2449 or two sockets.
2450 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
2451
2452 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2453 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2454 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2455 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2456 anything like that.
2457
2458 * machined:
2459 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2460 removed or added to an existing machine
2461 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2462 difference host, via ssh
2463 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2464 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2465 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2466 question
2467 - "machinectl history"
2468 - "machinectl diff"
2469 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2470 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2471
2472 * udev:
2473 - move to LGPL
2474 - kill scsi_id
2475 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
2476 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
2477 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
2478 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
2479
2480 * coredump:
2481 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
2482 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
2483 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
2484
2485 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2486
2487 * tmpfiles:
2488 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
2489 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
2490 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
2491 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2492 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2493 calls follow symlinks.
2494 - add --test mode
2495 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2496 project quota
2497 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
2498 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2499 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
2500
2501 * udev-link-config:
2502 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2503 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2504 on Path= matching
2505
2506 * sd-rtnl:
2507 - add support for more attribute types
2508 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
2509
2510 * networkd:
2511 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2512 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
2513 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
2514 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
2515 - work with non-Ethernet devices
2516 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
2517 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2518 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2519 - expose in the API the following bits:
2520 - option 15, domain name
2521 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
2522 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2523 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2524 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2525 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2526 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2527 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
2528 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
2529
2530 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2531
2532 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2533
2534 * dhcp:
2535 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
2536
2537 * dhcp6:
2538 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2539 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2540 - write more test cases
2541 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
2542 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
2543 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2544 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2545 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2546 or interface down
2547 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2548 this behavior
2549 - RouteTable= ?
2550
2551 * shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2552 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2553 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)