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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 * 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=
20
21 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
22
23 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
24
25 * register catalog database signature as file magic
26
27 * zsh shell completion:
28 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
29 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
30 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
31
32 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
33 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
34 after being started.
35
36 * write blog stories about:
37 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
38 - enabling dbus services
39 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
40 - remote access
41 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
42 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
43 - auto-restart
44 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
45 - the journal HTTP iface
46 - non-cgroup resource management
47 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
48 - refreshed, longer missions statement
49 - calendar time events
50 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
51 - how to create your own target
52 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
53 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/early boot
54
55 Regularly:
56
57 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
58
59 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
60
61 * pahole
62
63 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
64
65 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
66
67 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
68
69 Janitorial Clean-ups:
70
71 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
72 semantics, like we do for device.c now
73
74 * get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase() and related
75 calls instead.
76
77 * get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
78
79 * Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
80 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
81 libmount for something so trivial.
82
83 * drop set_free_free() and switch things over from string_hash_ops to
84 string_hash_ops_free everywhere, so that destruction is implicit rather than
85 explicit. Similar, for other special hashmap/set/ordered_hashmap destructors.
86
87 * generators sometimes apply C escaping and sometimes specifier escaping to
88 paths and similar strings they write out. Sometimes both. We should clean
89 this up, and should probably always apply both, i.e. introduce
90 unit_file_escape() or so, which applies both.
91
92 * xopenat() should pin the parent dir of the inode it creates before doing its
93 thing, so that it can create, open, label somewhat atomically.
94
95 Deprecations and removals:
96
97 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
98 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
99
100 * remove cgroups v1 support EOY 2023. As per
101 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
102 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
103 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
104
105 * drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
106 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
107 is only supported for such old kernels.
108
109 * drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
110 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
111
112 * drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
113 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
114 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
115 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
116 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
117
118 * drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
119 baseline is 5.8.
120
121 * drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
122 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
123
124 * Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
125 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
126 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
127
128 * Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
129 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
130
131 * remove remaining tpm1.2 support from sd-stub
132
133 Features:
134
135 * add a kernel cmdline switch (and cred?) for marking a system to be
136 "headless", in which case we never open /dev/console for reading, only for
137 writing. This would then mean: systemd-firstboot would process creds but not
138 ask interactively, getty would not be started and so on.
139
140 * extend mime database with mime types for:
141 - journal files
142 - credential files
143 - hwdb files
144 - catalog files
145
146 * cryptsetup: new crypttab option to auto-grow a luks device to its backing
147 partition size. new crypttab option to reencrypt a luks device with a new
148 volume key.
149
150 * we probably should have some infrastructure to acquire sysexts with
151 drivers/firmware for local hardware automatically. Idea: reuse the modalias
152 logic of the kernel for this: make the main OS image install a hwdb file
153 that matches against local modalias strings, and adds properties to relevant
154 devices listing names of sysexts needed to support the hw. Then provide some
155 tool that goes through all devices and tries to acquire/download the
156 specified images.
157
158 * repart + cryptsetup: support file systems that are encrypted and use verity
159 on top. Usecase: confexts that shall be signed by the admin but also be
160 confidential. Then, add a new --make-ddi=confext-encrypted for this.
161
162 * tmpfiles: add new line type for moving files from some source dir to some
163 target dir. then use that to move sysexts/confexts and stuff from initrd
164 tmpfs to /run/, so that host can pick things up.
165
166 * tiny varlink service that takes a fd passed in and serves it via http. Then
167 make use of that in networkd, and expose some EFI binary of choice for
168 DHCP/HTTP base EFI boot.
169
170 * bootctl: add reboot-to-disk which takes a block device name, and
171 automatically sets things up so that system reboots into that device next.
172
173 * maybe: in PID1, when we detect we run in an initrd, make superblock read-only
174 early on, but provide opt-out via kernel cmdline.
175
176 * systemd-pcrextend:
177 - support measuring to nvindex with PCR update semantics ("fake PCRs")
178 - add api for "allocating" such an nvindex
179 - once we have that start measuring every sysext we apply, every confext,
180 every RootImage= we apply, every nspawn and so on. All in separate fake
181 PCRs.
182
183 * vmspawn:
184 - enable hyperv extension by default (https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/i386/hyperv.html)
185 - register with machined
186 - run in scope unit when invoked from command line, and machined registration is off
187 - support --directory= via virtiofs
188 - sd_notify support
189 - --ephemeral support
190 - --read-only support
191 - automatically suspend/resume the VM if the host suspends. Use logind
192 suspend inhibitor to implement this. request clean suspend by generating
193 suspend key presses.
194 - support for "real" networking via "-n" and --network-bridge=
195 - automatically run service "at the side" for swtpm
196 - translate SIGTERM to clean ACPI shutdown event
197
198 * systemd-pcrmachine should probably also measure the SMBIOS system UUID.
199
200 * sd-boot: allow synthesizing additional type1 entries via SMBIOS vendor strings
201
202 * storagetm:
203 - add USB mass storage device logic, so that all local disks are also exposed
204 as mass storage devices on systems that have a USB controller that can
205 operate in device mode
206 - add NVMe authentication
207
208 * add support for activating nvme-oF devices at boot automatically via kernel
209 cmdline, and maybe even support a syntax such as
210 root=nvme:<trtype>:<traddr>:<trsvcid>:<nqn>:<partition> to boot directly from
211 nvme-oF
212
213 * pcrlock:
214 - make signed PCR work together with pcrlock
215 - add kernel-install plugin that automatically creates UKI .pcrlock file when
216 UKI is installed, and removes it when it is removed again
217 - automatically install PE measurement of sd-boot on "bootctl install"
218 - write generated pcrlock signature files to the ESP as credential, one for
219 each installed OS & pick up generated pcrlock signature file in sd-stub,
220 pass it via initrd to OS
221 - pre-calc sysext + kernel cmdline measurements
222 - pre-calc cryptsetup root key measurement
223 - maybe make systemd-repart generate .pcrlock for old and new GPT header in
224 /run?
225 - Add support for more than 8 branches per PCR OR
226 - add "systemd-pcrlock lock-kernel-current" or so which synthesizes .pcrlock
227 policy from currently booted kernel/event log, to close gap for first boot
228 for pre-built images
229
230 * add a new systemd-project@.service that is very similar to user@.service but
231 uses DynamicUser=1 and no PAMName= to invoke an unprivileged somewhat
232 light-weight service manager. Use HOME=/var/lib/systemd/projects/%i as home
233 dir. Similar for $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. Start project@%i.target. Use LogField= to
234 add a field identifying the project.
235
236 * logind: add a new dbus call Sleep() which automatically redirects to one of
237 Suspend(), Hibernate(), SuspendThenHibernate() depending on what is
238 available, and also subject to some local configuration in
239 logind.conf. Should default to SuspendThenHibernate() if available, and then
240 fallback to Suspend() and finally Hibernate() if not. Then expose this as
241 "systemctl sleep", and tell DEs to default to this.
242
243 * in sd-boot and sd-stub measure the SMBIOS vendor strings to some PCR (at
244 least some subset of them that look like systemd stuff), because apparently
245 some firmware does not, but systemd honours it. avoid duplicate measurement
246 by sd-boot and sd-stub by adding LoaderFeatures/StubFeatures flag for this,
247 so that sd-stub can avoid it if sd-boot already did it.
248
249 * cryptsetup: a mechanism that allows signing a volume key with some key that
250 has to be present in the kernel keyring, or similar, to ensure that confext
251 DDIs can be encrypted against the local SRK but signed with the admin's key
252 and thus can authenticated locally before they are decrypted.
253
254 * image policy should be extended to allow dictating *how* a disk is unlocked,
255 i.e. root=encrypted-tpm2+encrypted-fido2 would mean "root fs must be
256 encrypted and unlocked via fido2 or tpm2, but not otherwise"
257
258 * systemd-repart: add support for formatting dm-crypt + dm-integrity file
259 systems.
260
261 * homed: use systemd-storagetm to expose home dirs via nvme-tcp. Then,
262 teach homed/pam_systemd_homed with a user name such as
263 lennart%nvme_tcp_192.168.100.77_8787 to log in from any linux host with the
264 same home dir. Similar maybe for nbd, iscsi? this should then first ask for
265 the local root pw, to authenticate that logging in like this is ok, and would
266 then be followed by another password prompt asking for the user's own
267 password. Also, do something similar for CIFS: if you log in via
268 lennart%cifs-someserver_someshare, then set up the homed dir for it
269 automatically. The PAM module should update the user name used for login to
270 the short version once it set up the user. Some care should be taken, so that
271 the long version can be still be resolved via NSS afterwards, to deal with
272 PAM clients that do not support PAM sessions where PAM_USER changes half-way.
273
274 * redefine /var/lib/extensions/ as the dir one can place all three of sysext,
275 confext as well is multi-modal DDIs that qualify as both. Then introduce
276 /var/lib/sysexts/ which can be used to place only DDIs that shall be used as
277 sysext
278
279 * in pid1: move out all cgroup state settings from Unit into a new object
280 CGroupState or so which is allocated when we realize the unit into a cgroup,
281 and then remains referenced by it. The new object should also carry an fd to
282 the realized cgroup, to pin it (and later execute all cgroup operations over,
283 once we drop cgroupv1 compat).
284
285 * add new "systemd-ssh-generator", which allows basic ssh config via
286 credentials (host key). It generates sshd.socket for IP, but also
287 sshd-vsock.socket for listening on AF_VSOCK when running in a VM, and
288 sshd-unix.socket on AF_UNIX when running in a container. It also generates a
289 matching sshd.service file with a host key passed in on the cmdline via
290 credentials. Then, add a ssh_config drop-in that matches some suitable
291 hostname pattern and has a ProxyCommand set that allows connecting to any
292 local VM/container that way without any networking configured.
293
294 * Varlinkification of the following command line tools, to open them up to
295 other programs via IPC:
296 - bootctl
297 - journalctl (allowing journal read access via IPC)
298 - coredumpcl
299 - systemd-bless-boot
300 - systemd-measure
301 - systemd-creds (allowing clients to encrypt credentials locally)
302 - systemd-cryptenroll (to allow UIs to enroll FIDO2 keys and such)
303 - systemd-dissect
304 - systemd-sysupdate
305 - systemd-analyze
306 - systemd-pcrlock (to allow fwupd to relax policy)
307 - kernel-install
308
309 * Varlink: add glue code to allow varlink clients to be authenticated via
310 Polkit by passing client pidfd over.
311
312 * in the service manager, pick up ERRNO= + BUSERROR= + VARLINKERROR= error
313 identifiers, and store them along with the exit status of a server and report
314 via "systemctl status".
315
316 * enumerate virtiofs devices during boot-up in a generator, and synthesize
317 mounts for rootfs, /usr/, /home/, /srv/ and some others from it, depending on
318 the "tag". (waits for: https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd/-/issues/128)
319
320 * automatically mount one virtiofs during early boot phase to /run/host/,
321 similar to how we do that for nspawn, based on some clear tag.
322
323 * add some service that makes an atomic snapshot of PCR state and event log up
324 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
325
326 * encode type1 entries in some UKI section to add additional entries to the
327 menu.
328
329 * Add ACL-based access management to .socket units. i.e. add AllowPeerUser= +
330 AllowPeerGroup= that installs additional user/group ACL entries on AF_UNIX
331 sockets.
332
333 * systemd-tpm2-setup should probably have a factory reset logic, i.e. when some
334 kernel command line option is set we reset the TPM (equivalent of tpm2_clear
335 -c owner?).
336
337 * systemd-tpm2-setup should support a mode where we refuse booting if the SRK
338 changed. (Must be opt-in, to not break systems which are supposed to be
339 migratable between PCs)
340
341 * when systemd-sysext learns mutable /usr/ (and systemd-confext mutable /etc/)
342 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
343 snapshot logic
344
345 * add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
346 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
347 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
348 i.e. without recompiling the kernel, taking an upstream OS' kernel and adding
349 a local key to it.
350
351 * PidRef conversion work:
352 - cg_pid_get_xyz()
353 - pid_from_same_root_fs()
354 - get_ctty_devnr()
355 - pid1: sd_notify() receiver should use SCM_PIDFD to authenticate client
356 - actually wait for POLLIN on pidref's pidfd in service logic
357 - exec_spawn() + safe_fork()
358 - openpt_allocate_in_namespace()
359 - sd_bus_creds
360 - unit_attach_pid_to_cgroup_via_bus()
361 - cg_attach() – requires new kernel feature
362 - varlink_get_peer_pid()
363
364 * ddi must be listed as block device fstype
365
366 * measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
367 mode.
368
369 * homed: add a basic form of secrets management to homed, that stores
370 secrets in $HOME somewhere, is protected by the accounts own authentication
371 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
372 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
373 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
374 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
375 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
376
377 * use sd-event ratelimit feature optionally for journal stream clients that log
378 too much
379
380 * systemd-mount should only consider modern file systems when mounting, similar
381 to systemd-dissect
382
383 * add another PE section ".fname" or so that encodes the intended filename for
384 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
385 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
386 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
387 control of the attacker.
388
389 * also include packaging metadata (á la
390 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
391 same JSON format.
392
393 * make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
394 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
395 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
396 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
397 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
398 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
399 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
400 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
401 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
402 newer.
403
404 * in sd-stub: optionally add support for a new PE section .keyring or so that
405 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
406 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
407 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
408 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
409 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
410 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
411 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
412
413 * resolved: take possession of some IPv6 ULA address (let's say
414 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
415 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
416
417 * introduce a .microcode PE section for sd-stub which we'll pass as first initrd
418 to the kernel which will then upload it to the CPU. This should be distinct
419 from .initrd to guarantee right ordering. also, and maybe more importantly
420 support .microcode in PE add-ons, so that a microcode update can be shipped
421 independently of any kernel.
422
423 * Maybe add SwitchRootEx() as new bus call that takes env vars to set for new
424 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
425 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
426 requested during switch root.
427
428 * introduce a .acpitable section for early ACPI table override
429
430 * add proper .osrel matching for PE addons. i.e. refuse applying an addon
431 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
432 matched against OS.
433
434 * figure out what to do about credentials sealed to PCRs in kexec + soft-reboot
435 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
436 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
437
438 * logind: when logging in, always take an fd to the home dir, to keep the dir
439 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
440 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
441 namespaces)
442
443 * mount most file systems with a restrictive uidmap. e.g. mount /usr/ with a
444 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
445
446 * mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
447 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
448 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
449
450 * fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
451 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
452 "*:foobar:*", to wildcard match both the start and the end of the string.
453 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
454 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
455 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
456
457 * mount /tmp/ and /var/tmp with a uidmap applied that blocks out "nobody" user
458 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
459 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
460 used transiently, never persistently.
461
462 * rework loopback support in fstab: when "loop" option is used, then
463 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
464 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
465 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
466 based on lo_file_name.
467
468 * remove tomoyo support, it's obsolete and unmaintained apparently
469
470 * In .socket units, add ConnectStream=, ConnectDatagram=,
471 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
472 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
473 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
474 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
475 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
476 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
477 activation-by-message id and similar.
478
479 * .service with invalid Sockets= starts successfully.
480
481 * landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
482 ability to write anywhere else below /run/. Similar for
483 StateDirectory=. Benefit would be clear delegation via unit files: services
484 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
485
486 * landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
487 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
488 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
489 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
490 similar behaviour for system services, too.
491
492 * Add systemd-mount@.service which is instantiated for a block device and
493 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
494 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
495
496 * udevd: extend memory pressure logic: also kill any idle worker processes
497
498 * udevadm: to make symlink querying with udevadm nicer:
499 - do not enable the pager for queries like 'udevadm info -q -r symlink'
500 - add mode with newlines instead of spaces (for grep)?
501
502 * SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
503 localed, oomd, timedated.
504
505 * repart/gpt-auto/DDIs: maybe introduce a concept of "extension" partitions,
506 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
507 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
508 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
509 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
510 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
511 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
512 from the uuid of the original partition it extends. Inspiration for this is
513 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
514 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
515 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
516 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
517 access.
518
519 * Use CLONE_INTO_CGROUP to spawn systemd-executor, once glibc supports it in
520 posix_spawn().
521
522 * Make nspawn to a frontend for systemd-executor, so that we have to ways into
523 the executor: via unit files/dbus/varlink through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI
524 through nspawn.
525
526 * sd-stub: detect if we are running with uefi console output on serial, and if so
527 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
528
529 * add a utility that can be used with the kernel's
530 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
531 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
532 for all umh processes.
533
534 * systemd-shutdown: keep sending sd_notify() status updates immediately before
535 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
536
537 * homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
538 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
539 resize.
540
541 * homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
542 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
543
544 * timesyncd: when saving/restoring clock try to take boot time into account.
545 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
546 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
547 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
548 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
549 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
550 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
551 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
552 system actually reset.
553
554 * systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
555 userspace to allow ordering boots (for example in journalctl). The counter
556 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
557
558 * pam_systemd_home: add module parameter to control whether to only accept
559 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
560 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
561 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
562
563 * sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
564 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
565 is then useful for network boot, by embedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
566 in sd-boot, which reference remote kernels.
567
568 * maybe prohibit setuid() to the nobody user, to lock things down, via seccomp.
569 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
570 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
571 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
572 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
573
574 * sd-boot: add a new PE section .bls or so that carries a cpio with additional
575 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
576 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
577 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
578 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
579
580 * sd-boot: also allow passing in the cpio as in the previous item via SMBIOS
581
582 * add a new EFI tool "sd-fetch" or so. It looks in a PE section ".url" for an
583 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
584 Use case: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
585 binaries in place of UKIs, and download them on-the-fly.
586
587 * maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
588 cmdline. use case: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
589
590 * systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
591 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
592 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
593
594 * sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
595 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
596
597 * tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
598 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
599 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
600 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
601 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
602 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
603 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
604 usual.
605
606 * Lennart: big blog story about DDIs
607
608 * Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
609
610 * Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
611
612 * bpf: see if we can use BPF to solve the syslog message cgroup source problem:
613 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
614 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
615 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
616 sockaddr.
617
618 * bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
619 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
620 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
621 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
622 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
623 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
624 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
625 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
626 try to use inode from there.
627
628 * extend the verity signature partition to permit multiple signatures for the
629 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
630
631 * consider adding a new partition type, just for /opt/ for usage in system
632 extensions
633
634 * gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
635 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
636 for the root fs or /usr/.
637
638 * dissection policy should enforce that unlocking can only take place by
639 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
640 combination thereof.
641
642 * make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
643 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
644 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
645 ahead of time.
646
647 * systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
648 aforementioned purpose.
649
650 * in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
651 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
652
653 * Add systemd-sysupdate-initrd.service or so that runs systemd-sysupdate in the
654 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
655 to figure out:
656 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
657 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
658 subsequent boots?
659
660 * provide an API (probably IPC) to apps to encrypt/decrypt
661 credentials. use case: allow bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd
662 that way, without shelling out to our tools.
663
664 * revisit default PCR bindings in cryptenroll and systemd-creds. Currently they
665 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
666 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
667 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
668 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
669 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
670 default to PCR 15 at least if sd-stub is used (i.e. bind to system identity),
671 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
672 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
673 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
674
675 * To mimic the new tpm2-measure-pcr= crypttab option add the same to veritytab
676 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
677 used)
678
679 * We should start measuring all services, containers, and system extensions we
680 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
681 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
682 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
683 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
684
685 * bootspec: permit graceful "update" from type #2 to type #1. If both a type #1
686 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
687 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
688 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
689 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
690 should win over vendor defaults.
691
692 * write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
693 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
694 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
695
696 * automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
697 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
698
699 * implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
700 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
701 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
702 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
703 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
704 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
705
706 * add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
707 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
708 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
709
710 * systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
711
712 * systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
713 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
714 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Use case: remove secondary OS
715 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
716
717 * systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
718 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
719 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
720 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
721 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
722 only one for each OS.
723
724 * systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
725 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
726 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
727 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
728 boot, for the next.
729
730 * systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
731 similar behind it, instead of http.
732
733 * systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
734 boot, or on first boot.
735
736 * in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
737 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
738
739 * we probably needs .pcrpkeyrd or so as additional PE section in UKIs,
740 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
741 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
742 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
743 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
744 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
745 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
746 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
747 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
748 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
749 until users are allowed to log in).
750
751 * Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
752 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
753
754 * add support for asymmetric LUKS2 TPM based encryption. i.e. allow preparing
755 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
756 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
757 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Use case: systemd-confext
758 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
759 be activated on one specific host (which can be used for installing a bunch
760 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
761 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
762 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
763 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
764 automatically invalidated outside of it.
765
766 * maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
767 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
768 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
769 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
770 enhanced remote attestation quote. Use case: a simple orchestrator could use
771 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
772 have the orchestrator collect these reports centrally over a 3min time
773 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
774 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
775 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
776 proposed above, so that it can only be activated on the specific host, if the
777 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
778 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
779 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
780 config and collected reports in the last 3min time window only, and thus can
781 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
782 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
783 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
784 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
785 and via the time window TPM logic invalidated if node doesn't keep itself
786 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
787
788 * in the initrd, once the rootfs encryption key has been measured to PCR 15,
789 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
790
791 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to use sd_event_set_signal_exit(), instead
792 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
793
794 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
795 instead of manual blocking.
796
797 * sd-boot: for each installed OS, grey out older entries (i.e. all but the
798 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
799
800 * automatically propagate LUKS password credential into cryptsetup from host
801 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
802 supplied password.
803
804 * add ability to path_is_valid() to classify paths that refer to a dir from
805 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
806 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
807 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
808
809 * systemd-measure: allow operating with PEM certificates in addition to PEM
810 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
811 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
812 convenience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
813
814 * systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
815 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
816 automatically derived from --private-key=).
817
818 * push people to use ".sysext.raw" as suffix for sysext DDIs (DDI =
819 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
820 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
821
822 * Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
823 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
824 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
825 use as additional search condition. Use case: images that combined a sysext
826 partition with a portable service partition in one.
827
828 * On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
829 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
830 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
831 modules
832
833 * for systemd-confext: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
834 sig using squashfs-tools-ng's library. Maybe just systemd-repart called under
835 a new name with a built-in config?
836
837 * lock down acceptable encrypted credentials at boot, via simple allowlist,
838 maybe on kernel command line:
839 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
840 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
841
842 * Add support for extra verity configuration options to systemd-repart (FEC,
843 hash type, etc)
844
845 * chase(): take inspiration from path_extract_filename() and return
846 O_DIRECTORY if input path contains trailing slash.
847
848 * chase(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
849 but final node is not a directory
850
851 * document in boot loader spec that symlinks in XBOOTLDR/ESP are not OK even if
852 non-VFAT fs is used.
853
854 * measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
855
856 * measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
857 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
858
859 * pick up creds from EFI vars
860
861 * Add and pickup tpm2 metadata for creds structure.
862
863 * sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
864 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
865 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
866 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
867 affect PCR values.
868
869 * systemd-measure tool:
870 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
871
872 * in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
873 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
874
875 * sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
876 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
877
878 * sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
879 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
880
881 * sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
882 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
883
884 * maybe add new flags to gpt partition tables for rootfs and usrfs indicating
885 purpose, i.e. whether something is supposed to be bootable in a VM, on
886 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
887 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
888 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
889 use it.
890
891 * sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
892 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
893
894 * add "systemd-sysext identify" verb, that you can point on any file in /usr/
895 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
896 what it was signed.
897
898 * systemd-creds: extend encryption logic to support asymmetric
899 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
900 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
901 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
902 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
903 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
904 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
905 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
906 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
907 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
908 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
909 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
910
911 * building on top of the above, the pub/priv key pair generated on the TPM2
912 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
913
914 * Process credentials in:
915 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
916 via the credentials logic.
917 • crypttab-generator: allow defining additional crypttab-like volumes via
918 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
919 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
920 • run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
921 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
922 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
923 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
924 • repart: allow defining additional partitions via credential
925 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
926 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
927 file system paths to enable on start.
928 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
929 usr=
930 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
931 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
932 register if not registered yet. Use case: deploy a system, and add an
933 account one can directly log into.
934 • in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
935 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
936 pre-built kernels.
937
938 * define a JSON format for units, separating out unit definitions from unit
939 runtime state. Then, expose it:
940
941 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
942 about the unit.
943 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
944 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
945 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
946 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
947 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
948 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
949
950 * Add SUPPORT_END_URL= field to os-release with more *actionable* information
951 what to do if support ended
952
953 * pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
954 login time, à la motd
955
956 * sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
957 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
958 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Use case: embed sd-boot in the
959 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
960 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
961
962 * mount /var/ from initrd, so that we can apply sysext and stuff before the
963 initrd transition. Specifically:
964 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
965 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
966 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
967
968 * make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
969 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
970 service restarts, hot reboot, cold reboots (depending on configuration): the
971 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
972 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
973 depending on desired level of persistency.
974
975 * sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
976 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
977 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
978 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
979 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
980 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
981 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
982 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
983
984 * if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
985 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
986 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
987 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
988
989 * add ability to set hostname with suffix derived from machine id at boot
990
991 * add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
992
993 * homed/userdb: maybe define a "companion" dir for home directories where apps
994 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
995 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
996 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Use case: container
997 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
998 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
999 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
1000 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
1001 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
1002 by. Inform user code about path to this companion dir via env var, so that
1003 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
1004 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
1005 not unprivileged code.
1006
1007 * given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
1008 that hooks up userdbctl ssh-key stuff.
1009
1010 * maybe add support for binding and connecting AF_UNIX sockets in the file
1011 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
1012 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
1013 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
1014
1015 * add a proper concept of a "developer" mode, i.e. where cryptographic
1016 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
1017 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
1018 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
1019 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
1020 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
1021 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
1022 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is the only way to enter developer mode, by
1023 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
1024
1025 * services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
1026 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
1027 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
1028 order.
1029
1030 * update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
1031 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
1032 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
1033
1034 * sd-event: compat wd reuse in inotify code: keep a set of removed watch
1035 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
1036 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
1037 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
1038 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
1039 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
1040 IN_IGNORED again)
1041
1042 * for vendor-built signed initrds:
1043 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
1044 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
1045 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
1046 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
1047 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
1048 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
1049 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
1050 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
1051 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
1052 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
1053 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
1054
1055 * Maybe extend the service protocol to support handling of some specific SIGRT
1056 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
1057 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
1058
1059 * sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
1060 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
1061 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
1062 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
1063 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
1064 directly to host service manager.
1065
1066 * sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
1067 no api to query the device id
1068
1069 * sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1070 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1071 also be queried.
1072
1073 * sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
1074 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1075 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1076 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
1077
1078 * sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
1079 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1080 latter).
1081
1082 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1083
1084 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
1085
1086 * support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
1087 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
1088 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
1089 generated by GNU sha256sums.
1090
1091 * sd-boot: maybe add support for embedding the various auxiliary resources we
1092 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
1093 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
1094 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
1095 to the menu. Use case: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
1096 UEFI HTTP boot.
1097
1098 * maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
1099 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
1100 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
1101 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
1102 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
1103 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
1104 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
1105 hence cheap for enumeration.
1106
1107 * sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
1108
1109 * systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
1110 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1111 words: show partition labels).
1112
1113 * maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
1114 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
1115 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
1116 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. Use case:
1117 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
1118 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
1119 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
1120
1121 * deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
1122
1123 * systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
1124
1125 * per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1126 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1127 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1128 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1129 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1130 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1131 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1132 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1133 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1134 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1135
1136 * doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
1137 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
1138
1139 * doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
1140 jobs, units
1141
1142 * bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
1143 sync, i.e. parse out architecture field in sd-boot (currently only done in
1144 userspace)
1145
1146 * automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
1147
1148 * add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
1149 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1150
1151 * Enable RestrictFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
1152 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
1153
1154 * Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1155 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
1156
1157 * cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
1158 internal clock.
1159
1160 * man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1161 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1162
1163 * sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1164 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1165 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1166 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
1167
1168 * userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
1169 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1170 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1171
1172 * maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
1173 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
1174 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
1175 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
1176 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
1177 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
1178 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
1179 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
1180 thread:
1181 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
1182 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
1183 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
1184 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
1185 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
1186 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
1187
1188 * if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
1189 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
1190 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
1191
1192 * homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
1193 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
1194 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
1195 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
1196 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
1197 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
1198 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
1199 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
1200 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
1201 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
1202 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1203 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1204 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1205 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1206 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
1207
1208 * add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
1209 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
1210 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Use case: drop a root user JSON record there,
1211 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
1212 for debugging purposes. Other use case: boot into qemu with regular user
1213 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
1214
1215 * drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
1216 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
1217 dep in the base OS image)
1218
1219 * add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
1220 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1221 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1222 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1223 on-disk storage.
1224
1225 * userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
1226 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1227 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1228 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1229 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1230
1231 * portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
1232 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1233 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
1234
1235 * logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
1236 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
1237 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
1238 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
1239 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
1240 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
1241 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
1242
1243 * /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
1244 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1245 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1246 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1247
1248 * we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
1249 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1250 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1251 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1252 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1253 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1254 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1255 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1256 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1257 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1258 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
1259
1260 * in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
1261 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1262 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
1263
1264 * rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
1265
1266 * PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
1267
1268 * when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1269 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1270 that images cannot be misused.
1271
1272 * New udev block device symlink names:
1273 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
1274 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1275 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1276 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1277
1278 * sysupdate:
1279 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1280 - support casync as download mechanism
1281 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1282 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1283 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1284 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1285 update component, since otherwise sysupdate.d/ files would override the
1286 host's update files.)
1287 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1288 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1289 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1290 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1291
1292 * in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1293
1294 * DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1295 make dirs appear under right UID.
1296
1297 * systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1298 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1299
1300 * introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
1301 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1302 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1303 already have it.
1304
1305 * whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1306 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1307
1308 * Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
1309
1310 * Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1311 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1312 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1313 /proc/self/fd/3
1314
1315 * add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1316 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1317 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1318
1319 * Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1320 that is deleted in the fs. Use case would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1321
1322 * importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1323 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1324
1325 * add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1326 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1327 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1328 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1329 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
1330
1331 * expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1332
1333 * credentials system:
1334 - acquire from EFI variable?
1335 - acquire via ask-password?
1336 - acquire creds via keyring?
1337 - pass creds via keyring?
1338 - pass creds via memfd?
1339 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1340 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1341 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1342 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1343 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1344 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
1345 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
1346 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
1347
1348 * add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
1349 firmware indicates there is one.
1350
1351 * TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1352 and such
1353
1354 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
1355
1356 * cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
1357
1358 * cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
1359 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1360
1361 * cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1362 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
1363
1364 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1365
1366 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1367 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1368
1369 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1370 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1371
1372 * cryptsetup:
1373 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1374 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1375
1376 * systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
1377
1378 * Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1379 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1380
1381 * special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
1382 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1383
1384 * add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
1385 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1386
1387 * make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1388
1389 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1390
1391 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1392
1393 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1394 when it exits
1395
1396 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1397 o turn into dlopen() deps:
1398 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
1399 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
1400 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1401 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1402 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1403
1404 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1405 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1406 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1407
1408 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1409 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1410
1411 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1412
1413 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1414 specific service
1415
1416 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1417 exists and responds.
1418
1419 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
1420 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
1421
1422 * unify on openssl:
1423 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1424 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1425 gnutls
1426 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
1427
1428 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1429 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1430
1431 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1432 realname substr searches in varlink API
1433
1434 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1435
1436 * userdb: allow existence checks
1437
1438 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
1439
1440 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1441 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1442 initrd had set.
1443
1444 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
1445 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
1446 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1447 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1448 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1449 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1450
1451 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1452 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1453 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1454
1455 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1456 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1457 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1458 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1459 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1460 source.
1461
1462 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1463 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1464 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1465
1466 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1467
1468 * We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1469 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
1470
1471 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
1472
1473 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1474 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1475 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1476 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1477 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1478 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1479 exec().
1480
1481 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1482
1483 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1484 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1485
1486 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1487 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1488
1489 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1490 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1491 root.
1492
1493 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1494 is issued.
1495
1496 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1497
1498 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1499
1500 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1501 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1502 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
1503
1504 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
1505 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1506 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1507
1508 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1509
1510 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1511 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1512
1513 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
1514 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
1515 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
1516 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
1517
1518 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1519
1520 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1521
1522 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1523 non-zero "tries done" count
1524
1525 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1526 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1527 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1528 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1529 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1530 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1531 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1532 CODE_FILE.
1533
1534 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1535 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1536 some explanatory text online.
1537
1538 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1539
1540 * hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
1541
1542 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1543 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1544
1545 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1546 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1547 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1548 files and suchlike we operate on.
1549
1550 * importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1551
1552 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1553
1554 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1555 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1556
1557 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
1558 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
1559
1560 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1561 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1562 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1563 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1564 unlinked from any dir.
1565
1566 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
1567
1568 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1569
1570 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1571
1572 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
1573 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
1574 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1575 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
1576 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
1577
1578 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1579
1580 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1581 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1582
1583 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1584 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1585 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1586 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1587 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1588 different slice too by default. Use case: people who want to put resources on
1589 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1590 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1591
1592 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1593 for root, but only then.
1594
1595 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1596 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1597
1598 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1599 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1600
1601 * sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1602 only when used. Add unit tests.
1603
1604 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1605 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1606
1607 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1608 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1609 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1610 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1611 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1612
1613 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
1614
1615 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
1616
1617 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1618 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1619
1620 * blog about fd store and restartable services
1621
1622 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1623
1624 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1625 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1626
1627 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1628 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1629 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1630 ID is available.
1631
1632 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1633 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1634 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1635
1636 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1637 parameters
1638
1639 * maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
1640 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
1641 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1642 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1643 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1644 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1645 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
1646
1647 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1648 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1649
1650 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1651 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1652 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1653
1654 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1655 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1656
1657 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1658
1659 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1660 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1661 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1662
1663 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1664 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1665
1666 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1667 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1668 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1669 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1670 natural habitat.
1671
1672 * gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1673 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
1674
1675 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1676 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1677 relative to the configured default value.
1678
1679 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1680
1681 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
1682
1683 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1684
1685 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1686
1687 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
1688
1689 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
1690
1691 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
1692
1693 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
1694
1695 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1696 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1697 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1698
1699 * Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1700 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1701
1702 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
1703
1704 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1705 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1706 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1707 mapping to work.
1708
1709 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1710
1711 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1712
1713 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1714
1715 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1716 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1717
1718 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1719 reload the unit file anyway
1720
1721 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1722
1723 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1724
1725 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1726 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1727
1728 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
1729 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
1730 specifications.
1731
1732 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1733
1734 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1735
1736 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
1737 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
1738 prefixed with /sys generally special.
1739 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
1740
1741 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1742
1743 * docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
1744
1745 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1746 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1747 state.
1748 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
1749
1750 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1751 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1752 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1753 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1754 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1755
1756 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1757
1758 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
1759 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
1760
1761 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
1762 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
1763
1764 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
1765 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
1766
1767 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1768
1769 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1770 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1771
1772 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
1773
1774 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
1775
1776 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
1777
1778 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1779 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1780
1781 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1782
1783 * resolved:
1784 - mDNS/DNS-SD
1785 - service registration
1786 - service/domain/types browsing
1787 - avahi compat
1788 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
1789 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1790 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1791 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
1792 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
1793 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
1794
1795 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
1796
1797 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1798
1799 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1800
1801 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1802
1803 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1804
1805 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1806 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
1807
1808 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1809
1810 * gpt-auto-generator:
1811 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
1812 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
1813
1814 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1815 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1816 when it is otherwise off
1817
1818 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
1819
1820 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1821 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1822 for ReusePort=
1823
1824 * cgroups:
1825 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
1826 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1827 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1828 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1829 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1830 the hierarchies of child processes
1831 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1832 maybe use them for user@.service
1833
1834 * transient units:
1835 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
1836
1837 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1838
1839 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1840
1841 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1842
1843 * 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
1844
1845 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1846 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
1847 path anyway.
1848
1849 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
1850
1851 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1852
1853 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1854
1855 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1856
1857 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1858
1859 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1860
1861 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1862 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1863 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1864
1865 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1866 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1867
1868 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1869
1870 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1871
1872 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1873
1874 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1875 needs to be auto-respawned?
1876
1877 * pid1:
1878 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1879 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1880 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1881 that are not supported...
1882 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1883 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1884 - move PAM code into its own binary
1885 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1886 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1887 - Support --test based on current system state
1888 - 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().
1889 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1890 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1891 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1892 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1893 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1894 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1895 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1896 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1897 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1898 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1899 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1900 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1901
1902 * unit files:
1903 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1904 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1905 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1906 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1907 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1908 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1909 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1910 - introduce Type=pid-file
1911 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1912 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1913 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1914
1915 * timer units:
1916 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
1917 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1918
1919 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1920
1921 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1922
1923 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1924
1925 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1926
1927 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1928
1929 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1930
1931 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1932
1933 * test/:
1934 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
1935
1936 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
1937 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
1938 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1939 destination.
1940
1941 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1942 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1943
1944 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1945
1946 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1947 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1948 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1949
1950 * BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1951 compliant boot loader is installed.
1952
1953 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? use case:
1954 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1955 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1956 that automatically.
1957
1958 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
1959
1960 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
1961
1962 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1963
1964 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
1965
1966 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1967
1968 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1969
1970 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1971
1972 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1973
1974 * sd-bus:
1975 - EBADSLT handling
1976 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1977 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1978 - 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
1979 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1980 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1981 - longer term: priority inheritance
1982 - dbus spec updates:
1983 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
1984 - path escaping
1985 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1986
1987 * sd-event
1988 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1989 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1990 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1991 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1992 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1993 here:
1994 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1995
1996 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1997 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1998
1999 * document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
2000
2001 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
2002
2003 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
2004
2005 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
2006
2007 * EFI:
2008 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
2009 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
2010 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
2011 * bootctl
2012 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
2013
2014 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
2015
2016 * bootctl:
2017 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
2018 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
2019 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
2020
2021 * logind:
2022 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
2023 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
2024 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
2025 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
2026 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
2027 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
2028 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
2029 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
2030 needs setuid().
2031 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
2032 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
2033 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
2034 complete.
2035 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2036 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2037 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
2038 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
2039 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2040 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2041 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2042 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2043 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2044 relogins
2045 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
2046 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
2047 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
2048 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
2049
2050 * move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2051
2052 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2053 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2054 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2055
2056 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2057 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2058
2059 * journal:
2060 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
2061 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2062 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2063 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2064 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
2065 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
2066 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2067 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2068 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
2069 message that works, but already after a short timeout
2070 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2071 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
2072 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
2073 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
2074 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
2075 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
2076 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
2077 - 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.
2078 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2079 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
2080 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2081 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2082 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2083 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
2084 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
2085 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
2086 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
2087 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2088 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2089 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2090 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2091 to syslog when it works again.
2092 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2093 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2094 journals in.
2095 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2096 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2097 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2098 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2099 the most common operations.
2100 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
2101 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2102 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2103 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2104 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2105 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2106 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2107 operation.
2108 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
2109 written to as FAIL, but instead show that they are being written to.
2110 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2111 binary logs data
2112 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
2113 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2114 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2115 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2116 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
2117 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
2118
2119 * journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2120 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2121
2122 * Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2123 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2124 validated via TPM.
2125
2126 * rework journalctl -M to be based on a machined method that generates a mount
2127 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2128 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2129
2130 * journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2131 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2132 cursors as they happen.
2133
2134 * journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2135 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2136 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2137 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2138 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2139 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2140 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2141 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2142 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2143
2144 * in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2145 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2146 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2147 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
2148 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
2149 log record, adjusted by the delta declared in the structured log record.
2150
2151 * in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2152 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2153 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2154 records, to be able to order them.
2155
2156 * journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2157 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2158 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2159 be safely written to disk, then.
2160
2161 * hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2162 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2163 inspiration from IMA log)
2164
2165 * sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2166 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2167 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2168
2169 * maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
2170 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
2171 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
2172 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2173 for doing that.
2174
2175 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2176 log.c and sd-journal-send
2177
2178 * journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2179 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2180 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2181 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2182 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2183 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2184 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2185 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2186 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2187 an NTP sync is acquired.
2188
2189 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
2190
2191 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2192 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2193 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2194
2195 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2196 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2197 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2198 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2199 cgroup.
2200
2201 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2202 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2203 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2204 logging.
2205
2206 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2207
2208 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2209 from the SIGBUS handler
2210
2211 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
2212 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2213 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2214 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2215
2216 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2217 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2218
2219 * homed:
2220 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2221 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2222 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
2223 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2224 - create on activate?
2225 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2226 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2227 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2228 systemd --user is shut down.
2229 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2230 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2231 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2232 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2233 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2234 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2235 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2236 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2237 - query password from kernel keyring first
2238 - update even if record is "absent"
2239 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2240 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2241 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2242 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2243 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
2244 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2245 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2246 doesn't mean user B sees it
2247 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
2248 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2249 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2250 signature
2251 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2252 and insert a local signature instead.
2253 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2254 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2255 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2256 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2257 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2258 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2259 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2260 easily?
2261 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2262 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2263 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2264 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2265 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2266 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2267 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
2268 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2269 can easily set overall quota for all users
2270 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2271 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
2272 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
2273 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
2274 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2275 large.
2276 - add "homectl unbind" command to remove local user record of an inactive
2277 home dir
2278
2279 * add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2280 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2281 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2282
2283 * systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
2284
2285 * systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2286 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2287 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2288 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2289
2290 * systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2291
2292 * systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2293 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2294 something goes wrong on the way.
2295
2296 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2297 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2298 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2299 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2300
2301 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2302 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2303 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2304 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2305 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2306 automatically.
2307
2308 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2309 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2310
2311 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2312 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2313 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2314 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2315 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2316 fails to apply use the latter.
2317
2318 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2319 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2320
2321 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2322 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2323
2324 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2325 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
2326 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
2327
2328 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2329 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2330
2331 * systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
2332 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2333 during boot.
2334
2335 * systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2336
2337 * document:
2338 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
2339 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2340 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
2341 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
2342 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2343 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
2344 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2345 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
2346 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2347 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
2348 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
2349 - document root=gpt-auto properly
2350
2351 * systemctl:
2352 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2353 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2354 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2355 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2356 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2357 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2358 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
2359 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
2360 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
2361 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
2362
2363 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2364 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2365 it should skip the variant type string though.
2366
2367 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2368 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2369 the slices, and the units attached to them.
2370
2371 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2372 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2373 wait to retrieve their exit data.
2374
2375 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2376 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
2377
2378 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2379 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2380 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2381 do, for example)
2382
2383 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2384 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2385 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2386 returning from the "systemctl stop".
2387
2388 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2389
2390 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2391
2392 * unit install:
2393 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2394 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
2395
2396 * nspawn:
2397 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2398 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2399 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2400 from the kernel's logs.
2401 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2402 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2403 interface be missing
2404 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2405 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2406 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2407 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2408 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2409 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2410 PID 1...
2411 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2412 running, remove them when shut down.
2413 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2414 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2415 startup.
2416 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2417 or so, freeze the payload too.
2418 - support time namespaces
2419 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2420 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2421 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2422 "machinectl shell"
2423 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2424 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2425 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2426 - greater control over selinux label?
2427 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2428 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2429 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2430 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2431 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2432 host TPM.
2433 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2434 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2435 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2436 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2437 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2438 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2439 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2440 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
2441 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2442 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
2443 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2444 or two sockets.
2445 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
2446
2447 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2448 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2449 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2450 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2451 anything like that.
2452
2453 * machined:
2454 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2455 removed or added to an existing machine
2456 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2457 difference host, via ssh
2458 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2459 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2460 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2461 question
2462 - "machinectl history"
2463 - "machinectl diff"
2464 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2465 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2466
2467 * udev:
2468 - move to LGPL
2469 - kill scsi_id
2470 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
2471 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
2472 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
2473 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
2474
2475 * coredump:
2476 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
2477 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
2478 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
2479
2480 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2481
2482 * tmpfiles:
2483 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
2484 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
2485 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
2486 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2487 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2488 calls follow symlinks.
2489 - add --test mode
2490 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2491 project quota
2492 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
2493 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2494 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
2495
2496 * udev-link-config:
2497 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2498 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2499 on Path= matching
2500
2501 * sd-rtnl:
2502 - add support for more attribute types
2503 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
2504
2505 * networkd:
2506 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2507 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
2508 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
2509 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
2510 - work with non-Ethernet devices
2511 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
2512 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2513 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2514 - expose in the API the following bits:
2515 - option 15, domain name
2516 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
2517 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2518 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2519 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2520 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2521 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2522 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
2523 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
2524
2525 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2526
2527 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2528
2529 * dhcp:
2530 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
2531
2532 * dhcp6:
2533 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2534 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2535 - write more test cases
2536 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
2537 - implement support for temporary addresses (IA_TA)
2538 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2539 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2540 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2541 or interface down
2542 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2543 this behavior
2544 - RouteTable= ?
2545
2546 * shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2547 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2548 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)