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1 Bugfixes:
2
3 * Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
6
7 * Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
10
11 External:
12
13 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
14
15 * dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
19 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
20
21 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
22
23 * fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
24
25 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
26
27 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
28
29 * register catalog database signature as file magic
30
31 * zsh shell completion:
32 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
33 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
34 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
35
36 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
37 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
38 after being started.
39
40 * write blog stories about:
41 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
42 - enabling dbus services
43 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
44 - remote access
45 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
46 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
47 - auto-restart
48 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
49 - the journal HTTP iface
50 - non-cgroup resource management
51 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
52 - refreshed, longer missions statement
53 - calendar time events
54 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
55 - how to create your own target
56 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
57 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/early boot
58
59 Regularly:
60
61 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
62
63 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
64
65 * pahole
66
67 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
68
69 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
70
71 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
72
73 Janitorial Clean-ups:
74
75 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
76 semantics, like we do for device.c now
77
78 * get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase() and related
79 calls instead.
80
81 * get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
82
83 * Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
84 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
85 libmount for something so trivial.
86
87 * drop set_free_free() and switch things over from string_hash_ops to
88 string_hash_ops_free everywhere, so that destruction is implicit rather than
89 explicit. Similar, for other special hashmap/set/ordered_hashmap destructors.
90
91 * generators sometimes apply C escaping and sometimes specifier escaping to
92 paths and similar strings they write out. Sometimes both. We should clean
93 this up, and should probably always apply both, i.e. introduce
94 unit_file_escape() or so, which applies both.
95
96 Deprecations and removals:
97
98 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
99 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
100
101 * remove cgroups v1 support EOY 2023. As per
102 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
103 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
104 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
105
106 * drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
107 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
108 is only supported for such old kernels.
109
110 * drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
111 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
112
113 * drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
114 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
115 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
116 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
117 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
118
119 * drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
120 baseline is 5.8.
121
122 * drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
123 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
124
125 * Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
126 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
127 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
128
129 * Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
130 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
131
132 * remove remaining tpm1.2 support from sd-stub
133
134 Features:
135
136 * cryptsetup: new crypttab option to auto-grow a luks device to its backing
137 partition size. new crypttab option to reencrypt a luks device with a new
138 volume key.
139
140 * we probably should have some infrastructure to acquire sysexts with
141 drivers/firmware for local hardware automatically. Idea: reuse the modalias
142 logic of the kernel for this: make the main OS image install a hwdb file
143 that matches against local modalias strings, and adds properties to relevant
144 devices listing names of sysexts needed to support the hw. Then provide some
145 tool that goes through all devices and tries to acquire/download the
146 specified images.
147
148 * repart + cryptsetup: support file systems that are encrypted and use verity
149 on top. Usecase: confexts that shall be signed by the admin but also be
150 confidential. Then, add a new --make-ddi=confext-encrypted for this.
151
152 * tmpfiles: add new line type for moving files from some source dir to some
153 target dir. then use that to move sysexts/confexts and stuff from initrd
154 tmpfs to /run/, so that host can pick things up.
155
156 * tiny varlink service that takes a fd passed in and serves it via http. Then
157 make use of that in networkd, and expose some EFI binary of choice for
158 DHCP/HTTP base EFI boot.
159
160 * bootctl: add reboot-to-disk which takes a block device name, and
161 automatically sets things up so that system reboots into that device next.
162
163 * maybe: in PID1, when we detect we run in an initrd, make superblock read-only
164 early on, but provide opt-out via kernel cmdline.
165
166 * systemd-pcrextend:
167 - support measuring to nvindex with PCR update semantics ("fake PCRs")
168 - add api for "allocating" such an nvindex
169 - once we have that start measuring every sysext we apply, every confext,
170 every RootImage= we apply, every nspawn and so on. All in separate fake
171 PCRs.
172
173 * vmspawn:
174 - enable hyperv extension by default (https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/i386/hyperv.html)
175 - register with machined
176 - run in scope unit when invoked from command line, and machined registration is off
177 - support --directory= via virtiofs
178 - sd_notify support
179 - --ephemeral support
180 - --read-only support
181 - automatically suspend/resume the VM if the host suspends. Use logind
182 suspend inhibitor to implement this. request clean suspend by generating
183 suspend key presses.
184 - support for "real" networking via "-n" and --network-bridge=
185 - automatically run service "at the side" for swtpm
186 - translate SIGTERM to clean ACPI shutdown event
187
188 * systemd-pcrmachine should probably also measure the SMBIOS system UUID.
189
190 * sd-boot: allow synthesizing additional type1 entries via SMBIOS vendor strings
191
192 * storagetm:
193 - add USB mass storage device logic, so that all local disks are also exposed
194 as mass storage devices on systems that have a USB controller that can
195 operate in device mode
196 - add NVMe authentication
197
198 * add support for activating nvme-oF devices at boot automatically via kernel
199 cmdline, and maybe even support a syntax such as
200 root=nvme:<trtype>:<traddr>:<trsvcid>:<nqn>:<partition> to boot directly from
201 nvme-oF
202
203 * pcrlock:
204 - make signed PCR work together with pcrlock
205 - add kernel-install plugin that automatically creates UKI .pcrlock file when
206 UKI is installed, and removes it when it is removed again
207 - automatically install PE measurement of sd-boot on "bootctl install"
208 - write generated pcrlock signature files to the ESP as credential, one for
209 each installed OS & pick up generated pcrlock signature file in sd-stub,
210 pass it via initrd to OS
211 - pre-calc sysext + kernel cmdline measurements
212 - pre-calc cryptsetup root key measurement
213 - maybe make systemd-repart generate .pcrlock for old and new GPT header in
214 /run?
215 - Add support for more than 8 branches per PCR OR
216 - add "systemd-pcrlock lock-kernel-current" or so which synthesizes .pcrlock
217 policy from currently booted kernel/event log, to close gap for first boot
218 for pre-built images
219
220 * add a new systemd-project@.service that is very similar to user@.service but
221 uses DynamicUser=1 and no PAMName= to invoke an unprivileged somewhat
222 light-weight service manager. Use HOME=/var/lib/systemd/projects/%i as home
223 dir. Similar for $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. Start project@%i.target. Use LogField= to
224 add a field identifying the project.
225
226 * logind: add a new dbus call Sleep() which automatically redirects to one of
227 Suspend(), Hibernate(), SuspendThenHibernate() depending on what is
228 available, and also subject to some local configuration in
229 logind.conf. Should default to SuspendThenHibernate() if available, and then
230 fallback to Suspend() and finally Hibernate() if not. Then expose this as
231 "systemctl sleep", and tell DEs to default to this.
232
233 * in sd-boot and sd-stub measure the SMBIOS vendor strings to some PCR (at
234 least some subset of them that look like systemd stuff), because apparently
235 some firmware does not, but systemd honours it. avoid duplicate measurement
236 by sd-boot and sd-stub by adding LoaderFeatures/StubFeatures flag for this,
237 so that sd-stub can avoid it if sd-boot already did it.
238
239 * cryptsetup: a mechanism that allows signing a volume key with some key that
240 has to be present in the kernel keyring, or similar, to ensure that confext
241 DDIs can be encrypted against the local SRK but signed with the admin's key
242 and thus can authenticated locally before they are decrypted.
243
244 * image policy should be extended to allow dictating *how* a disk is unlocked,
245 i.e. root=encrypted-tpm2+encrypted-fido2 would mean "root fs must be
246 encrypted and unlocked via fido2 or tpm2, but not otherwise"
247
248 * systemd-repart: add support for formatting dm-crypt + dm-integrity file
249 systems.
250
251 * homed: use systemd-storagetm to expose home dirs via nvme-tcp. Then,
252 teach homed/pam_systemd_homed with a user name such as
253 lennart%nvme_tcp_192.168.100.77_8787 to log in from any linux host with the
254 same home dir. Similar maybe for nbd, iscsi? this should then first ask for
255 the local root pw, to authenticate that logging in like this is ok, and would
256 then be followed by another password prompt asking for the user's own
257 password. Also, do something similar for CIFS: if you log in via
258 lennart%cifs-someserver_someshare, then set up the homed dir for it
259 automatically. The PAM module should update the user name used for login to
260 the short version once it set up the user. Some care should be taken, so that
261 the long version can be still be resolved via NSS afterwards, to deal with
262 PAM clients that do not support PAM sessions where PAM_USER changes half-way.
263
264 * redefine /var/lib/extensions/ as the dir one can place all three of sysext,
265 confext as well is multi-modal DDIs that qualify as both. Then introduce
266 /var/lib/sysexts/ which can be used to place only DDIs that shall be used as
267 sysext
268
269 * in pid1: move out all cgroup state settings from Unit into a new object
270 CGroupState or so which is allocated when we realize the unit into a cgroup,
271 and then remains referenced by it. The new object should also carry an fd to
272 the realized cgroup, to pin it (and later execute all cgroup operations over,
273 once we drop cgroupv1 compat).
274
275 * add new "systemd-ssh-generator", which allows basic ssh config via
276 credentials (host key). It generates sshd.socket for IP, but also
277 sshd-vsock.socket for listening on AF_VSOCK when running in a VM, and
278 sshd-unix.socket on AF_UNIX when running in a container. It also generates a
279 matching sshd.service file with a host key passed in on the cmdline via
280 credentials. Then, add a ssh_config drop-in that matches some suitable
281 hostname pattern and has a ProxyCommand set that allows connecting to any
282 local VM/container that way without any networking configured.
283
284 * Varlinkification of the following command line tools, to open them up to
285 other programs via IPC:
286 - bootctl
287 - journalctl (allowing journal read access via IPC)
288 - coredumpcl
289 - systemd-bless-boot
290 - systemd-measure
291 - systemd-creds (allowing clients to encrypt credentials locally)
292 - systemd-cryptenroll (to allow UIs to enroll FIDO2 keys and such)
293 - systemd-dissect
294 - systemd-sysupdate
295 - systemd-analyze
296 - kernel-install
297
298 * Varlink: add glue code to allow varlink clients to be authenticated via
299 Polkit by passing client pidfd over.
300
301 * in the service manager, pick up ERRNO= + BUSERROR= + VARLINKERROR= error
302 identifiers, and store them along with the exit status of a server and report
303 via "systemctl status".
304
305 * enumerate virtiofs devices during boot-up in a generator, and synthesize
306 mounts for rootfs, /usr/, /home/, /srv/ and some others from it, depending on
307 the "tag". (waits for: https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd/-/issues/128)
308
309 * automatically mount one virtiofs during early boot phase to /run/host/,
310 similar to how we do that for nspawn, based on some clear tag.
311
312 * add some service that makes an atomic snapshot of PCR state and event log up
313 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
314
315 * encode type1 entries in some UKI section to add additional entries to the
316 menu.
317
318 * Add ACL-based access management to .socket units. i.e. add AllowPeerUser= +
319 AllowPeerGroup= that installs additional user/group ACL entries on AF_UNIX
320 sockets.
321
322 * systemd-tpm2-setup should probably have a factory reset logic, i.e. when some
323 kernel command line option is set we reset the TPM (equivalent of tpm2_clear
324 -c owner?).
325
326 * systemd-tpm2-setup should support a mode where we refuse booting if the SRK
327 changed. (Must be opt-in, to not break systems which are supposed to be
328 migratable between PCs)
329
330 * when systemd-sysext learns mutable /usr/ (and systemd-confext mutable /etc/)
331 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
332 snapshot logic
333
334 * add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
335 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
336 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
337 i.e. without recompiling the kernel, taking an upstream OS' kernel and adding
338 a local key to it.
339
340 * PidRef conversion work:
341 - cg_pid_get_xyz()
342 - pid_from_same_root_fs()
343 - get_ctty_devnr()
344 - pid1: sd_notify() receiver should use SCM_PIDFD to authenticate client
345 - actually wait for POLLIN on pidref's pidfd in service logic
346 - exec_spawn() + safe_fork()
347 - openpt_allocate_in_namespace()
348 - sd_bus_creds
349 - unit_attach_pid_to_cgroup_via_bus()
350 - cg_attach() – requires new kernel feature
351 - varlink_get_peer_pid()
352
353 * ddi must be listed as block device fstype
354
355 * measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
356 mode.
357
358 * homed: add a basic form of secrets management to homed, that stores
359 secrets in $HOME somewhere, is protected by the accounts own authentication
360 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
361 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
362 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
363 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
364 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
365
366 * use sd-event ratelimit feature optionally for journal stream clients that log
367 too much
368
369 * systemd-mount should only consider modern file systems when mounting, similar
370 to systemd-dissect
371
372 * add another PE section ".fname" or so that encodes the intended filename for
373 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
374 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
375 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
376 control of the attacker.
377
378 * also include packaging metadata (á la
379 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
380 same JSON format.
381
382 * make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
383 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
384 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
385 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
386 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
387 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
388 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
389 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
390 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
391 newer.
392
393 * in sd-stub: optionally add support for a new PE section .keyring or so that
394 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
395 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
396 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
397 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
398 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
399 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
400 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
401
402 * resolved: take possession of some IPv6 ULA address (let's say
403 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
404 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
405
406 * introduce a .microcode PE section for sd-stub which we'll pass as first initrd
407 to the kernel which will then upload it to the CPU. This should be distinct
408 from .initrd to guarantee right ordering. also, and maybe more importantly
409 support .microcode in PE add-ons, so that a microcode update can be shipped
410 independently of any kernel.
411
412 * Maybe add SwitchRootEx() as new bus call that takes env vars to set for new
413 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
414 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
415 requested during switch root.
416
417 * introduce a .acpitable section for early ACPI table override
418
419 * add proper .osrel matching for PE addons. i.e. refuse applying an addon
420 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
421 matched against OS.
422
423 * figure out what to do about credentials sealed to PCRs in kexec + soft-reboot
424 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
425 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
426
427 * logind: when logging in, always take an fd to the home dir, to keep the dir
428 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
429 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
430 namespaces)
431
432 * mount most file systems with a restrictive uidmap. e.g. mount /usr/ with a
433 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
434
435 * mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
436 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
437 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
438
439 * fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
440 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
441 "*:foobar:*", to wildcard match both the start and the end of the string.
442 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
443 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
444 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
445
446 * mount /tmp/ and /var/tmp with a uidmap applied that blocks out "nobody" user
447 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
448 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
449 used transiently, never persistently.
450
451 * rework loopback support in fstab: when "loop" option is used, then
452 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
453 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
454 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
455 based on lo_file_name.
456
457 * remove tomoyo support, it's obsolete and unmaintained apparently
458
459 * In .socket units, add ConnectStream=, ConnectDatagram=,
460 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
461 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
462 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
463 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
464 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
465 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
466 activation-by-message id and similar.
467
468 * .service with invalid Sockets= starts successfully.
469
470 * landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
471 ability to write anywhere else below /run/. Similar for
472 StateDirectory=. Benefit would be clear delegation via unit files: services
473 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
474
475 * landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
476 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
477 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
478 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
479 similar behaviour for system services, too.
480
481 * Add systemd-mount@.service which is instantiated for a block device and
482 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
483 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
484
485 * udevd: extend memory pressure logic: also kill any idle worker processes
486
487 * udevadm: to make symlink querying with udevadm nicer:
488 - do not enable the pager for queries like 'udevadm info -q -r symlink'
489 - add mode with newlines instead of spaces (for grep)?
490
491 * SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
492 localed, oomd, timedated.
493
494 * repart/gpt-auto/DDIs: maybe introduce a concept of "extension" partitions,
495 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
496 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
497 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
498 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
499 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
500 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
501 from the uuid of the original partition it extends. Inspiration for this is
502 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
503 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
504 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
505 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
506 access.
507
508 * Use CLONE_INTO_CGROUP to spawn systemd-executor, once glibc supports it in
509 posix_spawn().
510
511 * Make nspawn to a frontend for systemd-executor, so that we have to ways into
512 the executor: via unit files/dbus/varlink through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI
513 through nspawn.
514
515 * sd-stub: detect if we are running with uefi console output on serial, and if so
516 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
517
518 * add a utility that can be used with the kernel's
519 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
520 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
521 for all umh processes.
522
523 * systemd-shutdown: keep sending sd_notify() status updates immediately before
524 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
525
526 * homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
527 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
528 resize.
529
530 * homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
531 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
532
533 * timesyncd: when saving/restoring clock try to take boot time into account.
534 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
535 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
536 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
537 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
538 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
539 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
540 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
541 system actually reset.
542
543 * systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
544 userspace to allow ordering boots (for example in journalctl). The counter
545 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
546
547 * pam_systemd_home: add module parameter to control whether to only accept
548 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
549 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
550 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
551
552 * sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
553 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
554 is then useful for network boot, by embedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
555 in sd-boot, which reference remote kernels.
556
557 * maybe prohibit setuid() to the nobody user, to lock things down, via seccomp.
558 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
559 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
560 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
561 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
562
563 * sd-boot: add a new PE section .bls or so that carries a cpio with additional
564 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
565 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
566 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
567 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
568
569 * sd-boot: also allow passing in the cpio as in the previous item via SMBIOS
570
571 * add a new EFI tool "sd-fetch" or so. It looks in a PE section ".url" for an
572 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
573 Use case: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
574 binaries in place of UKIs, and download them on-the-fly.
575
576 * maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
577 cmdline. use case: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
578
579 * systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
580 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
581 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
582
583 * sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
584 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
585
586 * tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
587 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
588 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
589 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
590 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
591 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
592 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
593 usual.
594
595 * Lennart: big blog story about DDIs
596
597 * Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
598
599 * Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
600
601 * bpf: see if we can use BPF to solve the syslog message cgroup source problem:
602 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
603 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
604 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
605 sockaddr.
606
607 * bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
608 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
609 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
610 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
611 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
612 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
613 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
614 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
615 try to use inode from there.
616
617 * extend the verity signature partition to permit multiple signatures for the
618 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
619
620 * consider adding a new partition type, just for /opt/ for usage in system
621 extensions
622
623 * gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
624 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
625 for the root fs or /usr/.
626
627 * dissection policy should enforce that unlocking can only take place by
628 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
629 combination thereof.
630
631 * make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
632 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
633 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
634 ahead of time.
635
636 * systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
637 aforementioned purpose.
638
639 * in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
640 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
641
642 * Add systemd-sysupdate-initrd.service or so that runs systemd-sysupdate in the
643 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
644 to figure out:
645 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
646 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
647 subsequent boots?
648
649 * provide an API (probably IPC) to apps to encrypt/decrypt
650 credentials. use case: allow bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd
651 that way, without shelling out to our tools.
652
653 * revisit default PCR bindings in cryptenroll and systemd-creds. Currently they
654 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
655 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
656 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
657 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
658 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
659 default to PCR 15 at least if sd-stub is used (i.e. bind to system identity),
660 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
661 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
662 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
663
664 * To mimic the new tpm2-measure-pcr= crypttab option add the same to veritytab
665 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
666 used)
667
668 * We should start measuring all services, containers, and system extensions we
669 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
670 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
671 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
672 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
673
674 * bootspec: permit graceful "update" from type #2 to type #1. If both a type #1
675 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
676 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
677 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
678 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
679 should win over vendor defaults.
680
681 * write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
682 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
683 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
684
685 * automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
686 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
687
688 * implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
689 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
690 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
691 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
692 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
693 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
694
695 * add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
696 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
697 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
698
699 * systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
700
701 * systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
702 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
703 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Use case: remove secondary OS
704 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
705
706 * systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
707 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
708 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
709 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
710 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
711 only one for each OS.
712
713 * systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
714 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
715 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
716 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
717 boot, for the next.
718
719 * systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
720 similar behind it, instead of http.
721
722 * systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
723 boot, or on first boot.
724
725 * in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
726 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
727
728 * we probably needs .pcrpkeyrd or so as additional PE section in UKIs,
729 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
730 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
731 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
732 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
733 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
734 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
735 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
736 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
737 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
738 until users are allowed to log in).
739
740 * Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
741 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
742
743 * add support for asymmetric LUKS2 TPM based encryption. i.e. allow preparing
744 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
745 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
746 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Use case: systemd-confext
747 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
748 be activated on one specific host (which can be used for installing a bunch
749 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
750 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
751 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
752 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
753 automatically invalidated outside of it.
754
755 * maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
756 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
757 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
758 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
759 enhanced remote attestation quote. Use case: a simple orchestrator could use
760 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
761 have the orchestrator collect these reports centrally over a 3min time
762 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
763 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
764 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
765 proposed above, so that it can only be activated on the specific host, if the
766 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
767 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
768 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
769 config and collected reports in the last 3min time window only, and thus can
770 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
771 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
772 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
773 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
774 and via the time window TPM logic invalidated if node doesn't keep itself
775 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
776
777 * in the initrd, once the rootfs encryption key has been measured to PCR 15,
778 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
779
780 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to use sd_event_set_signal_exit(), instead
781 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
782
783 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
784 instead of manual blocking.
785
786 * sd-boot: for each installed OS, grey out older entries (i.e. all but the
787 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
788
789 * automatically propagate LUKS password credential into cryptsetup from host
790 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
791 supplied password.
792
793 * add ability to path_is_valid() to classify paths that refer to a dir from
794 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
795 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
796 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
797
798 * systemd-measure: allow operating with PEM certificates in addition to PEM
799 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
800 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
801 convenience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
802
803 * systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
804 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
805 automatically derived from --private-key=).
806
807 * push people to use ".sysext.raw" as suffix for sysext DDIs (DDI =
808 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
809 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
810
811 * Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
812 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
813 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
814 use as additional search condition. Use case: images that combined a sysext
815 partition with a portable service partition in one.
816
817 * On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
818 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
819 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
820 modules
821
822 * for systemd-confext: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
823 sig using squashfs-tools-ng's library. Maybe just systemd-repart called under
824 a new name with a built-in config?
825
826 * lock down acceptable encrypted credentials at boot, via simple allowlist,
827 maybe on kernel command line:
828 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
829 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
830
831 * Add support for extra verity configuration options to systemd-repart (FEC,
832 hash type, etc)
833
834 * chase(): take inspiration from path_extract_filename() and return
835 O_DIRECTORY if input path contains trailing slash.
836
837 * chase(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
838 but final node is not a directory
839
840 * document in boot loader spec that symlinks in XBOOTLDR/ESP are not OK even if
841 non-VFAT fs is used.
842
843 * measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
844
845 * measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
846 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
847
848 * pick up creds from EFI vars
849
850 * Add and pickup tpm2 metadata for creds structure.
851
852 * sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
853 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
854 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
855 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
856 affect PCR values.
857
858 * systemd-measure tool:
859 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
860
861 * in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
862 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
863
864 * sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
865 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
866
867 * sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
868 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
869
870 * sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
871 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
872
873 * maybe add new flags to gpt partition tables for rootfs and usrfs indicating
874 purpose, i.e. whether something is supposed to be bootable in a VM, on
875 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
876 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
877 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
878 use it.
879
880 * sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
881 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
882
883 * add "systemd-sysext identify" verb, that you can point on any file in /usr/
884 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
885 what it was signed.
886
887 * systemd-creds: extend encryption logic to support asymmetric
888 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
889 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
890 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
891 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
892 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
893 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
894 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
895 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
896 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
897 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
898 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
899
900 * building on top of the above, the pub/priv key pair generated on the TPM2
901 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
902
903 * Process credentials in:
904 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
905 via the credentials logic.
906 • crypttab-generator: allow defining additional crypttab-like volumes via
907 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
908 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
909 • run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
910 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
911 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
912 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
913 • repart: allow defining additional partitions via credential
914 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
915 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
916 file system paths to enable on start.
917 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
918 usr=
919 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
920 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
921 register if not registered yet. Use case: deploy a system, and add an
922 account one can directly log into.
923 • in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
924 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
925 pre-built kernels.
926
927 * define a JSON format for units, separating out unit definitions from unit
928 runtime state. Then, expose it:
929
930 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
931 about the unit.
932 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
933 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
934 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
935 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
936 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
937 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
938
939 * Add SUPPORT_END_URL= field to os-release with more *actionable* information
940 what to do if support ended
941
942 * pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
943 login time, à la motd
944
945 * sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
946 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
947 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Use case: embed sd-boot in the
948 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
949 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
950
951 * mount /var/ from initrd, so that we can apply sysext and stuff before the
952 initrd transition. Specifically:
953 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
954 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
955 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
956
957 * make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
958 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
959 service restarts, hot reboot, cold reboots (depending on configuration): the
960 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
961 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
962 depending on desired level of persistency.
963
964 * sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
965 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
966 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
967 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
968 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
969 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
970 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
971 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
972
973 * if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
974 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
975 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
976 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
977
978 * add ability to set hostname with suffix derived from machine id at boot
979
980 * add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
981
982 * homed/userdb: maybe define a "companion" dir for home directories where apps
983 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
984 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
985 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Use case: container
986 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
987 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
988 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
989 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
990 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
991 by. Inform user code about path to this companion dir via env var, so that
992 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
993 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
994 not unprivileged code.
995
996 * given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
997 that hooks up userdbctl ssh-key stuff.
998
999 * maybe add support for binding and connecting AF_UNIX sockets in the file
1000 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
1001 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
1002 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
1003
1004 * add a proper concept of a "developer" mode, i.e. where cryptographic
1005 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
1006 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
1007 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
1008 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
1009 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
1010 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
1011 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is the only way to enter developer mode, by
1012 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
1013
1014 * services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
1015 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
1016 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
1017 order.
1018
1019 * update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
1020 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
1021 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
1022
1023 * sd-event: compat wd reuse in inotify code: keep a set of removed watch
1024 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
1025 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
1026 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
1027 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
1028 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
1029 IN_IGNORED again)
1030
1031 * for vendor-built signed initrds:
1032 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
1033 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
1034 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
1035 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
1036 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
1037 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
1038 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
1039 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
1040 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
1041 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
1042 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
1043
1044 * Maybe extend the service protocol to support handling of some specific SIGRT
1045 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
1046 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
1047
1048 * sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
1049 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
1050 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
1051 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
1052 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
1053 directly to host service manager.
1054
1055 * sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
1056 no api to query the device id
1057
1058 * sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1059 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1060 also be queried.
1061
1062 * sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
1063 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1064 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1065 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
1066
1067 * sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
1068 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1069 latter).
1070
1071 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1072
1073 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
1074
1075 * support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
1076 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
1077 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
1078 generated by GNU sha256sums.
1079
1080 * sd-boot: maybe add support for embedding the various auxiliary resources we
1081 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
1082 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
1083 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
1084 to the menu. Use case: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
1085 UEFI HTTP boot.
1086
1087 * maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
1088 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
1089 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
1090 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
1091 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
1092 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
1093 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
1094 hence cheap for enumeration.
1095
1096 * sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
1097
1098 * systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
1099 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1100 words: show partition labels).
1101
1102 * maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
1103 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
1104 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
1105 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. Use case:
1106 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
1107 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
1108 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
1109
1110 * deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
1111
1112 * systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
1113
1114 * per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1115 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1116 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1117 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1118 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1119 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1120 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1121 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1122 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1123 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1124
1125 * doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
1126 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
1127
1128 * doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
1129 jobs, units
1130
1131 * bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
1132 sync, i.e. parse out architecture field in sd-boot (currently only done in
1133 userspace)
1134
1135 * automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
1136
1137 * add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
1138 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1139
1140 * Enable RestrictFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
1141 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
1142
1143 * Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1144 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
1145
1146 * cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
1147 internal clock.
1148
1149 * man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1150 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1151
1152 * sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1153 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1154 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1155 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
1156
1157 * userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
1158 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1159 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1160
1161 * maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
1162 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
1163 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
1164 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
1165 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
1166 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
1167 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
1168 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
1169 thread:
1170 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
1171 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
1172 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
1173 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
1174 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
1175 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
1176
1177 * if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
1178 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
1179 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
1180
1181 * homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
1182 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
1183 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
1184 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
1185 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
1186 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
1187 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
1188 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
1189 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
1190 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
1191 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1192 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1193 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1194 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1195 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
1196
1197 * add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
1198 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
1199 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Use case: drop a root user JSON record there,
1200 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
1201 for debugging purposes. Other use case: boot into qemu with regular user
1202 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
1203
1204 * drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
1205 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
1206 dep in the base OS image)
1207
1208 * add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
1209 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1210 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1211 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1212 on-disk storage.
1213
1214 * userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
1215 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1216 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1217 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1218 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1219
1220 * portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
1221 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1222 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
1223
1224 * logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
1225 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
1226 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
1227 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
1228 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
1229 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
1230 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
1231
1232 * /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
1233 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1234 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1235 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1236
1237 * we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
1238 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1239 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1240 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1241 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1242 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1243 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1244 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1245 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1246 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1247 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
1248
1249 * in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
1250 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1251 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
1252
1253 * rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
1254
1255 * PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
1256
1257 * when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1258 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1259 that images cannot be misused.
1260
1261 * New udev block device symlink names:
1262 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
1263 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1264 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1265 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1266
1267 * sysupdate:
1268 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1269 - support casync as download mechanism
1270 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1271 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1272 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1273 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1274 update component, since otherwise sysupdate.d/ files would override the
1275 host's update files.)
1276 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1277 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1278 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1279 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1280
1281 * in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1282
1283 * DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1284 make dirs appear under right UID.
1285
1286 * systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1287 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1288
1289 * introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
1290 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1291 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1292 already have it.
1293
1294 * whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1295 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1296
1297 * Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
1298
1299 * Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1300 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1301 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1302 /proc/self/fd/3
1303
1304 * add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1305 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1306 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1307
1308 * Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1309 that is deleted in the fs. Use case would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1310
1311 * importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1312 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1313
1314 * add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1315 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1316 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1317 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1318 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
1319
1320 * expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1321
1322 * credentials system:
1323 - acquire from EFI variable?
1324 - acquire via ask-password?
1325 - acquire creds via keyring?
1326 - pass creds via keyring?
1327 - pass creds via memfd?
1328 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1329 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1330 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1331 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1332 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1333 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
1334 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
1335 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
1336
1337 * add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
1338 firmware indicates there is one.
1339
1340 * TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1341 and such
1342
1343 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
1344
1345 * cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
1346
1347 * cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
1348 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1349
1350 * cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1351 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
1352
1353 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1354
1355 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1356 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1357
1358 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1359 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1360
1361 * cryptsetup:
1362 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1363 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1364
1365 * systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
1366
1367 * Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1368 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1369
1370 * special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
1371 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1372
1373 * add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
1374 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1375
1376 * make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1377
1378 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1379
1380 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1381
1382 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1383 when it exits
1384
1385 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1386 o turn into dlopen() deps:
1387 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
1388 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
1389 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1390 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1391 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1392
1393 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1394 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1395 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1396
1397 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1398 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1399
1400 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1401
1402 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1403 specific service
1404
1405 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1406 exists and responds.
1407
1408 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
1409 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
1410
1411 * unify on openssl:
1412 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1413 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1414 gnutls
1415 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
1416
1417 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1418 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1419
1420 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1421 realname substr searches in varlink API
1422
1423 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1424
1425 * userdb: allow existence checks
1426
1427 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
1428
1429 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1430 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1431 initrd had set.
1432
1433 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
1434 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
1435 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1436 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1437 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1438 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1439
1440 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1441 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1442 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1443
1444 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1445 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1446 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1447 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1448 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1449 source.
1450
1451 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1452 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1453 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1454
1455 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1456
1457 * We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1458 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
1459
1460 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
1461
1462 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1463 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1464 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1465 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1466 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1467 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1468 exec().
1469
1470 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1471
1472 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1473 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1474
1475 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1476 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1477
1478 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1479 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1480 root.
1481
1482 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1483 is issued.
1484
1485 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1486
1487 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1488
1489 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1490 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1491 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
1492
1493 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
1494 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1495 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1496
1497 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1498
1499 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1500 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1501
1502 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
1503 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
1504 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
1505 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
1506
1507 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1508
1509 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1510
1511 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1512 non-zero "tries done" count
1513
1514 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1515 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1516 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1517 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1518 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1519 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1520 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1521 CODE_FILE.
1522
1523 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1524 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1525 some explanatory text online.
1526
1527 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1528
1529 * hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
1530
1531 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1532 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1533
1534 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1535 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1536 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1537 files and suchlike we operate on.
1538
1539 * importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1540
1541 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1542
1543 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1544 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1545
1546 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
1547 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
1548
1549 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1550 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1551 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1552 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1553 unlinked from any dir.
1554
1555 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
1556
1557 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1558
1559 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1560
1561 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
1562 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
1563 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1564 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
1565 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
1566
1567 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1568
1569 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1570 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1571
1572 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1573 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1574 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1575 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1576 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1577 different slice too by default. Use case: people who want to put resources on
1578 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1579 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1580
1581 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1582 for root, but only then.
1583
1584 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1585 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1586
1587 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1588 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1589
1590 * sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1591 only when used. Add unit tests.
1592
1593 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1594 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1595
1596 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1597 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1598 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1599 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1600 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1601
1602 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
1603
1604 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
1605
1606 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1607 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1608
1609 * blog about fd store and restartable services
1610
1611 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1612
1613 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1614 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1615
1616 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1617 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1618 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1619 ID is available.
1620
1621 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1622 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1623 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1624
1625 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1626 parameters
1627
1628 * maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
1629 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
1630 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1631 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1632 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1633 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1634 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
1635
1636 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1637 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1638
1639 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1640 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1641 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1642
1643 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1644 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1645
1646 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1647
1648 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1649 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1650 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1651
1652 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1653 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1654
1655 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1656 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1657 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1658 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1659 natural habitat.
1660
1661 * gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1662 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
1663
1664 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1665 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1666 relative to the configured default value.
1667
1668 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1669
1670 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
1671
1672 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1673
1674 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1675
1676 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
1677
1678 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
1679
1680 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
1681
1682 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
1683
1684 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1685 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1686 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1687
1688 * Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1689 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1690
1691 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
1692
1693 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1694 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1695 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1696 mapping to work.
1697
1698 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1699
1700 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1701
1702 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1703
1704 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1705 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1706
1707 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1708 reload the unit file anyway
1709
1710 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1711
1712 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1713
1714 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1715 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1716
1717 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
1718 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
1719 specifications.
1720
1721 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1722
1723 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1724
1725 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
1726 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
1727 prefixed with /sys generally special.
1728 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
1729
1730 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1731
1732 * docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
1733
1734 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1735 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1736 state.
1737 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
1738
1739 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1740 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1741 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1742 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1743 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1744
1745 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1746
1747 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
1748 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
1749
1750 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
1751 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
1752
1753 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
1754 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
1755
1756 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1757
1758 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1759 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1760
1761 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
1762
1763 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
1764
1765 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
1766
1767 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1768 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1769
1770 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1771
1772 * resolved:
1773 - mDNS/DNS-SD
1774 - service registration
1775 - service/domain/types browsing
1776 - avahi compat
1777 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
1778 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1779 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1780 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
1781 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
1782 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
1783
1784 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
1785
1786 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1787
1788 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1789
1790 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1791
1792 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1793
1794 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1795 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
1796
1797 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1798
1799 * gpt-auto-generator:
1800 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
1801 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
1802
1803 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1804 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1805 when it is otherwise off
1806
1807 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
1808
1809 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1810 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1811 for ReusePort=
1812
1813 * cgroups:
1814 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
1815 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1816 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1817 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1818 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1819 the hierarchies of child processes
1820 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1821 maybe use them for user@.service
1822
1823 * transient units:
1824 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
1825
1826 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1827
1828 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1829
1830 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1831
1832 * 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
1833
1834 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1835 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
1836 path anyway.
1837
1838 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
1839
1840 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1841
1842 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1843
1844 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1845
1846 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1847
1848 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1849
1850 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1851 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1852 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1853
1854 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1855 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1856
1857 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1858
1859 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1860
1861 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1862
1863 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1864 needs to be auto-respawned?
1865
1866 * pid1:
1867 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1868 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1869 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1870 that are not supported...
1871 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1872 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Use case:
1873 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1874 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1875 - move PAM code into its own binary
1876 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1877 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1878 - Support --test based on current system state
1879 - 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().
1880 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1881 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1882 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1883 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1884 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1885 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1886 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1887 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1888 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1889 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1890 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1891 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1892
1893 * unit files:
1894 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1895 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1896 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1897 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1898 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1899 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1900 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1901 - introduce Type=pid-file
1902 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1903 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1904 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1905
1906 * timer units:
1907 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
1908 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1909
1910 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1911
1912 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1913
1914 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1915
1916 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1917
1918 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1919
1920 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1921
1922 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1923
1924 * test/:
1925 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
1926
1927 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
1928 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
1929 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1930 destination.
1931
1932 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1933 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1934
1935 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1936
1937 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1938 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1939 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1940
1941 * BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1942 compliant boot loader is installed.
1943
1944 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? use case:
1945 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1946 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1947 that automatically.
1948
1949 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
1950
1951 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
1952
1953 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1954
1955 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
1956
1957 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1958
1959 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1960
1961 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1962
1963 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1964
1965 * sd-bus:
1966 - EBADSLT handling
1967 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1968 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1969 - 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
1970 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1971 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1972 - longer term: priority inheritance
1973 - dbus spec updates:
1974 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
1975 - path escaping
1976 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1977
1978 * sd-event
1979 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1980 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1981 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1982 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1983 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1984 here:
1985 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1986
1987 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1988 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1989
1990 * document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
1991
1992 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1993
1994 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1995
1996 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1997
1998 * EFI:
1999 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
2000 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
2001 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
2002 * bootctl
2003 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
2004
2005 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
2006
2007 * bootctl:
2008 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
2009 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
2010 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
2011
2012 * logind:
2013 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
2014 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
2015 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
2016 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
2017 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
2018 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
2019 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
2020 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
2021 needs setuid().
2022 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
2023 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
2024 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
2025 complete.
2026 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2027 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2028 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
2029 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
2030 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2031 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2032 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2033 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2034 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2035 relogins
2036 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
2037 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
2038 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
2039 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
2040
2041 * move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2042
2043 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2044 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2045 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2046
2047 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2048 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2049
2050 * journal:
2051 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
2052 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2053 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2054 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2055 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
2056 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
2057 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2058 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2059 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
2060 message that works, but already after a short timeout
2061 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2062 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
2063 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
2064 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
2065 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
2066 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
2067 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
2068 - 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.
2069 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2070 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
2071 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2072 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2073 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2074 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
2075 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
2076 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
2077 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
2078 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2079 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2080 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2081 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2082 to syslog when it works again.
2083 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2084 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2085 journals in.
2086 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2087 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2088 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2089 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2090 the most common operations.
2091 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
2092 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2093 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2094 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2095 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2096 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2097 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2098 operation.
2099 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
2100 written to as FAIL, but instead show that they are being written to.
2101 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2102 binary logs data
2103 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
2104 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2105 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2106 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2107 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
2108 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
2109
2110 * journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2111 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2112
2113 * Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2114 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2115 validated via TPM.
2116
2117 * rework journalctl -M to be based on a machined method that generates a mount
2118 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2119 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2120
2121 * journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2122 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2123 cursors as they happen.
2124
2125 * journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2126 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2127 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2128 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2129 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2130 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2131 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2132 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2133 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2134
2135 * in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2136 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2137 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2138 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
2139 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
2140 log record, adjusted by the delta declared in the structured log record.
2141
2142 * in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2143 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2144 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2145 records, to be able to order them.
2146
2147 * journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2148 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2149 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2150 be safely written to disk, then.
2151
2152 * hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2153 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2154 inspiration from IMA log)
2155
2156 * sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2157 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2158 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2159
2160 * maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
2161 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
2162 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
2163 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2164 for doing that.
2165
2166 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2167 log.c and sd-journal-send
2168
2169 * journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2170 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2171 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2172 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2173 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2174 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2175 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2176 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2177 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2178 an NTP sync is acquired.
2179
2180 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
2181
2182 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2183 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2184 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2185
2186 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2187 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2188 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2189 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2190 cgroup.
2191
2192 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2193 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2194 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2195 logging.
2196
2197 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2198
2199 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2200 from the SIGBUS handler
2201
2202 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
2203 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2204 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2205 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2206
2207 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2208 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2209
2210 * homed:
2211 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2212 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2213 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
2214 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2215 - create on activate?
2216 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2217 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2218 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2219 systemd --user is shut down.
2220 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2221 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2222 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2223 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2224 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2225 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2226 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2227 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2228 - query password from kernel keyring first
2229 - update even if record is "absent"
2230 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2231 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2232 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2233 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2234 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
2235 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2236 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2237 doesn't mean user B sees it
2238 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
2239 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2240 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2241 signature
2242 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2243 and insert a local signature instead.
2244 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2245 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2246 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2247 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2248 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2249 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2250 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2251 easily?
2252 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2253 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2254 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2255 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2256 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2257 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2258 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
2259 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2260 can easily set overall quota for all users
2261 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2262 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
2263 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
2264 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
2265 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2266 large.
2267 - add "homectl unbind" command to remove local user record of an inactive
2268 home dir
2269
2270 * add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2271 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2272 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2273
2274 * systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
2275
2276 * systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2277 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2278 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2279 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2280
2281 * systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2282
2283 * systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2284 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2285 something goes wrong on the way.
2286
2287 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2288 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2289 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2290 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2291
2292 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2293 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2294 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2295 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2296 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2297 automatically.
2298
2299 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2300 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2301
2302 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2303 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2304 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2305 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2306 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2307 fails to apply use the latter.
2308
2309 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2310 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2311
2312 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2313 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2314
2315 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2316 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
2317 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
2318
2319 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2320 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2321
2322 * systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
2323 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2324 during boot.
2325
2326 * systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2327
2328 * document:
2329 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
2330 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2331 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
2332 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
2333 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2334 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
2335 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2336 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
2337 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2338 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
2339 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
2340 - document root=gpt-auto properly
2341
2342 * systemctl:
2343 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2344 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2345 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2346 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2347 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2348 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2349 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
2350 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
2351 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
2352 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
2353
2354 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2355 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2356 it should skip the variant type string though.
2357
2358 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2359 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2360 the slices, and the units attached to them.
2361
2362 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2363 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2364 wait to retrieve their exit data.
2365
2366 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2367 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
2368
2369 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2370 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2371 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2372 do, for example)
2373
2374 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2375 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2376 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2377 returning from the "systemctl stop".
2378
2379 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2380
2381 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2382
2383 * unit install:
2384 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2385 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
2386
2387 * nspawn:
2388 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2389 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2390 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2391 from the kernel's logs.
2392 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2393 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2394 interface be missing
2395 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2396 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2397 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2398 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2399 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2400 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2401 PID 1...
2402 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2403 running, remove them when shut down.
2404 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2405 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2406 startup.
2407 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2408 or so, freeze the payload too.
2409 - support time namespaces
2410 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2411 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2412 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2413 "machinectl shell"
2414 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2415 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2416 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2417 - greater control over selinux label?
2418 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2419 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2420 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2421 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2422 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2423 host TPM.
2424 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2425 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2426 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2427 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2428 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2429 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2430 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2431 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
2432 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2433 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
2434 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2435 or two sockets.
2436 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
2437
2438 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2439 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2440 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2441 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2442 anything like that.
2443
2444 * machined:
2445 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2446 removed or added to an existing machine
2447 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2448 difference host, via ssh
2449 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2450 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2451 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2452 question
2453 - "machinectl history"
2454 - "machinectl diff"
2455 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2456 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2457
2458 * udev:
2459 - move to LGPL
2460 - kill scsi_id
2461 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
2462 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
2463 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
2464 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
2465
2466 * coredump:
2467 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
2468 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
2469 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
2470
2471 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2472
2473 * tmpfiles:
2474 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
2475 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
2476 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
2477 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2478 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2479 calls follow symlinks.
2480 - add --test mode
2481 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2482 project quota
2483 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
2484 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2485 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
2486
2487 * udev-link-config:
2488 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2489 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2490 on Path= matching
2491
2492 * sd-rtnl:
2493 - add support for more attribute types
2494 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
2495
2496 * networkd:
2497 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2498 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
2499 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
2500 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
2501 - work with non-Ethernet devices
2502 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
2503 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2504 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2505 - expose in the API the following bits:
2506 - option 15, domain name
2507 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
2508 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2509 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2510 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2511 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2512 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2513 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
2514 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
2515
2516 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2517
2518 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2519
2520 * dhcp:
2521 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
2522
2523 * dhcp6:
2524 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2525 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2526 - write more test cases
2527 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
2528 - implement support for temporary addresses (IA_TA)
2529 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2530 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2531 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2532 or interface down
2533 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2534 this behavior
2535 - RouteTable= ?
2536
2537 * shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2538 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2539 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)