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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 * repart + cryptsetup: support file systems that are encrypted and use verity
137 on top. Usecase: confexts that shall be signed by the admin but also be
138 confidential. Then, add a new --make-ddi=confext-encrypted for this.
139
140 * systemd-pcrextend:
141 - support measuring to nvindex with PCR update semantics ("fake PCRs")
142 - add api for "allocating" such an nvindex
143 - once we have that start measuring every sysext we apply, every confext,
144 every RootImage= we apply, evey nspawn and so on. All in separate fake
145 PCRs.
146
147 * vmspawn:
148 - enable hyperv extension by default (https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/i386/hyperv.html)
149 - register with machined
150 - run in scope unit when invoked from command line, and machined registration is off
151 - support --directory= via virtiofs
152 - sd_notify support
153 - --ephemeral support
154 - --read-only support
155 - automatically suspend/resume the VM if the host suspends. Use logind
156 suspend inhibitor to implement this. request clean suspend by generating
157 suspend key presses.
158 - support for "real" networking via "-n" and --network-bridge=
159 - automatically run service "at the side" for swtpm
160 - translate SIGTERM to clean ACPI shutdown event
161
162 * systemd-pcrmachine should probably also measure the SMBIOS system UUID.
163
164 * sd-boot: allow synthesizing additional type1 entries via SMBIOS vendor strings
165
166 * storagetm:
167 - add USB mass storage device logic, so that all local disks are also exposed
168 as mass storage devices on systems that have a USB controller that can
169 operate in device mode
170 - add NVMe authentication
171 - show login details also via plymouth
172
173 * add support for activating nvme-oF devices at boot automatically via kernel
174 cmdline, and maybe even support a syntax such as
175 root=nvme:<trtype>:<traddr>:<trsvcid>:<nqn>:<partition> to boot directly from
176 nvme-oF
177
178 * pcrlock:
179 - make signed PCR work together with pcrlock
180 - add kernel-install plugin that automatically creates UKI .pcrlock file when
181 UKI is installed, and removes it when it is removed again
182 - automatically install PE measurement of sd-boot on "bootctl install"
183 - write generated pcrlock signature files to the ESP as credential, one for
184 each installed OS & pick up generated pcrlock signature file in sd-stub,
185 pass it via initrd to OS
186 - pre-calc sysext + kernel cmdline measurements
187 - pre-calc cryptsetup root key measurement
188 - maybe make systemd-repart generate .pcrlock for old and new GPT header in
189 /run?
190 - Add support for more than 8 branches per PCR OR
191 - add "systemd-pcrlock lock-kernel-current" or so which synthesizes .pcrlock
192 policy from currently booted kernel/event log, to close gap for first boot
193 for pre-built images
194
195 * add a new systemd-project@.service that is very similar to user@.service but
196 uses DynamicUser=1 and no PAMName= to invoke an unprivileged somewhat
197 light-weight service manager. Use HOME=/var/lib/systemd/projects/%i as home
198 dir. Similar for $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. Start project@%i.target. Use LogField= to
199 add a field identifying the project.
200
201 * logind: add a new dbus call Sleep() which automatically redirects to one of
202 Suspend(), Hibernate(), SuspendThenHibernate() depending on what is
203 available, and also subject to some local configuration in
204 logind.conf. Should default to SuspendThenHibernate() if available, and then
205 fallback to Suspend() and finally Hibernate() if not. Then expose this as
206 "systemctl sleep", and tell DEs to default to this.
207
208 * in sd-boot and sd-stub measure the SMBIOS vendor strings to some PCR (at
209 least some subset of them that look like systemd stuff), because apparently
210 some firmware does not, but systemd honours it. avoid duplicate measurement
211 by sd-boot and sd-stub by adding LoaderFeatures/StubFeatures flag for this,
212 so that sd-stub can avoid it if sd-boot already did it.
213
214 * cryptsetup: a mechanism that allows signing a volume key with some key that
215 has to be present in the kernel keyring, or similar, to ensure that confext
216 DDIs can be encrypted against the local SRK but signed with the admin's key
217 and thus can authenticated locally before they are decrypted.
218
219 * image policy should be extended to allow dictating *how* a disk is unlocked,
220 i.e. root=encrypted-tpm2+encrypted-fido2 would mean "root fs must be
221 encrypted and unlocked via fido2 or tpm2, but not otherwise"
222
223 * systemd-repart: add support for formatting dm-crypt + dm-integrity file
224 systems.
225
226 * homed: use systemd-storagetm to expose home dirs via nvme-tcp. Then,
227 teach homed/pam_systemd_homed with a user name such as
228 lennart%nvme_tcp_192.168.100.77_8787 to log in from any linux host with the
229 same home dir. Similar maybe for nbd, iscsi? this should then first ask for
230 the local root pw, to authenticate that logging in like this is ok, and would
231 then be followed by another password prompt asking for the user's own
232 password. Also, do something similar for CIFS: if you log in via
233 lennart%cifs-someserver_someshare, then set up the homed dir for it
234 automatically. The PAM module should update the user name used for login to
235 the short version once it set up the user. Some care should be taken, so that
236 the long version can be still be resolved via NSS afterwards, to deal with
237 PAM clients that do not support PAM sessions where PAM_USER changes half-way.
238
239 * redefine /var/lib/extensions/ as the dir one can place all three of sysext,
240 confext as well is multi-modal DDIs that qualify as both. Then introduce
241 /var/lib/sysexts/ which can be used to place only DDIs that shall be used as
242 sysext
243
244 * in pid1: move out all cgroup state settings from Unit into a new object
245 CGroupState or so which is allocated when we realize the unit into a cgroup,
246 and then remains referenced by it. The new object should also carry an fd to
247 the realized cgroup, to pin it (and later execute all cgroup operations over,
248 once we drop cgroupv1 compat).
249
250 * add new "systemd-ssh-generator", which allows basic ssh config via
251 credentials (host key). It generates sshd.socket for IP, but also
252 sshd-vsock.socket for listening on AF_VSOCK when running in a VM, and
253 sshd-unix.socket on AF_UNIX when running in a container. It also generates a
254 matching sshd.service file with a host key passed in on the cmdline via
255 credentials. Then, add a ssh_config drop-in that matches some suitable
256 hostname pattern and has a ProxyCommand set that allows connecting to any
257 local VM/container that way without any networking configured.
258
259 * Varlinkification of the following command line tools, to open them up to
260 other programs via IPC:
261 - bootctl
262 - journalctl (allowing journal read access via IPC)
263 - coredumpcl
264 - systemd-bless-boot
265 - systemd-measure
266 - systemd-creds (allowing clients to encrypt credentials locally)
267 - systemd-cryptenroll (to allow UIs to enroll FIDO2 keys and such)
268 - systemd-dissect
269 - systemd-sysupdate
270 - systemd-analyze
271 - kernel-install
272
273 * Varlink: add glue code to allow varlink clients to be authenticated via
274 Polkit by passing client pidfd over.
275
276 * in the service manager, pick up ERRNO= + BUSERROR= + VARLINKERROR= error
277 identifiers, and store them along with the exit status of a server and report
278 via "systemctl status".
279
280 * enumerate virtiofs devices during boot-up in a generator, and synthesize
281 mounts for rootfs, /usr/, /home/, /srv/ and some others from it, depending on
282 the "tag". (waits for: https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd/-/issues/128)
283
284 * automatically mount one virtiofs during early boot phase to /run/host/,
285 similar to how we do that for nspawn, based on some clear tag.
286
287 * add some service that makes an atomic snapshot of PCR state and event log up
288 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
289
290 * encode type1 entries in some UKI section to add additional entries to the
291 menu.
292
293 * Add ACL-based access management to .socket units. i.e. add AllowPeerUser= +
294 AllowPeerGroup= that installs additional user/group ACL entries on AF_UNIX
295 sockets.
296
297 * systemd-tpm2-setup should probably have a factory reset logic, i.e. when some
298 kernel command line option is set we reset the TPM (equivalent of tpm2_clear
299 -c owner?).
300
301 * systemd-tpm2-setup should support a mode where we refuse booting if the SRK
302 changed. (Must be opt-in, to not break systems which are supposed to be
303 migratable between PCs)
304
305 * when systemd-sysext learns mutable /usr/ (and systemd-confext mutable /etc/)
306 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
307 snapshot logic
308
309 * add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
310 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
311 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
312 i.e. without recompiling the kernel, taking an upstream OS' kernel and adding
313 a local key to it.
314
315 * PidRef conversion work:
316 - cg_pid_get_xyz()
317 - pid_from_same_root_fs()
318 - get_ctty_devnr()
319 - pid1: sd_notify() receiver should use SCM_PIDFD to authenticate client
320 - actually wait for POLLIN on pidref's pidfd in service logic
321 - exec_spawn() + safe_fork()
322 - openpt_allocate_in_namespace()
323 - sd_bus_creds
324 - unit_attach_pid_to_cgroup_via_bus()
325 - cg_attach() – requires new kernel feature
326 - varlink_get_peer_pid()
327
328 * ddi must be listed as block device fstype
329
330 * measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
331 mode.
332
333 * homed: add a basic form of secrets management to homed, that stores
334 secrets in $HOME somewhere, is protected by the accounts own authentication
335 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
336 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
337 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
338 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
339 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
340
341 * use sd-event ratelimit feature optionally for journal stream clients that log
342 too much
343
344 * systemd-mount should only consider modern file systems when mounting, similar
345 to systemd-dissect
346
347 * add another PE section ".fname" or so that encodes the intended filename for
348 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
349 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
350 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
351 control of the attacker.
352
353 * also include packaging metadata (á la
354 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
355 same JSON format.
356
357 * make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
358 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
359 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
360 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
361 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
362 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
363 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
364 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
365 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
366 newer.
367
368 * in sd-stub: optionally add support for a new PE section .keyring or so that
369 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
370 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
371 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
372 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
373 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
374 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
375 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
376
377 * resolved: take possession of some IPv6 ULA address (let's say
378 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
379 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
380
381 * introduce a .microcode PE section for sd-stub which we'll pass as first initrd
382 to the kernel which will then upload it to the CPU. This should be distinct
383 from .initrd to guarantee right ordering. also, and maybe more importantly
384 support .microcode in PE add-ons, so that a microcode update can be shipped
385 independently of any kernel.
386
387 * Maybe add SwitchRootEx() as new bus call that takes env vars to set for new
388 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
389 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
390 requested during switch root.
391
392 * introduce a .acpitable section for early ACPI table override
393
394 * add proper .osrel matching for PE addons. i.e. refuse applying an addon
395 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
396 matched against OS.
397
398 * figure out what to do about credentials sealed to PCRs in kexec + soft-reboot
399 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
400 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
401
402 * logind: when logging in, always take an fd to the home dir, to keep the dir
403 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
404 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
405 namespaces)
406
407 * mount most file systems with a restrictive uidmap. e.g. mount /usr/ with a
408 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
409
410 * mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
411 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
412 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
413
414 * fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
415 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
416 "*:foobar:*", to wildcard match both the start and the end of the string.
417 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
418 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
419 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
420
421 * mount /tmp/ and /var/tmp with a uidmap applied that blocks out "nobody" user
422 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
423 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
424 used transiently, never persistently.
425
426 * rework loopback support in fstab: when "loop" option is used, then
427 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
428 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
429 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
430 based on lo_file_name.
431
432 * remove tomoyo support, it's obsolete and unmaintained apparently
433
434 * In .socket units, add ConnectStream=, ConnectDatagram=,
435 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
436 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
437 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
438 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
439 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
440 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
441 activation-by-message id and similar.
442
443 * .service with invalid Sockets= starts successfully.
444
445 * landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
446 ability to write anywhere else below /run/. Similar for
447 StateDirectory=. Benefit would be clear delegation via unit files: services
448 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
449
450 * landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
451 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
452 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
453 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
454 similar behaviour for system services, too.
455
456 * Add systemd-mount@.service which is instantiated for a block device and
457 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
458 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
459
460 * udevd: extend memory pressure logic: also kill any idle worker processes
461
462 * udevadm: to make symlink querying with udevadm nicer:
463 - do not enable the pager for queries like 'udevadm info -q -r symlink'
464 - add mode with newlines instead of spaces (for grep)?
465
466 * SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
467 localed, oomd, timedated.
468
469 * repart/gpt-auto/DDIs: maybe introduce a concept of "extension" partitions,
470 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
471 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
472 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
473 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
474 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
475 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
476 from the uuid of the original partition it extends. Inspiration for this is
477 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
478 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
479 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
480 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
481 access.
482
483 * Use CLONE_INTO_CGROUP to spawn systemd-executor, once glibc supports it in
484 posix_spawn().
485
486 * Make nspawn to a frontend for systemd-executor, so that we have to ways into
487 the executor: via unit files/dbus/varlink through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI
488 through nspawn.
489
490 * sd-stub: detect if we are running with uefi console output on serial, and if so
491 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
492
493 * add a utility that can be used with the kernel's
494 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
495 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
496 for all umh processes.
497
498 * systemd-shutdown: keep sending sd_notify() status updates immediately before
499 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
500
501 * homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
502 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
503 resize.
504
505 * homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
506 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
507
508 * timesyncd: when saving/restoring clock try to take boot time into account.
509 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
510 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
511 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
512 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
513 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
514 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
515 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
516 system actually reset.
517
518 * systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
519 userspace to allow ordering boots (for example in journalctl). The counter
520 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
521
522 * pam_systemd_home: add module parameter to control whether to only accept
523 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
524 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
525 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
526
527 * sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
528 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
529 is then useful for network boot, by embedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
530 in sd-boot, which reference remote kernels.
531
532 * maybe prohibit setuid() to the nobody user, to lock things down, via seccomp.
533 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
534 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
535 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
536 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
537
538 * sd-boot: add a new PE section .bls or so that carries a cpio with additional
539 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
540 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
541 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
542 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
543
544 * sd-boot: also allow passing in the cpio as in the previous item via SMBIOS
545
546 * add a new EFI tool "sd-fetch" or so. It looks in a PE section ".url" for an
547 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
548 Use case: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
549 binaries in place of UKIs, and download them on-the-fly.
550
551 * maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
552 cmdline. use case: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
553
554 * systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
555 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
556 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
557
558 * sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
559 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
560
561 * tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
562 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
563 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
564 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
565 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
566 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
567 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
568 usual.
569
570 * Lennart: big blog story about DDIs
571
572 * Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
573
574 * Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
575
576 * bpf: see if we can use BPF to solve the syslog message cgroup source problem:
577 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
578 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
579 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
580 sockaddr.
581
582 * bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
583 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
584 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
585 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
586 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
587 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
588 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
589 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
590 try to use inode from there.
591
592 * extend the verity signature partition to permit multiple signatures for the
593 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
594
595 * consider adding a new partition type, just for /opt/ for usage in system
596 extensions
597
598 * gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
599 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
600 for the root fs or /usr/.
601
602 * dissection policy should enforce that unlocking can only take place by
603 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
604 combination thereof.
605
606 * make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
607 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
608 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
609 ahead of time.
610
611 * systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
612 aforementioned purpose.
613
614 * in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
615 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
616
617 * Add systemd-sysupdate-initrd.service or so that runs systemd-sysupdate in the
618 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
619 to figure out:
620 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
621 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
622 subsequent boots?
623
624 * provide an API (probably IPC) to apps to encrypt/decrypt
625 credentials. use case: allow bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd
626 that way, without shelling out to our tools.
627
628 * revisit default PCR bindings in cryptenroll and systemd-creds. Currently they
629 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
630 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
631 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
632 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
633 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
634 default to PCR 15 at least if sd-stub is used (i.e. bind to system identity),
635 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
636 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
637 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
638
639 * To mimic the new tpm2-measure-pcr= crypttab option add the same to veritytab
640 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
641 used)
642
643 * We should start measuring all services, containers, and system extensions we
644 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
645 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
646 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
647 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
648
649 * bootspec: permit graceful "update" from type #2 to type #1. If both a type #1
650 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
651 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
652 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
653 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
654 should win over vendor defaults.
655
656 * write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
657 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
658 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
659
660 * automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
661 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
662
663 * implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
664 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
665 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
666 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
667 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
668 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
669
670 * add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
671 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
672 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
673
674 * systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
675
676 * systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
677 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
678 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Use case: remove secondary OS
679 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
680
681 * systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
682 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
683 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
684 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
685 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
686 only one for each OS.
687
688 * systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
689 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
690 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
691 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
692 boot, for the next.
693
694 * systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
695 similar behind it, instead of http.
696
697 * systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
698 boot, or on first boot.
699
700 * in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
701 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
702
703 * we probably needs .pcrpkeyrd or so as additional PE section in UKIs,
704 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
705 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
706 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
707 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
708 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
709 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
710 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
711 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
712 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
713 until users are allowed to log in).
714
715 * Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
716 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
717
718 * add support for asymmetric LUKS2 TPM based encryption. i.e. allow preparing
719 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
720 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
721 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Use case: systemd-confext
722 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
723 be activated on one specific host (which can be used for installing a bunch
724 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
725 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
726 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
727 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
728 automatically invalidated outside of it.
729
730 * maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
731 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
732 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
733 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
734 enhanced remote attestation quote. Use case: a simple orchestrator could use
735 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
736 have the orchestrator collect these reports centrally over a 3min time
737 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
738 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
739 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
740 proposed above, so that it can only be activated on the specific host, if the
741 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
742 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
743 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
744 config and collected reports in the last 3min time window only, and thus can
745 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
746 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
747 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
748 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
749 and via the time window TPM logic invalidated if node doesn't keep itself
750 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
751
752 * in the initrd, once the rootfs encryption key has been measured to PCR 15,
753 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
754
755 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to use sd_event_set_signal_exit(), instead
756 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
757
758 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
759 instead of manual blocking.
760
761 * sd-boot: for each installed OS, grey out older entries (i.e. all but the
762 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
763
764 * automatically propagate LUKS password credential into cryptsetup from host
765 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
766 supplied password.
767
768 * add ability to path_is_valid() to classify paths that refer to a dir from
769 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
770 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
771 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
772
773 * systemd-measure: allow operating with PEM certificates in addition to PEM
774 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
775 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
776 convenience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
777
778 * systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
779 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
780 automatically derived from --private-key=).
781
782 * push people to use ".sysext.raw" as suffix for sysext DDIs (DDI =
783 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
784 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
785
786 * Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
787 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
788 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
789 use as additional search condition. Use case: images that combined a sysext
790 partition with a portable service partition in one.
791
792 * On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
793 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
794 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
795 modules
796
797 * for systemd-confext: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
798 sig using squashfs-tools-ng's library. Maybe just systemd-repart called under
799 a new name with a built-in config?
800
801 * lock down acceptable encrypted credentials at boot, via simple allowlist,
802 maybe on kernel command line:
803 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
804 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
805
806 * Add support for extra verity configuration options to systemd-repart (FEC,
807 hash type, etc)
808
809 * chase(): take inspiration from path_extract_filename() and return
810 O_DIRECTORY if input path contains trailing slash.
811
812 * chase(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
813 but final node is not a directory
814
815 * document in boot loader spec that symlinks in XBOOTLDR/ESP are not OK even if
816 non-VFAT fs is used.
817
818 * measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
819
820 * measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
821 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
822
823 * pick up creds from EFI vars
824
825 * Add and pickup tpm2 metadata for creds structure.
826
827 * sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
828 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
829 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
830 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
831 affect PCR values.
832
833 * systemd-measure tool:
834 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
835
836 * in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
837 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
838
839 * sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
840 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
841
842 * sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
843 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
844
845 * sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
846 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
847
848 * maybe add new flags to gpt partition tables for rootfs and usrfs indicating
849 purpose, i.e. whether something is supposed to be bootable in a VM, on
850 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
851 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
852 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
853 use it.
854
855 * sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
856 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
857
858 * add "systemd-sysext identify" verb, that you can point on any file in /usr/
859 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
860 what it was signed.
861
862 * systemd-creds: extend encryption logic to support asymmetric
863 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
864 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
865 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
866 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
867 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
868 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
869 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
870 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
871 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
872 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
873 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
874
875 * building on top of the above, the pub/priv key pair generated on the TPM2
876 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
877
878 * Process credentials in:
879 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
880 via the credentials logic.
881 • crypttab-generator: allow defining additional crypttab-like volumes via
882 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
883 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
884 • run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
885 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
886 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
887 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
888 • repart: allow defining additional partitions via credential
889 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
890 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
891 file system paths to enable on start.
892 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
893 usr=
894 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
895 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
896 register if not registered yet. Use case: deploy a system, and add an
897 account one can directly log into.
898 • in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
899 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
900 pre-built kernels.
901
902 * define a JSON format for units, separating out unit definitions from unit
903 runtime state. Then, expose it:
904
905 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
906 about the unit.
907 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
908 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
909 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
910 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
911 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
912 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
913
914 * Add SUPPORT_END_URL= field to os-release with more *actionable* information
915 what to do if support ended
916
917 * pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
918 login time, à la motd
919
920 * sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
921 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
922 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Use case: embed sd-boot in the
923 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
924 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
925
926 * mount /var/ from initrd, so that we can apply sysext and stuff before the
927 initrd transition. Specifically:
928 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
929 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
930 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
931
932 * make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
933 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
934 service restarts, hot reboot, cold reboots (depending on configuration): the
935 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
936 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
937 depending on desired level of persistency.
938
939 * sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
940 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
941 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
942 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
943 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
944 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
945 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
946 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
947
948 * if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
949 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
950 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
951 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
952
953 * add ability to set hostname with suffix derived from machine id at boot
954
955 * add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
956
957 * homed/userdb: maybe define a "companion" dir for home directories where apps
958 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
959 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
960 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Use case: container
961 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
962 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
963 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
964 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
965 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
966 by. Inform user code about path to this companion dir via env var, so that
967 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
968 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
969 not unprivileged code.
970
971 * given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
972 that hooks up userdbctl ssh-key stuff.
973
974 * maybe add support for binding and connecting AF_UNIX sockets in the file
975 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
976 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
977 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
978
979 * add a proper concept of a "developer" mode, i.e. where cryptographic
980 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
981 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
982 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
983 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
984 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
985 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
986 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is the only way to enter developer mode, by
987 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
988
989 * services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
990 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
991 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
992 order.
993
994 * update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
995 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
996 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
997
998 * sd-event: compat wd reuse in inotify code: keep a set of removed watch
999 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
1000 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
1001 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
1002 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
1003 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
1004 IN_IGNORED again)
1005
1006 * for vendor-built signed initrds:
1007 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
1008 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
1009 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
1010 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
1011 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
1012 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
1013 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
1014 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
1015 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
1016 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
1017 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
1018
1019 * Maybe extend the service protocol to support handling of some specific SIGRT
1020 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
1021 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
1022
1023 * sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
1024 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
1025 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
1026 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
1027 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
1028 directly to host service manager.
1029
1030 * sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
1031 no api to query the device id
1032
1033 * sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1034 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1035 also be queried.
1036
1037 * sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
1038 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1039 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1040 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
1041
1042 * sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
1043 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1044 latter).
1045
1046 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1047
1048 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
1049
1050 * support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
1051 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
1052 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
1053 generated by GNU sha256sums.
1054
1055 * sd-boot: maybe add support for embedding the various auxiliary resources we
1056 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
1057 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
1058 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
1059 to the menu. Use case: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
1060 UEFI HTTP boot.
1061
1062 * maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
1063 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
1064 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
1065 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
1066 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
1067 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
1068 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
1069 hence cheap for enumeration.
1070
1071 * sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
1072
1073 * systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
1074 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1075 words: show partition labels).
1076
1077 * maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
1078 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
1079 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
1080 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. Use case:
1081 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
1082 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
1083 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
1084
1085 * deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
1086
1087 * systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
1088
1089 * per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1090 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1091 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1092 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1093 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1094 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1095 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1096 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1097 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1098 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1099
1100 * doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
1101 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
1102
1103 * doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
1104 jobs, units
1105
1106 * bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
1107 sync, i.e. parse out architecture field in sd-boot (currently only done in
1108 userspace)
1109
1110 * automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
1111
1112 * add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
1113 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1114
1115 * Enable RestrictFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
1116 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
1117
1118 * Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1119 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
1120
1121 * cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
1122 internal clock.
1123
1124 * man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1125 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1126
1127 * sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1128 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1129 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1130 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
1131
1132 * userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
1133 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1134 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1135
1136 * maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
1137 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
1138 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
1139 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
1140 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
1141 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
1142 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
1143 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
1144 thread:
1145 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
1146 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
1147 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
1148 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
1149 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
1150 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
1151
1152 * if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
1153 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
1154 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
1155
1156 * homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
1157 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
1158 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
1159 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
1160 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
1161 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
1162 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
1163 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
1164 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
1165 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
1166 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1167 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1168 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1169 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1170 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
1171
1172 * add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
1173 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
1174 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Use case: drop a root user JSON record there,
1175 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
1176 for debugging purposes. Other use case: boot into qemu with regular user
1177 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
1178
1179 * drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
1180 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
1181 dep in the base OS image)
1182
1183 * add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
1184 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1185 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1186 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1187 on-disk storage.
1188
1189 * userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
1190 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1191 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1192 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1193 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1194
1195 * portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
1196 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1197 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
1198
1199 * logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
1200 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
1201 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
1202 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
1203 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
1204 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
1205 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
1206
1207 * /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
1208 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1209 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1210 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1211
1212 * we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
1213 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1214 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1215 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1216 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1217 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1218 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1219 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1220 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1221 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1222 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
1223
1224 * in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
1225 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1226 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
1227
1228 * rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
1229
1230 * PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
1231
1232 * when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1233 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1234 that images cannot be misused.
1235
1236 * New udev block device symlink names:
1237 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
1238 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1239 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1240 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1241
1242 * sysupdate:
1243 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1244 - support casync as download mechanism
1245 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1246 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1247 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1248 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1249 update component, since otherwise sysupdate.d/ files would override the
1250 host's update files.)
1251 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1252 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1253 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1254 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1255
1256 * in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1257
1258 * DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1259 make dirs appear under right UID.
1260
1261 * systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1262 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1263
1264 * introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
1265 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1266 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1267 already have it.
1268
1269 * whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1270 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1271
1272 * Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
1273
1274 * Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1275 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1276 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1277 /proc/self/fd/3
1278
1279 * add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1280 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1281 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1282
1283 * Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1284 that is deleted in the fs. Use case would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1285
1286 * importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1287 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1288
1289 * add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1290 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1291 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1292 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1293 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
1294
1295 * expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1296
1297 * credentials system:
1298 - acquire from EFI variable?
1299 - acquire via ask-password?
1300 - acquire creds via keyring?
1301 - pass creds via keyring?
1302 - pass creds via memfd?
1303 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1304 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1305 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1306 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1307 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1308 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
1309 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
1310 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
1311
1312 * add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
1313 firmware indicates there is one.
1314
1315 * TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1316 and such
1317
1318 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
1319
1320 * cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
1321
1322 * cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
1323 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1324
1325 * cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1326 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
1327
1328 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1329
1330 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1331 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1332
1333 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1334 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1335
1336 * cryptsetup:
1337 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1338 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1339
1340 * systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
1341
1342 * Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1343 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1344
1345 * special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
1346 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1347
1348 * add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
1349 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1350
1351 * make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1352
1353 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1354
1355 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1356
1357 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1358 when it exits
1359
1360 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1361 o turn into dlopen() deps:
1362 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
1363 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
1364 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1365 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1366 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1367
1368 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1369 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1370 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1371
1372 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1373 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1374
1375 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1376
1377 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1378 specific service
1379
1380 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1381 exists and responds.
1382
1383 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
1384 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
1385
1386 * unify on openssl:
1387 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1388 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1389 gnutls
1390 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
1391
1392 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1393 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1394
1395 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1396 realname substr searches in varlink API
1397
1398 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1399
1400 * userdb: allow existence checks
1401
1402 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
1403
1404 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1405 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1406 initrd had set.
1407
1408 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
1409 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
1410 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1411 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1412 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1413 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1414
1415 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1416 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1417 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1418
1419 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1420 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1421 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1422 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1423 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1424 source.
1425
1426 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1427 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1428 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1429
1430 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1431
1432 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1433 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1434 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1435 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1436 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1437 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1438 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1439 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1440 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1441 hibernation mode. (see
1442 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1443 section 10.2.2.8 and
1444 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1445 at the end).
1446
1447 * We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1448 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
1449
1450 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
1451
1452 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1453 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1454 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1455 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1456 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1457 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1458 exec().
1459
1460 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1461
1462 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1463 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1464
1465 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1466 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1467
1468 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1469 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1470 root.
1471
1472 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1473 is issued.
1474
1475 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1476
1477 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1478
1479 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1480 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1481 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
1482
1483 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
1484 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1485 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1486
1487 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1488
1489 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1490 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1491
1492 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
1493 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
1494 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
1495 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
1496
1497 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1498
1499 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1500
1501 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1502 non-zero "tries done" count
1503
1504 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1505 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1506 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1507 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1508 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1509 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1510 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1511 CODE_FILE.
1512
1513 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1514 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1515 some explanatory text online.
1516
1517 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1518
1519 * hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
1520
1521 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1522 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1523
1524 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1525 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1526 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1527 files and suchlike we operate on.
1528
1529 * importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1530
1531 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1532
1533 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1534 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1535
1536 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
1537 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
1538
1539 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1540 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1541 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1542 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1543 unlinked from any dir.
1544
1545 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
1546
1547 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1548
1549 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1550
1551 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
1552 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
1553 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1554 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
1555 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
1556
1557 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1558
1559 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1560 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1561
1562 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1563 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1564 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1565 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1566 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1567 different slice too by default. Use case: people who want to put resources on
1568 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1569 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1570
1571 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1572 for root, but only then.
1573
1574 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1575 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1576
1577 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1578 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1579
1580 * sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1581 only when used. Add unit tests.
1582
1583 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1584 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1585
1586 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1587 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1588 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1589 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1590 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1591
1592 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
1593
1594 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
1595
1596 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1597 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1598
1599 * blog about fd store and restartable services
1600
1601 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1602
1603 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1604 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1605
1606 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1607 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1608 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1609 ID is available.
1610
1611 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1612 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1613 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1614
1615 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1616 parameters
1617
1618 * maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
1619 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
1620 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1621 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1622 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1623 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1624 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
1625
1626 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1627 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1628
1629 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1630 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1631 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1632
1633 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1634 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1635
1636 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1637
1638 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1639 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1640 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1641
1642 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1643 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1644
1645 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1646 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1647 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1648 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1649 natural habitat.
1650
1651 * gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1652 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
1653
1654 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1655 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1656 relative to the configured default value.
1657
1658 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1659
1660 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
1661
1662 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1663
1664 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1665
1666 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
1667
1668 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
1669
1670 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
1671
1672 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
1673
1674 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1675 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1676 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1677
1678 * Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1679 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1680
1681 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
1682
1683 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1684 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1685 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1686 mapping to work.
1687
1688 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1689
1690 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1691
1692 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1693
1694 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1695 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1696
1697 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1698 reload the unit file anyway
1699
1700 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1701
1702 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1703
1704 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1705 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1706
1707 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
1708 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
1709 specifications.
1710
1711 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1712
1713 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1714
1715 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
1716 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
1717 prefixed with /sys generally special.
1718 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
1719
1720 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1721
1722 * docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
1723
1724 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1725 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1726 state.
1727 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
1728
1729 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1730 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1731 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1732 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1733 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1734
1735 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1736
1737 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
1738 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
1739
1740 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
1741 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
1742
1743 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
1744 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
1745
1746 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1747
1748 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1749 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1750
1751 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
1752
1753 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
1754
1755 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
1756
1757 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1758 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1759
1760 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1761
1762 * resolved:
1763 - mDNS/DNS-SD
1764 - service registration
1765 - service/domain/types browsing
1766 - avahi compat
1767 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
1768 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1769 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1770 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
1771 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
1772 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
1773
1774 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
1775
1776 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1777
1778 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1779
1780 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1781
1782 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1783
1784 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1785 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
1786
1787 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1788
1789 * gpt-auto-generator:
1790 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
1791 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
1792
1793 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1794 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1795 when it is otherwise off
1796
1797 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
1798
1799 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1800 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1801 for ReusePort=
1802
1803 * cgroups:
1804 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
1805 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1806 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1807 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1808 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1809 the hierarchies of child processes
1810 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1811 maybe use them for user@.service
1812
1813 * transient units:
1814 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
1815
1816 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1817
1818 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1819
1820 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1821
1822 * 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
1823
1824 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1825 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
1826 path anyway.
1827
1828 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
1829
1830 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1831
1832 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1833
1834 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1835
1836 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1837
1838 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1839
1840 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1841 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1842 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1843
1844 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1845 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1846
1847 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1848
1849 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1850
1851 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1852
1853 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1854 needs to be auto-respawned?
1855
1856 * pid1:
1857 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1858 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1859 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1860 that are not supported...
1861 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1862 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Use case:
1863 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1864 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1865 - move PAM code into its own binary
1866 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1867 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1868 - Support --test based on current system state
1869 - 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().
1870 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1871 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1872 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1873 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1874 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1875 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1876 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1877 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1878 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1879 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1880 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1881 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1882
1883 * unit files:
1884 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1885 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1886 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1887 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1888 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1889 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1890 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1891 - introduce Type=pid-file
1892 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1893 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1894 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1895
1896 * timer units:
1897 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
1898 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1899
1900 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1901
1902 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1903
1904 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1905
1906 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1907
1908 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1909
1910 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1911
1912 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1913
1914 * test/:
1915 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
1916
1917 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
1918 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
1919 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1920 destination.
1921
1922 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1923 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1924
1925 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1926
1927 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1928 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1929 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1930
1931 * BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1932 compliant boot loader is installed.
1933
1934 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? use case:
1935 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1936 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1937 that automatically.
1938
1939 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
1940
1941 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
1942
1943 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1944
1945 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
1946
1947 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1948
1949 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1950
1951 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1952
1953 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1954
1955 * sd-bus:
1956 - EBADSLT handling
1957 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1958 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1959 - 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
1960 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1961 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1962 - longer term: priority inheritance
1963 - dbus spec updates:
1964 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
1965 - path escaping
1966 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1967
1968 * sd-event
1969 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1970 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1971 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1972 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1973 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1974 here:
1975 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1976
1977 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1978 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1979
1980 * document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
1981
1982 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1983
1984 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1985
1986 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1987
1988 * EFI:
1989 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1990 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
1991 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
1992 * bootctl
1993 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
1994
1995 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
1996
1997 * bootctl:
1998 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
1999 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
2000 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
2001
2002 * logind:
2003 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
2004 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
2005 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
2006 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
2007 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
2008 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
2009 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
2010 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
2011 needs setuid().
2012 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
2013 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
2014 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
2015 complete.
2016 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2017 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2018 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
2019 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
2020 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2021 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2022 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2023 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2024 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2025 relogins
2026 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
2027 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
2028 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
2029 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
2030
2031 * move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2032
2033 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2034 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2035 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2036
2037 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2038 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2039
2040 * journal:
2041 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
2042 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2043 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2044 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2045 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
2046 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
2047 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2048 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2049 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
2050 message that works, but already after a short timeout
2051 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2052 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
2053 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
2054 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
2055 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
2056 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
2057 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
2058 - 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.
2059 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2060 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
2061 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2062 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2063 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2064 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
2065 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
2066 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
2067 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
2068 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2069 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2070 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2071 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2072 to syslog when it works again.
2073 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2074 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2075 journals in.
2076 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2077 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2078 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2079 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2080 the most common operations.
2081 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
2082 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2083 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2084 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2085 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2086 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2087 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2088 operation.
2089 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
2090 written to as FAIL, but instead show that they are being written to.
2091 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2092 binary logs data
2093 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
2094 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2095 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2096 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2097 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
2098 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
2099
2100 * journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2101 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2102
2103 * Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2104 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2105 validated via TPM.
2106
2107 * rework journalctl -M to be based on a machined method that generates a mount
2108 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2109 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2110
2111 * journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2112 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2113 cursors as they happen.
2114
2115 * journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2116 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2117 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2118 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2119 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2120 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2121 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2122 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2123 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2124
2125 * in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2126 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2127 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2128 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
2129 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
2130 log record, adjusted by the delta declared in the structured log record.
2131
2132 * in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2133 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2134 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2135 records, to be able to order them.
2136
2137 * journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2138 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2139 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2140 be safely written to disk, then.
2141
2142 * hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2143 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2144 inspiration from IMA log)
2145
2146 * sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2147 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2148 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2149
2150 * maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
2151 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
2152 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
2153 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2154 for doing that.
2155
2156 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2157 log.c and sd-journal-send
2158
2159 * journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2160 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2161 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2162 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2163 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2164 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2165 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2166 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2167 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2168 an NTP sync is acquired.
2169
2170 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
2171
2172 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2173 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2174 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2175
2176 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2177 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2178 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2179 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2180 cgroup.
2181
2182 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2183 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2184 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2185 logging.
2186
2187 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2188
2189 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2190 from the SIGBUS handler
2191
2192 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
2193 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2194 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2195 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2196
2197 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2198 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2199
2200 * homed:
2201 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2202 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2203 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
2204 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2205 - create on activate?
2206 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2207 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2208 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2209 systemd --user is shut down.
2210 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2211 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2212 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2213 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2214 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2215 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2216 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2217 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2218 - query password from kernel keyring first
2219 - update even if record is "absent"
2220 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2221 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2222 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2223 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2224 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
2225 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2226 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2227 doesn't mean user B sees it
2228 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
2229 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2230 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2231 signature
2232 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2233 and insert a local signature instead.
2234 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2235 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2236 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2237 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2238 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2239 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2240 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2241 easily?
2242 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2243 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2244 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2245 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2246 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2247 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2248 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
2249 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2250 can easily set overall quota for all users
2251 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2252 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
2253 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
2254 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
2255 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2256 large.
2257 - add "homectl unbind" command to remove local user record of an inactive
2258 home dir
2259
2260 * add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2261 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2262 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2263
2264 * systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
2265
2266 * systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2267 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2268 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2269 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2270
2271 * systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2272
2273 * systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2274 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2275 something goes wrong on the way.
2276
2277 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2278 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2279 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2280 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2281
2282 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2283 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2284 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2285 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2286 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2287 automatically.
2288
2289 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2290 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2291
2292 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2293 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2294 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2295 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2296 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2297 fails to apply use the latter.
2298
2299 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2300 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2301
2302 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2303 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2304
2305 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2306 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
2307 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
2308
2309 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2310 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2311
2312 * systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
2313 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2314 during boot.
2315
2316 * systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2317
2318 * document:
2319 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
2320 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2321 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
2322 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
2323 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2324 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
2325 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2326 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
2327 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2328 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
2329 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
2330 - document root=gpt-auto properly
2331
2332 * systemctl:
2333 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2334 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2335 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2336 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2337 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2338 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2339 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
2340 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
2341 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
2342 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
2343
2344 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2345 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2346 it should skip the variant type string though.
2347
2348 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2349 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2350 the slices, and the units attached to them.
2351
2352 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2353 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2354 wait to retrieve their exit data.
2355
2356 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2357 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
2358
2359 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2360 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2361 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2362 do, for example)
2363
2364 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2365 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2366 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2367 returning from the "systemctl stop".
2368
2369 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2370
2371 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2372
2373 * unit install:
2374 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2375 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
2376
2377 * nspawn:
2378 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2379 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2380 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2381 from the kernel's logs.
2382 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2383 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2384 interface be missing
2385 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2386 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2387 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2388 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2389 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2390 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2391 PID 1...
2392 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2393 running, remove them when shut down.
2394 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2395 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2396 startup.
2397 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2398 or so, freeze the payload too.
2399 - support time namespaces
2400 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2401 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2402 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2403 "machinectl shell"
2404 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2405 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2406 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2407 - greater control over selinux label?
2408 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2409 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2410 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2411 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2412 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2413 host TPM.
2414 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2415 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2416 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2417 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2418 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2419 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2420 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2421 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
2422 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2423 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
2424 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2425 or two sockets.
2426 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
2427
2428 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2429 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2430 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2431 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2432 anything like that.
2433
2434 * machined:
2435 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2436 removed or added to an existing machine
2437 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2438 difference host, via ssh
2439 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2440 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2441 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2442 question
2443 - "machinectl history"
2444 - "machinectl diff"
2445 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2446 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2447
2448 * udev:
2449 - move to LGPL
2450 - kill scsi_id
2451 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
2452 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
2453 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
2454 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
2455
2456 * coredump:
2457 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
2458 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
2459 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
2460
2461 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2462
2463 * tmpfiles:
2464 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
2465 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
2466 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
2467 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2468 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2469 calls follow symlinks.
2470 - add --test mode
2471 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2472 project quota
2473 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
2474 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2475 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
2476
2477 * udev-link-config:
2478 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2479 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2480 on Path= matching
2481
2482 * sd-rtnl:
2483 - add support for more attribute types
2484 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
2485
2486 * networkd:
2487 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2488 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
2489 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
2490 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
2491 - work with non-Ethernet devices
2492 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
2493 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2494 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2495 - expose in the API the following bits:
2496 - option 15, domain name
2497 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
2498 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2499 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2500 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2501 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2502 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2503 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
2504 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
2505
2506 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2507
2508 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2509
2510 * dhcp:
2511 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
2512
2513 * dhcp6:
2514 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2515 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2516 - write more test cases
2517 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
2518 - implement support for temporary addresses (IA_TA)
2519 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2520 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2521 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2522 or interface down
2523 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2524 this behavior
2525 - RouteTable= ?
2526
2527 * shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2528 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2529 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)