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1 Bugfixes:
2
3 * Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
6
7 * Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
10
11 External:
12
13 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
14
15 * dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
19 * fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
20
21 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
22
23 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
24
25 * register catalog database signature as file magic
26
27 * zsh shell completion:
28 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
29 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
30 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
31
32 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
33 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
34 after being started.
35
36 * write blog stories about:
37 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
38 - enabling dbus services
39 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
40 - remote access
41 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
42 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
43 - auto-restart
44 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
45 - the journal HTTP iface
46 - non-cgroup resource management
47 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
48 - refreshed, longer missions statement
49 - calendar time events
50 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
51 - how to create your own target
52 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
53 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/early boot
54
55 Regularly:
56
57 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
58
59 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
60
61 * pahole
62
63 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
64
65 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
66
67 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
68
69 Janitorial Clean-ups:
70
71 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
72 semantics, like we do for device.c now
73
74 * get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase() and related
75 calls instead.
76
77 * get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
78
79 * Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
80 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
81 libmount for something so trivial.
82
83 * drop set_free_free() and switch things over from string_hash_ops to
84 string_hash_ops_free everywhere, so that destruction is implicit rather than
85 explicit. Similar, for other special hashmap/set/ordered_hashmap destructors.
86
87 * generators sometimes apply C escaping and sometimes specifier escaping to
88 paths and similar strings they write out. Sometimes both. We should clean
89 this up, and should probably always apply both, i.e. introduce
90 unit_file_escape() or so, which applies both.
91
92 * xopenat() should pin the parent dir of the inode it creates before doing its
93 thing, so that it can create, open, label somewhat atomically.
94
95 Deprecations and removals:
96
97 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
98 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
99
100 * remove cgroups v1 support EOY 2023. As per
101 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
102 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
103 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
104
105 * drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
106 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
107 is only supported for such old kernels.
108
109 * drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
110 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
111
112 * drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
113 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
114 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
115 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
116 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
117
118 * drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
119 baseline is 5.8.
120
121 * drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
122 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
123
124 * Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
125 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
126 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
127
128 * Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
129 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
130
131 * remove remaining tpm1.2 support from sd-stub
132
133 Features:
134
135 * in os-release define a field that can be initialized at build time from
136 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (maybe even under that name?). Would then be used to
137 initialize the timestamp logic of ConditionNeedsUpdate=.
138
139 * new systemd-analyze "join" verb or so, for debugging services. Would be
140 nsenter on steroids, i.e invoke a shell or command line in an environment as
141 close as we can make it for the MainPID of a service. Should be built around
142 pidfd, so that we can reasonably robustly do this. Would only cover the
143 execution environment like namespaces, but not the privilege settings.
144
145 * add a generic client to importd called importctl, then make machinectl just
146 chain-exec() it. Make sure importd/importctl can be used for sysext images,
147 portable images too.
148
149 * varlink: extend varlink IDL macros to include documentation strings
150
151 * Introduce a CGroupRef structure, inspired by PidRef. Should contain cgroup
152 path, cgroup id, and cgroup fd. Use it to continuously pin all v2 cgroups via
153 a cgroup_ref field in the CGroupRuntime structure. Eventually switch things
154 over to do all cgroupfs access only via that structure's fd.
155
156 * Get rid of the symlinks in /run/systemd/units/* and exclusively use cgroupfs
157 xattrs to convey info about invocation ids, logging settings and so on.
158 support for cgroupfs xattrs in the "trusted." namespace was added in linux
159 3.7, i.e. which we don't pretend to support anymore.
160
161 * rewrite bpf-devices in libbpf/C code, rather than home-grown BPF assembly, to
162 match bpf-restrict-fs, bpf-restrict-ifaces, bpf-socket-bind
163
164 * ditto: rewrite bpf-firewall in libbpf/C code
165
166 * credentials: if we ever acquire a secure way to derive cgroup id of socket
167 peers (i.e. SO_PEERCGROUPID), then extend the "scoped" credential logic to
168 allow cgroup-scoped (i.e. app or service scoped) credentials. Then, as next
169 step use this to implement per-app/per-service encrypted directories, where
170 we set up fscrypt on the StateDirectory= with a randomized key which is
171 stored as xattr on the directory, encrypted as a credential.
172
173 * credentials: optionally include a per-user secret in scoped user-credential
174 encryption keys. should come from homed in some way, derived from the luks
175 volume key or fscrypt directory key.
176
177 * credentials: add a flag to the scoped credentials that if set require PK
178 reauthentication when unlocking a secret.
179
180 * teach systemd --user to properly load credentials off disk, with
181 /etc/credstore equivalent and similar. Make sure that $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY=
182 actually works too when run with user privs.
183
184 * extend the smbios11 logic for passing credentials so that instead of passing
185 the credential data literally it can also just reference an AF_VSOCK CID/port
186 to read them from. This way the data doesn't remain in the SMBIOS blob during
187 runtime, but only in the credentials fs.
188
189 * machined: make machine registration available via varlink to simplify
190 nspawn/vmspawn, and to have an extensible way to register VM/machine metadata
191
192 * ssh-proxy: add support for "ssh machine/foobar" to automatically connect to
193 machined registered machine "foobar". Requires updating machined to track CID
194 and unix-export dir of containers.
195
196 * add a new ExecStart= flag that inserts the configured user's shell as first
197 word in the command line. (maybe use character '.'). Usecase: tool such as
198 uid0 can use that to spawn the target user's default shell.
199
200 * varlink: figure out how to do docs for our varlink interfaces. Idea: install
201 interface files augmented with docs in /usr/share/ somewhere. And have
202 functionality in varlinkctl to merge interface info extracted from binaries
203 with interface info on disk. And store the doc strings only in the latter.
204
205 * introduce mntid_t, and make it 64bit, as apparently the kernel switched to
206 64bit mount ids
207
208 * use udev rule networkd ownership property to take ownership of network
209 interfaces nspawn creates
210
211 * add a kernel cmdline switch (and cred?) for marking a system to be
212 "headless", in which case we never open /dev/console for reading, only for
213 writing. This would then mean: systemd-firstboot would process creds but not
214 ask interactively, getty would not be started and so on.
215
216 * cryptsetup: new crypttab option to auto-grow a luks device to its backing
217 partition size. new crypttab option to reencrypt a luks device with a new
218 volume key.
219
220 * we probably should have some infrastructure to acquire sysexts with
221 drivers/firmware for local hardware automatically. Idea: reuse the modalias
222 logic of the kernel for this: make the main OS image install a hwdb file
223 that matches against local modalias strings, and adds properties to relevant
224 devices listing names of sysexts needed to support the hw. Then provide some
225 tool that goes through all devices and tries to acquire/download the
226 specified images.
227
228 * repart + cryptsetup: support file systems that are encrypted and use verity
229 on top. Usecase: confexts that shall be signed by the admin but also be
230 confidential. Then, add a new --make-ddi=confext-encrypted for this.
231
232 * tmpfiles: add new line type for moving files from some source dir to some
233 target dir. then use that to move sysexts/confexts and stuff from initrd
234 tmpfs to /run/, so that host can pick things up.
235
236 * tiny varlink service that takes a fd passed in and serves it via http. Then
237 make use of that in networkd, and expose some EFI binary of choice for
238 DHCP/HTTP base EFI boot.
239
240 * bootctl: add reboot-to-disk which takes a block device name, and
241 automatically sets things up so that system reboots into that device next.
242
243 * maybe: in PID1, when we detect we run in an initrd, make superblock read-only
244 early on, but provide opt-out via kernel cmdline.
245
246 * systemd-pcrextend:
247 - support measuring to nvindex with PCR update semantics ("fake PCRs")
248 - add api for "allocating" such an nvindex
249 - once we have that start measuring every sysext we apply, every confext,
250 every RootImage= we apply, every nspawn and so on. All in separate fake
251 PCRs.
252
253 * vmspawn:
254 - enable hyperv extension by default (https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/i386/hyperv.html)
255 - register with machined
256 - run in scope unit when invoked from command line, and machined registration is off
257 - support --directory= via virtiofs
258 - sd_notify support
259 - --ephemeral support
260 - --read-only support
261 - automatically suspend/resume the VM if the host suspends. Use logind
262 suspend inhibitor to implement this. request clean suspend by generating
263 suspend key presses.
264 - support for "real" networking via "-n" and --network-bridge=
265 - automatically run service "at the side" for swtpm
266 - translate SIGTERM to clean ACPI shutdown event
267
268 * systemd-pcrmachine should probably also measure the SMBIOS system UUID.
269
270 * sd-boot: allow synthesizing additional type1 entries via SMBIOS vendor strings
271
272 * storagetm:
273 - add USB mass storage device logic, so that all local disks are also exposed
274 as mass storage devices on systems that have a USB controller that can
275 operate in device mode
276 - add NVMe authentication
277
278 * add support for activating nvme-oF devices at boot automatically via kernel
279 cmdline, and maybe even support a syntax such as
280 root=nvme:<trtype>:<traddr>:<trsvcid>:<nqn>:<partition> to boot directly from
281 nvme-oF
282
283 * pcrlock:
284 - make signed PCR work together with pcrlock
285 - add kernel-install plugin that automatically creates UKI .pcrlock file when
286 UKI is installed, and removes it when it is removed again
287 - automatically install PE measurement of sd-boot on "bootctl install"
288 - write generated pcrlock signature files to the ESP as credential, one for
289 each installed OS & pick up generated pcrlock signature file in sd-stub,
290 pass it via initrd to OS
291 - pre-calc sysext + kernel cmdline measurements
292 - pre-calc cryptsetup root key measurement
293 - maybe make systemd-repart generate .pcrlock for old and new GPT header in
294 /run?
295 - Add support for more than 8 branches per PCR OR
296 - add "systemd-pcrlock lock-kernel-current" or so which synthesizes .pcrlock
297 policy from currently booted kernel/event log, to close gap for first boot
298 for pre-built images
299
300 * add a new systemd-project@.service that is very similar to user@.service but
301 uses DynamicUser=1 and no PAMName= to invoke an unprivileged somewhat
302 light-weight service manager. Use HOME=/var/lib/systemd/projects/%i as home
303 dir. Similar for $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. Start project@%i.target. Use LogField= to
304 add a field identifying the project.
305
306 * in sd-boot and sd-stub measure the SMBIOS vendor strings to some PCR (at
307 least some subset of them that look like systemd stuff), because apparently
308 some firmware does not, but systemd honours it. avoid duplicate measurement
309 by sd-boot and sd-stub by adding LoaderFeatures/StubFeatures flag for this,
310 so that sd-stub can avoid it if sd-boot already did it.
311
312 * cryptsetup: a mechanism that allows signing a volume key with some key that
313 has to be present in the kernel keyring, or similar, to ensure that confext
314 DDIs can be encrypted against the local SRK but signed with the admin's key
315 and thus can authenticated locally before they are decrypted.
316
317 * image policy should be extended to allow dictating *how* a disk is unlocked,
318 i.e. root=encrypted-tpm2+encrypted-fido2 would mean "root fs must be
319 encrypted and unlocked via fido2 or tpm2, but not otherwise"
320
321 * systemd-repart: add support for formatting dm-crypt + dm-integrity file
322 systems.
323
324 * homed: use systemd-storagetm to expose home dirs via nvme-tcp. Then,
325 teach homed/pam_systemd_homed with a user name such as
326 lennart%nvme_tcp_192.168.100.77_8787 to log in from any linux host with the
327 same home dir. Similar maybe for nbd, iscsi? this should then first ask for
328 the local root pw, to authenticate that logging in like this is ok, and would
329 then be followed by another password prompt asking for the user's own
330 password. Also, do something similar for CIFS: if you log in via
331 lennart%cifs-someserver_someshare, then set up the homed dir for it
332 automatically. The PAM module should update the user name used for login to
333 the short version once it set up the user. Some care should be taken, so that
334 the long version can be still be resolved via NSS afterwards, to deal with
335 PAM clients that do not support PAM sessions where PAM_USER changes half-way.
336
337 * redefine /var/lib/extensions/ as the dir one can place all three of sysext,
338 confext as well is multi-modal DDIs that qualify as both. Then introduce
339 /var/lib/sysexts/ which can be used to place only DDIs that shall be used as
340 sysext
341
342 * Varlinkification of the following command line tools, to open them up to
343 other programs via IPC:
344 - bootctl
345 - journalctl (allowing journal read access via IPC)
346 - coredumpcl
347 - systemd-bless-boot
348 - systemd-measure
349 - systemd-cryptenroll (to allow UIs to enroll FIDO2 keys and such)
350 - systemd-dissect
351 - systemd-sysupdate
352 - systemd-analyze
353 - kernel-install
354 - systemd-mount (with PK so that desktop environments could use it to mount disks)
355
356 * in the service manager, pick up ERRNO= + BUSERROR= + VARLINKERROR= error
357 identifiers, and store them along with the exit status of a server and report
358 via "systemctl status".
359
360 * enumerate virtiofs devices during boot-up in a generator, and synthesize
361 mounts for rootfs, /usr/, /home/, /srv/ and some others from it, depending on
362 the "tag". (waits for: https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd/-/issues/128)
363
364 * automatically mount one virtiofs during early boot phase to /run/host/,
365 similar to how we do that for nspawn, based on some clear tag.
366
367 * add some service that makes an atomic snapshot of PCR state and event log up
368 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
369
370 * encode type1 entries in some UKI section to add additional entries to the
371 menu.
372
373 * Add ACL-based access management to .socket units. i.e. add AllowPeerUser= +
374 AllowPeerGroup= that installs additional user/group ACL entries on AF_UNIX
375 sockets.
376
377 * systemd-tpm2-setup should probably have a factory reset logic, i.e. when some
378 kernel command line option is set we reset the TPM (equivalent of tpm2_clear
379 -c owner?).
380
381 * systemd-tpm2-setup should support a mode where we refuse booting if the SRK
382 changed. (Must be opt-in, to not break systems which are supposed to be
383 migratable between PCs)
384
385 * when systemd-sysext learns mutable /usr/ (and systemd-confext mutable /etc/)
386 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
387 snapshot logic
388
389 * add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
390 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
391 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
392 i.e. without recompiling the kernel, taking an upstream OS' kernel and adding
393 a local key to it.
394
395 * PidRef conversion work:
396 - cg_pid_get_xyz()
397 - pid_from_same_root_fs()
398 - get_ctty_devnr()
399 - pid1: sd_notify() receiver should use SCM_PIDFD to authenticate client
400 - actually wait for POLLIN on pidref's pidfd in service logic
401 - exec_spawn() + safe_fork()
402 - openpt_allocate_in_namespace()
403 - unit_attach_pid_to_cgroup_via_bus()
404 - cg_attach() – requires new kernel feature
405
406 * ddi must be listed as block device fstype
407
408 * measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
409 mode.
410
411 * homed: add a basic form of secrets management to homed, that stores
412 secrets in $HOME somewhere, is protected by the accounts own authentication
413 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
414 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
415 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
416 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
417 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
418
419 * use sd-event ratelimit feature optionally for journal stream clients that log
420 too much
421
422 * systemd-mount should only consider modern file systems when mounting, similar
423 to systemd-dissect
424
425 * add another PE section ".fname" or so that encodes the intended filename for
426 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
427 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
428 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
429 control of the attacker.
430
431 * also include packaging metadata (á la
432 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
433 same JSON format.
434
435 * make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
436 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
437 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
438 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
439 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
440 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
441 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
442 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
443 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
444 newer.
445
446 * in sd-stub: optionally add support for a new PE section .keyring or so that
447 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
448 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
449 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
450 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
451 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
452 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
453 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
454
455 * resolved: take possession of some IPv6 ULA address (let's say
456 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
457 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
458
459 * introduce a .microcode PE section for sd-stub which we'll pass as first initrd
460 to the kernel which will then upload it to the CPU. This should be distinct
461 from .initrd to guarantee right ordering. also, and maybe more importantly
462 support .microcode in PE add-ons, so that a microcode update can be shipped
463 independently of any kernel.
464
465 * Maybe add SwitchRootEx() as new bus call that takes env vars to set for new
466 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
467 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
468 requested during switch root.
469
470 * introduce a .acpitable section for early ACPI table override
471
472 * add proper .osrel matching for PE addons. i.e. refuse applying an addon
473 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
474 matched against OS.
475
476 * figure out what to do about credentials sealed to PCRs in kexec + soft-reboot
477 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
478 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
479
480 * logind: when logging in, always take an fd to the home dir, to keep the dir
481 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
482 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
483 namespaces)
484
485 * mount most file systems with a restrictive uidmap. e.g. mount /usr/ with a
486 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
487
488 * mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
489 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
490 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
491
492 * fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
493 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
494 "*:foobar:*", to wildcard match both the start and the end of the string.
495 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
496 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
497 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
498
499 * mount /tmp/ and /var/tmp with a uidmap applied that blocks out "nobody" user
500 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
501 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
502 used transiently, never persistently.
503
504 * rework loopback support in fstab: when "loop" option is used, then
505 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
506 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
507 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
508 based on lo_file_name.
509
510 * teach systemd-nspawn the boot assessment logic: hook up vpick's try counters
511 with success notifications from nspawn payloads. When this is enabled,
512 automatically support reverting back to older OS version images if newer ones
513 fail to boot.
514
515 * implement new "systemd-fsrebind" tool that works like gpt-auto-generator but
516 looks at a root dir and then applies vpick on various dirs/images to pick a
517 root tree, a /usr/ tree, a /home/, a /srv/, a /var/ tree and so on. Dirs
518 could also be btrfs subvols (combine with btrfs auto-snapshort approach for
519 creating versions like these automatically).
520
521 * remove tomoyo support, it's obsolete and unmaintained apparently
522
523 * In .socket units, add ConnectStream=, ConnectDatagram=,
524 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
525 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
526 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
527 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
528 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
529 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
530 activation-by-message id and similar.
531
532 * .service with invalid Sockets= starts successfully.
533
534 * landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
535 ability to write anywhere else below /run/. Similar for
536 StateDirectory=. Benefit would be clear delegation via unit files: services
537 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
538
539 * landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
540 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
541 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
542 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
543 similar behaviour for system services, too.
544
545 * Add systemd-mount@.service which is instantiated for a block device and
546 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
547 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
548
549 * udevd: extend memory pressure logic: also kill any idle worker processes
550
551 * udevadm: to make symlink querying with udevadm nicer:
552 - do not enable the pager for queries like 'udevadm info -q -r symlink'
553 - add mode with newlines instead of spaces (for grep)?
554
555 * SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
556 localed, oomd, timedated.
557
558 * repart/gpt-auto/DDIs: maybe introduce a concept of "extension" partitions,
559 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
560 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
561 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
562 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
563 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
564 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
565 from the uuid of the original partition it extends. Inspiration for this is
566 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
567 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
568 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
569 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
570 access.
571
572 * Use CLONE_INTO_CGROUP to spawn systemd-executor, once glibc supports it in
573 posix_spawn().
574
575 * Make nspawn to a frontend for systemd-executor, so that we have to ways into
576 the executor: via unit files/dbus/varlink through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI
577 through nspawn.
578
579 * sd-stub: detect if we are running with uefi console output on serial, and if so
580 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
581
582 * add a utility that can be used with the kernel's
583 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
584 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
585 for all umh processes.
586
587 * systemd-shutdown: keep sending sd_notify() status updates immediately before
588 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
589
590 * homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
591 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
592 resize.
593
594 * homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
595 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
596
597 * timesyncd: when saving/restoring clock try to take boot time into account.
598 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
599 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
600 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
601 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
602 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
603 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
604 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
605 system actually reset.
606
607 * systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
608 userspace to allow ordering boots (for example in journalctl). The counter
609 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
610
611 * pam_systemd_home: add module parameter to control whether to only accept
612 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
613 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
614 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
615
616 * sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
617 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
618 is then useful for network boot, by embedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
619 in sd-boot, which reference remote kernels.
620
621 * maybe prohibit setuid() to the nobody user, to lock things down, via seccomp.
622 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
623 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
624 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
625 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
626
627 * sd-boot: add a new PE section .bls or so that carries a cpio with additional
628 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
629 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
630 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
631 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
632
633 * sd-boot: also allow passing in the cpio as in the previous item via SMBIOS
634
635 * add a new EFI tool "sd-fetch" or so. It looks in a PE section ".url" for an
636 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
637 Use case: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
638 binaries in place of UKIs, and download them on-the-fly.
639
640 * maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
641 cmdline. use case: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
642
643 * systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
644 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
645 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
646
647 * sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
648 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
649
650 * tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
651 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
652 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
653 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
654 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
655 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
656 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
657 usual.
658
659 * Lennart: big blog story about DDIs
660
661 * Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
662
663 * Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
664
665 * bpf: see if we can use BPF to solve the syslog message cgroup source problem:
666 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
667 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
668 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
669 sockaddr.
670
671 * bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
672 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
673 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
674 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
675 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
676 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
677 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
678 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
679 try to use inode from there.
680
681 * extend the verity signature partition to permit multiple signatures for the
682 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
683
684 * consider adding a new partition type, just for /opt/ for usage in system
685 extensions
686
687 * gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
688 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
689 for the root fs or /usr/.
690
691 * dissection policy should enforce that unlocking can only take place by
692 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
693 combination thereof.
694
695 * make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
696 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
697 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
698 ahead of time.
699
700 * systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
701 aforementioned purpose.
702
703 * in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
704 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
705
706 * Add systemd-sysupdate-initrd.service or so that runs systemd-sysupdate in the
707 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
708 to figure out:
709 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
710 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
711 subsequent boots?
712
713 * revisit default PCR bindings in cryptenroll and systemd-creds. Currently they
714 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
715 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
716 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
717 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
718 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
719 default to PCR 15 at least if sd-stub is used (i.e. bind to system identity),
720 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
721 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
722 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
723
724 * To mimic the new tpm2-measure-pcr= crypttab option add the same to veritytab
725 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
726 used)
727
728 * We should start measuring all services, containers, and system extensions we
729 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
730 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
731 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
732 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
733
734 * bootspec: permit graceful "update" from type #2 to type #1. If both a type #1
735 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
736 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
737 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
738 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
739 should win over vendor defaults.
740
741 * write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
742 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
743 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
744
745 * automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
746 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
747
748 * systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
749
750 * systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
751 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
752 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Use case: remove secondary OS
753 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
754
755 * systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
756 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
757 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
758 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
759 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
760 only one for each OS.
761
762 * systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
763 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
764 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
765 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
766 boot, for the next.
767
768 * systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
769 similar behind it, instead of http.
770
771 * systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
772 boot, or on first boot.
773
774 * in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
775 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
776
777 * we probably needs .pcrpkeyrd or so as additional PE section in UKIs,
778 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
779 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
780 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
781 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
782 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
783 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
784 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
785 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
786 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
787 until users are allowed to log in).
788
789 * Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
790 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
791
792 * add support for asymmetric LUKS2 TPM based encryption. i.e. allow preparing
793 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
794 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
795 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Use case: systemd-confext
796 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
797 be activated on one specific host (which can be used for installing a bunch
798 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
799 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
800 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
801 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
802 automatically invalidated outside of it.
803
804 * maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
805 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
806 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
807 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
808 enhanced remote attestation quote. Use case: a simple orchestrator could use
809 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
810 have the orchestrator collect these reports centrally over a 3min time
811 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
812 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
813 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
814 proposed above, so that it can only be activated on the specific host, if the
815 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
816 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
817 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
818 config and collected reports in the last 3min time window only, and thus can
819 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
820 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
821 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
822 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
823 and via the time window TPM logic invalidated if node doesn't keep itself
824 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
825
826 * in the initrd, once the rootfs encryption key has been measured to PCR 15,
827 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
828
829 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to use sd_event_set_signal_exit(), instead
830 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
831
832 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
833 instead of manual blocking.
834
835 * sd-boot: for each installed OS, grey out older entries (i.e. all but the
836 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
837
838 * automatically propagate LUKS password credential into cryptsetup from host
839 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
840 supplied password.
841
842 * add ability to path_is_valid() to classify paths that refer to a dir from
843 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
844 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
845 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
846
847 * systemd-measure: allow operating with PEM certificates in addition to PEM
848 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
849 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
850 convenience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
851
852 * systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
853 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
854 automatically derived from --private-key=).
855
856 * Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
857 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
858 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
859 use as additional search condition. Use case: images that combined a sysext
860 partition with a portable service partition in one.
861
862 * On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
863 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
864 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
865 modules
866
867 * for systemd-confext: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
868 sig using squashfs-tools-ng's library. Maybe just systemd-repart called under
869 a new name with a built-in config?
870
871 * lock down acceptable encrypted credentials at boot, via simple allowlist,
872 maybe on kernel command line:
873 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
874 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
875
876 * Add support for extra verity configuration options to systemd-repart (FEC,
877 hash type, etc)
878
879 * chase(): take inspiration from path_extract_filename() and return
880 O_DIRECTORY if input path contains trailing slash.
881
882 * chase(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
883 but final node is not a directory
884
885 * document in boot loader spec that symlinks in XBOOTLDR/ESP are not OK even if
886 non-VFAT fs is used.
887
888 * measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
889
890 * measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
891 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
892
893 * pick up creds from EFI vars
894
895 * Add and pickup tpm2 metadata for creds structure.
896
897 * sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
898 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
899 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
900 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
901 affect PCR values.
902
903 * systemd-measure tool:
904 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
905
906 * in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
907 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
908
909 * sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
910 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
911
912 * sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
913 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
914
915 * sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
916 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
917
918 * maybe add new flags to gpt partition tables for rootfs and usrfs indicating
919 purpose, i.e. whether something is supposed to be bootable in a VM, on
920 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
921 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
922 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
923 use it.
924
925 * sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
926 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
927
928 * add "systemd-sysext identify" verb, that you can point on any file in /usr/
929 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
930 what it was signed.
931
932 * systemd-creds: extend encryption logic to support asymmetric
933 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
934 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
935 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
936 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
937 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
938 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
939 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
940 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
941 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
942 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
943 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
944
945 * building on top of the above, the pub/priv key pair generated on the TPM2
946 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
947
948 * Process credentials in:
949 • crypttab-generator: allow defining additional crypttab-like volumes via
950 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
951 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
952 • run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
953 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
954 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
955 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
956 • repart: allow defining additional partitions via credential
957 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
958 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
959 file system paths to enable on start.
960 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
961 usr=
962 • in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
963 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
964 pre-built kernels.
965
966 * define a JSON format for units, separating out unit definitions from unit
967 runtime state. Then, expose it:
968
969 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
970 about the unit.
971 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
972 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
973 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
974 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
975 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
976 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
977
978 * Add SUPPORT_END_URL= field to os-release with more *actionable* information
979 what to do if support ended
980
981 * pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
982 login time, à la motd
983
984 * sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
985 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
986 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Use case: embed sd-boot in the
987 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
988 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
989
990 * mount /var/ from initrd, so that we can apply sysext and stuff before the
991 initrd transition. Specifically:
992 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
993 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
994 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
995
996 * make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
997 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
998 service restarts, hot reboot, cold reboots (depending on configuration): the
999 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
1000 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
1001 depending on desired level of persistency.
1002
1003 * sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
1004 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
1005 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
1006 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
1007 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
1008 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
1009 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
1010 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
1011
1012 * if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
1013 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
1014 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
1015 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
1016
1017 * add ability to set hostname with suffix derived from machine id at boot
1018
1019 * add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
1020
1021 * homed/userdb: maybe define a "companion" dir for home directories where apps
1022 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
1023 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
1024 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Use case: container
1025 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
1026 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
1027 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
1028 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
1029 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
1030 by. Inform user code about path to this companion dir via env var, so that
1031 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
1032 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
1033 not unprivileged code.
1034
1035 * maybe add support for binding and connecting AF_UNIX sockets in the file
1036 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
1037 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
1038 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
1039
1040 * add a proper concept of a "developer" mode, i.e. where cryptographic
1041 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
1042 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
1043 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
1044 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
1045 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
1046 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
1047 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is the only way to enter developer mode, by
1048 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
1049
1050 * services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
1051 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
1052 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
1053 order.
1054
1055 * update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
1056 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
1057 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
1058
1059 * sd-event: compat wd reuse in inotify code: keep a set of removed watch
1060 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
1061 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
1062 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
1063 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
1064 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
1065 IN_IGNORED again)
1066
1067 * for vendor-built signed initrds:
1068 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
1069 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
1070 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
1071 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
1072 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
1073 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
1074 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
1075 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
1076 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
1077 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
1078 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
1079
1080 * Maybe extend the service protocol to support handling of some specific SIGRT
1081 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
1082 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
1083
1084 * sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
1085 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
1086 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
1087 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
1088 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
1089 directly to host service manager.
1090
1091 * sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
1092 no api to query the device id
1093
1094 * sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1095 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1096 also be queried.
1097
1098 * sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
1099 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1100 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1101 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
1102
1103 * sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
1104 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1105 latter).
1106
1107 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1108
1109 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
1110
1111 * support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
1112 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
1113 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
1114 generated by GNU sha256sums.
1115
1116 * sd-boot: maybe add support for embedding the various auxiliary resources we
1117 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
1118 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
1119 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
1120 to the menu. Use case: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
1121 UEFI HTTP boot.
1122
1123 * maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
1124 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
1125 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
1126 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
1127 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
1128 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
1129 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
1130 hence cheap for enumeration.
1131
1132 * sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
1133
1134 * systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
1135 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1136 words: show partition labels).
1137
1138 * maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
1139 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
1140 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
1141 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. Use case:
1142 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
1143 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
1144 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
1145
1146 * deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
1147
1148 * systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
1149
1150 * per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1151 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1152 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1153 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1154 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1155 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1156 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1157 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1158 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1159 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1160
1161 * doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
1162 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
1163
1164 * doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
1165 jobs, units
1166
1167 * bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
1168 sync, i.e. parse out architecture field in sd-boot (currently only done in
1169 userspace)
1170
1171 * automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
1172
1173 * add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
1174 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1175
1176 * Enable RestrictFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
1177 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
1178
1179 * Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1180 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
1181
1182 * cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
1183 internal clock.
1184
1185 * man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1186 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1187
1188 * sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1189 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1190 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1191 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
1192
1193 * userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
1194 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1195 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1196
1197 * homed: if the homed shell fallback thing has access to an SSH agent, try to
1198 use it to unlock home dir (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled). We
1199 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1200 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1201 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1202 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1203 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
1204
1205 * add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
1206 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
1207 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Use case: drop a root user JSON record there,
1208 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
1209 for debugging purposes. Other use case: boot into qemu with regular user
1210 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
1211
1212 * drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
1213 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
1214 dep in the base OS image)
1215
1216 * add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
1217 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1218 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1219 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1220 on-disk storage.
1221
1222 * userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
1223 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1224 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1225 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1226 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1227
1228 * portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
1229 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1230 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
1231
1232 * /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
1233 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1234 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1235 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1236
1237 * we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
1238 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1239 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1240 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1241 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1242 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1243 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1244 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1245 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1246 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1247 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
1248
1249 * in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
1250 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1251 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
1252
1253 * rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
1254
1255 * PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
1256
1257 * when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1258 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1259 that images cannot be misused.
1260
1261 * New udev block device symlink names:
1262 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
1263 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1264 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1265 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1266
1267 * sysupdate:
1268 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1269 - support casync as download mechanism
1270 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1271 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1272 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1273 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1274 update component, since otherwise sysupdate.d/ files would override the
1275 host's update files.)
1276 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1277 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1278 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1279 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1280
1281 * in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1282
1283 * DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1284 make dirs appear under right UID.
1285
1286 * systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1287 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1288
1289 * introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
1290 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1291 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1292 already have it.
1293
1294 * whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1295 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1296
1297 * Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
1298
1299 * Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1300 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1301 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1302 /proc/self/fd/3
1303
1304 * add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1305 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1306 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1307
1308 * Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1309 that is deleted in the fs. Use case would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1310
1311 * importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1312 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1313
1314 * add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1315 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1316 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1317 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1318 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
1319
1320 * expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1321
1322 * credentials system:
1323 - acquire from EFI variable?
1324 - acquire via ask-password?
1325 - acquire creds via keyring?
1326 - pass creds via keyring?
1327 - pass creds via memfd?
1328 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1329 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1330 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1331 - make macsec code in networkd read key via creds logic (copy logic from
1332 wireguard)
1333 - make gatewayd/remote read key via creds logic
1334 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
1335
1336 * TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1337 and such
1338
1339 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
1340
1341 * cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
1342
1343 * cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
1344 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1345
1346 * cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1347 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
1348
1349 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1350
1351 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1352 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1353
1354 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1355 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1356
1357 * cryptsetup:
1358 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1359 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1360
1361 * systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
1362
1363 * Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1364 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1365
1366 * special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
1367 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1368
1369 * add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
1370 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1371
1372 * make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1373
1374 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1375
1376 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1377 when it exits
1378
1379 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1380 o turn into dlopen() deps:
1381 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
1382 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
1383 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1384 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1385 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1386
1387 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1388 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1389 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1390
1391 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1392 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1393
1394 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1395
1396 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1397 specific service
1398
1399 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1400 exists and responds.
1401
1402 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
1403 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
1404
1405 * unify on openssl:
1406 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1407 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1408 gnutls
1409 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
1410
1411 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1412 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1413
1414 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1415 realname substr searches in varlink API
1416
1417 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1418
1419 * userdb: allow existence checks
1420
1421 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
1422
1423 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1424 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1425 initrd had set.
1426
1427 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
1428 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
1429 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1430 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1431 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1432 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1433
1434 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1435 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1436 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1437
1438 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1439 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1440 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1441 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1442 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1443 source.
1444
1445 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1446 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1447 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1448
1449 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1450
1451 * We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1452 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
1453
1454 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
1455
1456 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1457 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1458 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1459 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1460 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1461 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1462 exec().
1463
1464 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1465
1466 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1467 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1468
1469 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1470 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1471
1472 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1473 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1474 root.
1475
1476 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1477 is issued.
1478
1479 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1480
1481 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1482
1483 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1484 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1485 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
1486
1487 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
1488 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1489 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1490
1491 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1492
1493 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1494 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1495
1496 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
1497 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
1498 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
1499 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
1500
1501 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1502
1503 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1504
1505 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1506 non-zero "tries done" count
1507
1508 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1509 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1510 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1511 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1512 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1513 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1514 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1515 CODE_FILE.
1516
1517 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1518 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1519 some explanatory text online.
1520
1521 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1522
1523 * hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
1524
1525 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1526 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1527
1528 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1529 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1530 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1531 files and suchlike we operate on.
1532
1533 * importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1534
1535 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1536
1537 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1538 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1539
1540 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
1541 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
1542
1543 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1544 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1545 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1546 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1547 unlinked from any dir.
1548
1549 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
1550
1551 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1552
1553 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1554
1555 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
1556 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
1557 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1558 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
1559 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
1560
1561 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1562
1563 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1564 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1565
1566 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1567 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1568 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1569 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1570 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1571 different slice too by default. Use case: people who want to put resources on
1572 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1573 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1574
1575 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1576 for root, but only then.
1577
1578 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1579 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1580
1581 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1582 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1583
1584 * sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1585 only when used. Add unit tests.
1586
1587 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1588 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1589
1590 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1591 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1592 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1593 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1594 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1595
1596 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
1597
1598 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
1599
1600 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1601 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1602
1603 * blog about fd store and restartable services
1604
1605 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1606
1607 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1608 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1609
1610 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1611 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1612 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1613 ID is available.
1614
1615 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1616 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1617 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1618
1619 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1620 parameters
1621
1622 * maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
1623 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
1624 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1625 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1626 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1627 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1628 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
1629
1630 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1631 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1632
1633 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1634 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1635 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1636
1637 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1638 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1639
1640 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1641
1642 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1643 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1644 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1645
1646 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1647 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1648
1649 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1650 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1651 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1652 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1653 natural habitat.
1654
1655 * gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1656 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
1657
1658 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1659 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1660 relative to the configured default value.
1661
1662 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1663
1664 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
1665
1666 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1667
1668 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1669
1670 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
1671
1672 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
1673
1674 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
1675
1676 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
1677
1678 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1679 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1680 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1681
1682 * Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1683 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1684
1685 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
1686
1687 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1688 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1689 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1690 mapping to work.
1691
1692 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1693
1694 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1695
1696 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1697
1698 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1699 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1700
1701 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1702 reload the unit file anyway
1703
1704 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1705
1706 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1707
1708 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1709 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1710
1711 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
1712 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
1713 specifications.
1714
1715 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1716
1717 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1718
1719 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
1720 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
1721 prefixed with /sys generally special.
1722 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
1723
1724 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1725
1726 * docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
1727
1728 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1729 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1730 state.
1731 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
1732
1733 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1734 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1735 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1736 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1737 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1738
1739 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1740
1741 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
1742 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
1743
1744 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
1745 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
1746
1747 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
1748 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
1749
1750 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1751
1752 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1753 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1754
1755 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
1756
1757 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
1758
1759 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
1760
1761 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1762 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1763
1764 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1765
1766 * resolved:
1767 - mDNS/DNS-SD
1768 - service registration
1769 - service/domain/types browsing
1770 - avahi compat
1771 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
1772 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1773 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1774 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
1775 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
1776 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
1777
1778 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
1779
1780 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1781
1782 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1783
1784 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1785
1786 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1787
1788 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1789 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
1790
1791 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1792
1793 * gpt-auto-generator:
1794 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
1795 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
1796
1797 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1798 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1799 when it is otherwise off
1800
1801 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
1802
1803 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1804 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1805 for ReusePort=
1806
1807 * cgroups:
1808 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
1809 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1810 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1811 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1812 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1813 the hierarchies of child processes
1814 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1815 maybe use them for user@.service
1816
1817 * transient units:
1818 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
1819
1820 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1821
1822 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1823
1824 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1825
1826 * 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
1827
1828 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1829 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
1830 path anyway.
1831
1832 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
1833
1834 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1835
1836 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1837
1838 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1839
1840 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1841
1842 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1843 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1844 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1845
1846 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1847 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1848
1849 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1850
1851 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1852
1853 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1854
1855 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1856 needs to be auto-respawned?
1857
1858 * pid1:
1859 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1860 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1861 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1862 that are not supported...
1863 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.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 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2243 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
2244 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2245 can easily set overall quota for all users
2246 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2247 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
2248 - add "homectl unbind" command to remove local user record of an inactive
2249 home dir
2250
2251 * add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2252 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2253 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2254
2255 * systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
2256
2257 * systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2258 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2259 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2260 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2261
2262 * systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2263
2264 * systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2265 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2266 something goes wrong on the way.
2267
2268 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2269 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2270 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2271 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2272
2273 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2274 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2275 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2276 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2277 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2278 automatically.
2279
2280 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2281 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2282
2283 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2284 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2285 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2286 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2287 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2288 fails to apply use the latter.
2289
2290 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2291 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2292
2293 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2294 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2295
2296 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2297 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
2298 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
2299
2300 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2301 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2302
2303 * systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
2304 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2305 during boot.
2306
2307 * systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2308
2309 * document:
2310 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
2311 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2312 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
2313 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
2314 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2315 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
2316 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2317 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
2318 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2319 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
2320 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
2321 - document root=gpt-auto properly
2322
2323 * systemctl:
2324 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2325 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2326 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2327 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
2328 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
2329 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
2330
2331 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2332 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2333 it should skip the variant type string though.
2334
2335 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2336 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2337 the slices, and the units attached to them.
2338
2339 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2340 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2341 wait to retrieve their exit data.
2342
2343 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2344 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
2345
2346 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2347 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2348 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2349 do, for example)
2350
2351 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2352 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2353 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2354 returning from the "systemctl stop".
2355
2356 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2357
2358 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2359
2360 * unit install:
2361 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2362 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
2363
2364 * nspawn:
2365 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2366 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2367 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2368 from the kernel's logs.
2369 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2370 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2371 interface be missing
2372 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2373 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2374 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2375 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2376 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2377 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2378 PID 1...
2379 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2380 running, remove them when shut down.
2381 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2382 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2383 startup.
2384 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2385 or so, freeze the payload too.
2386 - support time namespaces
2387 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2388 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2389 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2390 "machinectl shell"
2391 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2392 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2393 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2394 - greater control over selinux label?
2395 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2396 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2397 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2398 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2399 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2400 host TPM.
2401 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2402 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2403 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2404 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2405 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2406 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2407 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2408 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
2409 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2410 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
2411 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2412 or two sockets.
2413 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
2414
2415 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2416 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2417 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2418 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2419 anything like that.
2420
2421 * machined:
2422 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2423 removed or added to an existing machine
2424 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2425 difference host, via ssh
2426 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2427 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2428 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2429 question
2430 - "machinectl history"
2431 - "machinectl diff"
2432 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2433 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2434
2435 * udev:
2436 - move to LGPL
2437 - kill scsi_id
2438 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
2439 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
2440 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
2441 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
2442
2443 * coredump:
2444 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
2445 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
2446 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
2447
2448 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2449
2450 * tmpfiles:
2451 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
2452 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
2453 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2454 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2455 calls follow symlinks.
2456 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2457 project quota
2458 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
2459 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2460 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
2461 - add -n as shortcut for --dry-run in tmpfiles & sysusers & possibly other places
2462
2463 * udev-link-config:
2464 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2465 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2466 on Path= matching
2467
2468 * sd-rtnl:
2469 - add support for more attribute types
2470 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
2471
2472 * networkd:
2473 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2474 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
2475 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
2476 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
2477 - work with non-Ethernet devices
2478 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
2479 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2480 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2481 - expose in the API the following bits:
2482 - option 15, domain name
2483 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
2484 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2485 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2486 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2487 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2488 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2489 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
2490 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
2491
2492 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2493
2494 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2495
2496 * dhcp:
2497 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
2498
2499 * dhcp6:
2500 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2501 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2502 - write more test cases
2503 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
2504 - implement support for temporary addresses (IA_TA)
2505 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2506 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2507 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2508 or interface down
2509 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2510 this behavior
2511 - RouteTable= ?
2512
2513 * shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2514 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2515 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)