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.
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.
13 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
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=
21 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
23 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
25 * register catalog database signature as file magic
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=
32 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
33 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
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
41 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
42 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
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
57 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
59 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
63 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
65 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
67 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
71 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
72 semantics, like we do for device.c now
74 * get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase() and related
77 * get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
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.
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.
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.
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.
95 Deprecations and removals:
97 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
98 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
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.
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.
109 * drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
110 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
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.
118 * drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
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
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.
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
131 * remove remaining tpm1.2 support from sd-stub
135 * add a kernel cmdline switch (and cred?) for marking a system to be
136 "headless", in which case we never open /dev/console for reading, only for
137 writing. This would then mean: systemd-firstboot would process creds but not
138 ask interactively, getty would not be started and so on.
140 * extend mime database with mime types for:
146 * cryptsetup: new crypttab option to auto-grow a luks device to its backing
147 partition size. new crypttab option to reencrypt a luks device with a new
150 * we probably should have some infrastructure to acquire sysexts with
151 drivers/firmware for local hardware automatically. Idea: reuse the modalias
152 logic of the kernel for this: make the main OS image install a hwdb file
153 that matches against local modalias strings, and adds properties to relevant
154 devices listing names of sysexts needed to support the hw. Then provide some
155 tool that goes through all devices and tries to acquire/download the
158 * repart + cryptsetup: support file systems that are encrypted and use verity
159 on top. Usecase: confexts that shall be signed by the admin but also be
160 confidential. Then, add a new --make-ddi=confext-encrypted for this.
162 * tmpfiles: add new line type for moving files from some source dir to some
163 target dir. then use that to move sysexts/confexts and stuff from initrd
164 tmpfs to /run/, so that host can pick things up.
166 * tiny varlink service that takes a fd passed in and serves it via http. Then
167 make use of that in networkd, and expose some EFI binary of choice for
168 DHCP/HTTP base EFI boot.
170 * bootctl: add reboot-to-disk which takes a block device name, and
171 automatically sets things up so that system reboots into that device next.
173 * maybe: in PID1, when we detect we run in an initrd, make superblock read-only
174 early on, but provide opt-out via kernel cmdline.
177 - support measuring to nvindex with PCR update semantics ("fake PCRs")
178 - add api for "allocating" such an nvindex
179 - once we have that start measuring every sysext we apply, every confext,
180 every RootImage= we apply, every nspawn and so on. All in separate fake
184 - enable hyperv extension by default (https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/i386/hyperv.html)
185 - register with machined
186 - run in scope unit when invoked from command line, and machined registration is off
187 - support --directory= via virtiofs
189 - --ephemeral support
190 - --read-only support
191 - automatically suspend/resume the VM if the host suspends. Use logind
192 suspend inhibitor to implement this. request clean suspend by generating
194 - support for "real" networking via "-n" and --network-bridge=
195 - automatically run service "at the side" for swtpm
196 - translate SIGTERM to clean ACPI shutdown event
198 * systemd-pcrmachine should probably also measure the SMBIOS system UUID.
200 * sd-boot: allow synthesizing additional type1 entries via SMBIOS vendor strings
203 - add USB mass storage device logic, so that all local disks are also exposed
204 as mass storage devices on systems that have a USB controller that can
205 operate in device mode
206 - add NVMe authentication
208 * add support for activating nvme-oF devices at boot automatically via kernel
209 cmdline, and maybe even support a syntax such as
210 root=nvme:<trtype>:<traddr>:<trsvcid>:<nqn>:<partition> to boot directly from
214 - make signed PCR work together with pcrlock
215 - add kernel-install plugin that automatically creates UKI .pcrlock file when
216 UKI is installed, and removes it when it is removed again
217 - automatically install PE measurement of sd-boot on "bootctl install"
218 - write generated pcrlock signature files to the ESP as credential, one for
219 each installed OS & pick up generated pcrlock signature file in sd-stub,
220 pass it via initrd to OS
221 - pre-calc sysext + kernel cmdline measurements
222 - pre-calc cryptsetup root key measurement
223 - maybe make systemd-repart generate .pcrlock for old and new GPT header in
225 - Add support for more than 8 branches per PCR OR
226 - add "systemd-pcrlock lock-kernel-current" or so which synthesizes .pcrlock
227 policy from currently booted kernel/event log, to close gap for first boot
230 * add a new systemd-project@.service that is very similar to user@.service but
231 uses DynamicUser=1 and no PAMName= to invoke an unprivileged somewhat
232 light-weight service manager. Use HOME=/var/lib/systemd/projects/%i as home
233 dir. Similar for $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. Start project@%i.target. Use LogField= to
234 add a field identifying the project.
236 * logind: add a new dbus call Sleep() which automatically redirects to one of
237 Suspend(), Hibernate(), SuspendThenHibernate() depending on what is
238 available, and also subject to some local configuration in
239 logind.conf. Should default to SuspendThenHibernate() if available, and then
240 fallback to Suspend() and finally Hibernate() if not. Then expose this as
241 "systemctl sleep", and tell DEs to default to this.
243 * in sd-boot and sd-stub measure the SMBIOS vendor strings to some PCR (at
244 least some subset of them that look like systemd stuff), because apparently
245 some firmware does not, but systemd honours it. avoid duplicate measurement
246 by sd-boot and sd-stub by adding LoaderFeatures/StubFeatures flag for this,
247 so that sd-stub can avoid it if sd-boot already did it.
249 * cryptsetup: a mechanism that allows signing a volume key with some key that
250 has to be present in the kernel keyring, or similar, to ensure that confext
251 DDIs can be encrypted against the local SRK but signed with the admin's key
252 and thus can authenticated locally before they are decrypted.
254 * image policy should be extended to allow dictating *how* a disk is unlocked,
255 i.e. root=encrypted-tpm2+encrypted-fido2 would mean "root fs must be
256 encrypted and unlocked via fido2 or tpm2, but not otherwise"
258 * systemd-repart: add support for formatting dm-crypt + dm-integrity file
261 * homed: use systemd-storagetm to expose home dirs via nvme-tcp. Then,
262 teach homed/pam_systemd_homed with a user name such as
263 lennart%nvme_tcp_192.168.100.77_8787 to log in from any linux host with the
264 same home dir. Similar maybe for nbd, iscsi? this should then first ask for
265 the local root pw, to authenticate that logging in like this is ok, and would
266 then be followed by another password prompt asking for the user's own
267 password. Also, do something similar for CIFS: if you log in via
268 lennart%cifs-someserver_someshare, then set up the homed dir for it
269 automatically. The PAM module should update the user name used for login to
270 the short version once it set up the user. Some care should be taken, so that
271 the long version can be still be resolved via NSS afterwards, to deal with
272 PAM clients that do not support PAM sessions where PAM_USER changes half-way.
274 * redefine /var/lib/extensions/ as the dir one can place all three of sysext,
275 confext as well is multi-modal DDIs that qualify as both. Then introduce
276 /var/lib/sysexts/ which can be used to place only DDIs that shall be used as
279 * in pid1: move out all cgroup state settings from Unit into a new object
280 CGroupState or so which is allocated when we realize the unit into a cgroup,
281 and then remains referenced by it. The new object should also carry an fd to
282 the realized cgroup, to pin it (and later execute all cgroup operations over,
283 once we drop cgroupv1 compat).
285 * add new "systemd-ssh-generator", which allows basic ssh config via
286 credentials (host key). It generates sshd.socket for IP, but also
287 sshd-vsock.socket for listening on AF_VSOCK when running in a VM, and
288 sshd-unix.socket on AF_UNIX when running in a container. It also generates a
289 matching sshd.service file with a host key passed in on the cmdline via
290 credentials. Then, add a ssh_config drop-in that matches some suitable
291 hostname pattern and has a ProxyCommand set that allows connecting to any
292 local VM/container that way without any networking configured.
294 * Varlinkification of the following command line tools, to open them up to
295 other programs via IPC:
297 - journalctl (allowing journal read access via IPC)
301 - systemd-creds (allowing clients to encrypt credentials locally)
302 - systemd-cryptenroll (to allow UIs to enroll FIDO2 keys and such)
306 - systemd-pcrlock (to allow fwupd to relax policy)
309 * Varlink: add glue code to allow varlink clients to be authenticated via
310 Polkit by passing client pidfd over.
312 * in the service manager, pick up ERRNO= + BUSERROR= + VARLINKERROR= error
313 identifiers, and store them along with the exit status of a server and report
314 via "systemctl status".
316 * enumerate virtiofs devices during boot-up in a generator, and synthesize
317 mounts for rootfs, /usr/, /home/, /srv/ and some others from it, depending on
318 the "tag". (waits for: https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd/-/issues/128)
320 * automatically mount one virtiofs during early boot phase to /run/host/,
321 similar to how we do that for nspawn, based on some clear tag.
323 * add some service that makes an atomic snapshot of PCR state and event log up
324 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
326 * encode type1 entries in some UKI section to add additional entries to the
329 * Add ACL-based access management to .socket units. i.e. add AllowPeerUser= +
330 AllowPeerGroup= that installs additional user/group ACL entries on AF_UNIX
333 * systemd-tpm2-setup should probably have a factory reset logic, i.e. when some
334 kernel command line option is set we reset the TPM (equivalent of tpm2_clear
337 * systemd-tpm2-setup should support a mode where we refuse booting if the SRK
338 changed. (Must be opt-in, to not break systems which are supposed to be
339 migratable between PCs)
341 * when systemd-sysext learns mutable /usr/ (and systemd-confext mutable /etc/)
342 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
345 * add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
346 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
347 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
348 i.e. without recompiling the kernel, taking an upstream OS' kernel and adding
351 * PidRef conversion work:
353 - pid_from_same_root_fs()
355 - pid1: sd_notify() receiver should use SCM_PIDFD to authenticate client
356 - actually wait for POLLIN on pidref's pidfd in service logic
357 - exec_spawn() + safe_fork()
358 - openpt_allocate_in_namespace()
360 - unit_attach_pid_to_cgroup_via_bus()
361 - cg_attach() – requires new kernel feature
362 - varlink_get_peer_pid()
364 * ddi must be listed as block device fstype
366 * measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
369 * homed: add a basic form of secrets management to homed, that stores
370 secrets in $HOME somewhere, is protected by the accounts own authentication
371 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
372 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
373 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
374 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
375 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
377 * use sd-event ratelimit feature optionally for journal stream clients that log
380 * systemd-mount should only consider modern file systems when mounting, similar
383 * add another PE section ".fname" or so that encodes the intended filename for
384 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
385 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
386 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
387 control of the attacker.
389 * also include packaging metadata (á la
390 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
393 * make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
394 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
395 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
396 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
397 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
398 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
399 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
400 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
401 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
404 * in sd-stub: optionally add support for a new PE section .keyring or so that
405 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
406 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
407 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
408 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
409 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
410 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
411 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
413 * resolved: take possession of some IPv6 ULA address (let's say
414 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
415 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
417 * introduce a .microcode PE section for sd-stub which we'll pass as first initrd
418 to the kernel which will then upload it to the CPU. This should be distinct
419 from .initrd to guarantee right ordering. also, and maybe more importantly
420 support .microcode in PE add-ons, so that a microcode update can be shipped
421 independently of any kernel.
423 * Maybe add SwitchRootEx() as new bus call that takes env vars to set for new
424 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
425 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
426 requested during switch root.
428 * introduce a .acpitable section for early ACPI table override
430 * add proper .osrel matching for PE addons. i.e. refuse applying an addon
431 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
434 * figure out what to do about credentials sealed to PCRs in kexec + soft-reboot
435 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
436 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
438 * logind: when logging in, always take an fd to the home dir, to keep the dir
439 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
440 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
443 * mount most file systems with a restrictive uidmap. e.g. mount /usr/ with a
444 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
446 * mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
447 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
448 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
450 * fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
451 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
452 "*:foobar:*", to wildcard match both the start and the end of the string.
453 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
454 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
455 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
457 * mount /tmp/ and /var/tmp with a uidmap applied that blocks out "nobody" user
458 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
459 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
460 used transiently, never persistently.
462 * rework loopback support in fstab: when "loop" option is used, then
463 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
464 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
465 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
466 based on lo_file_name.
468 * remove tomoyo support, it's obsolete and unmaintained apparently
470 * In .socket units, add ConnectStream=, ConnectDatagram=,
471 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
472 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
473 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
474 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
475 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
476 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
477 activation-by-message id and similar.
479 * .service with invalid Sockets= starts successfully.
481 * landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
482 ability to write anywhere else below /run/. Similar for
483 StateDirectory=. Benefit would be clear delegation via unit files: services
484 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
486 * landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
487 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
488 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
489 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
490 similar behaviour for system services, too.
492 * Add systemd-mount@.service which is instantiated for a block device and
493 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
494 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
496 * udevd: extend memory pressure logic: also kill any idle worker processes
498 * udevadm: to make symlink querying with udevadm nicer:
499 - do not enable the pager for queries like 'udevadm info -q -r symlink'
500 - add mode with newlines instead of spaces (for grep)?
502 * SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
503 localed, oomd, timedated.
505 * repart/gpt-auto/DDIs: maybe introduce a concept of "extension" partitions,
506 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
507 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
508 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
509 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
510 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
511 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
512 from the uuid of the original partition it extends. Inspiration for this is
513 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
514 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
515 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
516 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
519 * Use CLONE_INTO_CGROUP to spawn systemd-executor, once glibc supports it in
522 * Make nspawn to a frontend for systemd-executor, so that we have to ways into
523 the executor: via unit files/dbus/varlink through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI
526 * sd-stub: detect if we are running with uefi console output on serial, and if so
527 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
529 * add a utility that can be used with the kernel's
530 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
531 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
532 for all umh processes.
534 * systemd-shutdown: keep sending sd_notify() status updates immediately before
535 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
537 * homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
538 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
541 * homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
542 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
544 * timesyncd: when saving/restoring clock try to take boot time into account.
545 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
546 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
547 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
548 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
549 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
550 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
551 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
552 system actually reset.
554 * systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
555 userspace to allow ordering boots (for example in journalctl). The counter
556 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
558 * pam_systemd_home: add module parameter to control whether to only accept
559 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
560 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
561 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
563 * sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
564 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
565 is then useful for network boot, by embedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
566 in sd-boot, which reference remote kernels.
568 * maybe prohibit setuid() to the nobody user, to lock things down, via seccomp.
569 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
570 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
571 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
572 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
574 * sd-boot: add a new PE section .bls or so that carries a cpio with additional
575 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
576 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
577 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
578 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
580 * sd-boot: also allow passing in the cpio as in the previous item via SMBIOS
582 * add a new EFI tool "sd-fetch" or so. It looks in a PE section ".url" for an
583 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
584 Use case: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
585 binaries in place of UKIs, and download them on-the-fly.
587 * maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
588 cmdline. use case: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
590 * systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
591 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
592 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
594 * sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
595 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
597 * tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
598 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
599 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
600 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
601 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
602 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
603 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
606 * Lennart: big blog story about DDIs
608 * Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
610 * Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
612 * bpf: see if we can use BPF to solve the syslog message cgroup source problem:
613 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
614 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
615 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
618 * bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
619 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
620 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
621 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
622 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
623 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
624 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
625 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
626 try to use inode from there.
628 * extend the verity signature partition to permit multiple signatures for the
629 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
631 * consider adding a new partition type, just for /opt/ for usage in system
634 * gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
635 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
636 for the root fs or /usr/.
638 * dissection policy should enforce that unlocking can only take place by
639 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
642 * make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
643 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
644 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
647 * systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
648 aforementioned purpose.
650 * in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
651 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
653 * Add systemd-sysupdate-initrd.service or so that runs systemd-sysupdate in the
654 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
656 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
657 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
660 * provide an API (probably IPC) to apps to encrypt/decrypt
661 credentials. use case: allow bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd
662 that way, without shelling out to our tools.
664 * revisit default PCR bindings in cryptenroll and systemd-creds. Currently they
665 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
666 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
667 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
668 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
669 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
670 default to PCR 15 at least if sd-stub is used (i.e. bind to system identity),
671 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
672 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
673 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
675 * To mimic the new tpm2-measure-pcr= crypttab option add the same to veritytab
676 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
679 * We should start measuring all services, containers, and system extensions we
680 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
681 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
682 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
683 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
685 * bootspec: permit graceful "update" from type #2 to type #1. If both a type #1
686 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
687 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
688 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
689 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
690 should win over vendor defaults.
692 * write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
693 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
694 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
696 * automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
697 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
699 * implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
700 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
701 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
702 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
703 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
704 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
706 * add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
707 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
708 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
710 * systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
712 * systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
713 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
714 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Use case: remove secondary OS
715 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
717 * systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
718 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
719 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
720 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
721 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
722 only one for each OS.
724 * systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
725 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
726 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
727 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
730 * systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
731 similar behind it, instead of http.
733 * systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
734 boot, or on first boot.
736 * in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
737 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
739 * we probably needs .pcrpkeyrd or so as additional PE section in UKIs,
740 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
741 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
742 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
743 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
744 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
745 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
746 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
747 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
748 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
749 until users are allowed to log in).
751 * Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
752 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
754 * add support for asymmetric LUKS2 TPM based encryption. i.e. allow preparing
755 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
756 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
757 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Use case: systemd-confext
758 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
759 be activated on one specific host (which can be used for installing a bunch
760 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
761 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
762 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
763 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
764 automatically invalidated outside of it.
766 * maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
767 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
768 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
769 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
770 enhanced remote attestation quote. Use case: a simple orchestrator could use
771 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
772 have the orchestrator collect these reports centrally over a 3min time
773 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
774 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
775 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
776 proposed above, so that it can only be activated on the specific host, if the
777 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
778 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
779 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
780 config and collected reports in the last 3min time window only, and thus can
781 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
782 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
783 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
784 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
785 and via the time window TPM logic invalidated if node doesn't keep itself
786 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
788 * in the initrd, once the rootfs encryption key has been measured to PCR 15,
789 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
791 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to use sd_event_set_signal_exit(), instead
792 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
794 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
795 instead of manual blocking.
797 * sd-boot: for each installed OS, grey out older entries (i.e. all but the
798 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
800 * automatically propagate LUKS password credential into cryptsetup from host
801 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
804 * add ability to path_is_valid() to classify paths that refer to a dir from
805 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
806 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
807 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
809 * systemd-measure: allow operating with PEM certificates in addition to PEM
810 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
811 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
812 convenience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
814 * systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
815 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
816 automatically derived from --private-key=).
818 * push people to use ".sysext.raw" as suffix for sysext DDIs (DDI =
819 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
820 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
822 * Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
823 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
824 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
825 use as additional search condition. Use case: images that combined a sysext
826 partition with a portable service partition in one.
828 * On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
829 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
830 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
833 * for systemd-confext: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
834 sig using squashfs-tools-ng's library. Maybe just systemd-repart called under
835 a new name with a built-in config?
837 * lock down acceptable encrypted credentials at boot, via simple allowlist,
838 maybe on kernel command line:
839 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
840 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
842 * Add support for extra verity configuration options to systemd-repart (FEC,
845 * chase(): take inspiration from path_extract_filename() and return
846 O_DIRECTORY if input path contains trailing slash.
848 * chase(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
849 but final node is not a directory
851 * document in boot loader spec that symlinks in XBOOTLDR/ESP are not OK even if
854 * measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
856 * measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
857 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
859 * pick up creds from EFI vars
861 * Add and pickup tpm2 metadata for creds structure.
863 * sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
864 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
865 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
866 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
869 * systemd-measure tool:
870 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
872 * in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
873 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
875 * sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
876 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
878 * sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
879 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
881 * sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
882 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
884 * maybe add new flags to gpt partition tables for rootfs and usrfs indicating
885 purpose, i.e. whether something is supposed to be bootable in a VM, on
886 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
887 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
888 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
891 * sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
892 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
894 * add "systemd-sysext identify" verb, that you can point on any file in /usr/
895 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
898 * systemd-creds: extend encryption logic to support asymmetric
899 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
900 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
901 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
902 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
903 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
904 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
905 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
906 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
907 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
908 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
909 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
911 * building on top of the above, the pub/priv key pair generated on the TPM2
912 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
914 * Process credentials in:
915 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
916 via the credentials logic.
917 • crypttab-generator: allow defining additional crypttab-like volumes via
918 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
919 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
920 • run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
921 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
922 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
923 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
924 • repart: allow defining additional partitions via credential
925 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
926 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
927 file system paths to enable on start.
928 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
930 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
931 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
932 register if not registered yet. Use case: deploy a system, and add an
933 account one can directly log into.
934 • in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
935 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
938 * define a JSON format for units, separating out unit definitions from unit
939 runtime state. Then, expose it:
941 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
943 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
944 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
945 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
946 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
947 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
948 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
950 * Add SUPPORT_END_URL= field to os-release with more *actionable* information
951 what to do if support ended
953 * pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
954 login time, à la motd
956 * sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
957 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
958 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Use case: embed sd-boot in the
959 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
960 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
962 * mount /var/ from initrd, so that we can apply sysext and stuff before the
963 initrd transition. Specifically:
964 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
965 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
966 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
968 * make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
969 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
970 service restarts, hot reboot, cold reboots (depending on configuration): the
971 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
972 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
973 depending on desired level of persistency.
975 * sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
976 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
977 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
978 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
979 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
980 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
981 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
982 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
984 * if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
985 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
986 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
987 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
989 * add ability to set hostname with suffix derived from machine id at boot
991 * add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
993 * homed/userdb: maybe define a "companion" dir for home directories where apps
994 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
995 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
996 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Use case: container
997 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
998 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
999 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
1000 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
1001 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
1002 by. Inform user code about path to this companion dir via env var, so that
1003 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
1004 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
1005 not unprivileged code.
1007 * given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
1008 that hooks up userdbctl ssh-key stuff.
1010 * maybe add support for binding and connecting AF_UNIX sockets in the file
1011 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
1012 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
1013 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
1015 * add a proper concept of a "developer" mode, i.e. where cryptographic
1016 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
1017 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
1018 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
1019 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
1020 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
1021 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
1022 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is the only way to enter developer mode, by
1023 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
1025 * services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
1026 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
1027 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
1030 * update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
1031 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
1032 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
1034 * sd-event: compat wd reuse in inotify code: keep a set of removed watch
1035 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
1036 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
1037 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
1038 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
1039 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
1042 * for vendor-built signed initrds:
1043 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
1044 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
1045 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
1046 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
1047 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
1048 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
1049 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
1050 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
1051 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
1052 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
1053 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
1055 * Maybe extend the service protocol to support handling of some specific SIGRT
1056 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
1057 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
1059 * sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
1060 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
1061 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
1062 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
1063 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
1064 directly to host service manager.
1066 * sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
1067 no api to query the device id
1069 * sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1070 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1073 * sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
1074 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1075 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1076 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
1078 * sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
1079 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1082 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1084 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
1086 * support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
1087 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
1088 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
1089 generated by GNU sha256sums.
1091 * sd-boot: maybe add support for embedding the various auxiliary resources we
1092 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
1093 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
1094 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
1095 to the menu. Use case: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
1098 * maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
1099 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
1100 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
1101 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
1102 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
1103 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
1104 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
1105 hence cheap for enumeration.
1107 * sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
1109 * systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
1110 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1111 words: show partition labels).
1113 * maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
1114 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
1115 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
1116 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. Use case:
1117 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
1118 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
1119 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
1121 * deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
1123 * systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
1125 * per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1126 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1127 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1128 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1129 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1130 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1131 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1132 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1133 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1134 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1136 * doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
1137 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
1139 * doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
1142 * bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
1143 sync, i.e. parse out architecture field in sd-boot (currently only done in
1146 * automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
1148 * add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
1149 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1151 * Enable RestrictFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
1152 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
1154 * Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1155 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
1157 * cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
1160 * man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1161 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1163 * sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1164 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1165 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1166 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
1168 * userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
1169 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1170 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1172 * maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
1173 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
1174 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
1175 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
1176 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
1177 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
1178 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
1179 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
1181 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
1182 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
1183 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
1184 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
1185 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
1186 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
1188 * if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
1189 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
1190 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
1192 * homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
1193 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
1194 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
1195 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
1196 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
1197 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
1198 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
1199 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
1200 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
1201 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
1202 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1203 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1204 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1205 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1206 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
1208 * add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
1209 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
1210 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Use case: drop a root user JSON record there,
1211 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
1212 for debugging purposes. Other use case: boot into qemu with regular user
1213 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
1215 * drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
1216 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
1217 dep in the base OS image)
1219 * userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
1220 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1221 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1222 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1223 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1225 * portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
1226 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1227 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
1229 * logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
1230 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
1231 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
1232 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
1233 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
1234 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
1235 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
1237 * /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
1238 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1239 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1240 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1242 * we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
1243 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1244 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1245 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1246 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1247 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1248 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1249 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1250 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1251 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1252 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
1254 * in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
1255 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1256 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
1258 * rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
1260 * PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
1262 * when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1263 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1264 that images cannot be misused.
1266 * New udev block device symlink names:
1267 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
1268 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1269 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1270 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1273 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1274 - support casync as download mechanism
1275 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1276 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1277 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1278 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1279 update component, since otherwise sysupdate.d/ files would override the
1280 host's update files.)
1281 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1282 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1283 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1284 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1286 * in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1288 * DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1289 make dirs appear under right UID.
1291 * systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1292 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1294 * introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
1295 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1296 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1299 * whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1300 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1302 * Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
1304 * Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1305 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1306 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1309 * add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1310 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1311 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1313 * Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1314 that is deleted in the fs. Use case would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1316 * importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1317 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1319 * add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1320 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1321 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1322 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1323 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
1325 * expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1327 * credentials system:
1328 - acquire from EFI variable?
1329 - acquire via ask-password?
1330 - acquire creds via keyring?
1331 - pass creds via keyring?
1332 - pass creds via memfd?
1333 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1334 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1335 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1336 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1337 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1338 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
1339 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
1340 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
1342 * add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
1343 firmware indicates there is one.
1345 * TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1348 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
1350 * cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
1352 * cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
1353 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1355 * cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1356 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
1358 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1360 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1361 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1363 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1364 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1367 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1368 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1370 * systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
1372 * Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1373 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1375 * special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
1376 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1378 * add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
1379 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1381 * make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1383 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1385 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1387 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1390 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1391 o turn into dlopen() deps:
1392 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
1393 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
1394 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1395 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1396 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1398 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1399 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1400 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1402 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1403 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1405 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1407 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1410 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1411 exists and responds.
1413 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
1414 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
1417 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1418 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1420 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
1422 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1423 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1425 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1426 realname substr searches in varlink API
1428 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1430 * userdb: allow existence checks
1432 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
1434 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1435 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1438 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
1439 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
1440 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1441 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1442 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1443 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1445 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1446 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1447 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1449 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1450 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1451 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1452 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1453 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1456 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1457 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1458 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1460 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1462 * We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1463 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
1465 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
1467 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1468 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1469 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1470 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1471 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1472 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1475 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1477 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1478 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1480 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1481 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1483 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1484 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1487 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1490 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1492 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1494 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1495 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1496 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
1498 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
1499 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1500 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1502 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1504 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1505 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1507 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
1508 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
1509 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
1510 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
1512 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1514 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1516 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1517 non-zero "tries done" count
1519 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1520 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1521 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1522 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1523 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1524 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1525 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1528 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1529 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1530 some explanatory text online.
1532 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1534 * hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
1536 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1537 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1539 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1540 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1541 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1542 files and suchlike we operate on.
1544 * importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1546 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1548 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1549 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1551 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
1552 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
1554 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1555 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1556 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1557 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1558 unlinked from any dir.
1560 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
1562 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1564 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1566 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
1567 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
1568 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1569 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
1570 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
1572 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1574 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1575 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1577 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1578 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1579 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1580 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1581 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1582 different slice too by default. Use case: people who want to put resources on
1583 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1584 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1586 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1587 for root, but only then.
1589 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1590 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1592 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1593 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1595 * sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1596 only when used. Add unit tests.
1598 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1599 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1601 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1602 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1603 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1604 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1605 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1607 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
1609 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
1611 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1612 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1614 * blog about fd store and restartable services
1616 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1618 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1619 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1621 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1622 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1623 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1626 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1627 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1628 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1630 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1633 * maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
1634 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
1635 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1636 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1637 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1638 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1639 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
1641 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1642 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1644 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1645 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1646 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1648 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1649 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1651 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1653 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1654 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1655 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1657 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1658 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1660 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1661 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1662 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1663 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1666 * gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1667 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
1669 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1670 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1671 relative to the configured default value.
1673 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1675 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
1677 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1679 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1681 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
1683 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
1685 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
1687 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
1689 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1690 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1691 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1693 * Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1694 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1696 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
1698 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1699 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1700 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1703 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1705 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1707 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1709 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1710 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1712 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1713 reload the unit file anyway
1715 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1717 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1719 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1720 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1722 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
1723 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
1726 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1728 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1730 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
1731 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
1732 prefixed with /sys generally special.
1733 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
1735 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1737 * docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
1739 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1740 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1742 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
1744 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1745 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1746 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1747 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1748 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1750 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1752 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
1753 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
1755 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
1756 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
1758 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
1759 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
1761 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1763 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1764 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1766 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
1768 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
1770 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
1772 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1773 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1775 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1779 - service registration
1780 - service/domain/types browsing
1782 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
1783 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1784 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1785 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
1786 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
1787 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
1789 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
1791 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1793 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1795 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1797 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1799 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1800 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
1802 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1804 * gpt-auto-generator:
1805 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
1806 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
1808 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1809 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1810 when it is otherwise off
1812 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
1814 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1815 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1819 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
1820 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1821 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1822 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1823 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1824 the hierarchies of child processes
1825 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1826 maybe use them for user@.service
1829 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
1831 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1833 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1835 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1837 * 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
1839 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1840 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
1843 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
1845 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1847 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1849 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1851 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1853 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1855 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1856 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1857 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1859 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1860 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1862 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1864 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1866 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1868 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1869 needs to be auto-respawned?
1872 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1873 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1874 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1875 that are not supported...
1876 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1877 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Use case:
1878 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1879 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1880 - move PAM code into its own binary
1881 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1882 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1883 - Support --test based on current system state
1884 - 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().
1885 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1886 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1887 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1888 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1889 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1890 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1891 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1892 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1893 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1894 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1895 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1896 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1899 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1900 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1901 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1902 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1903 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1904 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1905 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1906 - introduce Type=pid-file
1907 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1908 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1909 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1912 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
1913 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1915 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1917 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1919 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1921 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1923 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1925 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1927 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1930 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
1932 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
1933 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
1934 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1937 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1938 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1940 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1942 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1943 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1944 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1946 * BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1947 compliant boot loader is installed.
1949 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? use case:
1950 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1951 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1954 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
1956 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
1958 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1960 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
1962 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1964 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1966 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1968 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1972 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1973 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1974 - 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
1975 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1976 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1977 - longer term: priority inheritance
1978 - dbus spec updates:
1979 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
1981 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1984 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1985 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1986 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1987 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1988 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1990 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1992 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1993 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1995 * document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
1997 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1999 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
2001 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
2004 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
2005 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
2006 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
2008 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
2010 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
2013 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
2014 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
2015 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
2018 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
2019 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
2020 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
2021 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
2022 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
2023 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
2024 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
2025 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
2027 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
2028 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
2029 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
2031 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2032 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2033 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
2034 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
2035 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2036 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2037 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2038 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2039 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2041 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
2042 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
2043 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
2044 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
2046 * move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2048 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2049 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2050 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2052 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2053 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2056 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
2057 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2058 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2059 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2060 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
2061 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
2062 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2063 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2064 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
2065 message that works, but already after a short timeout
2066 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2067 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
2068 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
2069 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
2070 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
2071 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
2072 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
2073 - 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.
2074 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2075 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
2076 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2077 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2078 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2079 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
2080 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
2081 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
2082 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
2083 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2084 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2085 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2086 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2087 to syslog when it works again.
2088 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2089 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2091 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2092 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2093 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2094 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2095 the most common operations.
2096 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
2097 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2098 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2099 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2100 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2101 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2102 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2104 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
2105 written to as FAIL, but instead show that they are being written to.
2106 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2108 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
2109 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2110 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2111 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2112 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
2113 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
2115 * journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2116 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2118 * Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2119 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2122 * rework journalctl -M to be based on a machined method that generates a mount
2123 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2124 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2126 * journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2127 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2128 cursors as they happen.
2130 * journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2131 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2132 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2133 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2134 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2135 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2136 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2137 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2138 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2140 * in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2141 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2142 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2143 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
2144 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
2145 log record, adjusted by the delta declared in the structured log record.
2147 * in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2148 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2149 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2150 records, to be able to order them.
2152 * journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2153 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2154 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2155 be safely written to disk, then.
2157 * hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2158 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2159 inspiration from IMA log)
2161 * sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2162 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2163 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2165 * maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
2166 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
2167 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
2168 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2171 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2172 log.c and sd-journal-send
2174 * journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2175 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2176 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2177 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2178 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2179 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2180 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2181 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2182 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2183 an NTP sync is acquired.
2185 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
2187 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2188 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2189 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2191 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2192 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2193 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2194 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2197 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2198 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2199 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2202 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2204 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2205 from the SIGBUS handler
2207 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
2208 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2209 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2210 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2212 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2213 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2216 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2217 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2218 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
2219 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2220 - create on activate?
2221 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2222 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2223 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2224 systemd --user is shut down.
2225 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2226 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2227 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2228 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2229 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2230 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2231 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2232 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2233 - query password from kernel keyring first
2234 - update even if record is "absent"
2235 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2236 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2237 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2238 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2239 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
2240 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2241 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2242 doesn't mean user B sees it
2243 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
2244 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2245 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2247 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2248 and insert a local signature instead.
2249 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2250 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2251 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2252 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2253 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2254 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2255 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2257 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2258 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2259 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2260 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2261 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2262 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2263 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
2264 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2265 can easily set overall quota for all users
2266 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2267 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
2268 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
2269 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
2270 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2272 - add "homectl unbind" command to remove local user record of an inactive
2275 * add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2276 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2277 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2279 * systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
2281 * systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2282 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2283 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2284 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2286 * systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2288 * systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2289 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2290 something goes wrong on the way.
2292 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2293 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2294 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2295 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2297 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2298 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2299 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2300 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2301 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2304 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2305 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2307 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2308 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2309 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2310 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2311 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2312 fails to apply use the latter.
2314 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2315 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2317 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2318 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2320 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2321 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
2322 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
2324 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2325 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2327 * systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
2328 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2331 * systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2334 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
2335 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2336 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
2337 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
2338 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2339 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
2340 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2341 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
2342 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2343 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
2344 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
2345 - document root=gpt-auto properly
2348 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2349 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2350 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2351 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2352 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2353 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2354 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
2355 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
2356 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
2357 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
2359 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2360 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2361 it should skip the variant type string though.
2363 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2364 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2365 the slices, and the units attached to them.
2367 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2368 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2369 wait to retrieve their exit data.
2371 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2372 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
2374 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2375 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2376 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2379 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2380 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2381 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2382 returning from the "systemctl stop".
2384 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2386 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2389 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2390 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
2393 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2394 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2395 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2396 from the kernel's logs.
2397 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2398 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2399 interface be missing
2400 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2401 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2402 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2403 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2404 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2405 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2407 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2408 running, remove them when shut down.
2409 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2410 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2412 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2413 or so, freeze the payload too.
2414 - support time namespaces
2415 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2416 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2417 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2419 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2420 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2421 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2422 - greater control over selinux label?
2423 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2424 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2425 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2426 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2427 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2429 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2430 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2431 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2432 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2433 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2434 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2435 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2436 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
2437 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2438 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
2439 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2441 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
2443 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2444 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2445 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2446 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2450 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2451 removed or added to an existing machine
2452 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2453 difference host, via ssh
2454 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2455 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2456 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2458 - "machinectl history"
2460 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2461 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2466 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
2467 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
2468 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
2469 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
2472 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
2473 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
2474 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
2476 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2479 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
2480 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
2481 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
2482 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2483 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2484 calls follow symlinks.
2486 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2488 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
2489 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2490 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
2493 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2494 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2498 - add support for more attribute types
2499 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
2502 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2503 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
2504 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
2505 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
2506 - work with non-Ethernet devices
2507 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
2508 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2509 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2510 - expose in the API the following bits:
2511 - option 15, domain name
2512 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
2513 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2514 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2515 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2516 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2517 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2518 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
2519 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
2521 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2523 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2526 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
2529 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2530 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2531 - write more test cases
2532 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
2533 - implement support for temporary addresses (IA_TA)
2534 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2535 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2536 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2538 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2542 * shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2543 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2544 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)