To make it easy to have a workable ssh-generator on various distros,
let's optionally generate the ssh privsep dir via tmpfiles.d/ drop-in.
This enables the concept with a path of /run/sshd/ as default. This is
the path Debian/Ubuntu uses, and means that we just work on those
distros. Debian/Ubuntu is the only distro (apparently?) that puts the
privsep dir under /run/, hence always needs the dir to be created
manually. Other distros don't need it that much, because they place the
dir in /usr/ (fedora, best choice!) or /var/ (others, not ideal, because
still mutable).
Also adds a longer explanation about this in NEWS, in the hope that
distro maintaines read that and maybe start cleaning this up.
Alternative to: #31543
Naming is always a matter of preference, and the old name would certainly work,
but I think the new one has the following advantages:
- A verb is better than a noun.
- The name more similar to "the competition", i.e. 'sudo', 'pkexec', 'runas',
'doas', which generally include an action verb.
- The connection between 'systemd-run' and 'run0' is more obvious.
There has been no release yet with the old name, so we can rename without
caring for backwards compatibility.
- mention the version format spec for sytsemd-vpick
- say what "systemd-creds --user" can be used by unprivileged users as well
- say what importctl does
- use en dash instead of em dash
- add a missing article
Most of our kernel cmdline options use underscores as word separators in
kernel cmdline options, but there were some exceptions. Let's fix those,
and also use underscores.
Since our /proc/cmdline parsers don't distinguish between the two
characters anyway this should not break anything, but makes sure our own
codebase (and in particular docs and log messages) are internally
consistent.
TPM 1.2 is obsolete, and doesn't really provide much security guarantees
given it's build around SHA1 which is not up to today's standards.
The rest of systemd's TPM codebase never supported TPM 1.2 hence let's
drop this partial support in sd-stub too. It has created problems after
all (sd-stub reported the measuements and userspace assumed these were
for TPM2), without bringing any benefits (given that the measurements we
make are not consumed by us anyway, unlike those for TPM 2.0)
let's cut off this old support.
This is in preparation for https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/30360 to be
merged in a future release. As described there:
nscd is known to be racy [1] and it was already deprecated and later dropped
in Fedora a while back [1,2]. We don't need to support obsolete stuff in
systemd, and the cache in systemd-resolved provides a better solution anyway.
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DeprecateNSCD
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RemoveNSCD
Note that our "support" is only the signal to flush the cache that we send at
various points. Nscd itself may still exist, dropping it is a decision to be
made in glibc.
A non-breaking space is used between "PCR" and the number. I did
search&replace on the whole file, so that when people select&paste
later, they are more likely to use the same format.
