Given that this is also the place to store raw disk images which are
very much bootable with qemu/kvm it sounds like a misnomer to call the
directory "container". Hence, let's change this sooner rather than
later, and use the generic name, in particular since we otherwise try to
use the generic "machine" preferably over the more specific "container"
or "vm".
Choose which system users defined in sysusers.d/systemd.conf and files
or directories in tmpfiles.d/systemd.conf, should be provided depending
on comile-time configuration.
Create /var/lib/containers so that it exists with an appropriate mode. We want
0700 by default so that users on the host aren't able to call suid root
binaries in the container. This becomes a security issue if a user can enter a
container as root, create a suid root binary, and call that from the host.
(This assumes that containers are caged by mandatory access control or are
started as user).
Now that logind will clean up all IPC resources of a user we should
really consider $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR as just another kind of IPC with the
same life-cycle logic as the other IPC resources. This should be safe
now to do since every user gets his own $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR tmpfs instance
with a fixed size limit, so that flooding of it will more effectively be
averted.
Management of /var/cache/man should move to the distribution package
owning the directory (for example, man-db). As man pages are a
non-essential part of the system and unnecessary for minimal setups,
there's no point in having systemd ship these lines.
Distribution packages should make sure the appropriate package for their
distribution adopts this line. Ideally, the line is adopted by the
upstream package.
For Fedora I have filed this bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1110274
"m" so far has been a non-globbing version of "z". Since this makes it
quite redundant, let's get rid of it. Remove "m" from the man pages,
beef up "z" docs instead, and make "m" nothing more than a compatibility
alias for "z".
Configuration will be in
root:root /run/systemd/network
and state will be in
systemd-network:systemd-network /run/systemd/netif
This matches what we do for logind's seat/session state.
Various operations done by systemd-tmpfiles may only be safely done at
boot (e.g. removal of X lockfiles in /tmp, creation of /run/nologin).
Other operations may be done at any point in time (e.g. setting the
ownership on /{run,var}/log/journal). This distinction is largely
orthogonal to the type of operation.
A new switch --unsafe is added, and operations which should only be
executed during bootup are marked with an exclamation mark in the
configuration files. systemd-tmpfiles.service is modified to use this
switch, and guards are added so it is hard to re-start it by mistake.
If we install a new version of systemd, we actually want to enforce
some changes to tmpfiles configuration immediately. This should now be
possible to do safely, so distribution packages can be modified to
execute the "safe" subset at package installation time.
/run/nologin creation is split out into a separate service, to make it
easy to override.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1043212https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1045849
This way it is easy to only exclude directories from the current boot
from automatic clean up in /var/tmp.
Also, pick a longer name for the directories so that are globs in
tmp.conf can be simpler yet equally accurate.
In order to avoid a deadlock between journald looking up the
"systemd-journal" group name, and nscd (or anyother NSS backing daemon)
logging something back to the journal avoid all NSS in journald the same
way as we avoid it from PID 1.
With this change we rely on the kernel file system logic to adjust the
group of created journal files via the SETGID bit on the journal
directory. To ensure that it is always set, even after the user created
it with a simply "mkdir" on the shell we fix it up via tmpfiles on boot.
Embedded folks don't need the machine registration stuff, hence it's
nice to make this optional. Also, I'd expect that machinectl will grow
additional commands quickly, for example to join existing containers and
suchlike, hence it's better keeping that separate from loginctl.
Currently, PrivateTmp=yes means that the service cannot see the /tmp
shared by rest of the system and is isolated from other services using
PrivateTmp, but users can access and modify /tmp as seen by the
service.
Move the private /tmp and /var/tmp directories into a 0077-mode
directory. This way unpriviledged users on the system cannot see (or
modify) /tmp as seen by the service.
We finally got the OK from all contributors with non-trivial commits to
relicense systemd from GPL2+ to LGPL2.1+.
Some udev bits continue to be GPL2+ for now, but we are looking into
relicensing them too, to allow free copy/paste of all code within
systemd.
The bits that used to be MIT continue to be MIT.
The big benefit of the relicensing is that closed source code may now
link against libsystemd-login.so and friends.
This extends the shutdownd interface to expose schedule shutdown
information in /run/systemd/shutdown/schedule.
This also cleans up the shutdownd protocol and documents it in a header
file sd-shutdown.h.
This is supposed to be used by client code that wants to control and
monitor scheduled shutdown.
Many people prefer to avoid clearing /tmp and /var/tmp, and
distributions often have explicit settings for how often to clear them
if at all. Overriding those with systemd currently requires overriding
all of /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/systemd.conf via
/etc/tmpfiles.d/systemd.conf, copying across all the other entries, and
updating that override when systemd.conf changes.
Move the /tmp and /var/tmp entries from systemd.conf to a separate
tmp.conf, making them easier to override without affecting the rest of
systemd.conf.
