--empower gives full privileges to a non-root user. Currently this
includes all capabilities but we leave the option open to add more
privileges via this option in the future.
Why is this useful? When running privileged development or debugging
commands from your home directory (think bpftrace, strace and such),
you want any files written by these tools to be owned by your current
user, and not by the root user. run0 --empower will allow you to run
all privileged operations (assuming the tools check for capabilities
and not UIDs), while any files written by the tools will still be owned
by the current user.
As 'systemctl stop' is called with --no-block, previously systemd-resolved
might not be stopped when 'resolvectl' is called, and the DBus connection
might be closed during the call:
```
TEST-07-PID1.sh[5643]: + systemctl stop --no-block systemd-resolved.service
TEST-07-PID1.sh[5643]: + resolvectl
TEST-07-PID1.sh[5732]: Failed to get global data: Remote peer disconnected
```
Follow-up for 8eefd0f4de.
Fixes https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/39388#issuecomment-3439277442.
As the modified service requires about ~10 seconds for stopping, the
service never hit the start limit even if we tried to restart the
service more than 5 times.
This also checks that the service is actually triggered by dbus method
call.
Follow-up for 8eefd0f4de.
Otherwise, e.g. requesting to start a unit that is under stopping may
enter the failed state.
This makes
- rename .can_start() -> .test_startable(), and make it allow to return
boolean and refuse to start units when it returns false,
- refuse earlier to start units that are in the deactivating state, so
several redundant conditions in .start() can be dropped,
- move checks for unit states mapped to UNIT_ACTIVATING from .start() to
.test_startable().
Fixes#39247.
The process forked off by `systemd-notify --fork` is not a child of the
current shell, so using `wait` doesn't work. This then later causes a
race, when the test occasionally fails because it attempts to start a
new systemd-socket-activate instance before the old one is completely
gone:
[ 1488.947744] TEST-74-AUX-UTILS.sh[1938]: Child 1947 died with code 0
[ 1488.947952] TEST-74-AUX-UTILS.sh[1933]: + assert_eq hello hello
[ 1488.949716] TEST-74-AUX-UTILS.sh[1948]: + set +ex
[ 1488.950112] TEST-74-AUX-UTILS.sh[1950]: ++ cat /proc/1938/comm
[ 1488.945555] systemd[1]: Started systemd-networkd.service - Network Management.
[ 1488.950365] TEST-74-AUX-UTILS.sh[1933]: + assert_in systemd-socket systemd-socket-
[ 1488.950563] TEST-74-AUX-UTILS.sh[1951]: + set +ex
[ 1488.950766] TEST-74-AUX-UTILS.sh[1933]: + kill 1938
[ 1488.950766] TEST-74-AUX-UTILS.sh[1933]: + wait 1938
[ 1488.950766] TEST-74-AUX-UTILS.sh[1933]: .//usr/lib/systemd/tests/testdata/units/TEST-74-AUX-UTILS.socket-activate.sh: line 14: wait: pid 1938 is not a child of this shell
[ 1488.950766] TEST-74-AUX-UTILS.sh[1933]: + :
[ 1488.951486] TEST-74-AUX-UTILS.sh[1952]: ++ systemd-notify --fork -- systemd-socket-activate -l 1234 --now socat ACCEPT-FD:3 PIPE
[ 1488.952222] TEST-74-AUX-UTILS.sh[1953]: Failed to listen on [::]🔢 Address already in use
[ 1488.952222] TEST-74-AUX-UTILS.sh[1953]: Failed to open '1234': Address already in use
[ 1488.956831] TEST-74-AUX-UTILS.sh[1933]: + PID=1953
[ 1488.957078] TEST-74-AUX-UTILS.sh[102]: + echo 'Subtest /usr/lib/systemd/tests/testdata/units/TEST-74-AUX-UTILS.socket-activate.sh failed'
[ 1488.957078] TEST-74-AUX-UTILS.sh[102]: Subtest /usr/lib/systemd/tests/testdata/units/TEST-74-AUX-UTILS.socket-activate.sh failed
This is useful when we start to call mountfsd from root, for example
from the tests where we just use a simple squashfs/erofs.
Note that this requires the caller to be root, and it will be rejected
otherwise, as such images are classified as 'unprotected' and the
enforced policy does not accept them for unprivileged users.
Fixes the following warning:
TEST-75-RESOLVED.sh[2251]: ++ restart_resolved
TEST-75-RESOLVED.sh[2251]: ++ systemctl stop systemd-resolved.service
TEST-75-RESOLVED.sh[2271]: Stopping 'systemd-resolved.service', but its triggering units are still active:
TEST-75-RESOLVED.sh[2271]: systemd-resolved-monitor.socket, systemd-resolved-varlink.socket
This test occasionally fails due to a race where systemd processes
kernel's SIGKILL before the OOM notification, so the test service dies
with Result=signal instead of the expected Result=oom-kill:
[ 51.008765] TEST-55-OOMD.sh[906]: + systemd-run --wait --unit oom-kill -p OOMPolicy=kill -p Delegate=yes -p DelegateSubgroup=init.scope /tmp/script.sh
[ 51.048747] TEST-55-OOMD.sh[907]: Running as unit: oom-kill.service; invocation ID: 456645347d554ea2878463404b181bd8
[ 51.066296] sysrq: Manual OOM execution
[ 51.066596] kworker/1:0 invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xcc0(GFP_KERNEL), order=-1, oom_score_adj=0
[ 51.066915] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 27 Comm: kworker/1:0 Not tainted 6.17.1-arch1-1 #1 PREEMPT(full) d2b229857b2eb4001337041f41d3c4f131433540
[ 51.066919] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS Arch Linux 1.17.0-2-2 04/01/2014
[ 51.066921] Workqueue: events moom_callback
[ 51.066928] Call Trace:
[ 51.066931] <TASK>
[ 51.066936] dump_stack_lvl+0x5d/0x80
[ 51.066942] dump_header+0x43/0x1aa
<...snip...>
[ 51.087814] 47583 pages reserved
[ 51.087969] 0 pages cma reserved
[ 51.088208] 0 pages hwpoisoned
[ 51.088519] Out of memory: Killed process 908 (sleep) total-vm:3264kB, anon-rss:256kB, file-rss:1916kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:0 pgtables:44kB oom_score_adj:1000
[ 51.090263] TEST-55-OOMD.sh[907]: Finished with result: signal
[ 51.094416] TEST-55-OOMD.sh[907]: Main processes terminated with: code=killed, status=9/KILL
[ 51.094898] TEST-55-OOMD.sh[907]: Service runtime: 58ms
[ 51.095436] TEST-55-OOMD.sh[907]: CPU time consumed: 22ms
[ 51.095854] TEST-55-OOMD.sh[907]: Memory peak: 1.6M (swap: 0B)
[ 51.096722] TEST-55-OOMD.sh[912]: ++ systemctl show oom-kill -P Result
[ 51.106549] TEST-55-OOMD.sh[879]: + assert_eq signal oom-kill
[ 51.107394] TEST-55-OOMD.sh[913]: + set +ex
[ 51.108256] TEST-55-OOMD.sh[913]: FAIL: expected: 'oom-kill' actual: 'signal'
[FAILED] Failed to start TEST-55-OOMD.service.
To mitigate this, let's spawn a child process and move it to the
subcgroup to get killed instead of the main process, so systemd has more
time to react to the OOM notification and terminate the service with the
expected oom-kill result.
Needed to implement support for RootHashSignature=/RootVerity=/RootHash=
and friends when going through mountfsd, for example with user units,
so that system and user units provide the same features at the same
level
RootDirectory= and other options already implicitly enable PrivateUsers=
since 6ef721cbc7 if they are set in user
units, so that they can work out of the box.
Now with mountfsd support we can do the same for the images settings,
so enable them and document them.
It looks like the 4 second sleep might not be enough on some slower
machines (like the ARM GH Actions nodes) which can lead to the DS RRs
propagation to clash with the manual test zone edit, and the
signed.test zone then might end up not properly signed:
TEST-75-RESOLVED.sh[749]: + : '--- ZONE: signed.test (static DNSSEC) ---'
TEST-75-RESOLVED.sh[749]: + run_delv @ns1.unsigned.test signed.test
TEST-75-RESOLVED.sh[749]: + run delv -a /etc/bind.keys @ns1.unsigned.test signed.test
TEST-75-RESOLVED.sh[778]: + delv -a /etc/bind.keys @ns1.unsigned.test signed.test
TEST-75-RESOLVED.sh[779]: + tee /tmp/tmp.2KOIiyrgth
TEST-75-RESOLVED.sh[779]: ;; /etc/bind.keys:1: option 'managed-keys' is deprecated
TEST-75-RESOLVED.sh[779]: ;; validating signed.test/DS: no valid signature found
TEST-75-RESOLVED.sh[779]: ;; validating signed.test/A: no valid signature found
TEST-75-RESOLVED.sh[779]: ; unsigned answer
TEST-75-RESOLVED.sh[779]: signed.test. 86400 IN A 10.0.0.10
TEST-75-RESOLVED.sh[779]: signed.test. 86400 IN RRSIG A 13 2 86400 20251028114356 20251014101356 39330 signed.test. oo3ca8WPusbBPRhzsEKw3bsBBqFtI8i4bckoMVNzt7lY+udGW6PlaSYj OjpQGgY9oglowVM9bteNtwJKHUbvtw==
TEST-75-RESOLVED.sh[749]: + grep -qF '; fully validated' /tmp/tmp.2KOIiyrgth
[FAILED] Failed to start TEST-75-RESOLVED.service - TEST-75-RESOLVED.
Let's explicitly wait for the DS records propagation to finish before we
start editing the test zone to avoid this.
I'm still not completely sure if this is the root cause, but it's the
best shot I currently have, so I'll let the CIs decide.
Let's reduce our attack surface by insisting that XBOOTLDR is vfat when
auto-probing, just like we do for the ESP. Given neither can
realistically be integrity protected (because firmware needs to access
them) let's insist on a vfat which has a much smaller attack surface,
and one we have to accept (for now) anyway, given that the ESP must be
VFAT.
This only applies to auto-probing of course. If people mount things
explicitly via fstab none of this matters. But we really shouldn't
automount a btrfs/xfs/ext4 partition as XBOOTLDR just because it looks
like one, as that would really defeat our otherwise possibly very strict
image policies.
This also introduces a new env var $SYSTEMD_DISSECT_FSTYPE_<DESIGNATOR>
environment variable that may override this hardcoding. This is in
particular useful in our testcases, since various actually do use ext4
as XBOOTLDR case. The tests are updated to make use of the new env var,
both as a mechanism to test this and to keep the tests working.
Previously, we'd take the image policy only into consideration when
dissecting the mage, but for the unlock/verity step we'd go via best
effort. Change that. This means we can now enforce policies such as
activating by root hash only even if a signature exists and similar.
Also, introduce a separate error code if we try to unlock a Verity
volume but have no root hash. Previously we'd return ENOKEY for that,
exactly like we do for encrypted volumes where we have no passparse. The
interctive unlock loop dissected_image_decrypt_interactively() is
otherwise very confused and will ask for a root hash, which makes no
sense. Hence use two distinct errors for this.
Sharing verity volumes is problematic for a veriety of reasons, for
example because it might pin the wrong backing device at the wrong time.
Let's hence turn this around: unless verity sharing is enabled, leave it
off, and turn $SYSTEMD_VERITY_SHARING into a true boolean that can be
set both ways.
The primary usecase for verity sharing is RootImage=, where it probably
makes sense to leave on, hence set the flag there.
This is crucial when putting together installers which install an OS on
a second disk: if verity sharing is always on we might mount the wrong
of the two disks at the wrong time.
Before:
Next elapse timestamp should be Sun Oct 12 00:10:00 UTC 2025 <= Sun 2025-10-12 05:43:04 UTC <= Sun Oct 12 22:10:00 UTC
After:
Next elapse timestamp should be Tue 2025-10-14 00:10:00 CEST <= Tue 2025-10-14 19:39:11 CEST <= Tue 2025-10-14 22:10:00 CEST
The EnterNamespace= feature currently doesn't work if the debuginfo is
separated from the crashing binary. Until that's resolved, let's run the
test only if the test binary has embedded debuginfo (.debug_info
section; e.g. when systemd is built without WITH_DEBUG=1) or it contains
MiniDebugInfo (.gnu_debugdata section; default on Fedora and CentOS).
See: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/39268#issuecomment-3390745718
Cockpit's podman plugin needs to know the lingering status so the UI can
advertise enabling `podman-restart` (which depends on lingering to
work). Currently it relies on watching `/var/lib/systemd/linger/${user}`
but that isn't a public API.
Related: #22244
The ability to encrypt/authenticate encryption with a null key was
originally just a fallback concept for cases where during early boot we
have no host key, but the local system has no TPM2. Nowadays it is used
for other stuff as well, such as pcrlock data propagation (i.e. data
that needs no protection itself and required to properly to TPM key
derivation).
Let's give better, explicit control over null key usage, i.e. let's make
it a tristate both on the systemd-creds command line and in the Varlink
IPC to control three cases:
- the default that we allow it only if SecureBoot is off
- explicitly allowed
- explicitly refused (this is new)
Ideally systemd-creds --allow-null switch would take a boolean argument
to control this as a tristate. Alas, that would be a compat break, hence
I added --refuse-null instead (which also maps to the low-level flag for
this).
This also normalizes that the null key is always called "null key" in
messages, and not sometimes "empty key" or "fallback key".
This makes systemd-sysctl support following syntax, like
systemd-sysusers and systemd-tmpfiles:
```sh
$ /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-sysctl --inline 'foo.bar=42'
$ /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-sysctl - <<EOF
foo.bar=42
EOF
```
* From the TEST-74-AUX-UTILS.ssh.sh writing directly into
/etc/ssh/sshd_config can hide config from distro using /usr/etc.
* Using directory configuration /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/* suits for all
cases.
Signed-off-by: val4oss <val4oss@pm.me>
Those were added before 0.61 which is our minimum version.
Dots were dropped from the end of some messages. Most messages did not have the
trailing dot.
0.63 added support for multi-line f-strings. We can't use those yet.
This adds what #39101 and #39070 did for the regular firstboot wizard
but for the homectl firstboot part: i.e. port to the generic prompt
loop, show the "chrome" bars, and mute the console.
And then it also makes querying for aux groups and shells optional,
because quite frankly, i am not sure what to answer there.
When -f/--force is used, wipefs does not call ioctl(BLKRRPART), hence
the partitions will remain in sysfs. Let's not use the option.
This also makes it use 'udevadm lock' for safety.
The keymap only really matters if there's local access to a system, i.e.
if there's actually a physical kbd directly connected to it, to apply it
to. If during firstboot we are not talked to via a VT (but via SSH,
container, or hypervisor console or so instead), then it's very unlikely
we ever are. Hence, don't ask for a keymap, and let#s shortcut the
questions asked at boot.
We only show this blurb on the first question, but the first question is
interactive anyway, hence no need to wait for input first explicitly, we
won't progress anyway without user input.
(similar for homectl's firstboot)
Daan De Meyer
Yu Watanabe
Mike Yuan
Frantisek Sumsal
Luca Boccassi
Ivan Kruglov
Nick Labich
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Lennart Poettering
Antonio Alvarez Feijoo
Jelle van der Waa
val4oss