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Luca Boccassi 32a162dbb9 core: add method to enqueue multiple jobs in a single call (#42182)
Currently only a single job for a single unit can be enqueued
atomically,
so there is no guarantee that, e.g., starting a unit and its socket
at the same time will happen in the same transaction. That forces
callers to 'know' the right order in which to start new units being
installed, or failures will occur. It also means some ordering
constraints are ignored, in case the separate calls are done
in the wrong manual order.

Add a new EnqueueUnitJobMany() D-Bus method that takes a list of units
to start.
2026-06-22 21:35:17 +01:00
Luca Boccassi 8b25e0f85e systemctl: use new EnqueueUnitJobMany() when available
Fixes https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/7877
Replaces https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/7947
2026-06-22 21:19:16 +01:00
Lennart Poettering 710d5aebbb sysupdate: keep database of installed files/patterns, and use to GC them (#42646)
Transfer files might come and go, components might be enabled and
disabled. Patterns might change. Let's keep track of what we install, so
that we can automatically gc everything no longer owned by any enabled
transfer.
2026-06-22 17:19:46 +02:00
Luca Boccassi 4dc1e31ce8 machine-tags: extend syntax to support key/value pairs (#42618)
This is a minor extension, to move the machine tags concept more closely
towards what higher-level solutions support for tagging machines, such
as kubernetes, simply to reduce the conceptual impedance mismatch.
2026-06-22 14:47:20 +01:00
Luca Boccassi 01c0aa8061 Expand specifiers in MakeSymlinks= target in repart.d (#42694)
Closes #42693. Specifiers are now expanded in symlink targets
(previously, they were only expanded in the source) - this is
technically a breaking change, but I'd be very surprised if anyone was
relying on this.

No other simplification is applied to the target (unlike the source,
which goes through `path_simplify_and_warn`).

Also a few minor changes:

- rename local `path` variable to `source` to match documentation
convention
- document that `MakeSymlinks=` accepts specifiers
- fix error message to print `MakeSymlinks=` option instead of
`Subvolumes=`
2026-06-22 14:08:21 +01:00
Luca Boccassi ee7c04873e systemctl: add --kernel-cmdline-reuse option
kexec-tools has a --reuse-cmdline option which is very convenient
when doing a lot of reboots, add the same to systemctl.
Dedup options, letting the last one wins in case of duplicates,
so that 'systemctl kexec --reuse-cmdline' can be chained many times
without continuosly expanding the cmdline with duplicates from
the boot entry.
2026-06-22 14:02:52 +01:00
Lennart Poettering d82e256bb9 sysupdate: introduce "installdb" that keeps track of installed resources
Let's make sure we keep track of any file we drop into the system via a
database in /var/. This database is implemented based on symlinks, i.e.
reuses the fs as a simple database. Given the database most likely will
have <= 10 entries only (as we store *patterns* of installed file paths in
them, not the file paths themselves), this should be very efficient.

For implementation details see comments at top of
src/sysupdate/sysupdate-cleanup.c.
2026-06-22 14:44:51 +02:00
Luca BoccassiandMichal Koutný 7d3b32daef core: add method to enqueue multiple jobs in a single call
Currently only a single job for a single unit can be enqueued atomically,
so there is no guarantee that, e.g., starting a unit and its socket
at the same time will happen in the same transaction. That forces
callers to 'know' the right order in which to start new units being
installed, or failures will occur. It also means some ordering
constraints are ignored, in case the separate calls are done
in the wrong manual order.

Add a new EnqueueUnitJobMany() D-Bus method that takes a list of units
to start.

Fixes https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/8102

Co-authored-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
2026-06-22 13:01:17 +01:00
Kai Wohlfahrt 7efb51b0e1 repart: expand specifiers in MakeSymlinks= target
Previously, they were only expanded in the source part of the arguments.
No other validation is applied to the target component.
2026-06-22 10:24:26 +02:00
Skye Soss a4f7c9589e tmpfiles: add %D specifier resolution
systemd-tmpfiles now resolves the %D specifier to /usr/share
(for the system manager) or $XDG_DATA_HOME (for the user manager).

Closes: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/42010
Signed-off-by: Skye Soss <skye@soss.website>
2026-06-21 18:20:53 +01:00
Lennart Poettering e652ec1099 pam_systemd: add option for acquiring logind inhibitor locks for the duration of a session (#42275)
This adds support in pam_systemd for acquiring an inhibitor lock when a
pam session is active, and can be used (for example) to prevent
suspend/sleep of a host when an ssh session is active on the host. The
reason string can be customized via `inhibit-why=`.

For example, /etc/pam.d/sshd can now contain this line: `-session
optional pam_systemd.so inhibit=sleep`

And sleep will be blocked when someone is logged into the system over
ssh:

```
foo:~$ systemd-inhibit --list --no-pager
WHO            UID USER PID COMM            WHAT  WHY                 MODE
NetworkManager 0   root 397 NetworkManager  sleep NetworkManager nee… delay
Realtime Kit   0   root 401 rtkit-daemon    sleep Demote realtime sc… delay
sshd           0   root 667 sshd-session.pa sleep Active PAM session  block
```

Fixes: #20654
2026-06-20 23:35:06 +02:00
Lennart Poettering 864f559b37 hostname: add $ hostname substitution and petnames wordfiles (#42566)
This commit adds support to /etc/hostname for substitution of $ from
wordlists located in /etc,/run,/usr/lib}/systemd/. Each $ is resolved to
a number (1,2,3...) and the corresponding file "1" is opened to acquire
the word. With that we can do a petname [1] style hostname in systemd,
e.g. below a possible expansion for a hostname template:

    $-$-$-????  ->  wildly-happy-octopus-92a9

The substitution of words is stable (based on machine-id) but if the
wordlist changes the hostname would change. We could pick it once and
cache it but Lennart did not like this so this version instead always
picks it (based on offset of the file so the operation is cheap). To
persist it one can use the `firstboot.hostname` credential. One a live
system this will be expanded and then written in the expanded form to
/etc/hostname.

This also includes a wordlist from the "petname" project that can be
optionally installed.

Thanks to Dustin Kirkland for this wonderful project.

[1] https://github.com/dustinkirkland/petname

---

I'm a bit unsure if this should include the word lists (I think its nice
to have them though) and if so if they should be their own commit.
2026-06-20 15:52:11 +02:00
Lennart Poettering a3d4bde86d run0: implement sudo options -k/-K/-v (#42465)
This implements a close facsimile of
[sudo](https://man.archlinux.org/man/sudo.8#K)'s -k/-K/-v options, which
manipulate the temporary authorizations used by sudo. Use like `run0 -k
whoami` to always re-auth, or just `run0 -k` to revoke a prior temporary
authorization.

~~Depends on polkit-org/polkit#662 due to a bug in polkit.~~ Now it
should work ok despite the bug.
2026-06-20 15:19:54 +02:00
Michael Vogt c3c735bd09 hostname: add ? and $ in systemd.hostname= kernel cmdline
Similar to the support for ?/$ in /etc/hostname and the credentials
we now add this to the kernel commandline systemd.hostname= option.

If the expansion fails, e.g. in the initrd where the word lists (and
possibly the machine ID) are not available yet, the option is ignored
and the usual default hostname logic applies. Once the host system is
up the expansion succeeds and the intended name is applied.
2026-06-20 14:26:41 +02:00
Michael Vogt 513e8a3826 creds,firstboot: add support for ? and $ via credentials
Now that we support the `$` we want to also make this available
inside the system.hostname and firstboot.hostname credentials and
the firstboot --hostname option. This commit adds it (and also `?`).
2026-06-20 14:26:41 +02:00
Michael Vogt df12d58f8b hostname: add $ hostname substitution and petnames
This commit adds support to /etc/hostname for substitution
of $ wordlists from {/etc,/run,/usr/lib}/systemd/hostname-wordlist.
The first $ will lookup hostname-wordlist/1, the next
hostname-wordlist/2 and so on.

With that we can do a petname [1] style hostname in systemd, e.g.
below a possible expansion for a hostname template:

    $-$-$-????  ->  wildly-happy-octopus-92a9

The substitution of words is stable (based on machine-id) but
not persisted, it is picked on every boot via a stable file
offset so the operation is cheap. But this means that if the
wordlist changes the hostname would change. The next commit
will add the pattern to the firstboot.hostname credential which
is persistet with the resolved names to avoid this issue.

This also includes a wordlist from the "petname" project
that can be optionally installed.

Thanks to Dustin Kirkland for this wonderful project.

[1] https://github.com/dustinkirkland/petname
2026-06-20 14:26:41 +02:00
Michael Vogt 046de3caea core: add RestartRandomizedDelaySec= service option
We already support exponential backoff for automatic restarts via
RestartSec=/RestartSteps=/RestartMaxDelaySec=, but there is no way to
randomize the restart delay. When many instances of a service fail at
the same time (e.g. because a shared resource briefly went away) they
are all restarted in lockstep, creating a thundering herd problem.

So this commit adds a simple `RestartRandomizedDelaySec=` service
option which is similar to the timer `RandomizedDelaySec=` and
adds a randomized restart delay.
2026-06-20 12:31:28 +02:00
Clayton Craft 87fa1c28a5 pam_systemd: document inhibit= and inhibit-why= options 2026-06-20 09:57:42 +01:00
Ronan Pigott e15fbf3349 run0: add -n/--non-interactive as alias to --no-ask-password
These are the flag names used by sudo with similar effect.
2026-06-20 09:55:02 +01:00
Ronan Pigott 2a48d18f20 run0: implement -v/--validate to renew temporary auth
This is meant to mirror sudo's -v/--validate options, which autohrize
the user without running a command.
2026-06-20 09:55:02 +01:00
Ronan Pigott 78b53d0132 run0: implement -k/-K to revoke temporary auth
This is meant to mirror sudo's -k/--reset-timestamp and
-K/--remove-timestamp options, which revoke the temporary authorization
provided by the timestamp files in /var/run/sudo/ts.

To achieve the same effect in run0, we ask polkit to revoke our
temporary authorization. If used with a command, run0 will revoke the
temporary auth and then immediately authorize the user again, just like
sudo -k. All the bus calls are completed synchronously, as they need to
complete before authorizing the user anyway.

Like sudo, the effect of -k/--reset-timestamp is to revoke only the
tmpauthz that polkit would have used to authorize the command, if
available. The -K/--remove-timestamp option will revoke all temporary
authorizations across all ttys.
2026-06-20 09:55:02 +01:00
Lennart Poettering 9afeae5e8a machine-tags: optionally support key/value pairs as machine tags
Other systems (kubernetes…) allow tagging machines with key/value pairs.
Let's extend our allowed syntax slightly to allow that too. Thankfully,
we enforced a pretty strict ruleset on machine tags, hence we can
introduce this without breaking compatibility.

This basically allows tags to contain "=". If so, then the left-hand
side of it must be unique among machine tags.

When matching against a machine tag, we apply the same rules as before.
This means, that if people want to check if a tag with value applies
they can do:

    ConditionMachineTag=foo=bar

If they just want to check if "foo=" is set to anything, they can use
the usual glob matching:

    ConditionMachineTag=foo=*
2026-06-19 23:05:36 +02:00
Kai Lüke 347f35cf42 sysext: Allow to (re)start units from extension-release metadata file
Up to now we recommended to use TARGET.upholds/ symlinks to start units
when an extension is loaded. However, this has some drawbacks. First,
for services that should not be tried to be started all the time we have
to resort to hiding them through a target that gets uphold and then
uses regular .wants/ for the actual service. Second, we actually leak
services on extension unload even if the unit has disappeared with the
extension. Third, to affect a service through a drop-in or a config
change from a confext/sysext and that service is already running, we
need a way to restart/reload it instead of just starting it.

Similar to EXTENSION_RELOAD_MANAGER=1, add a EXTENSION_RESTART_UNITS=
and a EXTENSION_RELOAD_OR_RESTART_UNITS= setting to the
extension-release metadata file, carrying a whitespace-separated list
of units to restart/reload on merge/refresh/unmerge after the daemon
reload. Also detect when the unit has vanished which is normally the
case when the unit was part of the unmerged extension, and stop it
explicitly to prevent it leaking. When the extension itself ships the
binary it should use EXTENSION_RESTART_UNITS= to make sure the new
binary is picked up. Since starting through this setting does not work
when the extension is mounted from the initrd, extensions should still
ship at least a .wants/ symlink to start at boot but can also continue
to ship a .upholds/ symlink for backwards compatibility without any
drawback and still benefit from the unit stopping triggered by the new
setting. While there are cases where one could want to set
EXTENSION_RESTART_UNITS= without requiring a daemon reload (e.g., an
env var file change instead of a unit drop-in), we now do an implicit
daemon reload when we have to restart units so that we know we work on
the right state and we spare users remembering to set this setting in
addition to prevent running into this issue.
2026-06-19 22:15:43 +02:00
Armaan Sandhu 095e677436 sysupdate: refuse reboot/pending logic when a component is selected
The `pending` and `reboot` verbs, as well as the `--reboot` switch, compare
the newest installed version against the booted OS version (IMAGE_VERSION= from
os-release). When a component is selected via --component=, this compares the
component's version against the unrelated host OS version, which by design live
in separate version spaces. The result is arbitrary reboot decisions: depending
on the relative version strings sysupdate would either always or never reboot.

Refuse the combination with a clear error instead of silently performing a
bogus comparison. Correctly tracking a per-component booted version is left as a
future feature.

Fixes: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/42330
2026-06-19 19:52:24 +01:00
Lennart Poettering 8e880e3b61 hostnamed: allow setting machine tags via udev rules (#42390)
This gives hostnamed a lot of love, and makes it possibly to "auto-tag"
a machine via a udev rule.

It builds on the machine tag concept added in v261.
2026-06-19 20:38:42 +02:00
Lennart Poettering d3d68a2937 network: hook up "machine tag" concept, also with .network/.link/.netdev files
Follow-up for: 461ec6facc
2026-06-19 20:38:13 +02:00
Lennart Poettering f7786f2508 report: add support for signing reports via varlink backends + make report a varlink service (#42595)
This adds the following:

1. systemd-report gains a new --sign= option, taking a boolean. If true,
this makes systemd-report generate + systemd-report upload generate a
signed report, instead of a regular one. The signatures are collected
from Varlink-based backends.
2. One such backend is added which does a simple Ed21159 based signing
scheme.
3. this adds a new metrics source which just reports text files
symlinked into a special dir as metrics. This is used to report the
Ed21159 public key as metric, by default, if it exists.
4. finally, systemd-report itself is turned into a varlink service. this
is useful for example for extracting a report from a system coming in
via the varlink/http bridge.

I thought a long time about the format of signing of reports. Initially
i intended to do this like homed's user record signing, i.e. require
normalization of the record, then normalize the record, and write it out
in dense form, since the result. Finally insert the resulting hash into
the user record itself. People have pointed me to the inherent messiness
of signing JSON this way though, as it requires any participant that
wishes to sign/authenticate records this way to implement the exact same
normalization/formatting rules, and in particular in the area of
floating point numbers (of which metrics presumably will have many) this
is quite problematic.

This signing hence goes a different way. instead of expecting
signer+verifier to independently come to the same normalized text form
of the json data, let's instead output a JSON-SEQ sequence, where the
first object is the report, and any subsequent objects are one signature
each. the signatures are supposed to cover the precise binary
representation of the first element in the JSON-SEQ stream. (i.e. from
the RS to the NL).

or in other words: a verifier would receive the JSON-SEQ stream, split
it up before each RS. Then it would leave object 1 unparsed for the
moment, and parse objects 2…n. It would then authenticate object 1's
precise binary representation with objects 2…n. Once that checks out, it
would parse object 1, and use it as report.
2026-06-19 20:37:25 +02:00
Luca Boccassi f9e6419f34 core: add KExecsCount property
Use LUO to count kexec reboots, and expose through a new property

Fixes https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/42581
2026-06-19 19:36:01 +01:00
Lennart Poettering 9c3e443021 report: add simple metrics provider that just reads files 2026-06-19 05:23:18 +02:00
Lennart Poettering 2640a3b0e2 report: add a simple software-backed signing backend 2026-06-19 05:23:18 +02:00
Lennart Poettering 3c2f7c6002 report: add support for optionally signing reports
These signatures can be provided by arbitrary Varlink backends symlinked
into /run/systemd/report/sign.

Also add a proper Varlink IDL for the upload interface, since we are
extended it now.
2026-06-19 05:23:18 +02:00
Luca Boccassi 82b8615463 core: add LUOSession= unit setting
Acquiring a LUO session from /dev/liveupdate requires privileges,
and also the device is a single-owner driver so only a single
process can open it at any given time.

Add a LUOSession= service settings that allows units running
without privileges to get a session assigned to them.

The kernel imposes a 64 chars limit on session names, which is
too short to avoid clashes, so derive a hash from joining the
unit name with the parameter name, that way two units using
the same setting don't clash.
2026-06-17 13:11:15 +01:00
Ulrich Ölmann 6cf4171625 man/systemd.mstack: fix typos 2026-06-17 08:34:02 +02:00
Lennart Poettering de4611efc2 report: rename varlink dir for upload plugins
let's name the dir "/run/systemd/report.upload/" (rather than
"/run/systemd/metrics-upload/"). After all, these are reports that we
upload, not indiviudual metrics. And it would be particular confusing
since the dir to pick up metrics is called /run/systemd/report/, rather
than /run/systemd/metrics/. Hence the thing that deals with reports is
nmamed metrics, and the thing that deals in metrics is named reports...
2026-06-15 20:54:37 +02:00
Lennart Poettering b144bdaf0c report: place Upload() on io.systemd.Report.Uploader rather than io.systemd.Report interface
We really want to use io.systemd.Report for the interface
provided by systemd-report itself, not by its backend. hence, rename the
interface that uploading plugins shall implement to
io.systemd.Report.Uploader.

Note that we ideally should have a varlink interface definition for that
interface. if we had, we'd have noticed that earlier.
2026-06-15 20:53:36 +02:00
Paul Meyer af44888d22 man: fix systemd-stub .hwids section to be a singleton
Only .dtbauto and .efifw may appear more than once, .hwids is a
singleton per the UKI specification and the stub reads a single .hwids
section (per profile), matching hardware IDs against entries within it.

Co-developed-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Meyer <katexochen0@gmail.com>
2026-06-09 09:33:59 +02:00
Ronan Pigott c7e1fe094d man: correct a few manpage references 2026-06-06 10:47:10 +01:00
Daan De Meyer b77be9f072 fstab-generator: clear nosuid/nodev/noexec for root=bind: mounts
A bind mount inherits the mount flags of the file system the source
directory resides on. For root=bind: the source typically lives below
/run/ (e.g. a freshly unpacked tar image in /run/machines/), which is
mounted nosuid,nodev, so those flags propagated to /sysroot and broke
suid binaries (e.g. sudo) and device nodes on the booted system.

Default bind root mounts to dev,suid,exec instead, unless the user
overrides this via rootflags=.

Fixes: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/41352

Co-developed-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-03 20:21:54 +01:00
Daan De Meyer c280a16ab7 cryptsetup: document that keyfile-erase does not apply to auto-discovered key files
keyfile-erase only erases a key file explicitly configured in the third
field of crypttab. Key files automatically discovered in
/etc/cryptsetup-keys.d/ and /run/cryptsetup-keys.d/ are considered shared
resources not owned by an individual volume, and are never erased. Make
this explicit in the documentation and add a code comment clarifying the
intent.

Fixes: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/41127
Co-developed-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-03 16:26:04 +02:00
lzwind c8645075e3 network: fix ambiguous "without mode" wording in docs (#42428)
- In `systemd.network.xml`, replaced `"without mode"` with `"without static"`
to clarify that if an IPv6 address is specified without the explicit keyword
`static`, then `static` mode is assumed.
- The original wording was ambiguous because "mode" appears multiple
times in the surrounding context (referring to IPv6 link-local address
modes like `eui64`, `static`, etc.).

Fixes: #39754
2026-06-02 23:27:45 +09:00
Max Chernoff fc24f0e8fb man: Document additional environment.d syntax 2026-06-02 09:32:51 +01:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 0f990a8ab9 man: drop -b/s/S/2/4 from the docs
We retain 1/3/5.
2026-06-01 12:21:12 +02:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek ff1721325d man/systemd: reword description of 2/3/4/5
We shouldn't say that that they boot into "a … legacy target", because
they boot into the standard targets. Those names are just aliases now.
(And also the user is not required to know what SysV even is, so it
shouldn't be used in the main explanation.)
2026-06-01 12:19:03 +02:00
Lennart Poettering 432f54118d units: add systemd-machine-tag@.service template
Add a service template that adds the machine tag given as its instance
name to the host's machine tags. Whenever an instance is pulled in, the
tag is added; the operation is idempotent.

It talks to hostnamed over Varlink (which is socket-activated), so it
works very early at boot, before the system bus is up. It is ordered
after local-fs.target so that /etc/machine-info can be written, requires
hostnamed's socket and the local filesystems to be available, and does
not run in the initrd.
2026-06-01 10:56:16 +02:00
Lennart Poettering 775c721328 hostnamectl: allow incrementally adding/removing tags
Teach the "tags" verb to accept arguments prefixed with '+' or '-': a
'+'-prefixed argument adds all of its (colon-separated) tags to the
configured list, a '-'-prefixed one removes them, mapping onto the new
AddAndRemoveTags() D-Bus method. The prefix applies to the whole
argument, so e.g.

    hostnamectl tags +foo:bar -quux:ooo

adds foo and bar and removes quux and ooo. Plain (replace) and prefixed
(add/remove) arguments may not be mixed in one invocation.
2026-06-01 10:56:16 +02:00
Lennart Poettering 3eb956700f hostnamed: add AddAndRemoveTags() D-Bus method
Add a new D-Bus method on org.freedesktop.hostname1 that incrementally
updates the machine tags instead of replacing the whole list: it takes
two string arrays, one of tags to add and one of tags to remove, and
stores (current ∪ add) \ remove.

This avoids the read-modify-write race that clients would otherwise hit
when several of them each manage a subset of the host's tags.

Factor the tag persistence and the write-error-to-D-Bus-error mapping out
of method_set_tags() into helpers, and add a machine_tags_add_remove()
helper for the set arithmetic, all to be shared with further callers.
2026-06-01 10:56:16 +02:00
Rocker Zhang 90e3b4cb26 man: clarify that ExecCondition= skip triggers SuccessAction=
Unit-level Condition…= / Assert…= directives that fail prevent activation
entirely, so SuccessAction= / FailureAction= never fire. An ExecCondition=
skip in [Service] runs as part of the activation transition itself, so
the unit goes active → inactive and SuccessAction= is honored.

This asymmetry has tripped users up; document it explicitly in both
systemd.service(5) (ExecCondition= section) and systemd.unit(5)
(SuccessAction= / FailureAction= section) with cross-references.

Fixes: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/42035

Co-developed-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-27 14:05:08 +02:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2052315247 man: fedora 44 is the latest stable 2026-05-26 16:55:00 +02:00
Lennart Poettering e69cc9eb36 man: add sd_varlink_connect_address() man page 2026-05-22 14:55:28 +01:00
Lennart Poettering e32209c69c pcrextend: add support for measuring a user record, to be executed on first login of the user
This is supposed to be useful to mark an interactive user login as a
"break glass" event in the measurement logs, i.e. as in many typically
headless scenerios this indicates debug access or similar.
2026-05-22 12:15:12 +02:00