By giving priority to --background= we prevent users from opting
out of coloring if an explicit color is chosen by a tool wrapping
one of our own tools. Instead, let's give priority to the environment
variable, so that even if our tools are wrapped by another tool with
a different background, users can still opt out of coloring just by
setting the environment variable, which has a high chance of being
forwarded to the invocation of our own tools which makes it easy to
use to disable color tinting globally if requested by the user.
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.
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.
Some configuration files that need updates are directly under in /etc. To
update them atomically, we need write access to /etc. For Ubuntu Core this is
an issue as /etc is not writable. Only a selection of subdirectories can be
writable. The general solution is symlinks or bind mounts to writable places.
But for atomic writes in /etc, that does not work. So Ubuntu has had a patch
for that that did not age well.
Instead we would like to introduce some environment variables for alternate
paths.
* SYSTEMD_ETC_HOSTNAME: /etc/hostname
* SYSTEMD_ETC_MACHINE_INFO: /etc/machine-info
* SYSTEMD_ETC_LOCALTIME: /etc/localtime
* SYSTEMD_ETC_LOCALE_CONF: /etc/locale.conf
* SYSTEMD_ETC_VCONSOLE_CONF: /etc/vconsole.conf
* SYSTEMD_ETC_ADJTIME: /etc/adjtime
While it is for now expected that there is a symlink from the standard, we
still try to read them from that alternate path. This is important for
`/etc/localtime`, which is a symlink, so we cannot have an indirect symlink or
bind mount for it.
Since machine-id is typically written only once and not updated. This commit
does not cover it. An initrd can properly create it and bind mount it.
Previously, systemd-networkd sent machine ID as chassis ID.
Let's use application specific machine ID.
This is a kind of backward compat breaking. Hence, this also introduces
the support of $SD_LLDP_SEND_MACHINE_ID environment variable.
Closes#37613.
When dissecting an image, let's make use of the Verity data even if we
got told no root hash explicitly: we can simply determine it by
concatenating the data partition uuid with the verity partition uuid.
Of course, on first thought this doesn't really add much: if the root
hash is not pinned from somewhere, this does not guarantee trust in
the image.
However, this is very useful for attestation: if we have the root hash
we can measure it before mounting things, even if we don't actually
authenticate it.
Hence, at best this helps us with attestation, at worst it doesn't improve
security but certainly doesn't hurt it.
Since this only covers user creation/registration for now, let's hide it
behind an env var. We might reconsider this eventually and make it a
proper switch one day, but who knows, it after all has this "debug tool"
wiff.
When we're building ParticleOS images, we don't want the package
manager (or mkosi) to run systemd-sysusers, systemd-tmpfiles or
systemctl preset so let's add a few more bypass environment
variables that we can set to have execution of these skipped like
we already have $SYSTEMD_HWDB_UPDATE_BYPASS and $KERNEL_INSTALL_BYPASS.
This has been depracted since v254 (2023). Let's kill it for
good now, it has been long enough with 2y. Noone has shown up who wants
to keep it. And given it doesn't work in SB world anyway, and is not
measured is quite problematic security wise.
Currently ask_password_auto() will always try to store the password into
the user keyring. Let's make this configurable so that we can configure
ask_password_auto() into the session keyring. This is required when working
with user namespaces, as the user keyring is namespaced by user namespaces
which makes it impossible to share cached keys across user namespaces by using
the user namespace while this is possible with the session keyring.
In mkosi, we want an easy way to set the keyring timeout for every
tool we invoke that might use systemd-ask-password to query for a
password which is then stored in the kernel keyring. Let's make this
possible via a new $SYSTEMD_ASK_PASSWORD_KEYRING_TIMEOUT_SEC environment
variable.
Using an environment variable means we don't have to modify every separate
tool to add a CLI option allowing to specify the timeout. In mkosi specifically,
we'll set up a new session keyring for the mkosi process linked to the user keyring
so that any pins in the user keyring are used if available, and otherwise we'll query
for and store password in mkosi's session keyring with a zero timeout so that they stay
in the keyring until the mkosi process exits at which point they're removed from the
keyring.
Similar to 24a4542c. 24a4542c can only be set 1 in 1s at most,
sometimes we may need to set to something else(such as 1 in 2s).
So it's best to let the user decide.
This also allows users to solve #34690.
When running unprivileged, checking /proc/1/root doesn't work because
it requires privileges. Instead, let's add an environment variable so
the process that chroot's can tell (systemd) subprocesses whether
they're running in a chroot or not.
Like much English text, the systemd documentation uses "may not" in the
sense of both "will possibly not" and "is forbidden to". In many cases
this is OK because the context makes it clear, but in others I felt it
was possible to read the "is forbidden to" sense by mistake: in
particular, I tripped over "the target file may not exist" in
systemd.unit(5) before realizing the correct interpretation.
Use "might not" or "may choose not to" in these cases to make it clear
which sense we mean.
Some people are just sad, sad lost souls who don't like even the tiniest
ray of color in their life. Let's add an env var knob for allowing them
to turn the background tinting off, to drive the last bit of color from
their life so that they can stay in their grey grey life.
This also drop the support of /run/systemd/netif/persistent-storage-ready,
as the file is anyway removed when networkd is stopped.
Let's use $SYSTEMD_NETWORK_PERSISTENT_STORAGE_READY=1 instead on testing.
This introduces $SYSTEMD_KEYMAP_DIRECTORIES environment variable to
override the hardcoded keymap directories.
I think it is not necessary to provide the first class configuration
option for controlling the keymap directories, but it is not good to
hardcode the paths. So, let's introduce an environment variable to
override that.
Prompted by #31759.
Closes#31759.
Whenever a home directory is in a locked state, accessing the files of
the home directory is extremely likely to cause the thread to hang. This
will put the session in a strange state, where some threads are hanging
due to file access and others are not hanging because they are not
trying to access any of the user's files.
This can lead to a whole slew of consequences. For example, imagine a
likely situation where the Wayland compositor is not hanging, but the
user's open apps are. Eventually, the compositor will detect that none
of the apps are responding to its pings, assume that they're frozen
(which they are), and kill them. The systemd user instance can end up in
a similarly confused state and start killing user services. In the worst
case, killing an app at an unexpected moment can lead to data loss.
The solution is to suspend execution of the whole user session by
freezing the user's slice.
Previously, we'd only freeze user.slice in the case of s2h, because we
didn't want the user session to resume while systemd was transitioning
from suspend to hibernate.
This commit extends this freezing behavior to all sleep modes.
We also have an environment variable to disable the freezing behavior
outright. This is a necessary workaround for someone that has hooks
in /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep/ which communicate with some
process running under user.slice, or if someone is using the proprietary
NVIDIA driver which breaks when user.slice is frozen (issue #27559)
Fixes#27559
This is a kinda a follow-up for ce266330fc: it
makes resolved authoritative on our local hostname, and never contacts
DNS anymore for it.
We effectively already were authoritative for it, except if the user
queried for other RR types than just A/AAAA. This closes the gap and
refuses routing other RR type queries to DNS.
Fixes: #23662
It turns out it's mostly PKCS11 that supports the URI format,
and other engines just take files. For example the tpm2-tss-openssl
engine just takes a sealed private key file path as the key input,
and the engine needs to be specified separately.
Add --private-key-source=file|engine:foo|provider:bar to
manually specify how to use the private key parameter.
Follow-up for 0a8264080a
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.
This reverts commit 5e8ff010a1.
This broke all the URLs, we can't have that. (And actually, we probably don't
_want_ to make the change either. It's nicer to have all the pages in one
directory, so one doesn't have to figure out to which collection the page
belongs.)
When running an image that cannot be mounted (e.g.: key missing intentionally
for development purposes), there's a retry loop that takes some time
and slows development down. Add an env var to disable it.
varlink_server_listen_auto() is supposed to be the one-stop solution for
turning simple command line tools into IPC services. They aren't easy to
test/debug however, since you have to invoke them through a service
manager.
Let's make this easier: if the SYSTEMD_VARLINK_LISTEN env var is set,
let's listen on the socket specified therein. This makes things easier
to gdb: just run the service from the cmdline.
Daan De Meyer
Nick Labich
Lennart Poettering
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Yu Watanabe
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Valentin David
Mike Yuan
xujing
Gaël PORTAY
Mantas Mikulėnas
Colin Watson
Sam Leonard
Krzesimir Nowak
Luca Boccassi
Adrian Vovk
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