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
