cockpit-devel May 2018

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Integration testing with cockpit, how to deal with authentication?
by Daniel Hilst Selli 18 Jun '18

18 Jun '18

Hi everybody. I have been playing with cockpit for some time. Now I have a little library that create processes in the backend, which keep running until I stop then, so I start wondering about how to do integration testing with cockpit, ... In cockpit I have these constraints: - cockpit.js is served by cockpit-ws, - A pam session is created when user login on web interface, At the most what I have is some function calls that have side effects on backend. My testing would be checking for these side effects on the backend, like checking if some process started, or finished, or if some file was created, or if a database table was populated.. Usually we would execute tests over nodejs but I don't now how to deal with pam session ... Cheers, Daniel

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Menu index URL
by Edoardo Spadoni 08 Jun '18

08 Jun '18

Hi, I would like to handle a menu item URL like this (in manifest.json), the second one: "menu": { "index": { "label": "System", "order": 10 }, "../my-module#/path": { "label": "Applications", "order": 20 } } The URL is handled, but the # is escaped into %23 then the module is not available. Is there a way to unescape that and keep the URL as in the manifest? Thanks, Edoardo Spadoni

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new privacy policy for the Cockpit project
by Garrett LeSage 01 Jun '18

01 Jun '18

Hi everyone! You've probably noticed how everyone else is updating their privacy policy. The Cockpit Project is updating our own too. There are manymore details in the privacy policy, but here's a quick summary: 1. In most circumstances, the Cockpit Project does not actively collect your information. 2. We do, however, use mailing lists, IRC, and GitHub — and all of these third party services require at least a little bit of your personal informationto function. 3. The website is static, doesn't track, and does not set cookies. 4. The website makes use of embedded videos, especially in blog posts. These videos are hosted by YouTube, a Google company, which would see your IP address when the videos are loaded. We have turned off cookies for these videos. 5. We may collect some small amounts of personal information from people at conferences, during usability tests, or to respond back to someone over email. This information usually consists of names, email addresses, and sometimes a fewother personal details. We have a new page that outlines the above and goes into more detail (including a large helping of legalese) on our website at: https://cockpit-project.org/privacy.html On the privacy page, there are links to contact third parties (and to read their own privacy policies too), as well as a lot of details that could cover all sorts of situations. Thanks for reading! Garrett

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Call for feedback: Seamless Single Sign On with Cockpit
by Marius Vollmer 01 Jun '18

01 Jun '18

Hi, I have been learning about how to intergrate Cockpit with management systems like ManageIQ, oVirt, and Foreman. Such integration already exists for ManageIQ and oVirt, but the one for Foreman isn't as seamless as the rest. So I have been digging through the code and asked around, and produced this: https://github.com/mvollmer/seamless-cockpit/ This should be the starting point for improving the seamlessness of Cockpit in Foreman, and maybe for other such integrations. If you are interested, it would be great if you could have a look and try to run the code. There are likely a lot of details that work for me but not for everyone. Any feedback is welcome! Thanks!

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Cockpit 169 released
by Martin Pitt 30 May '18

30 May '18

http://cockpit-project.org/blog/cockpit-169.html Cockpit is the modern Linux admin interface. We release regularly. Here are the release notes from version 169. Storage: Offer installation of NFS client support ------------------------------------------------- The "NFS Mounts" pane on the Storage page now shows an "Install NFS Support" button if the necessary packages are not already available. See it in action: https://youtu.be/Gaioqm7sLEo System: Request FreeIPA SSL certificate for Cockpit's web server ---------------------------------------------------------------- When enrolling into a FreeIPA domain, an SSL certificate is requested from the IPA server and stored in /etc/cockpit/ws-certs.d/10-ipa.cert. Cockpit's web server will then use that certificate instead of the default self-signed one. The IPA server's certificate authority is trusted by default and accepted by web browsers, OpenSSL, curl, and other network clients. Services: Show unit relationships --------------------------------- The details of a systemd service now shows dependency, ordering, and other relationships to units: Screenshot: https://cockpit-project.org/images/services-relationships.png Provide motd help about how to access cockpit --------------------------------------------- Cockpit now provides an `/etc/motd.d/cockpit` motd message that explains how to enable and start Cockpit if it's not running, or how to access it if it is running. This requires PAM 1.3.1 and enabling the `pam_motd` module: session optional pam_motd.so Get it ------ You can get Cockpit here: http://cockpit-project.org/running.html Cockpit 169 is available in Fedora 28: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/cockpit-169-1.fc28 Or download the tarball here: https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/releases/tag/169 Take care, Martin Pitt

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React
by Marek Libra 29 May '18

29 May '18

Hi, bringing old question up again: Can Cockpit move to React from the react-lite? I hit an issue with reusing the patternfly-react library - some used features are of latest React versions, not available in react-lite. And there are no known plans to adopt them to the react-lite [1] [2]. React is recently 16.3.2, latest react-lite implements scope of 15.x. I believe Cockpit can still live with that. But from longer perspective it might be annoying to deal with compatibility. Marek [1] https://github.com/Lucifier129/react-lite/issues/126 [2] see latest commit dates: https://github.com/Lucifier129/react-lite/commits/master

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Cockpit 168 released
by Martin Pitt 16 May '18

16 May '18

http://cockpit-project.org/blog/cockpit-168.html Cockpit is the modern Linux admin interface. We release regularly. Here are the release notes from version 168. Improve checks for root privilege availability ---------------------------------------------- Many actions, like joining an IPA domain or rebooting, can only be performed by an administrator (root user). Cockpit previously checked if the user was a member of the wheel (used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, and Fedora) or sudo (used in Debian and Ubuntu) groups to enable these actions. Simple group checking was insufficient, as different group names are used by other operating systems and configurations, or a system might be set up to rely on custom user-based sudo rules. Cockpit no longer makes assumptions about special groups. Now, Cockpit simply checks if the user is capable of running commands as root. As a result of this fix, privileged operations now work by default with FreeIPA, which uses the admins(a)domain.name group. Get it ------ You can get Cockpit here: http://cockpit-project.org/running.html Cockpit 168 is available in Fedora 28: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/cockpit-168-1.fc28 Or download the tarball here: https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/releases/tag/168 Take care, Martin Pitt

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Cockpit 167 released
by Martin Pitt 02 May '18

02 May '18

http://cockpit-project.org/blog/cockpit-167.html Cockpit is the modern Linux admin interface. We release regularly. Here are the release notes from versions XXX and 167. Networking: Add Firewall Configuration -------------------------------------- The Networking page now displays the firewall status using firewalld. Services and ports can be configured on the new new "Allowed Services" details page. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR5riNcIDbc Kubernetes: Show KubeVirt Registry Disks ---------------------------------------- Registry Disks[1] are a new feature of KubeVirt to distribute Virtual Machine disk images through a container registry. The "Disks" tab in the Kubernetes cluster's "Virtual Machines" overview now shows these. Thanks to Marek Libra for this improvement! Screenshot: http://cockpit-project.org/images/kubernetes-registry-disks.png [1] https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/blob/master/docs/container-register-di… Get it ------ You can get Cockpit here: http://cockpit-project.org/running.html Cockpit 167 is available in Fedora 27 and 28: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/cockpit-167-1.fc27 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/cockpit-167-1.fc28 Or download the tarball here: https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/releases/tag/167 Take care, Martin Pitt

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