cockpit-devel March 2020

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Suggestion for changing cockpit default session timeout
by Gal Zaidman 06 Jul '20

06 Jul '20

Hi Cockpit developers, I saw that on cockpit-209 Session timeouts were added with the default to 15 minutes of inactivity (https://cockpit-project.org/blog/cockpit-209.html ). I think that this change is problematic because: 1. The timeout is very short and it can cause unexpected behavior to users and cockpit packages. 2. The timeout can only be configured in the /etc/cockpit.conf file, so it is hard for packages to configure it to fit to their behavior. For example, we created a package for installing ovirt with cockpit UI, that installation can take a lot of time, it has different phases and logging out in the middle can cause problems. We prefer to avoid editing /etc/cockpit.conf because we don't want to run over user configuration (what to do when there is already cockpit.conf present?) I want to suggest: 1. Raising the timeout to 2 hours of inactivity, this seems reasonable. 2. Provide a more flexible way of configuring the timeout, with an option to the manifest.json package file and/or with a cockpit API call. Thanks

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Development configuration for Cockpit Plugin
by Gal Zaidman 19 Mar '20

19 Mar '20

Hi cockpit developers, I'm new to cockpit and working on creating a new plugin, which should enable oVirt users to install oVirt hosted engine through cockpit UI. I'm at the beginning of the project and trying to create a proper development environment. I'm using react and want to work with webserver I need a special configuration on cockpit side which I'm hoping you can help me with. On my local env I installed cockpit and cloned the starter-kit, created a link to base1 directory, and added this script line to my index.html file: <script type="text/javascript" src="../base1/cockpit.js"></script> My app can import cockpit, now I need to configure cockpit to interact with a local running VM instead of my own PC. I want that the cockpit service which is running local on my machine connect to a cockpit bridge running on a local VM as a primary server, basically: [image: image.png] The end result I want to achieve is that when I'm developing my plugin I will use webserver and only see the plugin windows (without the cockpit UI) and each interaction with cockpit will be triggered on a remote VM running cockpit, this way I will not have to refresh my page to see changes in the UI. Can you help me understand the required configuration for cockpit ?

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PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE
by Michael Cordero 18 Mar '20

18 Mar '20

Thanks!

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Cockpit 215
by Katerina Koukiou 18 Mar '20

18 Mar '20

Cockpit is the modern Linux admin interface. We release regularly. Here are the release notes from version 215: https://cockpit-project.org/blog/cockpit-215.html Summary: - Networking: Show additional included ports in firewall zones - Docker: Deprecate cockpit-docker in favor of cockpit-podman You can get Cockpit here: http://cockpit-project.org/running.html Cockpit 215 is available in Fedora 31: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-6f3212b6fa And Fedora 32: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-a63046430d Or download the tarball here: https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/releases/tag/215 Kind regards, Katerina

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Re: Cockpit installed on local dev machine
by Stef Walter 05 Mar '20

05 Mar '20

On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 6:12 PM Jonathan Aquilina <jaquilina(a)eagleeyet.net> wrote: > I am a bit lost if I am using my local dev machine with cockpit to access a remote server how secure is it to keep it over http and not move to https? Cockpit can use SSH to access a remote server. If you're using Cockpit locally (via localhost) to accomplish that, it's secure use plain HTTP on the local machine. Here's some documentation about how that works: https://cockpit-project.org/guide/latest/feature-machines Cheers, Stef > -----Original Message----- > From: Stef Walter <swalter(a)redhat.com> > Sent: Wednesday, 4 March 2020 16:43 > To: Development discussion for the Cockpit Project <cockpit-devel(a)lists.fedorahosted.org>; Jonathan Aquilina <jaquilina(a)eagleeyet.net> > Subject: Re: Cockpit installed on local dev machine > > On 22.02.20 05:35, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > > > > > I have a dev laptop which I have installed cockpit on. My question > > even though I have it installed on a local laptop would you guys still > > recommend I setup https on it if I plan on connecting to remote machines? > > If you plan on connecting *from* remote machines to your local laptop, then setting up https on it makes sense. > > However if you're purely using Cockpit on your local laptop to connect out to other machines (either from the Login screen, or from the multi-machine Dashboard) then it's not necessary to use https. > > In fact when accessed locally on localhost (127.0.0.1/8), Cockpit will allow you to use plain http, rather than forcing a redirect to https like it typically does. > > Cheers, > > Stef > -- Stef Walter (he / his) Linux Engineering Red Hat

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Re: Cockpit installed on local dev machine
by Stef Walter 04 Mar '20

04 Mar '20

On 22.02.20 05:35, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > Hi All, > > > > I have a dev laptop which I have installed cockpit on. My question even > though I have it installed on a local laptop would you guys still > recommend I setup https on it if I plan on connecting to remote machines? If you plan on connecting *from* remote machines to your local laptop, then setting up https on it makes sense. However if you're purely using Cockpit on your local laptop to connect out to other machines (either from the Login screen, or from the multi-machine Dashboard) then it's not necessary to use https. In fact when accessed locally on localhost (127.0.0.1/8), Cockpit will allow you to use plain http, rather than forcing a redirect to https like it typically does. Cheers, Stef

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cockpit 214, cockpit-composer 13, cockpit-podman 14, cockpit-ostree 181 released
by Martin Pitt 04 Mar '20

04 Mar '20

Cockpit is the modern Linux admin interface. We release regularly. Here are the release notes from version 214: https://cockpit-project.org/blog/cockpit-214.html Summary: - Networking: List Firewall active zones when unprivileged - Start Selenium tests deprecation You can get Cockpit here: http://cockpit-project.org/running.html Cockpit 214 is available in Fedora: 31: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-22b3a559ff 32: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-6c27781454 Or download the tarball here: https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/releases/tag/214 We also did maintenance releases (small bug fixes, translation and npm updates) of the other related projects: https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit-podman/releases/tag/14 Fedora 31: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-1a8fcb5f1f Fedora 32: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-cc50feca57 https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit-ostree/releases/tag/181 Fedora 31: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-9d92824482 Fedora 32: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-be0ff088a6 https://github.com/weldr/cockpit-composer/releases/tag/13 Fedora 31: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-9af64ea53a Fedora 32: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-8dc7c99f00 Take care, Martin Pitt

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