Cockpit Identities

User and group management plugin for Houston UI (Cockpit)

Features

User Management

Create delete user accounts
Edit account details
- Add and remove groups
- Change home directory, login shell, account description
Terminate session (sends SIGHUP to all of the user's processes)
Manage credentials
- Account login
  - Set/change password
  - Lock account
  - Manage password expiry
- Samba
  - Set/change/remove Samba password (smbpasswd)
- SSH
  - Generate passwordless public/private key pair
  - Copy public SSH key from UI to clipboard
  - Test passwordless SSH to a host
  - Manage authorized SSH access keys from other hosts
View, filter, and export login history

Group Management

View groups and group members
Create groups
Delete groups (if it's a non-system, non-primary group)

Installation

Ubuntu 20.04

From 45Drives Repo (Recommended, Ubuntu 20.04 only)

curl -sSL https://repo.45drives.com/setup | sudo bash
sudo apt update
sudo apt install cockpit-identities

Direct from .deb

Installing this way may work for other versions of Ubuntu and Debian, but it is unsupported. You won't get automatic updates this way.

curl -LO https://github.com/45Drives/cockpit-identities/releases/download/v0.1.12/cockpit-identities_0.1.12-1focal_all.deb
sudo apt install ./cockpit-identities_0.1.12-1focal_all.deb

Rocky 8

From 45Drives Repo (Recommended, Rocky 8 only)

curl -sSL https://repo.45drives.com/setup | sudo bash
sudo dnf install cockpit-identities

Direct from .rpm

Installing this way may work for other versions of Rocky/Centos/RHEL/Fedora/etc, but it is unsupported. You won't get automatic updates this way.

# dnf or yum
sudo dnf install https://github.com/45Drives/cockpit-identities/releases/download/v0.1.12/cockpit-identities-0.1.12-1.el8.noarch.rpm

Generic Installation

Install Dependencies

# debian-like
cockpit
bash
coreutils
hostname
libc-bin
passwd
psmisc
samba
samba-common-bin
sudo
util-linux
perl
openssh-client
# RHEL-like
cockpit
bash
coreutils
glibc-common
hostname
passwd
psmisc
samba-common-tools
shadow-utils
sudo
util-linux
util-linux-user
perl
openssh

Download pre-built archive and install

curl -LO https://github.com/45Drives/cockpit-identities/releases/download/v0.1.12/cockpit-identities_0.1.12_generic.zip
unzip cockpit-identities_0.1.12_generic.zip
cd cockpit-identities_0.1.12_generic
# no need to run `make` first, the plugin is pre-built
sudo make install

If you haven't already, consider getting cockpit-file-sharing for managing Samba and NFS shares.

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