Cockpit
cockpit(1) is a server administration tool with a web interface.
Contents
Installation
Fedora and many derivative distributions have cockpit(1) preinstalled and running by default. For other Linux distributions, a cockpit package may be available.
Official plugins are available in separate packages, such as cockpit-machines (an interface to libvirtd(8)) and cockpit-podman (an interface to podman(1)).
Setup
Start and enable cockpit.socket.
Encryption
By default, cockpit(1) uses a self-signed SSL/TLS certificate. This can be replaced with a valid one.
The last file with a .cert or .crt extension (in alphabetical order) in /etc/cockpit/ws-certs.d will be used. Try /usr/libexec/cockpit-certificate-ensure --check to verify that the correct certificate will be detected.
Usage
Troubleshooting
Terminal text appears as rainbow boxes
A known interaction of Xterm.js project and the Firefox browser.
- Double check for an 'Allow access to the HTML5 canvas?' popup. This needs to be enabled.
Try disabling privacy.resistFingerprinting.