Cockpit 228
Cockpit is the modern Linux admin interface. We release regularly. Here are the release notes from Cockpit version 228.
Accounts: Allow setting weak passwords
Cockpit now allows users to set up a weak password. The user gets notified that the password is weak, but clicking the submit button again will use the selected password anyway. This is similar to how weak passwords are handled in the Anaconda installer.
Changes to remote host logins
Cockpit used to try to log into remote hosts with your initial login password when “Reuse my password for remote connections” was selected during login. This option has been removed, and Cockpit does not promote password reuse across accounts anymore. Instead, Cockpit now helps with setting up SSH keys for users that want automatic and password-less login to remote hosts.
There is also an earlier demo video to see how it looks like in action.
Machines: Add support for reverting to and deleting VM snapshots
One can now restore a VM guest to a previously created snapshot. Existing snapshots can be deleted as well. Deleting a single snapshot preserves the current state of the VM and does not affect any other snapshot.
Drop cockpit-docker code
As announced half a year ago in Cockpit 215, cockpit-docker is deprecated in favor of cockpit-podman. None of the currently supported operating systems builds the cockpit-docker package any more, thus it was finally removed upstream as well. If you still use it on another distribution or from upstream builds, please migrate now, or build it from an older upstream release.
Try it out
Cockpit 228 is available now: