This is really cool. I'm wondering if we should integrate it more into the 'Accounts' section of Cockpit ... and show login session information there, both active and historical.
Garrett, what do you think? Stef On 10.07.2017 12:33, Nikolai Kondrashov wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Over the last couple of weeks I've been learning about Cockpit > internals, and > hacked together a little proof-of-concept page listing and playing back > user > sessions recorded with tlog [1]. Here is a little demo of it I recorded: > > https://youtu.be/BPiqFKvW0q4 > > And here's the code: > > https://github.com/Scribery/cockpit/tree/hacking/pkg/session_recording > > The POC has absolutely minimal functionality and is not pretty, but it > proves > we can record sessions to systemd journal, and list them and play them > back. > > Tlog-rec-session (a part of tlog) logs a recording as a series of messages, > with several extra journal fields attached to allow for filtering all or > specific recorded sessions from the rest of the journal log. Cockpit goes > through journal extracting all tlog messages to collate a session list. > When > asked to playback a session, it starts tlog-play (another part of tlog) > on the > host, specifying how to extract session messages, connects it to a terminal > emulator in the browser, and lets it play. > > Next, me and Kyrill are going to work on verifying we can implement the > rest > of the required core functionality [2] with this approach, learn more about > Cockpit, and prepare a design as required by Cockpit team [3]. We will also > see if we can make this into an out-of-tree package for Cockpit. > > We would appreciate any comments you might have, be it on the architecture, > the code, or the way you think it should look! > > Thank you. > > Nick > > [1] Tlog - Terminal I/O logger > https://github.com/Scribery/tlog > > [2] User Stories for Session Recording Playback > > https://github.com/Scribery/meta/blob/master/playback_ui_user_stories.md > > [3] Hacking on Cockpit - Contributing a Change > > https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/blob/master/HACKING.md#contributing-a-change > > _______________________________________________ > cockpit-devel mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
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