http://cockpit-project.org/blog/cockpit-168.html

Cockpit is the modern Linux admin interface. We release regularly. Here
are the release notes from version 168.

Improve checks for root privilege availability
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Many actions, like joining an IPA domain or rebooting, can only be performed by
an administrator (root user).

Cockpit previously checked if the user was a member of the wheel (used in Red
Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, and Fedora) or sudo (used in Debian and Ubuntu)
groups to enable these actions. Simple group checking was insufficient, as
different group names are used by other operating systems and configurations,
or a system might be set up to rely on custom user-based sudo rules.

Cockpit no longer makes assumptions about special groups. Now, Cockpit simply
checks if the user is capable of running commands as root.

As a result of this fix, privileged operations now work by default with
FreeIPA, which uses the [email protected] group.

Get it
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You can get Cockpit here:

http://cockpit-project.org/running.html

Cockpit 168 is available in Fedora 28:

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/cockpit-168-1.fc28

Or download the tarball here:

https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/releases/tag/168


Take care,

Martin Pitt

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