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

1. 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

2. 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.