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Question from a Cockpit PO: if you were to choose one feature to add to the project what that feature would be?


- Easy OIDC - Generally improve the file manager addon - ncdu-like addon - interface to create simple systemd services - more visibility into which commands you can run to do the same thing


A `cockpit doctor` style command that extra plugins like cockpit machines can extend.

I've found that Cockpit Machines is really unreliable on Debian and it's nothing really to do with Cockpit - it's things like dbus settings that break Cockpit.

eg, having to add this to make it reliable on my Debian Trixie install:

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Bus Configuration 1.0//EN" "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd">
  <busconfig>
    <limit name="max_match_rules_per_connection">4096</limit>
  </busconfig>
It would be fantastic if Cockpit could spot known issues like this and warn the user/administrator.


1. Make it really easy to set up OAuth

2. Make it work on Ubuntu seamlessly

(eg. fix these kind of issues - https://cockpit-project.org/faq.html#error-message-about-bei...)

3. Have it work behind a web server way more easily. This should be a straightforward configuration option error installing.

(https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/wiki/Proxying-Coc...)


I would love to resize drives/partitions on Linux machines without it feeling like open heart surgery, in a place I already have handy for generally poking around those machines.


from a company (RHEL users) POV: EntraID support -- we're using https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/devices/how... for SSH at the moment (not really happy with it but I don't have a better alternate) -- and that does not work for cockpit. So another way to authenticate against entra would be nice for corporate users


Signed up to HN just to +1 this.


Some more love for the updates page. E.g. select a subset of updates to install, be more clear that the last update time could be different if you installed updates via CLI, that kind of thing.


Incus support.


A streamlined way to control "systemctl --user ..." without needing root auth.




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