On Friday, 14 June 2024 00:50:04 ACST cagsm wrote:

> Support,

> cockpit on 15.6

>

> > Problem becoming administrator

> > Sudo: unable to run /nonexistent/libexec/cockpit-askpass: No such file or

> > directory sudo: no password was provided sudo: a password is required

> Never used cockpit before. Similar like webmin or so?

>

> I can only log into cockpit with a local normal user using for KDE

> desktop as well.

> Inside cockpit it tells me that it is restricted mode or something and

> some root stuff is missing coming up with a popup when I click that

> blue topmost notification or button with text given: "turn on

> administrative access".

>

> the result is that stated error message popup.

> Anyone running this successfully?

> ty

Yes, running cockpit successfully on multiple Debian servers, physical and virtual, at home and at work. None on openSUSE currently, but it works the same way.

Do you have sudo installed? Some distros now don't install it by default. (zypper se sudo). If not, install it, and make sure your user is listed in the sudoers file.

On Debian, the default is to require the users password for sudo access, while on Suse I think it requires the root password (but this is configurable - man sudo).

Cockpit is good for local server management/monitoring, and can connect via ssh to other servers to manage them too (provided they too have cockpit installed). It's actually more like Windows MMS than Webmin. Pretty useful for abstracting some operations away from the command line - for just one example, it's way easier to manage LVM from cockpit than from the CLI.

Regards,

Rodney.

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Rodney Baker

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