Cockpit is the modern Linux admin interface. We release regularly.
Here are the release notes from Cockpit 355:
Add systemd/polkit-based fallback for administrative privileges if sudo is not available
There are systems like Ubuntu 25.10 which don’t have sudo, or only the incompatible sudo-rs. Cockpit previously failed to gain administrator rights then. Cockpit 355 now both detects and ignores an incompatible sudo, as well as introduces a fallback authentication method: It starts the root bridge through systemd’s StartTransientUnit() API. This is inspired by systemd’s run0, and uses the exact same underlying mechanism. This is guarded by polkit, so you need to authorize with your user password similar to sudo.
ws: Remove obsolete pam_cockpit_cert module
Cockpit version 209 (Dec 2019) introduced a pam_cockpit_cert PAM module in /etc/pam.d/cockpit. Cockpit 248 (Jul 2021) made this module unnecessary, and replaced the module with a stub that did not do anything, plus a warning during package upgrade.
This version finally removes it. So if you have locally modified /etc/pam.d/cockpit and still have that module in your configuration, you need to manually remove it.
Try it out
Cockpit 355 is available now: