Workaround for adding user to the Docker group

[RickyJenson]

This Cockpit plugin looks like something I've been wanting for a long time, but some of my machines double as workstations as well as docker hosts. On these machines, I'm really not wanting to add the users to the docker group because of the security implications, so I'm wondering how hard it would be to make this plugin use sudo under the hood. Other plugins do root-level tasks in Cockpit's Admin mode, so my gut tells me it must be possible. Would that functionality be easy to add?

[chrisjbawden]

i have been thinking about using the built in superuser mechanism that cockpit has - perhaps when i get a moment i will see what would be involved to support both of these.

[RickyJenson]

That would be fantastic. Thanks!

[chrisjbawden]

i have implemented this on 1.0.8 in the canary branch if you want to test it.

https://github.com/chrisjbawden/cockpit-dockermanager/releases/tag/v1.0.8-canary

or

https://github.com/chrisjbawden/cockpit-dockermanager/raw/refs/heads/canary/dockermanager.tar

[chrisjbawden]

this is now merged with PROD

[RickyJenson]

Nice! Thanks for doing that. Sorry I never got around to help with testing it; life suddenly picked up in a crazy way and all my projects are on hold.