Description of problem: sometimes when adding a host by ip, with a username manually specified (wheel,adm,..), the process fails with following journal error: Sep 16 12:58:51 todoleza-cockpit cockpit-ws[1734]: 172.16.36.18: couldn't authenticate: ssh_userauth_password: Out of memory Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cockpit-0.23-1.fc21.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. fill in host ip 2. uncheck use current credentials 3. fill in user & password Actual results: Will add server to dashboard: Address: 172.16.36.18 Fingerprint: 30:cb:16:69:b5:88:a1:16:82:41:10:a3:a4:65:d4:4b Synchronize administrator fedora Failed to change user groups via /usr/sbin/usermod: Failed to execute child process "/usr/sbin/usermod" (Permission denied) === in the server list: Internal error Expected results: host was added / clearly refused to be added Additional info:
Two issues here. Upstream bug reports: https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/issues/1213 https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/issues/1206
cockpit-0.27-1.fc21 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 21. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/cockpit-0.27-1.fc21
Package cockpit-0.27-1.fc21: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 21 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing cockpit-0.27-1.fc21' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-12659/cockpit-0.27-1.fc21 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
cockpit-0.27-1.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.