Users

• Introduction
• Managing users
• The basics
• User settings explained
• Further reading

Introduction

Cockpit's user system is basically role based. Each user is assigned to a Role, that defines the user's permissions.

As a cockpit user you can

• log in to the administration panel
• request API endpoints

with access to endpoints, features and resources you got permission to.

Managing users

The basics

1. Login to your Cockpit installation
2. Navigate to Users at /system/users
3. See the list of users
4. Possible actions

• Click Add user to add a new user
• Click on a user item to edit the user
• Delete a user

User settings explained

As most fields are well-known from other web applications or cms systems not much has to be said here. Nevertheless, we want to point out some things.

• The Role is essential when dealing with lots of users with different permissions required, so make sure to set appropriately in any case.
• The API Key provides access to Cockpit's API.

Further reading

• Detailed information about roles and permissions in Cockpit can be found at Roles & Permissions.
• More information on API key usage is available at API.