Configuration File to Populate Hosts for Specific Users

[doofed]

Using the directory machines.d, you can populate cockpit with hosts configured in a json file. Can you do the samething but for other specific users? Example:

I have users: root and foo

If I populate /etc/cockpit/machines.d with file 01-hostmachines.json, then all hosts within 01-hostmachines.json would be visible and controllable with the root user.

How can I do the same thing, but for the foo user specifically? Hosts found within 01-hostmachiens.json and accessible as the root user, aren't accessible when logged in to cockpit as the foo user.

[martinpitt]

You can't do this with current Cockpit versions. That would require reading ~/.config/cockpit/machines.d/.

If someone wants to work on this, that is in class cockpit_machines in https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/blob/main/src/cockpit/internal_endpoints.py

[doofed]

Okay, gotcha. Is there any alternative way to implement this functionality with the current version of cockpit?