COCKPIT(1)

💖 COCKPIT(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for cockpit — that's the name, that's the whole vibe, it's just called Cockpit ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

cockpit — it's Cockpit, that's it, that's the girl 🎀

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Cockpit is a web accessible interactive admin interface for Linux machines 💅 like, you open a browser and you're literally administrating your box. No cap.

You can usually get to Cockpit on port 9090 of whatever machine it's installed on, iykyk 🔥

Cockpit starts on demand — it's not just sitting there waiting, it shows up when you need her ⭐ Use your system credentials to log in. Yes, the ones you already have. No new account era, we're using what we got 🫶

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✨ COMPONENTS ✨

okay so there's two main characters here, let me introduce them:

• The cockpit-ws web service listens on port 9090 and is started on demand by systemd 👑 The Cockpit web service authenticates the user, loads Cockpit into the browser, and starts cockpit-bridge in a Linux user session. She's the doorman, the host, the whole welcoming committee fr fr.
• The cockpit-bridge gives Cockpit in the web browser access to the system APIs 🌈 And the way it does that? Over its standard in and standard out. That's the whole trick, bestie, it's giving minimal. The bridge is started like a shell once per Linux user session — one bridge per user session, that's the arrangement 💜

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💀 BUGS 💀

Please send bug reports to either the distribution bug tracker or the upstream bug tracker: <https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/issues/new> 🙈

like, actually send them? don't just text me about it, I can't fix it, I'm a manual page 😭

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Cockpit has been written by many contributors — <https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit> 🌟 so many people, so much slay, group project energy but the good kind 💖

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• cockpit-tls(8)
• cockpit-bridge(1)
• systemd(1)
• the Cockpit guide: <https://docs.cockpit-project.org/cockpit-guide/latest>

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and that's the whole page bestie, you ate it, you understood it, periodt 💅

this little love letter is from the cockpit manual, dated 2026-10-22 — like, happy reading, mwah 🦋🌸🍓