Cockpit port change to -> 9090

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Fri Aug 15 15:11:57 UTC 2014


It is also about 1024 so it does not require priv to bind to it.  I like
the choice and have made the necessary
changes to SELinux in the upstream repository.

On 08/15/2014 03:54 AM, Stef Walter wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> There's been lots of discussion (on IRC and elsewhere) about choice of
> our default port, currently 1001. That's an unregistered port, but it's
> very unlikely we could register it (doing so requires an IETF RFC).
>
> Fedora is the first distro we're packaged in "for real" ... and the
> Fedora Server WG has asked us to try and use a port that has less of a
> chance of conflicting with something else in the future.
>
> On the Cockpit side it's very important that we use a memorable port. In
> fact it's one of the few ports admins will be typing repeatedly over and
> over again.
>
> The one that looks appropriate is 9090, which is for "Web System
> Manager". It's pretty easy to remember and hopefully will be consistent
> with some other web based consoles for other OS's.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Stef
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