<refentry id="cockpit-tls.8">

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  <refentryinfo>
    <title>cockpit-tls</title>
    <productname>cockpit</productname>
  </refentryinfo>

  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>cockpit-tls</refentrytitle>
    <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
    <refmiscinfo class="version"></refmiscinfo>
  </refmeta>

  <refnamediv>
    <refname>cockpit-tls</refname>
    <refpurpose>TLS proxy for Cockpit web service</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>

  <refsynopsisdiv>
    <cmdsynopsis>
      <command>cockpit-tls</command>
      <arg><option>--help</option></arg>
      <arg><option>--port</option> <replaceable>PORT</replaceable></arg>
      <arg><option>--no-tls</option></arg>
      <arg><option>--idle-timeout</option> <replaceable>SECONDS</replaceable></arg>
    </cmdsynopsis>
  </refsynopsisdiv>


  <refsect1 id="cockpit-tls-description">
    <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
    <para>
      The <command>cockpit-tls</command> program is a TLS terminating HTTP proxy for
      <citerefentry>
        <refentrytitle>cockpit-ws</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>. It manages a set of isolated cockpit-ws instances, one per TLS
      client certificate, plus one for TLS without a client certificate, and one for
      unencrypted HTTP. With that, one session cannot tamper with another one through
      possible security vulnerability exploits.
    </para>
    <para>
      Users or administrators should never need to start this program
      as it automatically started by
      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
      via socket activation.
    </para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 id="cockpit-tls-transport">
    <title>TRANSPORT SECURITY</title>
    <para>
      To specify the TLS certificate the web service should use, simply
      drop a file with the extension <literal>.cert</literal> in the
      <filename>/etc/cockpit/ws-certs.d</filename> directory, or below <code>$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS</code>
      if set (see <ulink url="./cockpit.conf.5.html">cockpit.conf</ulink>). If there are
      multiple files in this directory, then the highest priority one
      is chosen after sorting.</para>
    <para>The <literal>.cert</literal> file should contain at least two
      OpenSSL style PEM blocks. First one or more <literal>BEGIN CERTIFICATE</literal>
      blocks for the server certificate and intermediate certificate authorities
      and a second one containing a <literal>BEGIN PRIVATE KEY</literal> or similar.
      The key must not be encrypted.</para>
    <para>If there is no TLS certificate, a self-signed certificate is
      automatically generated using <command>sscg</command> (if available) or
      <command>openssl</command> and stored in
      the <filename>0-self-signed.cert</filename> file.</para>
    <para>When enrolling into a FreeIPA domain, an SSL certificate is requested from
      the IPA server and stored in <filename>10-ipa.cert</filename>.</para>

    <para>To check which certificate <command>cockpit-ws</command> will use,
      run the following command.</para>

<programlisting>
$ sudo /usr/libexec/cockpit-certificate-ensure --check
</programlisting>
    <para>Or, on Debian-based systems:</para>
<programlisting>
$ sudo /usr/lib/cockpit/cockpit-certificate-ensure --check
</programlisting>

    <para>If using <literal>certmonger</literal> to manage certificates, following command can
      be used to generate a certificate/key pair:</para>
<programlisting>
CERT_FILE=/etc/cockpit/ws-certs.d/50-certmonger.crt
KEY_FILE=/etc/cockpit/ws-certs.d/50-certmonger.key

getcert request -f ${CERT_FILE} -k ${KEY_FILE} -D $(hostname --fqdn)
</programlisting>

  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 id="cockpit-tls-options">
    <title>OPTIONS</title>
    <variablelist>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>--help</option></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Show help options.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>--port</option> <replaceable>PORT</replaceable></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Serve HTTP requests on <replaceable>PORT</replaceable> instead of port 9090.
            Usually Cockpit is started on demand by <command>systemd</command> socket
            activation, and this option has no effect. Update the
            <literal>ListenStream</literal> directive <filename>cockpit.socket</filename>
            file in the usual <command>systemd</command> manner.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>--no-tls</option></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Don't use TLS. Certificates will not be read, and https connections denied. Then
            <command>cockpit-tls</command> will only manage a single cockpit-ws instance, and
            thus not do anything different than running <command>cockpit-ws --no-tls</command>
            directly. Only use this for debugging or testing.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>--idle-timeout</option> <replaceable>SECONDS</replaceable></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            If greater than 0, exit if no connections have happened for the given number of
            seconds, i. e. the server is idle. If not given, the default is 90.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 id="cockpit-tls-environment">
    <title>ENVIRONMENT</title>
    <para>
      The <command>cockpit-tls</command> program expects the <literal>RUNTIME_DIRECTORY</literal>
      environment variable to be set to an empty directory (preferably in <literal>/run/</literal>)
      that is only accessible by the system user under which it is running. This contains
      the Unix sockets for communicating with the <command>cockpit-ws</command> instances,
      and in the future, state information about client certificates.
      This variable is normally set by the <literal>cockpit.service</literal> systemd unit.
    </para>
    <para>
      In addition, <command>cockpit-tls</command> will use the <literal>XDG_CONFIG_DIRS</literal>
      environment variable from the
      <ulink url="https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html">XDG
        basedir spec</ulink> to find its certificates and the
      <citerefentry>
        <refentrytitle>cockpit.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>
      configuration file.
    </para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 id="cockpit-tls-bugs">
    <title>BUGS</title>
    <para>
      Please send bug reports to either the distribution bug tracker or the
      <ulink url="https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/issues/new">upstream bug tracker</ulink>.
    </para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 id="cockpit-tls-author">
    <title>AUTHOR</title>
    <para>Cockpit has been written by many
      <ulink url="https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/graphs/contributors">contributors</ulink>.</para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 id="cockpit-tls-also">
    <title>SEE ALSO</title>
    <para>
      <citerefentry>
        <refentrytitle>cockpit-ws</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>
      ,
      <citerefentry>
        <refentrytitle>cockpit.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>
      ,
      <citerefentry>
        <refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>
    </para>
  </refsect1>
</refentry>
