2020 - Change Password Best Practices

[dnutan (Marc)]

Cockpit can have a self-service password page. Another option could be this community module: Self-service password

@giacomo

Self-service password page

You can now expose a page for password change to port 443 (HTTPS), and keep port 9090 (Cockpit) private!

Enable it from the Settings page (remember to enable Override the shell of users option, first!):

Login user page:

After login (yes, the user can setup its own 2FA!):

More info at: https://docs.nethserver.org/en/v7/base_system2.html#user-settings-page

Threat shield, user password page, improved SSH policy and restore without network

That would seem to make my module redundant, but it’s definitely a good change. Even if I think the page appearance is nicer on mine…