Connecting Practice

Read and Display Information

1. Alist - Alist is a program that collects information about a systems and stores it in a database for users to peruse. Three parts: a client portion, a daemon that receives data sent from clients, and a CGI that displays and lets you search for info… read more

2. Wheretero - Wheretero determines the country where the local computer is from network information. This allows automatic keyboard layout configuration for live-CDs… read more | New

Configuration Management

1. Cfengine - Cfengine, or the configuration engine is an autonomous agent and a middle to high level policy language and agent for building expert systems to administrate and configure large computer networks… read more

2. Depot - Depot is a software management tool for maintaining third party and locally developed software in large heterogeneous computing environments. It integrates separately maintained software packages into a common directory hierarchy consisting… read more

3. Graft - Graft lets users manage multiple packages under a single directory hierarchy. It was inspired by Depot and Stow . It installs packages in self-contained directory trees and makes symbolic links from a common area to the package files… read more

4. LUCAS - LUCAS - A framework for monitoring LDAP databases and reacting to changes, as soon as they are committed. For this, LUCAS implements a slave LDAP server, upon which the master database replicates all data… read more | New

5. libcisco - libcisco is a Tcl/Expect package providing an API for accessing and configuring Cisco network equipment over a telnet session. These library routines greatly simplify the process of writing scripts to make configuration changes and perform common tasks… read more | New

User Directory

1. Createusers - Createusers adds users in bulk. It also sets up new users’ home directories for personal Web space with Apache. The companion program, removeusers, eliminates users from the system… read more | New

2. DirList - DirList is a user directory system that runs as a common gateway interface (CGI) program to serve up user lists, search for various user attributes, view their web sites, define your own user attributes, and keep it all synchronized automatically… read more | New

Manage User Information

1. pwdutils - pwdutils is a collection of utilities to manage the passwd and shadow user information. The difference to the shadow suite is that these utilities can also modify the information stored in NIS, NIS+, or LDAP… read more | New

Identify and Authenticate a User

1. wdm - wdm combines the functions of a graphical display manager identifying and authenticating a user on a system with some of the functions of a session manager in selecting and starting a window manager… read more | New

Virtual Machine Monitor

1. Xen - Xen? is a virtual machine monitor for x86 that supports execution of multiple guest operating systems with unprecedented levels of performance and resource isolation… read more | New