Identity Authentication - verifying the identity of the originator of a connection (passwords, radius, identd, crypto methods, et al.)

Process Limits Permission and access restriction (files, resources, etc)

File System Information - Obtaining information of the filesystem as a whole. Status of disk subsystems, capacity, etc.

File System Operations - Operations for entire file-systems (quotas, configuration, consistency, mount, unmount, et al)

Specific Types of File Systems - Specific forms of file systems. DFS, NFS, MS-DOS, etc.

File Access Limits Limiting access to files (permissions, locking, et al)

Communication and Network Monitoring status reporting, logging, et al

Communication Filtering and Firewalls Preventing certain types of communication. Communication security, encryption, et al. -

Data integrity and Security, Checksums and Digests cryptography, message digests, etc.

See also: File Transfer and Distribution - Protocols and Methods of transfering files and directories, distributing and installing software. (file collections and archives, FTP, cvsup, NFS, et al.)

See also: Local machine and Operating System Information (kernel topics, uname, boot, shutdown, et al)

See also: File and Version Management (RCS, CVS, distribution, etc)

Up to Activity specific - Gateway topic to software used in specific activities. (application software, business, professional, science, education, etc.)

How do I modify the shadow password file on a Unix system?

See Also

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tknis - TkNIS is a perl based package used to Add/Remove users/hosts from an NIS environment. The backend is composed of perl libraries to perform the additions and removal. A quick GUI frontend was put together using Perl/Tk. Command line interfaces are also {(L)GPL}

Falcon SNMP Monitor - Web-based SNMP monitor and server manager. The system is driven by a PostgreSQL database. The interface will allow admins to monitor devices status and keep notes on installed software and other quirks. {BSD-like}

Perl Unix::Sysadmin - Unix::Sysadmin is a Perl OO framework that does what its name states. It does both more and less of what NIS does. It offers a secure cross-platform transport based on ssh. It hides OS differences from the user. It's extensible. Come play! {(L)GPL}

FileWatch - FileWatch is a program which looks after your files. You can define files it looks after and informs you every time a file is changed (in any way). It's based on file's CTIME value (returned by stat() system call), which changes every time the file's p {(L)GPL}

All system Admin! - This is a project in the planning stages. I hope to create a stable workable system administration project that include perl modules for system administration through cgi web interface that will be useable through wireless devices ect. {(L)GPL}

Unix Update - Unix Update aims to privide a complete set of tools needed to keep you Unix-like system up to date: textmode and GUI update tools, plugins for the distro admin tools and a distribution patcher that keeps a net installation up to date. {(L)GPL}

Jumppoint - Jumppoint is a system administration tool. It can manage a password list for multiple remote hosts, automate ssh logins and remote file transfers, and supports extension scripting through an embedded perl interpreter. {(L)GPL}

My Server Admin - Planning Stage for OS independent systems management core tools. Anyone with Perl, PHP, or Coldfusion feel free to contact us regarding work and input to our project. Thanks for stopping by {(L)GPL}

WAPmin - A project to allow system admins basic control and monitoring of their boxes via cellular phones. {(L)GPL}

Hiways Is WAtching Your Systems - HIWAYS is similar ( or it will be similar) in design to the agent PATROL(c) (If you know it). It means that it is an autonom agent that collect informations on your System (FS occupation, processes) and report some events to a supervisor (in web pages) {(L)GPL}

OpenISP - OpenISP is an Internet Service Manager ISM. A web based front end, MySQL backend, client-server distributed application, the ISM will configure and manage bind, apache+mod_ssl, sendmail, radius and proftpd. An extensible ASP model will follow. {(L)GPL}

Service Administration Package - We will be building a complex package that follows the implimentation, troubleshooting, and tracking of a service, allowing automation to take as much pain out of the administration process of multiple types of internet connected services. {(L)GPL}

Virtual ISP - Suit of perl scripts and HOW-TO's that allow a sysadmin to rapidly deploy everyday ISP services and admin. users from common admin interface. {(L)GPL}

Midnight Backup - Midnight Backup is modular backup system that allows sysadmins to pick and choose the features they need and how they interact with each other. {(L)GPL}

Distributed File Backup System - The Distributed Decentralized File Backup System creates a tolerant, compressed, distributed file system. Win9x, Linux, FreeBSD, and *nix systems with spare drive space can allocate chunks for use by the backup system. Operation is transparent to users {(L)GPL}

Etree Server Configuration - This project will include source code and configuration scripts for the automation of an ftp server using Proftpd, Mysql, and PHP3/4. This project is primarially focused on the configuration and administration of etree servers. www.etree.org {(L)GPL}

Yard A suite of Perl scripts for creating rescue disks for Linux {GPL}

Other Applications and Utilities

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