Unix System Administrators

BruteBlock project allows system administrators to block various bruteforce attacks on UNIX services. The program analyzes system logs and adds attackers IP address into ipfw2 table effectively blocking them. Addresses are automatically removed from the table after specified abound of time....

Usermin is a Web interface that can be used by any user on a UNIX system to easily perform tasks like reading mail, setting up SSH, or configuring mail forwarding. Usermin can be thought of as a simplified version of Webmin designed for use by normal users rather than system administrators.....

furious_tv is a set of tools to take XMLTV TV listings and enable a UNIX system to automatically record programs off of a TV card. It is written in C and uses a SAX parser for maximum speed and efficiency. Whats New in This Release: - This version of furious_tv fixes a few miscellaneous bugs...


Platforms: *nix

Midnight Backup is a flexable framework composed of plugins that will allow system administrators to develop sophisticated backup systems. It will be cross-network and cross-platform, allowing clients to submit data to servers for backup purposes. It will have a high level of admin control...


Platforms: *nix

FuseNRG allows you to mount Ahead Nero NRG files on your Unix system with FUSE. On the mounted directory, there will be an ISO file, equivalent to the original NRG file. Such ISO file can be mounted with fuseiso or burned to a CD with cdrecord or even Ahead Nero itself. Advantages over nrg2iso:...


Platforms: *nix

DenyHosts is a script intended to be run by Linux system administrators to help thwart ssh server attacks. If youve ever looked at your ssh log (/var/log/secure on Redhat, /var/log/auth.log on Mandrake, etc...) you may be alarmed to see how many hackers attempted to gain access to your server....


Platforms: *nix

SILC Server provides system administrators ability to easily and quickly set up new SILC networks. SILC Server is full implementation of server side of the SILC protocol. SILC Server is ideal for small offices and organizations to set up secure conferencing network in LAN. SILC Server is...


Platforms: *nix

monit is a utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and devices on a UNIX system. monit project conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations. monit has monitored and mended computers around the world for over...


Platforms: *nix

The Net-Policy project allows system administrators to configure and manage their entire network at once. It is initially designed to configure firewall and IPsec connections across an entire network. Net-policy contains the following components: net-policy: This is the core network manager....


Platforms: *nix

CVS tools - set of utilities for users, project/build managers and system administrators. The tools use platform independent languages like bash, Perl, Python or Java. Platform support Win32/Cygwin and Linux based file systems.


Platforms: *nix

Backup project adds instant version control to any file on a Unix system. Do you hate *.bak and *.20050101 and *.cjn (your initials here) and *.do.not.touch files as much as I do? They litter your filesystem any time someone (and were all guilty of it) needs to back-up a file theyre working on....


Platforms: *nix

PowerBroker for Servers® empowers system administrators with the ability to delegate privileges and authorization without disclosing the root password on Unix/Linux and Mac OS X platforms. PowerBroker for Servers equips enterprises with highly flexible policy language unifying security across...


Platforms: Linux, Linux Open Source, Unix

ux2html is an easy and flexible tool for system administrators to collect Unix configuration. ux2html generates reports in HTML. It works against all Unix: Linux/GNU, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Cygwin, Darwin, Tru64, ... all unix versions!


Platforms: Mac, BSD, Solaris, Linux

Shuriken is an XML-based tool for Linux system administrators to set up spans of time when the system should be up. Using the RTC daily alarm (requires BIOS, hardware, Linux support), the system will automatically power on (if it is off) for these intervals. The man pages provide all the...


Platforms: *nix

RFC (Remote Filesystem Checker) is a set of scripts that aims to help System-Administrators run a filesystem-checker (like tripwire, aide and so on...) from a "master-node" to several "slave-nodes" using ssh, scp, sudo and few other common shell commands..


Platforms: *nix

Finnix is a self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution ("LiveCD") for system administrators, based on Debian testing "etch". You can mount and manipulate hard drives and partitions, monitor networks, rebuild boot records, install other operating systems, and much more. Finnix includes the...


Platforms: *nix

userv is a tool for system administrators, who often find themselves with a program running as one user which needs to be able to do certain things as another user. For example, my machines news system needs to scan my users newsrcs to ensure that the right newsgroups are fetched. Before userv...


Platforms: *nix

checksuite was written specifically to assist system administrators with the day-to-day tasks of monitoring a system. It is in, no way, a replacement of an actual system administrator. I originally created these programs to help me out, because of all the excruciating long hours at work. Plus,...


Platforms: *nix

SquidRestrict is aimed at system administrators who use IPCop or Smoothwall as a firewall on their network and would link to place multiple time restrictions on when internet access is allowed on their network, for example on Monday to Friday internet access is only allowed between 9am to 12pm...


Platforms: *nix

conntrack is a userspace command line program targeted at system administrators. conntrack program enables them to view and manage the in-kernel connection tracking state table..


Platforms: *nix