Projects

sudo

Sudo (su "do") allows a system administrator to give certain users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root or another user while logging the commands and arguments.

rootpy

A pythonic layer on top of the ROOT framework's PyROOT bindings.

dracut

Dracut is a new initramfs infrastructure. Unlike existing initramfs's, this is an attempt at having as little as possible hard-coded into the initramfs as possible.

Jailkit

Jailkit is a set of utilities to limit user accounts to specific files using chroot() and or specific commands. Setting up a chroot shell, a shell limited to some specific command, or a daemon inside a chroot jail is a lot easier using these utilities.

PRoot

PRoot is a user-space implementation of "chroot", "mount --bind", and "binfmt_misc". This means that users don't need any privilege or setup to do things like: using an arbitrary directory as the new root filesystem, making files accessible somewhere else in the ... [More] filesystem hierarchy, or executing programs built for another CPU architecture transparently through QEMU user-mode. Also, developers can add their own features or use PRoot as a Linux process instrumentation engine thanks to its extension mechanism. Technically PRoot relies on "ptrace", an unprivileged system-call available in every Linux kernel. [Less]

fakeroot

Gives a fake root environment through the use of LD_PRELOAD and SYSV IPC or TCP IPC trickery.

SOOT

The Perl wrapper for CERN's ROOT library, a comprehensive data analysis framework. SOOT is very similar to the Ruby-ROOT or PyROOT extensions for their respective languages. Specifically, the first revision of SOOT was implemented after the model of Ruby-ROOT. SOOT uses a very dynamic ... [More] approach to wrapping a very large and quickly evolving library. Due to the dynamic nature (using the CInt introspection), SOOT is able to handle most of the ROOT classes without explicitly wrapping them. [Less]

gksu PolicyKit

A tool to allow running X applications as root, using PolicyKit authentication.

cvsrootswitch

This tool changes the root entry of the local module checked out of CVS. If CVS modules checked out from one server are required to be shifted to some other server then the root entry of the CVS folders need to be replaces recursively. This tool searches for CVS Root files and replaces old root entries with the given new root entries.

superuser

Superuser provides a sudo-style interface that notifies you whenever an application needs to perform an operation that requires root access.