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A Jupyter server extension to proxy requests with AWS SigV4 authentication. This server extension enables the usage of the AWS JavaScript/TypeScript SDK to write Jupyter frontend extensions without having to export AWS credentials to the browser. A single /awsproxy endpoint is added on the Jupyter server which receives incoming requests from the browser, uses the credentials on the server to add SigV4 authentication to the request, and then proxies the request to the actual AWS service...

/usr/bin/passwd offers a "safe way" for root to edit /etc/passwd (or shadow). If setuid it allows regular users to change passwd without asking root to do changes for them. (note: does have learning curve on args to choose) gnupasswd - gnu change user password gnugpasswd - gnu change group password gnupasswd(1) has a goal to work with older login.c/linux and some newer too, also "getpwent" (any glibc).

The libsudo library lets your C/C++ application to start processes as a different user (usually 'root') by calling 'sudo'. It's like the system() call but specifying a different user.

This pam module joins the functionality of both pam_listfile and pam_mysql modules. It was made after a request of such a module in the pam-dev maling list. For the user the configuration options are a merge from the ones found on both modules.