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/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).

Scripts and tools to manage your Server.

A user read-only access account. Note: As the filesystem is read only, some commands won't work, such as vi that requires write access into /var/tmp to create a temporary file. To setup read-only access a "new root" directory such are "/var/read-only" is created,.Under this directory "/" is mounted as read-only. Here is a diagram of the directory structure

A package manager for Slackware Linux. Install and uppdate trought FTP, HTTP... Choose between current or release. Search for files in packages, Serach with wildcards. Use blacklist. Run as non-root. Checks md5s and deps

Using this program you can automate some everyday administrator's routines.As example module for Apache web-server monitoring is included.It monitors servers document root and if new folder created add it to vhosts and hosts file as new virtual host

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.

ECGL-STK is Engineering Computing GNU/Linux sub-project named Secure ToolKit, which provide non-root permission user running system command or script with hash check sum and background monitor.

A package manager for Slackware Linux. Install and uppdate trought FTP, HTTP... Choose between current or release. Search for files in packages, Serach with wildcards. Use blacklist. Detect root, and switch to only download packages. Checks md5s and deps

Set of tools needed to setup and maintain encrypted partitions under unix systems (initially linux). Especially helpfull when doing root device encryption. Features xml configuration, multiple users, usb "tokens" (usb mass storage) and key hierarchy.

We are building a more secure way to admin a serverfarm without have root-accounds after installation by using ssh and sudo.

xrootconsole tails a file in a window on your X11 root window. It aims to be as simple and resource-light as possible, within reason: it should run smootlhy on a P133 laptop. The program is non-interactive; all configuration is done on the command line.

Gnome xsu is a Gnome/X11 tool which allows users to run commands as root after prompting for the root password.

Non-root users construct, develop, test and run all types of distributions with Root Methods (Yard, etc.) and user-mode-linux, then finish with a Boot Method (2-disk compression, etc). Make_debian yard template creator provided for Debian users.

This software consists of a client and a server. The server will run a command if it is specified in the server side alias file. The alias file syntax: !Settings alias 'command cmd-args cmd-args'; user2run-cmd-as Example: !EnableOutput yes !Port 2012 !Verbosity warnings update 'yum makecache && yum update'; root filedbupdate updatedb; root who_is_logged_on 'who'; * Then the client would run: ./recafoh host -p 2012 -c update --warnings and it would output yum's...