A collection of simple programs which may be of some use to other system administrators. Some of them handle simple format conversions or data exports, others are simple servers or server components. Some are fully prepared for distribution, others are likely to be broken until you adapt them to your environment.
You might notice certain recurring themes, such as LDAP and Jabber.
These packages are supported by Sourceforge services.
Fingerbob
A Finger demon that supplies formatted user information from an LDAP directory. Useful when you're in a dark corner of the server room without a GUI and need to find a phone number. Almost every networked computer has a finger client, so Fingerbob provides a simple but universal network address book. It's also fast - I can use Fingerbob to find a telephone number much faster than using GUI based address books.
Fingerbob can also serve static text documents that match a predefined keyword. By default these are used for a simple help menu, but it can easily be adjusted to provide other information to users.
Language: Perl License: GPL Download: SourceforgeFljud
The new version of this software has moved to Jabber Studio but version 0.4 will remain here.
Flexible LDAP Jabber User Directory. A Jabber User Directory that uses an LDAP directory for user information. It's very useful if you've already got a Jabber server using LDAP for account authentication and vcards. Fljud has some interesting features:
- Configurable fields - You can easily display almost any attribute data from your LDAP directory for each user.
- Much more capable searching - Search in any requested attribute, with a choice of AND or OR based search patterns
- LDAP updates - When a user changes their details in the JUD, their LDAP record is updated.
- Configurable browsing - Users can be grouped into arbitrary, browsable folders. Groups can be based on any LDAP search criteria. This depends on Jabber client support.
- Field/attribute locking - Fields can be locked so that their LDAP attribute's value cannot change, or cannot be removed.
- Flexible configuration - Fljud can be used to provide Jabber access to other types of LDAP objects. Alternate XML based configuration files can be specified.
- No XDB/JUD synchronisation problems - As both your authentication
and JUD are using live LDAP records.
If you've got any comments or suggestions, please contact me at apetools@binary-ape.org
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