Free provider software for linux

phpMyID is a small, fairly lightweight, standalone, single-user Identity Provider for OpenID authentication.
OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity (I stole that from their website). But what does it mean? Well, basically OpenID is a way to authenticate yourself to various places (websites) by verifying your identity as the owner of a particular URL (say, a website of your own).
Instead of giving a username and password to a login form, you just give it your URL. Youre then directed to your "identity provider" to log in, and when it authenticates you, you go back to the site you were orignally trying to get into. Why this is good or bad, and what the actual implications of it are... well, thats all mostly outta scope as far as phpMyID is concerned. Suffice it to say, phpMyID acts as an "identity provider" so you can log in to OpenID enabled sites.
From a user point of view, OpenID is a neat concept, but it has a few flaws. For example, when I wanted to actually, yknow, get an OpenID thingie of my own so I could log into OpenID sites, I found there was no satisfactory way to get one. My options were:
Download a ready made application to handle serving up identities and create myself an account in it. - There arent many of these, and what few there are seem to be geared towards multi-user setups. Since theres only one of me, this option seemed like overkill.
Download a complex set of libraries and build an application to handle serving up my identity. - Again there are not many of these, and what few there are seem a bit overcomplicated for my needs.
Set up an account with a third party provider. - A bad option for me because I really dont like the idea of coupling a theoretically decentralized framework to one of a handfull of third party providers (and giving them my account credentials). Sure, someone who doesnt have their own site and server technology will probably go this way, but not me.
Since I couldnt find the simple solution that I wanted, I did what any [idiot|geek] would do, and created the missing option for myself: a single user OpenID server. phpMyID.
Usage
phpMyID is a single user (though, if you were so inclined, you could easily turn it into a multi-user setup) IdP, or "Identity Provider" for the OpenID framework. Its a single PHP script with minimal dependancies.
You dont need a database, you dont need to make your filesystem writable, you dont need to download any libraries, and you dont need to recompile PHP. Okay, well, you shouldnt need to do any of that.
Installing phpMyID requires an MD5 hashing utility. Why? Because you have to authenticate to it using a password. phpMyID uses HTTP Digest authentication for security and your password must be encrypted when you enter it during installation. Say it with me: "passwords should never be stored or transmitted in plain text" (one of the advantages of phpMyID and OpenID is that they never are).
For Linux or OSX (or any other Unix-like OS), I suggest using OpenSSL to encrypt your password. For Windows, there are a number of utilities available, but I recommend this one by Colin Plumb. Its public domain code, and it will do exactly what you need (yes, the hash it create is all upper-case - dont worry, phpMyID will convert it for you). You can use PHPs md5 function to generate your hash for you on the fly, but I must discourage doing so. Not only does it take all the fun out, but you have to store your password in plain text to make it go.
Complete installation instructions, including examples of how to encrypt your password, are available in the provided README file (heres the svn version).
Enhancements:
- This release should fix the outstanding (known) "bad signature" errors, adds a number of refinements, includes a testing mode, and provides support for a more versatile set of "big math" functions.

Direct Access Provider Library in short DAPL is a transport-independent, platform-independent, high-performance API for using the remote direct memory access (RDMA) capabilities of modern interconnect technologies such as InfiniBand, the Virtual Interface Architecture, and iWARP.
This is the reference implementation of that specification by the DAT Collaborative who maintain the DAPL API.
Enhancements:
- Support was added for new IB verbs client register event.
- Some problems supporting create qp without recv cq handle or recv qp resources were fixed.
- Some timeout and long disconnect delay issues exposed during scalability tests were fixed.
- Minor build problems were fixed.
- Support for multiple IB devices was added to dat.conf to support IPoIB HA failover.
- Support for returning local and remote port information was added.
- The RPM spec file was cleaned up.
- Enviroment variables to configure connection management timers were added.

Emulex Linux Drivers package provides the sources for Emulexs LPFC (LightPulse Fibre Channel) family of HBAs. The source base is developed and tested specifically for the 2.6 Linux kernel.
This Emulex driver is derived from Emulexs currently shipping driver which supports several application and storage providers.
Intentions:
Emulex will be working with the open source community with the intention of achieving acceptance of this source into the upstream kernel.
Emulex will also continue to work with application and storage provider partners, many of whom are active members of the open source community, to evolve the code base to meet both upstream kernel and continuing business needs.
Enhancements:
- Miscellaneous Cleanups
- Correct some 8bit to 16bit field conversions/comparisons
- Fixes for short cable pulls
- Adjust use of scsi_block_requests and interaction w/ FC transport
- Remove locking wrappers around error handlers
- Fixes to error handlers
- Add support for more members of the Light Pulse 11xxx (4Gb) family
- Bring model descriptions in sync with Emulex standard generic names.
- Add polled-mode support to the driver:
- Added code to adjust lun queue depth to avoid target overloading.

Asterisell project is a Web based application for viewing, rating, and billing Asterisk VoIP calls.
Usage Scenario:
- you are a vendor of Voice over IP Telephony services (VoIP)
- your customers call other users who can reside on different telephone networks
- your customers pay you for this service
in order to route the calls on particular networks you have to use the services of other vendors
- you are a customer of others vendors
- you pays others vendors for this service
So Asterisell views you (the VoIP service provider) as a reseller of others vendors services. It permits to associate for every call a cost and an income. The cost is what the customer pays to the service provider and the cost is what the service provider pays to other vendors in order to route the call.
Main features:
Customer features:
- report of calls with aggregate totals
- many filter-criteria
- different sort-criteria
- export to CSV and MS Excel document
- many VoIP accounts associated with the same customer
Administrator features:
- input fields are secure from intrusion attempts
- each customer could have a cost limit for the last 30 days
- informal currency conversion table for the test of cost limits
- administrator is advised via email if a customer pass its cost limit
- different cultures for each VoIP account or Customer
- prices and messages are displayed in the specified culture
- customers can be grouped into different price list categories
- different rate methods applicable to different time periods, customer categories, destination gateway channels, destination telephone network etc..
- customizable rate methods adding PHP Class respecting a specific interface
- generation of customer invoices
- delivery of emails with invoice details to customers
- support bulk generation of invoices and emails to all customers with associated incomes
- support for multi-currency invoices (not yet tested)
- problems during rate process are reported and signaled via email to the administrator
General features:
- multi-culture and locales support (it_IT, en_US, ecc..)
- multi-currency support (not yet tested)