Free who wants software for linux

fancylogin is one of the most powerful login programs available for Linux. It can do everything your old login program can do, e.g., handling shadowed passwd files, user-time-terminal/network-verification as done with HP-UX login, etc. The project adds a lot of capabilities for logging logins and support for themes to control the logins look.

History:

I first had the idea of creating a better login for linux, when i was working for IBM in the summer. a really big company had lots of 5250 terminals standing around. OS/400 would allow you (just like fancylogin) to insert an ascii-graphic with colors, etc., so all terminals were showing the companys emblem. this really looked great. so why is it, that one of the best server-systems like linux has such a boring login-screen? even Novell Netware has at least bits of color!

The more i studied popular login-programs, such as Julienne Haughs shadow-login, the more i realized that much more capabilities for security and logging are needed, in order to guarantee a secure system. fancylogin shouldnt only be a a fancy login but also a secure and very functional one. And as everybody who wants to do something on a system must be authenticated by a login, a good login-program is one of the most important keys to a secure and reliable system. fancylogin should be the answer.

The first thing i did was write a litte fancy.o with really weird configuration (the signon.*-files). then i had a look at the sources of the shadow-login-program and included a call to my fancy_prompt-routine. that was all. but as i didnt know anything about that code, i decided to take my fancy.o and write my own login-program around it, because i had a lot of improvements in mind. that was in the christmas-holidays of 1999. after those holiday fancylogin 0.99.5 was out, and the first login program that supported techniques from shadow AND from HP-UX-login (usertty). that was when Andreas Krennmair joined the team. soon we released 0.99.6, and for the first time announced it in c.o.l.a. and on freshmeat.net. on the first day of the release we got 5000 hits, and our school-server had three times the workload it usually had. that was when we put the project on sourceforge.

If i had to give a codename to fancylogin 0.99.7 i would call it "0.99.7 - the great odyssee". first we released some minor patches and fixes in 0.99.6b, but we had great plans for 0.99.7. priority number one was an improved way of configuring everything. then Matthew Wormald wrote an email doing suggestions on fancylogin. one of these were to support ANSI-files, which was the solution of our dilemma. then i worked on support for ANSI-files, but just couldnt get an ANSI-interpreted terminal together with ncurses. after a few months we decided to forget about the ANSIs, because it was too difficult to implement. Andreas Krennmair wrote flted, a program to create signon*- configurations. it should never really be released, because he finally managed to do it. in fancylogin-0.99.7-alpha2 everything was finished already, with fancylogin supporting the signon.defs and two ANSI-files. but i wanted to have everything in one file, so themes could be easily installed, and every theme-related information was in one file. so i decided to put everything into a structure, and wrote fltcreate and the neccessary modifications to fancy.o, and fancylogin-0.99.7 was finished. the first fancylogin a normal human could actually configure and write themes for!

Webalizer is a fast, free web server log file analysis program. The project produces highly detailed, easily configurable usage reports in HTML format, for viewing with a standard web browser.
It was written to solve several problems that I had with currently available analysis packages. A vast majority of them were written in Perl or some other scripting language, and took forever to run. Some were not free. Some even produced wrong results, or results that were not in a format I found very useful.
In order to get the stats I wanted, in a format that I liked, I wrote The Webalizer, and have made it available here, to anyone who wants it, for any purpose. Starting as a simple Perl script with limited capabilities, it has grown into a full featured, robust and fast analysis tool, being used by thousands of systems around the globe.
Main features:
- Is written in C to be extremely fast and highly portable. On a 200Mhz pentium machine, over 10,000 records can be processed in one second, with a 40 Megabyte file taking roughly 15 seconds (over 150,000 records).
- Supports standard Common Logfile Format server logs. In addition, several variations of the Combined Logfile Format are supported, allowing statistics to be generated for referring sites and browser types as well. Now also has native support for wu-ftpd xferlog FTP and squid log formats as well.
- Generated reports can be configured from the command line, or by use of one or more configuration files. Detailed information on configuration options can be found in the README file, supplied with all distributions.
- Supports multiple languages. Currently, Catalan, Chinese (traditional and simplified), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian are available.
- Unlimited log file sizes and partial logs are supported, allowing logs to be rotated as often as needed, and eliminating the need to keep huge monthly files on the system.
- Distributed under the GNU General Public License, complete source code is available, as well as binary distributions for some of the more popular platforms.

SpyBye is a tool to help web masters determine if their Web pages are hosting browser exploits that can infect visiting users with malware.
The project functions as an HTTP proxy server and intercepts all browser requests. A few simple rules are used to determine if embedded links on your Web page are harmless, unknown, or maybe even dangerous.
How does SpyBye work? SpyBye operates as a proxy server and gets to see all the web fetches that your browser makes. It applies very simple rules to each URL that is fetched as a result of loading a web page. These rules allows us to classify a URL into three categories: harmless, unknown or dangerous. Although, there is great margin of error, the categories allow a web master to look at the URLs and determine if they should be there or not. If you see that a URL is being fetched that you would not expect, its a good indication you have been copromised.
Why did you write SpyBye? It has become increasingly common for web sites to get compromised. This can happen either due to vulnerable web applications that you run or due to compromised servers via vectors completely out of your control. Nonetheless, it is important for web masters to be able to tell if their pages are dangerous to their users. SpyBye provides a very simple mechanism to determine how a site works on the HTTP level. This often gives us clues about potentially dangerous content. I hope that SpyBye can be of use to anyone who wants to verify if their web site could be compromised and dangerous. The unoffical explanation is that I needed some code to test libevents HTTP layer; writing a proxy exercises most of the code paths.
In a couple of days, SpyBye is going to be released as Open Source package, so that you can run your own proxy and check your pages.
Disclaimer SpyBye does not protect you from getting exploited yourself. It tries to take reasonable precautions to avoid infection while using it. However, ideally, you would run your browser in a virtual machine and revert to a clean snapshot when done. You have been warned. Todays malware is capable of rendering your computer unusable - and empty your bank accounts!
Enhancements:
- A proxy mode in which SpyBye analyzes all content in the background and provides a warning box when potentially malicious content has been detected was added.
- This means that all Web browsing can be done through SpyBye and users get protected automatically from dangerous content.

Strictly Invoices is an application for the small business owner who wants to send out invoices!
Important Note: You may need to make the file executable by changing the properties or running the command:
chmod 755 invoices
Main features:
- Save multiple companies
- Create HTML invoice
- Save Customer Data
- Create Product List
- Print to PDF
- Save Invoices
- Email
- Change any title on the invoice to your needs (Registered Version)

Want is a Perl module created to implement the `want command.

SYNOPSIS

use Want;
sub foo :lvalue {
if (want(qwLVALUE ASSIGN)) {
print "We have been assigned ", want(ASSIGN);
lnoreturn;
}
elsif (want(LIST)) {
rreturn (1, 2, 3);
}
elsif (want(BOOL)) {
rreturn 0;
}
elsif (want(qwSCALAR !REF)) {
rreturn 23;
}
elsif (want(HASH)) {
rreturn { foo => 17, bar => 23 };
}
return
}

This module generalises the mechanism of the wantarray function, allowing a function to determine in some detail how its return value is going to be immediately used.

...

EXAMPLES

use Carp croak;
use Want howmany;
sub numbers {
my $count = howmany();
croak("Cant make an infinite list") if !defined($count);
return (1..$count);
}
my ($one, $two, $three) = numbers();


use Want want;
sub pi () {
if (want(ARRAY)) {
return [3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9];
}
elsif (want(LIST)) {
return (3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9);
}
else {
return 3;
}
}
print pi->[2]; # prints 4
print ((pi)[3]); # prints 1


sub backstr :lvalue {
if (want(qwLVALUE ASSIGN)) {
my ($a) = want(ASSIGN);
$_[0] = reverse $a;
return undef;
}
elsif (want(RVALUE)) {
my $t = scalar reverse $_[0];
}
else {
carp("Not in ASSIGN context");
}
return
}

print "foo -> ", backstr("foo"), "n"; # foo -> oof
backstr(my $robin) = "nibor";
print "$robin is now $robinn"; # $robin is now robin

PyGS provides a server for the gopher/gopher+ protocol written in Python.
PyGS (the Python Gopher Server) is an asynchronous gopher(+) server written in Python. It is meant to be a clean, small server for those who wish to dabble in gopherspace.
Dont forget to change the shebang line to reflect your python location.
Current is #!/usr/local/bin/python
Enhancements:
- Stuff added, a little bug fixing but right now Im just trying to get something that speaks Gopher reliably.
- Added support for .about files. These are text files that will appear at the top of the directory when it is retrieved. .about files are just text files that PyGS does all the info (type i) parsing for. You do nothing but create the file. (You can still do the old school info entries like before, but PyGS will ignore a .info file when it finds a .about.)
- If it doesnt work for you, its probably cause Ive hardcoded a few locations into the code. (Bad Programmer! No bone!) Grep for abg and see what you find. Theres also the server_locaion variable in pygs.py that needs tweaking. Anyone who wants to work on the configuration file loading would be greatly appreciated.
- There are also example .names, .links, and .about files in this distribution.