Layer: admin

Policy modules for administrative functions, such as package management.


Module:Description:
acct

Berkeley process accounting.

aide

Aide filesystem integrity checker.

alsa

Advanced Linux Sound Architecture utilities.

amanda

Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver.

amtu

Abstract Machine Test Utility.

anaconda

Anaconda installer.

apt

Advanced package tool.

backup

System backup scripts.

bacula

Cross platform network backup.

blueman

Tool to manage Bluetooth devices.

bootloader

Policy for the kernel modules, kernel image, and bootloader.

brctl

Utilities for configuring the Linux ethernet bridge.

certwatch

Digital Certificate Tracking.

cfengine

System administration tool for networks.

chkrootkit

chkrootkit - rootkit checker.

cloudinit

Init scripts for cloud VMs

consoletype

Determine of the console connected to the controlling terminal.

dmesg

Policy for dmesg.

dmidecode

Decode DMI data for x86/ia64 bioses.

dphysswapfile

Set up, mount/unmount, and delete an swap file.

dpkg

Debian package manager.

fakehwclock

fake-hwclock - Control fake hardware clock.

fapolicyd

The fapolicyd software framework controls the execution of applications based on a user-defined policy. This is one of the most efficient ways to prevent running untrusted and possibly malicious applications on the system.

firstboot

Initial system configuration utility.

hwloc

Dump topology and locality information from hardware tables.

kdump

Kernel crash dumping mechanism.

kismet

IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN sniffer.

logrotate

Rotates, compresses, removes and mails system log files.

logwatch

System log analyzer and reporter.

mcelog

Linux hardware error daemon.

mrtg

Network traffic graphing.

ncftool

Cross-platform network configuration library.

netutils

Network analysis utilities

passenger

Ruby on rails deployment for Apache and Nginx servers.

portage

Package Management System.

prelink

Prelink ELF shared library mappings.

puppet

Configuration management system.

quota

File system quota management.

rkhunter

rkhunter - rootkit checker.

rpm

Redhat package manager.

samhain

Check file integrity.

sblim

Standards Based Linux Instrumentation for Manageability.

shorewall

Shoreline Firewall high-level tool for configuring netfilter.

shutdown

System shutdown command.

sosreport

Generate debugging information for system.

su

Run shells with substitute user and group.

sudo

Execute a command with a substitute user

sxid

SUID/SGID program monitoring.

tboot

Utilities for the tboot TXT module.

tmpreaper

Manage temporary directory sizes and file ages.

tripwire

File integrity checker.

tzdata

Time zone updater.

updfstab

Red Hat utility to change fstab.

usbguard

Usbguard enforces the USB device authorization policy for all USB devices.

usbmodules

List kernel modules of USB devices.

usermanage

Policy for managing user accounts.

vbetool

run real-mode video BIOS code to alter hardware state.

vpn

Virtual Private Networking client.