Below are a few sofware projects that I wrote to be used at the CDF, and which I later decided to release into the Open Source community. All software is provided under the BSD license and is copyright University of Toronto. Detailed copyright notices and licenses are included with each download.

Networked Host Monitor (NHMON)

Nhmon was written for visual monitoring a large number of Unix hosts. It is relying on EDDIE Tool for individual host's health monitoring. Download Nhmon from http://nhmon.sf.net.

SAMBA password hash generator (sambapasswords.py)

I needed a native Python implementation of the routines for generating Windows password hashes for the smbpasswd file, as used by Samba. I could not afford the overhead and insecurity of running Samba's smbpasswd utility in batch mode. It turned out to be a rather tedious task to figure out the obscure method of generating the hashes (especially for the LanMan password hashes). Talking about security throuh obscurity.

Later, quite a few people expressed interest in the code, and I decided to make the code available here. Hope it saves you a few hours. Download the file sambapasswords.py from the downloads directory.

Note that you need to have the pycrypto Python module installed to use the sambapasswords.py module. For a quick test, type:

  python sambapasswords.py