Nifty Debian packages
A little list of some nifty packages for Debian: sudo Oddly enough this isn’t installed by default. Well known for most Linux users, but it enables regular users to perform commands as root without actually logging in as root. molly-guard Protects you from shutting down wrong server when using ssh to a server. What it does is ask you which server you want to shutdown when you run the command shutdown. If you type in wrong hostname it won’t run the command. Handy if you have a bunch of ssh sessions open and you type shutdown in the wrong session. pwgen Generates random passwords. Configurable what kind of passwords you want, for example high complexity and so on. hdparm Can be used to check the performance of harddrives dovecot Widely used imap/pop server postfix Widely used smtp server. Often used in conjunction with dovecot roundcube A package for webmail. Requires…