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systemd is a system and service manager that runs as PID 1 and starts the rest of the system.
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A set of system configuration and setup files
The setup package contains a set of important system configuration and setup files, such as passwd, group, and profile.
The rocket-fast system for log processing
RSYSLOG is the rocket-fast system for log processing.It offers high-performance, great security features and a modular design. While it started as a regular syslogd, rsyslog has evolved into a kind of swiss army knife of logging, being able to accept inputs from a wide variety of sources, transform them, and output to the results to diverse destinations. RSYSLOG can deliver over one million messages per second to local destinations when limited processing is applied. Even with remote destinations and more elaborate processing the performance is usually considered “stunning”.
Tools for managing accounts and shadow password files
This package includes the necessary programs for converting plain password files to the shadow password format and to manage user and group accounts.
The util-linux package contains a random collection of files that implements some low-level basic linux utilities.
This package contains the set of CA certificates chosen by the Mozilla Foundation for use with the Internet PKI.
D-Bus is a message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to one another. In addition to interprocess communication, D-Bus helps coordinate process lifecycle; it makes it simple and reliable to code a "single instance" application or daemon, and to launch applications and daemons on demand when their services are needed.
Allows restricted root access for specified users
Sudo is a program designed to allow a sysadmin to give limited root privileges to users and log root activity. The basic philosophy is to give as few privileges as possible but still allow people to get their work done.
A set of basic GNU tools commonly used in shell scripts
These are the GNU core utilities. This package is the combination of the old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.
Bash is the GNU Project's shell. Bash is the Bourne Again SHell. Bash is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and C shell (csh). It is intended to conform to the IEEE POSIX P1003.2/ISO 9945.2 Shell and Tools standard. It offers functional improvements over sh for both programming and interactive use. In addition, most sh scripts can be run by Bash without modification.
Root crontab files used to schedule the execution of programs
A crontab file contains instructions to the cron daemon of the general form: 'run this command at this time on this date'. Each user has their own crontab, and com- mands in any given crontab will be executed as the user who owns the crontab.
Pluggable Authentication Modules for Linux
PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is a system of libraries that handle the authentication tasks of applications (services) on the system.
Cronie contains the standard UNIX daemon crond that runs specified programs at scheduled times and related tools. It is based on the original cron and has security and configuration enhancements like the ability to use pam and SELinux.
An open source implementation of SSH protocol version 2
OpenSSH is the premier connectivity tool for remote login with the SSH protocol. \ It encrypts all traffic to eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and \ other attacks. In addition, OpenSSH provides a large suite of secure tunneling \ capabilities, several authentication methods, and sophisticated configuration options.
Basic support for legacy System V init scripts
This package provides basic support for legacy System V init scripts, and some other legacy tools & utilities.