= Welcome to ''Simple Panels'' project =

Our target is developing a Control Panel for any *nix binary distro (from [http://www.opensolaris.org OpenSolaris] to Linux and MacOS X) in Python.This is an alternative project to [http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/vpanels/ Visual Panels] but developed only for fun. ;-) 

If you want collaborate with this project, please write to [http://lasarux.blogspot.com/ Pedro Gracia]: '''Developer''' (lasarux@gmail.com) or [http://vfernandezg.blogspot.com/ Victor M. Fernandez]: '''Architect''' (vfernandezg@gmail.com).

This project will support many OpenSolaris technologies, such as SMF (Service Management Facility), ZFS (Zettabyte File System), SVM (Solaris Volume Manager), RBAC (Role Based Access control), Zones/Containers or DTRACE with a nice, easy and user-friendly GUI.

In order to use Simple Panels you will need:
 * [http://www.python.org Python]
 * [http://glade.gnome.org/ Glade] (interfaz con GTK2)

To download our product you can use a subversion client:

{{{
$ svn co http://svn.neuroomante.com/simplepanels/trunk simplepanels
$ cd simplepanels
$ ./main.py (or python main.py) to run it and use your own username.
}}}

To install plugins (actually is a manual operation):

{{{
$ cd plugins
$ cd PLUGIN-DIR (info, webserver and so)
$ python setup.py develop --install-dir .. -m
}}}

'''Importat:''' you need access to your computer (and others) using SSH without password. You can make it doing this:

{{{
$ ssh-keygen (and press RETURN in the questions)
$ cd ~/.ssh
$ cat id_rsa.pub >> authorized_keys
$ ssh localhost (answer YES to the question and check that you can login)
$ exit (to logout the ssh session)
}}}

Tip to get root access into a solaris/opensolaris box: https://twiki.cscs.ch/twiki/bin/view/CmsTier3/InstallationSolaris#getting_passwordless_root_access

{{{
# PSI modification to allow interactive root user remote login
sshd-pubkey     auth requisite          pam_authtok_get.so.1
sshd-pubkey     auth required           pam_dhkeys.so.1
sshd-pubkey     auth required           pam_unix_cred.so.1
sshd-pubkey     auth required           pam_unix_auth.so.1
# sshd-pubkey   account requisite       pam_roles.so.1 allow_remote
#        allow_remote is not enough because auser information is missing
sshd-pubkey     account required        pam_unix_account.so.1
}}}

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Some screenshots:

'''Login Window:'''

[[Image(loginwindow.png)]]

'''Main Window:'''

[[Image(mainwindow.png)]]

'''ZFS Window:'''

[[Image(zfswindow.png)]]

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More:
 * [wiki:Documentation] (English and Spanish)
 * [wiki:ejemplos Control Panels example]
 * [wiki:artwork Artwork]

'''How to Contribute''':


Before we can incorporate significant contributions, certain legal requirements must be met. Basically you have to make a copyright assignment to the project main developer. Small changes can be accepted without a copyright disclaimer or a copyright assignment. The project is Free Software licensed under the GPL, this is just a legal issue, but anyway please read the license documentation, prior to contributing anything.

'''License:'''


This software is open source; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License. This General Public License does NOT permit incorporating this software into proprietary programs.I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing...