pyOpenSSL is a high-level Pythonwrapper around a subset of the OpenSSL library (to quote it). It waspulled onto my machines recently as part of a Fedora update, and sinceI'm currently interested in OpenSSL-related things I decided to playaround with it to try it out.

After writing some basic stuff, I have to say that I like it. It's notentirely documented (and for some things you really want to read theOpenSSL manpages too), but it works fine

One of the eternal curses of student Unix labs is students casuallyturning off workstations the way they turn off other PCs when they'redone with them. (A problem made worse by vendors putting glowing powerbuttons on the front panel of machines, where they become an easytemptation.)

In theory the answer to this is Wake-on-LAN. You probably have at leastone inaccessible computer per lab, so run a daemon on that that noticeswhen workstations are down and sends out a WoL packet to get