prey for Debian
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Prey is a collection of shell scripts which allows you to keep track of
your laptop remotely in the unfortunate case it gets lost or stolen.

I've applied some patches to make this software suitable for Debian:

 * Guest account creation is disabled due to security reasons.
 * Configuration file gets installed in `/etc/prey/config' and not
   in the application path along with other scripts and modules.
 * The application gets installed system wide, so it doesn't rely on
   any per-user configuration.
 * The graphical configuration tool provided by upstream (prey-config.py)
   seems not working as expected, so it has been removed.

The scripts run at a certain interval and checks for a specified URL
on the web. If you want to tune the frequency of the ckecks, you can
type the following command to re-configure the package (as root):

    dpkg-reconfigure prey

When running, prey checks the URL set in the configuration file; if it
finds the 'missing_status_code' then it goes through the information
gathering routine and tries to send all the collected information to
the owner of the machine.

The software can operate in two modes:

 * Standalone: Reports are sent directly to the laptop's owner.
   This requires user to activate Prey by generating/deleting a URL and
   set up a scp/sftp/mail server settings as well.
 * Control Panel: Reports are sent to preyproject.com.
   After obtaining an account at http://control.preyproject.com/signup
   users only need to set 'apt_key' and 'device_key' properly in the
   `/etc/prey/config' file.
   Visit http://preyproject.com/ for more information about the provided
   services.

The configuration file is commented with notes and pointers, so it's easy
to configure the program by editing `/etc/prey/config' by hand; Prey also
provides a 'check mode' to verify if the settings are correct:

  # /usr/lib/prey/prey.sh --check

 -- Alessio Treglia <alessio@debian.org>  Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:46:15 +0200
