BD350           Linux Assignment 2                      Due: Thursday, March 6, 2002

This is an individual assignment to be done on your Linux server.

 

1.      (15 points) Configure a Samba “share” that can be mapped as a drive from a Windows client using the hayne account.  Samba is a great tool for letting Microsoft Windows users share hard drives and printers with Linux users. Samba is already installed on your servers on port 901.  Thus, you browse to http://10.10.103.???:901 and then login using your root account and password (this is not a secure access, but we don’t have ssl installed on these servers correctly at this time). 

You need to configure the GLOBALS (workgroup, netbios name, server string, encryption), create a SHARE name “samba_disk” and configure it (path, browseable), start the samba daemon (smbd) and create/enable the hayne user (see #2 below).

2.      (15 points) Uninstall Webmin and re-install the most current version (1.070).  Follow the instructions carefully.  Configure it to run from inetd.  This is the process that a linux sysadmin would have to follow to install Open Source software from the internet.  You will discover that the documentation is often less than perfect and there are sometimes very few people you can ask for help.  Don’t give up!

Set the password for the “hayne” account to “hayne” and set up webmin so that this account can login and use webmin (but not as root). 

3.      (20 points) Install a secure ftp server, i.e. pure-ftp, that can only be accessed by the hayne account.  For this particular server, you will need to download the “.gz” file, (g)unzip it, then unpack the “.tar” file and then follow the instructions in the “INSTALL” file.  The process I used was:

 

1.      ./configure

2.      make

3.      make install

4.      make clean

5.      cd /usr/local/sbin

6.      ./pure-ftpd –S portnumber &


However, you will need to do more configuration to only allow the hayne account to connect and point to that account’s home directory.  Email the portnumber you use for your secure ftp server to Matt Sallee (the BD350 TA) with the subject “BD350 Assignment Two” by 5pm, Thursday, March 6th.