| | Category | CS | P09 | Central Authentication |
| | Abstract | The Dearborn Christian School has a computer lab filled with a number of |
| | unsecured computers. The administrators of that school would like them to |
| | be secured using a centralized authentication system, in each computer |
| | shares the same user accounts data. However, there are two main |
| | obstacles: all of the computers have Microsoft Windows XP installed and |
| | there is no Microsoft Windows ``Server Edition'' license. To complicate |
| | matters, some of the copies of Windows XP are of the ``Home Edition'' for |
| | which Microsoft disabled joining ``Domains'' which allow a form of |
| | centralized authentication. |
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| | The school has had a GNU/Linux based server running an old version of |
| | Redhat to provide shared file storage with minimal security to secure the |
| | few files important to the school. This project is the upgrading and |
| | administering of this server while preparing and building a centralized |
| | authentication system that does not require using either the ``Professional |
| | Edition'' or ``Server Edition'' of Windows. The result should give the school |
| | a security and networking setup similar to many universities: each client |
| | will run Windows which accesses a GNU/Linux (``Unix'')-based back-end. |
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| | To reach this goal, the following existing technology/software will be |
| | leveraged and, as they are designed to be, interconnected: Samba, |
| | Windows XP, pGINA, MIT-Kerberos5, OpenLDAP, and GNU/Linux |
| | (Gentoo). Though each of these technologies is simple to use |
| | independently, work has to be done to glue them together. |
| | Bibliography | http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/ (LDAP and |
| | OpenLDAP)http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml (Gentoo GNU/Linux) |