OPS335 Assignment 2 - Murray Saul rev1

This is NOT Assignment 2!
This is the ROUGH WORK for Murray Saul's section for OPS335 Assignment 2. These assignment specifications are NOT complete.

Once the assignment specifications are ready, then a link will appear in the Main OPS335 WIKI .

Purpose

In this assignment, you will use the 335assign virtual network and the seedling cloning-source that you created in assignment 1 (part 1) to create two e-mail servers: a Mail Transfer Agent called pine and a Message Store (IMAP) called fir. You will also use the seedling cloning source to create a Samba server called bristlecone. As you perform and submit this assignment, you MUST run at least the balsam Master Name server in order to resolve domain names to IP addresses.

General Requirements

Weight: 10% of the overall grade

Due Date: During Week 13 (in class)

Detailed Requirements

Set-up Mail Transfer Agent (pine)

Perform the following steps for this section:

1. Create a clone virtual machine called pine from the seedling cloning-source. Refer to the table below for address and hostname.
2. The normal user on your host machine must be able to ssh to the root account on each machine without being prompted for a password.
3. Create a regular user for this virtual machine using your Seneca userID.
4. This machine will accept incoming email for any user account in the coniferous.trees.ops domain and any named machine in that domain.
5. Any machine within the coniferous.trees.ops domain will be able to route outgoing email through this server.
6. Only the address associated with pine.coniferous.trees.ops will be used for SMTP.
7. This machine will use postfix's built-in LDA, and will store mail in maildir format, placing each users' mail in a sub-directory of their home directory called mail.
8. This machine will provide users with unencrypted remote access to their mail boxes through dovecot using IMAP. Note that this access will only be available to machines inside the coniferous.trees.ops network, and only through the ip address and hostname for fir.coniferous.trees.ops
9. No other machine in the domain will accept email.
10. Any mail sent directly from this machine will use the domain as the sending address (i.e. user@coniferous.trees.ops)
11. All mail sent to this network should automatically be redirected here using DNS.

Set-up Mail Delivery Agent / Message Store (fir)

Perform the following steps for this section:

1. Create a clone virtual machine called fir from the seedling cloning-source. Refer to the table below for address and hostname.
2. Create a regular user for this virtual machine using your Seneca userID.
3. The normal user on your host machine must be able to ssh to the root account on each machine without being prompted for a password.
4. This machine will accept incoming email for any user account in the coniferous.trees.ops domain and any named machine in that domain.
5. Any machine within the coniferous.trees.ops domain will be able to route outgoing email through this server.
6. Only the address associated with pine.coniferous.trees.ops will be used for SMTP.
7. This machine will use postfix's built-in LDA, and will store mail in maildir format, placing each users' mail in a sub-directory of their home directory called mail.
8. This machine will provide users with unencrypted remote access to their mail boxes through dovecot using IMAP. Note that this access will only be available to machines inside the coniferous.trees.ops network, and only through the ip address and hostname for fir.coniferous.trees.ops
9. No other machine in the domain will accept email.
10. Any mail sent directly from this machine will use the domain as the sending address (i.e. user@coniferous.trees.ops)
11. All mail sent to this network should automatically be redirected here using DNS.

Set-up Samba Server (bristlecone)

Perform the following steps for this section:

1. Create a clone virtual machine called bristlecone from the seedling cloning-source. Refer to the table below for address and hostname.
2. Create a regular user for this virtual machine using your Seneca userID.
3. The normal user on your host machine must be able to ssh to the root account on each machine without being prompted for a password.
4. This machine will allow each user remote access to their own home directory, but only from within the coniferous.trees.ops network.
5. This machine will allow each user remote access to the /samba/local directory as the path 'local', with the capability to edit files, but only from within the coniferous.trees.ops network.
6. This machine will allow any user remote access to the /samba/remote directory from anywhere as the path 'public', but without the capability to edit files.

Set-up Client to Test Samba server (client)

Perform the following steps for this section:

1. Create a clone virtual machine called client from the seedling cloning-source. Refer to the table below for address and hostname.
2. Create a regular user for this virtual machine using your Seneca userID.
3. The normal user on your host machine must be able to ssh to the root account on each machine without being prompted for a password.
4. Each client machine will have a dhcp address assigned in the range 172.20.40.100 to 172.20.40.254, however the DHCP server will not provide DNS and domain information.
5. This machine will use the master and slave DNS servers in your domain as the primary and secondary DNS servers. It will not have access to any other DNS servers.
6. This machine will use a local postfix installation to relay all outgoing mail through whirlpool, and will use the domain as the sending address (i.e. user@coniferous.trees.ops).
7. This machine will not accept incoming mail.

Network Configuration

As you will now have functioning primary and secondary DNS servers, modify your network configuration file for the pine, fir, and bristlecone servers specify the correct IPADDR.

Table of Virtual Machines / DNS Records

Below is network configuration for ALL virtual machines used in this assignment and previous assignments for this course:

Hostname	Address	Purpose
spruce.coniferous.trees.ops (your existing source)	External Facing Address: DHCP assigned Internal Virtual Bridge (virbr1): 172.30.20.1	Your host machine
seedling.coniferous.trees.ops	172.30.20.100	Cloning-source used to create other servers for other assignments.
balsam.coniferous.trees.ops	172.30.20.2	Master Name Server
spruce.coniferous.trees.ops	172.30.20.3	Slave Name Server
pine.coniferous.trees.ops	172.30.20.5	SMTP mail Server
fir.coniferous.trees.ops	172.30.20.6	IMAP mail Server
bristlecone.coniferous.trees.ops	172.30.20.8	Samba Server
client.coniferous.trees.ops	DHCP (range 172.20.40.100 to 172.20.40.254)	Client Linux or Windows Server

Set-up Firewall Policies

In addition to the basic firewall established in assignment 1, ensure the following restrictions are met:

1. All virtual machines will use iptables as their firewall.Outgoing traffic is allowed.
2. Each virtual machine must be able to check for and install updates using yum.
3. Traffic on the loopback interface for each virtual machine is allowed.
4. The host machine (and only the host machine) must be able to ssh to them. ICMP traffic is allowed if it originated within the local network only.
5. Other than that, only the traffic necessary to support their roles described below should be allowed.

Assignment Submission

The student is required to prove to their professor that their set-up works correctly during the regularly-scheduled lab period.

Assignment Evaluation Details

• Demonstrate working assignment to your instructor in class:
  1. Students need to demonstrate their assignment functionality to their professor during a lab period
     (like you would for any lab for "sign-off").
  2. Students are required to prepare everything ahead of time so that you can quickly demonstrate to your instructor that all required parts of your assignment are working.
  3. Do do proceed to the next step until you have demonstrated your assignment to your instructor to check for errors that may cause problems when running the checking script.
     
     

• Download and run a shell script to check your work (Depending on your OPS335 Instructor):

Peter Callaghan's Classes (Sections C & D):

• Refer to instruction on Moodle to download and run marking shell script.

Murray Saul's Classes (Sections A & B):

1. Login as root on your host machine.
2. Change to the /root/bin directory.
3. Make certain that at least your balsam, pine, fir, bristlecone and client virtual machines are running.
4. Issue the command to download a checking script for your assignment to your host machine:

   wget http://matrix.senecac.on.ca/~murray.saul/ops335/check-assn2.bash    # Currently not available

5. Set execute permissions and run the command: /root/bin/check-assn2.bash
   (You shell script contents will be mailed to your Seneca email and to your OPS335 instructor's Seneca email. If you do NOT receive an e-mail message in your Seneca email account, then there is a problem, and you MUST rerun or contact your OPS335 instructor immediately.
   
   

• Additional Assignment Information:
  1. This assignment is to be completed individually. Group submissions are not allowed.
  2. You are NOT allowed to use local hostname resolution (i.e. no entries in your /etc/hosts file).
  3. Test your machine to make sure it works. If a machine is not accessible (e.g. will not boot, can not be accessed through ssh from your host, etc.), or is otherwise non-functional, you may be told to resubmit.
  4. Late submissions are a subject to a penalty of 10% per day.

Evaluation Rubric

Here is an evaluation rubric (in table form) showing you how you will be evaluated for this assignment. Part of the rubric is marked from professor observation from student demonstration of assignment in class, and the other part is based on output from the results of an assignment checking script that the student will download and run.

Student Demonstration (in class)
Evaluation Item	Mark
Proof of SMTP Server Running on pine server	/x
E-mails sent from pine and bristlecone servers to fir server (user@IP_ADDR)	/x
E-mails sent from pine and bristlecone servers to fir server (user@DOMAIN_NAME)	/x
x	/x
x	/x
Configuration (Checking Script Output)
Evaluation Item	Mark
Mail Transfer Agent (pine) - General Configuration
x	/x
x	/x
x	/x
x	/x
x	/x
Mail Delivery Agent (MTA) / Message Store (MS) - General Configuration
x	/x
x	/x
x	/x
x	/x
x	/x
x	/x
Samba Server - General Configuration
x	/x
x	/x
x	/x
x	/x
x	/x
Client Server - General Configuration
x	/x
x	/x
x	/x
x	/x
x	/x
Firewall policies
x	/x
x	/x
Less Deductions (half-mark for EACH VM): DOMAIN Name NOT Resolved VM hostname NOT set firewalld enabled / running iptables disabled / not running No Yum update Named NOT active Local hostname resolution appears in /etc/hosts (1 mark per entry, per vm) Neglecting major safeguards (e.g. no firewall present, firewall allowing all traffic, no active SELinux) (4 marks per issue)
TOTAL	/x