Ubuntu Server Guide

Ubuntu Server Guide

Copyright 2010 Canonical Ltd. and members of the Ubuntu Documentation Project3 Abstract Welcome to the Ubuntu Server Guide! It contains information on how to install and configure various server applications on your Ubuntu system to fit your needs. It is a step-by-step, task-oriented guide for configuring and customizing your system.

Credits and License

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 1 1. Support .......................................................................................................................... 2 2. Installation ............................................................................................................................. 3 1. Preparing to Install ......................................................................................................... 4 2. Installing from CD ......................................................................................................... 6 3. Upgrading ...................................................................................................................... 9 4. Advanced Installation ................................................................................................... 10 3. Package Management ........................................................................................................... 17 1. Introduction ................................................................................................................. 18 2. dpkg ............................................................................................................................ 19 3. Apt-Get ........................................................................................................................ 20 4. Aptitude ....................................................................................................................... 22 5. Automatic Updates ....................................................................................................... 24 6. Configuration ............................................................................................................... 26 7. References ................................................................................................................... 28 4. Networking .......................................................................................................................... 29 1. Network Configuration ................................................................................................. 30 2. TCP/IP ......................................................................................................................... 38 3. Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) .............................................................. 42 4. Time Synchronisation with NTP ................................................................................... 44 5. Remote Administration ......................................................................................................... 46 1. OpenSSH Server .......................................................................................................... 47 2. Puppet ......................................................................................................................... 50 6. Network Authentication ........................................................................................................ 53 1. OpenLDAP Server ....................................................................................................... 54 2. Samba and LDAP ........................................................................................................ 78 3. Kerberos ...................................................................................................................... 84 4. Kerberos and LDAP ..................................................................................................... 91 7. Domain Name Service (DNS) ............................................................................................... 97 1. Installation ................................................................................................................... 98 2. Configuration ............................................................................................................... 99 3. Troubleshooting .......................................................................................................... 104 4. References ................................................................................................................. 108 8. Security ............................................................................................................................. 109 1. User Management ....................................................................................................... 110 2. Console Security ........................................................................................................ 116 3. Firewall ...................................................................................................................... 117 4. AppArmor .................................................................................................................. 124 5. Certificates ................................................................................................................. 128 6. eCryptfs ..................................................................................................................... 133

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Ubuntu Server Guide 9. Monitoring ......................................................................................................................... 1. Overview ................................................................................................................... 2. Nagios ....................................................................................................................... 3. Munin ........................................................................................................................ 10. Web Servers ..................................................................................................................... 1. HTTPD - Apache2 Web Server ................................................................................... 2. PHP5 - Scripting Language ......................................................................................... 3. Squid - Proxy Server .................................................................................................. 4. Ruby on Rails ............................................................................................................ 5. Apache Tomcat .......................................................................................................... 11. Databases ......................................................................................................................... 1. MySQL ...................................................................................................................... 2. PostgreSQL ................................................................................................................ 12. LAMP Applications .......................................................................................................... 1. Overview ................................................................................................................... 2. Moin Moin ................................................................................................................. 3. MediaWiki ................................................................................................................. 4. phpMyAdmin ............................................................................................................. 13. File Servers ...................................................................................................................... 1. FTP Server ................................................................................................................. 2. Network File System (NFS) ........................................................................................ 3. iSCSI Initiator ............................................................................................................ 4. CUPS - Print Server ................................................................................................... 14. Email Services .................................................................................................................. 1. Postfix ....................................................................................................................... 2. Exim4 ........................................................................................................................ 3. Dovecot Server ........................................................................................................... 4. Mailman .................................................................................................................... 5. Mail Filtering ............................................................................................................. 15. Chat Applications ............................................................................................................. 1. Overview ................................................................................................................... 2. IRC Server ................................................................................................................. 3. Jabber Instant Messaging Server .................................................................................. 16. Version Control System .................................................................................................... 1. Bazaar ........................................................................................................................ 2. Subversion ................................................................................................................. 3. CVS Server ................................................................................................................ 4. References ................................................................................................................. 17. Windows Networking ....................................................................................................... 1. Introduction ................................................................................................................ 2. Samba File Server ...................................................................................................... 3. Samba Print Server ..................................................................................................... 135 136 137 141 143 144 151 153 155 157 161 162 164 166 167 168 170 172 174 175 179 181 184 187 188 195 198 200 206 213 214 215 217 219 220 221 226 228 229 230 231 234

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Ubuntu Server Guide 4. Securing a Samba File and Print Server ....................................................................... 5. Samba as a Domain Controller .................................................................................... 6. Samba Active Directory Integration ............................................................................. 18. Backups ........................................................................................................................... 1. Shell Scripts ............................................................................................................... 2. Archive Rotation ........................................................................................................ 3. Bacula ........................................................................................................................ 19. Virtualization .................................................................................................................... 1. libvirt ......................................................................................................................... 2. JeOS and vmbuilder ................................................................................................... 3. UEC .......................................................................................................................... 20. Clustering ......................................................................................................................... 1. DRBD ........................................................................................................................ 21. VPN ................................................................................................................................. 1. OpenVPN .................................................................................................................. 22. Other Useful Applications ................................................................................................. 1. pam_motd .................................................................................................................. 2. etckeeper .................................................................................................................... 3. Byobu ........................................................................................................................ 4. References ................................................................................................................. A. Appendix .......................................................................................................................... 1. Reporting Bugs in Ubuntu Server Edition .................................................................... 236 240 244 246 247 251 254 259 260 265 274 287 288 291 292 304 305 307 309 311 312 313

List of Tables
2.1. Recommended Minimum Requirements ................................................................................ 4 16.1. Access Methods ............................................................................................................. 222 19.1. UEC Front End Requirements ........................................................................................ 275 19.2. UEC Node Requirements ............................................................................................... 276

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Chapter 1. Introduction
Welcome to the Ubuntu Server Guide! Here you can find information on how to install and configure various server applications. It is a stepby-step, task-oriented guide for configuring and customizing your system. This guide assumes you have a basic understanding of your Ubuntu system. Some installation details are covered in Chapter 2, Installation [p. 3], but if you need detailed instructions installing Ubuntu please refer to the Ubuntu Installation Guide1. A HTML version of the manual is available online at the Ubuntu Documentation website2.

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Introduction

1. Support
There are a couple of different ways that Ubuntu Server Edition is supported, commercial support and community support. The main commercial support (and development funding) is available from Canonical Ltd. They supply reasonably priced support contracts on a per desktop or per server basis. For more information see the Canonical Services3 page. Community support is also provided by dedicated individuals, and companies, that wish to make Ubuntu the best distribution possible. Support is provided through multiple mailing lists, IRC channels, forums, blogs, wikis, etc. The large amount of information available can be overwhelming, but a good search engine query can usually provide an answer to your questions. See the Ubuntu Support4 page for more information.

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Chapter 2. Installation
This chapter provides a quick overview of installing Ubuntu 11.10 Server Edition. For more detailed instructions, please refer to the Ubuntu Installation Guide1.

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1. Preparing to Install
This section explains various aspects to consider before starting the installation.

1.1. System Requirements

Ubuntu 11.10 Server Edition supports three (3) major architectures: Intel x86, AMD64 and ARM. The table below lists recommended hardware specifications. Depending on your needs, you might manage with less than this. However, most users risk being frustrated if they ignore these suggestions.

Table 2.1. Recommended Minimum Requirements

Hard Drive Space Install Type RAM Base All Tasks Installed System 500 1 gigabyte megabytes

Server

128 megabytes

The Server Edition provides a common base for all sorts of server applications. It is a minimalist design providing a platform for the desired services, such as file/print services, web hosting, email hosting, etc. The requirements for UEC are slightly different for Front End requirements see Section 3.2.1, Front End Requirements [p. 274] and for UEC Node requirements see Section 3.2.2, Node Requirements [p. 275].

1.2. Server and Desktop Differences

There are a few differences between the Ubuntu Server Edition and the Ubuntu Desktop Edition. It should be noted that both editions use the same apt repositories. Making it just as easy to install a server application on the Desktop Edition as it is on the Server Edition. The differences between the two editions are the lack of an X window environment in the Server Edition, the installation process, and different Kernel options.

1.2.1. Kernel Differences: The Server Edition uses the Deadline I/O scheduler instead of the CFQ scheduler used by the Desktop Edition. Preemption is turned off in the Server Edition. The timer interrupt is 100 Hz in the Server Edition and 250 Hz in the Desktop Edition. When running a 64-bit version of Ubuntu on 64-bit processors you are not limited by memory addressing space. 4

Installation To see all kernel configuration options you can look through /boot/config-3.0.0-server. Also, Linux Kernel in a Nutshell2 is a great resource on the options available.

1.3. Backing Up
Before installing Ubuntu Server Edition you should make sure all data on the system is backed up. See Chapter 18, Backups [p. 246] for backup options. If this is not the first time an operating system has been installed on your computer, it is likely you will need to re-partition your disk to make room for Ubuntu. Any time you partition your disk, you should be prepared to lose everything on the disk should you make a mistake or something goes wrong during partitioning. The programs used in installation are quite reliable, most have seen years of use, but they also perform destructive actions.

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2. Installing from CD
The basic steps to install Ubuntu Server Edition from CD are the same for installing any operating system from CD. Unlike the Desktop Edition the Server Edition does not include a graphical installation program. Instead the Server Edition uses a console menu based process. First, download and burn the appropriate ISO file from the Ubuntu web site3. Boot the system from the CD-ROM drive. At the boot prompt you will be asked to select the language. From the main boot menu there are some additional options to install Ubuntu Server Edition. You can install a basic Ubuntu Server, check the CD-ROM for defects, check the system's RAM, boot from first hard disk, or rescue a broken system. The rest of this section will cover the basic Ubuntu Server install. The installer asks for which language it should use. Afterwards, you are asked to select your location. Afterwards the installation process begins by asking for your keyboard layout. You can ask the installer to attempt auto-detecting it. Or you can select it manually from a list. The installer then discovers your hardware configuration, and configures the network settings using DHCP. If you do not wish to use DHCP at the next screen choose "Go Back", and you have the option to "Configure the network manually". Next, the installer asks for the system's hostname and Time Zone. You can then choose from several options to configure the hard drive layout. Afterwards you are asked for which disk to install to. You may get confirmation prompts before rewriting the partition table or setting up LVM depending on disk layout. If you choose LVM, you will be asked for the size of the root logical volume. For advanced disk options see Section 4, Advanced Installation [p. 10]. The Ubuntu base system is then installed. A new user is setup, this user will have root access through the sudo utility. After the user is setup, you will be asked to encrypt your home directory. The next step in the installation process is to decide how you want to update the system. There are three options: No automatic updates: this requires an administrator to log into the machine and manually install updates. Install security updates automatically: will install the unattended-upgrades package, which will install security updates without the intervention of an administrator. For more details see Section 5, Automatic Updates [p. 24]. Manage the system with Landscape: Landscape is a paid service provided by Canonical to help manage your Ubuntu machines. See the Landscape4 site for details. 6

Installation You now have the option to install, or not install, several package tasks. See Section 2.1, Package Tasks [p. 7] for details. Also, there is an option to launch aptitude to choose specific packages to install. For more information see Section 4, Aptitude [p. 22]. Finally, the last step before rebooting is to set the clock to UTC. If at any point during installation you are not satisfied by the default setting, use the "Go Back" function at any prompt to be brought to a detailed installation menu that will allow you to modify the default settings. At some point during the installation process you may want to read the help screen provided by the installation system. To do this, press F1. Once again, for detailed instructions see the Ubuntu Installation Guide5.

2.1. Package Tasks

During the Server Edition installation you have the option of installing additional packages from the CD. The packages are grouped by the type of service they provide. DNS server: Selects the BIND DNS server and its documentation. LAMP server: Selects a ready-made Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP server. Mail server: This task selects a variety of package useful for a general purpose mail server system. OpenSSH server: Selects packages needed for an OpenSSH server. PostgreSQL database: This task selects client and server packages for the PostgreSQL database. Print server: This task sets up your system to be a print server. Samba File server: This task sets up your system to be a Samba file server, which is especially suitable in networks with both Windows and Linux systems. Tomcat Java server: Installs Apache Tomcat and needed dependencies. Virtual Machine host: Includes packages needed to run KVM virtual machines. Manually select packages: Executes aptitude allowing you to individually select packages. Installing the package groups is accomplished using the tasksel utility. One of the important difference between Ubuntu (or Debian) and other GNU/Linux distribution is that, when installed, a package is also configured to reasonable defaults, eventually prompting you for additional required information. Likewise, when installing a task, the packages are not only installed, but also configured to provided a fully integrated service. Once the installation process has finished you can view a list of available tasks by entering the following from a terminal prompt:

tasksel --list-tasks
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Installation The output will list tasks from other Ubuntu based distributions such as Kubuntu and Edubuntu. Note that you can also invoke the tasksel command by itself, which will bring up a menu of the different tasks available. You can view a list of which packages are installed with each task using the --task-packages option. For example, to list the packages installed with the DNS Server task enter the following:

tasksel --task-packages dns-server

The output of the command should list:

bind9-doc bind9utils bind9

Also, if you did not install one of the tasks during the installation process, but for example you decide to make your new LAMP server a DNS server as well. Simply insert the installation CD and from a terminal:

sudo tasksel install dns-server

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3. Upgrading
There are several ways to upgrade from one Ubuntu release to another. This section gives an overview of the recommended upgrade method.

3.1. do-release-upgrade
The recommended way to upgrade a Server Edition installation is to use the do-release-upgrade utility. Part of the update-manager-core package, it does not have any graphical dependencies and is installed by default. Debian based systems can also be upgraded by using apt-get dist-upgrade. However, using dorelease-upgrade is recommended because it has the ability to handle system configuration changes sometimes needed between releases. To upgrade to a newer release, from a terminal prompt enter:

do-release-upgrade

It is also possible to use do-release-upgrade to upgrade to a development version of Ubuntu. To accomplish this use the -d switch:

do-release-upgrade -d

Upgrading to a development release is not recommended for production environments.

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4. Advanced Installation
4.1. Software RAID
Redundant Array of Independent Disks "RAID" is a method of using multiple disks to provide different balances of increasing data reliability and/or increasing input/output performance, depending on the RAID level being used. RAID is implemented in either software (where the operating system knows about both drives and actively maintains both of them) or hardware (where a special controller makes the OS think there's only one drive and maintains the drives 'invisibly'). The RAID software included with current versions of Linux (and Ubuntu) is based on the 'mdadm' driver and works very well, better even than many so-called 'hardware' RAID controllers. This section will guide you through installing Ubuntu Server Edition using two RAID1 partitions on two physical hard drives, one for / and another for swap. 4.1.1. Partitioning Follow the installation steps until you get to the Partition disks step, then: 1. 2. Select Manual as the partition method. Select the first hard drive, and agree to "Create a new empty partition table on this device?". Repeat this step for each drive you wish to be part of the RAID array. 3. 4. Select the "FREE SPACE" on the first drive then select "Create a new partition". Next, select the Size of the partition. This partition will be the swap partition, and a general rule for swap size is twice that of RAM. Enter the partition size, then choose Primary, then Beginning. A swap partition size of twice the available RAM capacity may not always be desirable, especially on systems with large amounts of RAM. Calculating the swap partition size for servers is highly dependent on how the system is going to be used. 5. 6. 7. 8. Select the "Use as:" line at the top. By default this is "Ext4 journaling file system", change that to "physical volume for RAID" then "Done setting up partition". For the / partition once again select "Free Space" on the first drive then "Create a new partition". Use the rest of the free space on the drive and choose Continue, then Primary. As with the swap partition, select the "Use as:" line at the top, changing it to "physical volume for RAID". Also select the "Bootable flag:" line to change the value to "on". Then choose "Done setting up partition". Repeat steps three through eight for the other disk and partitions.

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Installation 1. 2. 3. 4. Back in the main "Partition Disks" page, select "Configure Software RAID" at the top. Select "yes" to write the changes to disk. Choose "Create MD device". For this example, select "RAID1", but if you are using a different setup choose the appropriate type (RAID0 RAID1 RAID5). In order to use RAID5 you need at least three drives. Using RAID0 or RAID1 only two drives are required. 5. Enter the number of active devices "2", or the amount of hard drives you have, for the array. Then select "Continue". Next, enter the number of spare devices "0" by default, then choose "Continue". Choose which partitions to use. Generally they will be sda1, sdb1, sdc1, etc. The numbers will usually match and the different letters correspond to different hard drives. For the swap partition choose sda1 and sdb1. Select "Continue" to go to the next step. 8. 9. Repeat steps three through seven for the / partition choosing sda2 and sdb2. Once done select "Finish".

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4.1.3. Formatting There should now be a list of hard drives and RAID devices. The next step is to format and set the mount point for the RAID devices. Treat the RAID device as a local hard drive, format and mount accordingly. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Select "#1" under the "RAID1 device #0" partition. Choose "Use as:". Then select "swap area", then "Done setting up partition". Next, select "#1" under the "RAID1 device #1" partition. Choose "Use as:". Then select "Ext4 journaling file system". Then select the "Mount point" and choose "/ - the root file system". Change any of the other options as appropriate, then select "Done setting up partition". 6. Finally, select "Finish partitioning and write changes to disk".

If you choose to place the root partition on a RAID array, the installer will then ask if you would like to boot in a degraded state. See Section 4.1.4, Degraded RAID [p. 11] for further details. The installation process will then continue normally. 4.1.4. Degraded RAID At some point in the life of the computer a disk failure event may occur. When this happens, using Software RAID, the operating system will place the array into what is known as a degraded state. 11

Installation If the array has become degraded, due to the chance of data corruption, by default Ubuntu Server Edition will boot to initramfs after thirty seconds. Once the initramfs has booted there is a fifteen second prompt giving you the option to go ahead and boot the system, or attempt manual recover. Booting to the initramfs prompt may or may not be the desired behavior, especially if the machine is in a remote location. Booting to a degraded array can be configured several ways: The dpkg-reconfigure utility can be used to configure the default behavior, and during the process you will be queried about additional settings related to the array. Such as monitoring, email alerts, etc. To reconfigure mdadm enter the following:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure mdadm

The dpkg-reconfigure mdadm process will change the /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/mdadm configuration file. The file has the advantage of being able to pre-configure the system's behavior, and can also be manually edited:

BOOT_DEGRADED=true

The configuration file can be overridden by using a Kernel argument. Using a Kernel argument will allow the system to boot to a degraded array as well: When the server is booting press Shift to open the Grub menu. Press e to edit your kernel command options. Press the down arrow to highlight the kernel line. Add "bootdegraded=true" (without the quotes) to the end of the line. Press Ctrl+x to boot the system. Once the system has booted you can either repair the array see Section 4.1.5, RAID Maintenance [p. 12] for details, or copy important data to another machine due to major hardware failure. 4.1.5. RAID Maintenance The mdadm utility can be used to view the status of an array, add disks to an array, remove disks, etc: To view the status of an array, from a terminal prompt enter:

sudo mdadm -D /dev/md0

The -D tells mdadm to display detailed information about the /dev/md0 device. Replace /dev/md0 with the appropriate RAID device. To view the status of a disk in an array:

sudo mdadm -E /dev/sda1

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Installation The output if very similar to the mdadm -D command, adjust /dev/sda1 for each disk. If a disk fails and needs to be removed from an array enter:

sudo mdadm --remove /dev/md0 /dev/sda1

Change /dev/md0 and /dev/sda1 to the appropriate RAID device and disk. Similarly, to add a new disk:

sudo mdadm --add /dev/md0 /dev/sda1

Sometimes a disk can change to a faulty state even though there is nothing physically wrong with the drive. It is usually worthwhile to remove the drive from the array then re-add it. This will cause the drive to re-sync with the array. If the drive will not sync with the array, it is a good indication of hardware failure. The /proc/mdstat file also contains useful information about the system's RAID devices:

cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[1] 10016384 blocks [2/2] [UU]

unused devices: <none>

The following command is great for watching the status of a syncing drive:

watch -n1 cat /proc/mdstat

Press Ctrl+c to stop the watch command. If you do need to replace a faulty drive, after the drive has been replaced and synced, grub will need to be installed. To install grub on the new drive, enter the following:

sudo grub-install /dev/md0

Replace /dev/md0 with the appropriate array device name. 4.1.6. Resources The topic of RAID arrays is a complex one due to the plethora of ways RAID can be configured. Please see the following links for more information: Ubuntu Wiki Articles on RAID6. Software RAID HOWTO7

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4.2. Logical Volume Manager (LVM)

Logical Volume Manger, or LVM, allows administrators to create logical volumes out of one or multiple physical hard disks. LVM volumes can be created on both software RAID partitions and standard partitions residing on a single disk. Volumes can also be extended, giving greater flexibility to systems as requirements change. 4.2.1. Overview A side effect of LVM's power and flexibility is a greater degree of complication. Before diving into the LVM installation process, it is best to get familiar with some terms. Physical Volume (PV): physical hard disk, disk partition or software RAID partition formatted as LVM PV. Volume Group (VG): is made from one or more physical volumes. A VG can can be extended by adding more PVs. A VG is like a virtual disk drive, from which one or more logical volumes are carved. Logical Volume (LV): is similar to a partition in a non-LVM system. A LV is formatted with the desired file system (EXT3, XFS, JFS, etc), it is then available for mounting and data storage. 4.2.2. Installation As an example this section covers installing Ubuntu Server Edition with /srv mounted on a LVM volume. During the initial install only one Physical Volume (PV) will be part of the Volume Group (VG). Another PV will be added after install to demonstrate how a VG can be extended. There are several installation options for LVM, "Guided - use the entire disk and setup LVM" which will also allow you to assign a portion of the available space to LVM, "Guided - use entire and setup encrypted LVM", or Manually setup the partitions and configure LVM. At this time the only way to configure a system with both LVM and standard partitions, during installation, is to use the Manual approach. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Follow the installation steps until you get to the Partition disks step, then: At the "Partition Disks screen choose "Manual". Select the hard disk and on the next screen choose "yes" to "Create a new empty partition table on this device". Next, create standard /boot, swap, and / partitions with whichever filesystem you prefer. For the LVM /srv, create a new Logical partition. Then change "Use as" to "physical volume for LVM" then "Done setting up the partition". Now select "Configure the Logical Volume Manager" at the top, and choose "Yes" to write the changes to disk. 14

Installation 7. For the "LVM configuration action" on the next screen, choose "Create volume group". Enter a name for the VG such as vg01, or something more descriptive. After entering a name, select the partition configured for LVM, and choose "Continue". Back at the "LVM configuration action" screen, select "Create logical volume". Select the newly created volume group, and enter a name for the new LV, for example srv since that is the intended mount point. Then choose a size, which may be the full partition because it can always be extended later. Choose "Finish" and you should be back at the main "Partition Disks" screen. Now add a filesystem to the new LVM. Select the partition under "LVM VG vg01, LV srv", or whatever name you have chosen, the choose Use as. Setup a file system as normal selecting /srv as the mount point. Once done, select "Done setting up the partition".

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10. Finally, select "Finish partitioning and write changes to disk". Then confirm the changes and continue with the rest of the installation. There are some useful utilities to view information about LVM: pvdisplay: shows information about Physical Volumes. vgdisplay: shows information about Volume Groups. lvdisplay: shows information about Logical Volumes. 4.2.3. Extending Volume Groups Continuing with srv as an LVM volume example, this section covers adding a second hard disk, creating a Physical Volume (PV), adding it to the volume group (VG), extending the logical volume srv and finally extending the filesystem. This example assumes a second hard disk has been added to the system. In this example, this hard disk will be named /dev/sdb and we will use the entire disk as a physical volume (you could choose to create partitions and use them as different physical volumes) Make sure you don't already have an existing /dev/sdb before issuing the commands below. You could lose some data if you issue those commands on a non-empty disk. 1. First, create the physical volume, in a terminal execute:

sudo pvcreate /dev/sdb

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Now extend the Volume Group (VG):

sudo vgextend vg01 /dev/sdb

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sudo lvextend /dev/vg01/srv -l +511

The -l option allows the LV to be extended using PE. The -L option allows the LV to be extended using Meg, Gig, Tera, etc bytes. 4. Even though you are supposed to be able to expand an ext3 or ext4 filesystem without unmounting it first, it may be a good practice to unmount it anyway and check the filesystem, so that you don't mess up the day you want to reduce a logical volume (in that case unmounting first is compulsory). The following commands are for an EXT3 or EXT4 filesystem. If you are using another filesystem there may be other utilities available.

sudo umount /srv sudo e2fsck -f /dev/vg01/srv

The -f option of e2fsck forces checking even if the system seems clean. 5. Finally, resize the filesystem:

sudo resize2fs /dev/vg01/srv

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Now mount the partition and check its size.

mount /dev/vg01/srv /srv && df -h /srv

4.2.4. Resources See the Ubuntu Wiki LVM Articles9. See the LVM HOWTO10 for more information. Another good article is Managing Disk Space with LVM11 on O'Reilly's linuxdevcenter.com site. For more information on fdisk see the fdisk man page12.

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Chapter 3. Package Management

Ubuntu features a comprehensive package management system for the installation, upgrade, configuration, and removal of software. In addition to providing access to an organized base of over 35,000 software packages for your Ubuntu computer, the package management facilities also feature dependency resolution capabilities and software update checking. Several tools are available for interacting with Ubuntu's package management system, from simple command-line utilities which may be easily automated by system administrators, to a simple graphical interface which is easy to use by those new to Ubuntu.

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1. Introduction
Ubuntu's package management system is derived from the same system used by the Debian GNU/ Linux distribution. The package files contain all of the necessary files, meta-data, and instructions to implement a particular functionality or software application on your Ubuntu computer. Debian package files typically have the extension '.deb', and typically exist in repositories which are collections of packages found on various media, such as CD-ROM discs, or online. Packages are normally of the pre-compiled binary format; thus installation is quick and requires no compiling of software. Many complex packages use the concept of dependencies. Dependencies are additional packages required by the principal package in order to function properly. For example, the speech synthesis package festival depends upon the package libasound2, which is a package supplying the ALSA sound library needed for audio playback. In order for festival to function, it and all of its dependencies must be installed. The software management tools in Ubuntu will do this automatically.

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2. dpkg
dpkg is a package manager for Debian based systems. It can install, remove, and build packages, but unlike other package management system's, it can not automatically download and install packages or their dependencies. This section covers using dpkg to manage locally installed packages: To list all packages installed on the system, from a terminal prompt enter:

dpkg -l

Depending on the amount of packages on your system, this can generate a large amount of output. Pipe the output through grep to see if a specific package is installed:

dpkg -l | grep apache2

Replace apache2 with any package name, part of a package name, or other regular expression. To list the files installed by a package, in this case the ufw package, enter:

dpkg -L ufw

If you are not sure which package installed a file, dpkg -S may be able to tell you. For example:

dpkg -S /etc/host.conf
base-files: /etc/host.conf

The output shows that the /etc/host.conf belongs to the base-files package. Many files are automatically generated during the package install process, and even though they are on the filesystem dpkg -S may not know which package they belong to. You can install a local .deb file by entering:

sudo dpkg -i zip_3.0-4_i386.deb

Change zip_3.0-4_i386.deb to the actual file name of the local .deb file. Uninstalling a package can be accomplished by:

sudo dpkg -r zip

Uninstalling packages using dpkg, in most cases, is NOT recommended. It is better to use a package manager that handles dependencies, to ensure that the system is in a consistent state. For example using dpkg -r you can remove the zip package, but any packages that depend on it will still be installed and may no longer function correctly. For more dpkg options see the man page: man dpkg.

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3. Apt-Get
The apt-get command is a powerful command-line tool used to work with Ubuntu's Advanced Packaging Tool (APT) performing such functions as installation of new software packages, upgrade of existing software packages, updating of the package list index, and even upgrading the entire Ubuntu system. Being a simple command-line tool, apt-get has numerous advantages over other package management tools available in Ubuntu for server administrators. Some of these advantages include ease of use over simple terminal connections (SSH) and the ability to be used in system administration scripts, which can in turn be automated by the cron scheduling utility. Some examples of popular uses for the apt-get utility: Install a Package: Installation of packages using the apt-get tool is quite simple. For example, to install the network scanner nmap, type the following:

sudo apt-get install nmap

Remove a Package: Removal of a package or packages is also a straightforward and simple process. To remove the nmap package installed in the previous example, type the following:

sudo apt-get remove nmap

Multiple Packages: You may specify multiple packages to be installed or removed, separated by spaces. Also, adding the --purge options to apt-get remove will remove the package configuration files as well. This may or may not be the desired effect so use with caution. Update the Package Index: The APT package index is essentially a database of available packages from the repositories defined in the /etc/apt/sources.list file and in the /etc/apt/ sources.list.d directory. To update the local package index with the latest changes made in repositories, type the following:

sudo apt-get update

Upgrade Packages: Over time, updated versions of packages currently installed on your computer may become available from the package repositories (for example security updates). To upgrade your system, first update your package index as outlined above, and then type:

sudo apt-get upgrade

For information on upgrading to a new Ubuntu release see Section 3, Upgrading [p. 9]. Actions of the apt-get command, such as installation and removal of packages, are logged in the /var/ log/dpkg.log log file.

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apt-get help

http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#apt-howto

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4. Aptitude
Aptitude is a menu-driven, text-based front-end to the Advanced Packaging Tool (APT) system. Many of the common package management functions, such as installation, removal, and upgrade, are performed in Aptitude with single-key commands, which are typically lowercase letters. Aptitude is best suited for use in a non-graphical terminal environment to ensure proper functioning of the command keys. You may start Aptitude as a normal user with the following command at a terminal prompt:
sudo aptitude

When Aptitude starts, you will see a menu bar at the top of the screen and two panes below the menu bar. The top pane contains package categories, such as New Packages and Not Installed Packages. The bottom pane contains information related to the packages and package categories. Using Aptitude for package management is relatively straightforward, and the user interface makes common tasks simple to perform. The following are examples of common package management functions as performed in Aptitude: Install Packages: To install a package, locate the package via the Not Installed Packages package category, for example, by using the keyboard arrow keys and the ENTER key, and highlight the package you wish to install. After highlighting the package you wish to install, press the + key, and the package entry should turn green, indicating it has been marked for installation. Now press g to be presented with a summary of package actions. Press g again, and you will be prompted to become root to complete the installation. Press ENTER which will result in a Password: prompt. Enter your user password to become root. Finally, press g once more and you'll be prompted to download the package. Press ENTER on the Continue prompt, and downloading and installation of the package will commence. Remove Packages: To remove a package, locate the package via the Installed Packages package category, for example, by using the keyboard arrow keys and the ENTER key, and highlight the package you wish to remove. After highlighting the package you wish to install, press the - key, and the package entry should turn pink, indicating it has been marked for removal. Now press g to be presented with a summary of package actions. Press g again, and you will be prompted to become root to complete the installation. Press ENTER which will result in a Password: prompt. Enter your user password to become root. Finally, press g once more, and you'll be prompted to download the package. Press ENTER on the Continue prompt, and removal of the package will commence. Update Package Index: To update the package index, simply press the u key and you will be prompted to become root to complete the update. Press ENTER which will result in a Password: prompt. Enter your user password to become root. Updating of the package index will commence. Press ENTER on the OK prompt when the download dialog is presented to complete the process. Upgrade Packages: To upgrade packages, perform the update of the package index as detailed above, and then press the U key to mark all packages with updates. Now press g whereby you'll be 22

Package Management presented with a summary of package actions. Press g again, and you will be prompted to become root to complete the installation. Press ENTER which will result in a Password: prompt. Enter your user password to become root. Finally, press g once more, and you'll be prompted to download the packages. Press ENTER on the Continue prompt, and upgrade of the packages will commence. The first column of information displayed in the package list in the top pane, when actually viewing packages lists the current state of the package, and uses the following key to describe the state of the package: i: Installed package c: Package not installed, but package configuration remains on system p: Purged from system v: Virtual package B: Broken package u: Unpacked files, but package not yet configured C: Half-configured - Configuration failed and requires fix H: Half-installed - Removal failed and requires fix To exit Aptitude, simply press the q key and confirm you wish to exit. Many other functions are available from the Aptitude menu by pressing the F10 key.

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5. Automatic Updates
The unattended-upgrades package can be used to automatically install updated packages, and can be configured to update all packages or just install security updates. First, install the package by entering the following in a terminal:

sudo apt-get install unattended-upgrades

To configure unattended-upgrades, edit /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades and adjust the following to fit your needs:

Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins { "Ubuntu oneiric-security"; // }; "Ubuntu oneiric-updates";

Certain packages can also be blacklisted and therefore will not be automatically updated. To blacklist a package, add it to the list:

Unattended-Upgrade::Package-Blacklist { // "vim"; // // // }; "libc6"; "libc6-dev"; "libc6-i686";

The double // serve as comments, so whatever follows "//" will not be evaluated.

To enable automatic updates, edit /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic and set the appropriate apt configuration options:

APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1"; APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages "1"; APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval "7"; APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "1";

The above configuration updates the package list, downloads, and installs available upgrades every day. The local download archive is cleaned every week. You can read more about apt Periodic configuration options in the /etc/cron.daily/apt script header. The results of unattended-upgrades will be logged to /var/log/unattended-upgrades.

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5.1. Notifications
Configuring Unattended-Upgrade::Mail in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades will enable unattended-upgrades to email an administrator detailing any packages that need upgrading or have problems. Another useful package is apticron. apticron will configure a cron job to email an administrator information about any packages on the system that have updates available, as well as a summary of changes in each package. To install the apticron package, in a terminal enter:

sudo apt-get install apticron

Once the package is installed edit /etc/apticron/apticron.conf, to set the email address and other options:

EMAIL="[email protected]"

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6. Configuration
Configuration of the Advanced Packaging Tool (APT) system repositories is stored in the /etc/apt/ sources.list file and the /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory. An example of this file is referenced here, along with information on adding or removing repository references from the file. Here2 is a simple example of a typical /etc/apt/sources.list file. You may edit the file to enable repositories or disable them. For example, to disable the requirement of inserting the Ubuntu CD-ROM whenever package operations occur, simply comment out the appropriate line for the CD-ROM, which appears at the top of the file:

# no more prompting for CD-ROM please # deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 11.10 _Oneiric Ocelot_ - Release i386 (20111013.1)]/ oneiric main restricted

6.1. Extra Repositories

In addition to the officially supported package repositories available for Ubuntu, there exist additional community-maintained repositories which add thousands more potential packages for installation. Two of the most popular are the Universe and Multiverse repositories. These repositories are not officially supported by Ubuntu, but because they are maintained by the community they generally provide packages which are safe for use with your Ubuntu computer. Packages in the Multiverse repository often have licensing issues that prevent them from being distributed with a free operating system, and they may be illegal in your locality. Be advised that neither the Universe or Multiverse repositories contain officially supported packages. In particular, there may not be security updates for these packages. Many other package sources are available, sometimes even offering only one package, as in the case of package sources provided by the developer of a single application. You should always be very careful and cautious when using non-standard package sources, however. Research the source and packages carefully before performing any installation, as some package sources and their packages could render your system unstable or non-functional in some respects. By default, the Universe and Multiverse repositories are enabled but if you would like to disable them edit /etc/apt/sources.list and comment the following lines:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oneiric universe multiverse deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oneiric universe multiverse deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric universe deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric universe
2

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deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates universe deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates universe deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric multiverse deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric multiverse deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates multiverse deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates multiverse deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oneiric-security universe deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oneiric-security universe deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oneiric-security multiverse deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oneiric-security multiverse

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7. References
Most of the material covered in this chapter is available in man pages, many of which are available online. The InstallingSoftware3 Ubuntu wiki page has more information. For more dpkg details see the dpkg man page4. The APT HOWTO5 and apt-get man page6 contain useful information regarding apt-get usage. See the aptitude man page7 for more aptitude options. The Adding Repositories HOWTO (Ubuntu Wiki)8 page contains more details on adding repositories.

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Chapter 4. Networking
Networks consist of two or more devices, such as computer systems, printers, and related equipment which are connected by either physical cabling or wireless links for the purpose of sharing and distributing information among the connected devices. This section provides general and specific information pertaining to networking, including an overview of network concepts and detailed discussion of popular network protocols.

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1. Network Configuration
Ubuntu ships with a number of graphical utilities to configure your network devices. This document is geared toward server administrators and will focus on managing your network on the command line.

1.1. Ethernet Interfaces

Ethernet interfaces are identified by the system using the naming convention of ethX, where X represents a numeric value. The first Ethernet interface is typically identified as eth0, the second as eth1, and all others should move up in numerical order. 1.1.1. Identify Ethernet Interfaces To quickly identify all available Ethernet interfaces, you can use the ifconfig command as shown below.

ifconfig -a | grep eth

eth0

Link encap:Ethernet

HWaddr 00:15:c5:4a:16:5a

Another application that can help identify all network interfaces available to your system is the lshw command. In the example below, lshw shows a single Ethernet interface with the logical name of eth0 along with bus information, driver details and all supported capabilities.

sudo lshw -class network

*-network description: Ethernet interface product: BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX vendor: Broadcom Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0 logical name: eth0 version: 02 serial: 00:15:c5:4a:16:5a size: 10MB/s capacity: 100MB/s width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: (snipped for brevity) configuration: (snipped for brevity) resources: irq:17 memory:ef9fe000-ef9fffff

1.1.2. Ethernet Interface Logical Names Interface logical names are configured in the file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. If you would like control which interface receives a particular logical name, find the line matching the interfaces physical MAC address and modify the value of NAME=ethX to the desired logical name. Reboot the system to commit your changes. 30

Networking 1.1.3. Ethernet Interface Settings ethtool is a program that displays and changes Ethernet card settings such as auto-negotiation, port speed, duplex mode, and Wake-on-LAN. It is not installed by default, but is available for installation in the repositories.

sudo apt-get install ethtool

The following is an example of how to view supported features and configured settings of an Ethernet interface.

sudo ethtool eth0

Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 1000Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: Twisted Pair PHYAD: 1 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Supports Wake-on: g Wake-on: d Current message level: 0x000000ff (255) Link detected: yes

Changes made with the ethtool command are temporary and will be lost after a reboot. If you would like to retain settings, simply add the desired ethtool command to a pre-up statement in the interface configuration file /etc/network/interfaces. The following is an example of how the interface identified as eth0 could be permanently configured with a port speed of 1000Mb/s running in full duplex mode.

auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static pre-up /sbin/ethtool -s eth0 speed 1000 duplex full

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1.2. IP Addressing
The following section describes the process of configuring your systems IP address and default gateway needed for communicating on a local area network and the Internet. 1.2.1. Temporary IP Address Assignment For temporary network configurations, you can use standard commands such as ip, ifconfig and route, which are also found on most other GNU/Linux operating systems. These commands allow you to configure settings which take effect immediately, however they are not persistent and will be lost after a reboot. To temporarily configure an IP address, you can use the ifconfig command in the following manner. Just modify the IP address and subnet mask to match your network requirements.

sudo ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.100 netmask 255.255.255.0

To verify the IP address configuration of eth0, you can use the ifconfig command in the following manner.

ifconfig eth0

eth0

Link encap:Ethernet

HWaddr 00:15:c5:4a:16:5a

inet addr:10.0.0.100 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::215:c5ff:fe4a:165a/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:466475604 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:403172654 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:2574778386 (2.5 GB) Interrupt:16 TX bytes:1618367329 (1.6 GB)

To configure a default gateway, you can use the route command in the following manner. Modify the default gateway address to match your network requirements.

sudo route add default gw 10.0.0.1 eth0

To verify your default gateway configuration, you can use the route command in the following manner.

route -n

Kernel IP routing table Destination 10.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 Gateway 0.0.0.0 10.0.0.1 Genmask 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0 Flags Metric Ref U 1 0 UG 0 0 Use Iface 0 eth0 0 eth0

If you require DNS for your temporary network configuration, you can add DNS server IP addresses in the file /etc/resolv.conf. The example below shows how to enter two DNS servers to /etc/ 32

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resolv.conf,

which should be changed to servers appropriate for your network. A more lengthy description of DNS client configuration is in a following section.

nameserver 8.8.8.8 nameserver 8.8.4.4

If you no longer need this configuration and wish to purge all IP configuration from an interface, you can use the ip command with the flush option as shown below.

ip addr flush eth0

Flushing the IP configuration using the ip command does not clear the contents of /etc/ resolv.conf. You must remove or modify those entries manually. 1.2.2. Dynamic IP Address Assignment (DHCP Client) To configure your server to use DHCP for dynamic address assignment, add the dhcp method to the inet address family statement for the appropriate interface in the file /etc/network/interfaces. The example below assumes you are configuring your first Ethernet interface identified as eth0.

auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp

By adding an interface configuration as shown above, you can manually enable the interface through the ifup command which initiates the DHCP process via dhclient.

sudo ifup eth0

To manually disable the interface, you can use the ifdown command, which in turn will initiate the DHCP release process and shut down the interface.

sudo ifdown eth0

1.2.3. Static IP Address Assignment To configure your system to use a static IP address assignment, add the static method to the inet address family statement for the appropriate interface in the file /etc/network/interfaces. The example below assumes you are configuring your first Ethernet interface identified as eth0. Change the address, netmask, and gateway values to meet the requirements of your network.

auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 10.0.0.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 10.0.0.1

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Networking By adding an interface configuration as shown above, you can manually enable the interface through the ifup command.

sudo ifup eth0

To manually disable the interface, you can use the ifdown command.

sudo ifdown eth0

1.2.4. Loopback Interface The loopback interface is identified by the system as lo and has a default IP address of 127.0.0.1. It can be viewed using the ifconfig command.

ifconfig lo

lo

Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:2718 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2718 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:183308 (183.3 KB) TX bytes:183308 (183.3 KB)

By default, there should be two lines in /etc/network/interfaces responsible for automatically configuring your loopback interface. It is recommended that you keep the default settings unless you have a specific purpose for changing them. An example of the two default lines are shown below.

auto lo iface lo inet loopback

1.3. Name Resolution

Name resolution as it relates to IP networking is the process of mapping IP addresses to hostnames, making it easier to identify resources on a network. The following section will explain how to properly configure your system for name resolution using DNS and static hostname records. 1.3.1. DNS Client Configuration To configure your system to use DNS for name resolution, add the IP addresses of the DNS servers that are appropriate for your network in the file /etc/resolv.conf. You can also add an optional DNS suffix search-lists to match your network domain names. Below is an example of a typical configuration of /etc/resolv.conf for a server on the domain "example.com" and using two public DNS servers.

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search example.com nameserver 8.8.8.8 nameserver 8.8.4.4

The search option can also be used with multiple domain names so that DNS queries will be appended in the order in which they are entered. For example, your network may have multiple subdomains to search; a parent domain of example.com, and two sub-domains, sales.example.com and dev.example.com. If you have multiple domains you wish to search, your configuration might look like the following.

search example.com sales.example.com dev.example.com nameserver 8.8.8.8 nameserver 8.8.4.4

If you try to ping a host with the name of server1, your system will automatically query DNS for its Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) in the following order: 1. server1.example.com 2. server1.sales.example.com 3. server1.dev.example.com If no matches are found, the DNS server will provide a result of notfound and the DNS query will fail. 1.3.2. Static Hostnames Static hostnames are locally defined hostname-to-IP mappings located in the file /etc/hosts. Entries in the hosts file will have precedence over DNS by default. This means that if your system tries to resolve a hostname and it matches an entry in /etc/hosts, it will not attempt to look up the record in DNS. In some configurations, especially when Internet access is not required, servers that communicate with a limited number of resources can be conveniently set to use static hostnames instead of DNS. The following is an example of a hosts file where a number of local servers have been identified by simple hostnames, aliases and their equivalent Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDN's).

127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 ubuntu-server 10.0.0.11 server1 vpn server1.example.com 10.0.0.12 server2 mail server2.example.com 10.0.0.13 server3 www server3.example.com 10.0.0.14 server4 file server4.example.com

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Networking 1.3.3. Name Service Switch Configuration The order in which your system selects a method of resolving hostnames to IP addresses is controlled by the Name Service Switch (NSS) configuration file /etc/nsswitch.conf. As mentioned in the previous section, typically static hostnames defined in the systems /etc/hosts file have precedence over names resolved from DNS. The following is an example of the line responsible for this order of hostname lookups in the file /etc/nsswitch.conf.

hosts:

files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4

files first tries to resolve static hostnames located in /etc/hosts. mdns4_minimal attempts to resolve the name using Multicast DNS. [NOTFOUND=return] means that any response of notfound by the preceding mdns4_minimal process should be treated as authoritative and that the system should not try to continue hunting for an answer. dns represents a legacy unicast DNS query. mdns4 represents a Multicast DNS query. To modify the order of the above mentioned name resolution methods, you can simply change the hosts: string to the value of your choosing. For example, if you prefer to use legacy Unicast DNS versus Multicast DNS, you can change the string in /etc/nsswitch.conf as shown below.

hosts:

files dns [NOTFOUND=return] mdns4_minimal mdns4

1.4. Bridging
Bridging multiple interfaces is a more advanced configuration, but is very useful in multiple scenarios. One scenario is setting up a bridge with multiple network interfaces, then using a firewall to filter traffic between two network segments. Another scenario is using bridge on a system with one interface to allow virtual machines direct access to the outside network. The following example covers the latter scenario. Before configuring a bridge you will need to install the bridge-utils package. To install the package, in a terminal enter:

sudo apt-get install bridge-utils

Next, configure the bridge by editing /etc/network/interfaces:

auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto br0 iface br0 inet static

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address 192.168.0.10 network 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 gateway 192.168.0.1 bridge_ports eth0 bridge_fd 9 bridge_hello 2 bridge_maxage 12 bridge_stp off

Enter the appropriate values for your physical interface and network.

Now restart networking to enable the bridge interface:

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

The new bridge interface should now be up and running. The brctl provides useful information about the state of the bridge, controls which interfaces are part of the bridge, etc. See man brctl for more information.

1.5. Resources
The Ubuntu Wiki Network page1 has links to articles covering more advanced network configuration. The interfaces man page2 has details on more options for /etc/network/interfaces. The dhclient man page3 has details on more options for configuring DHCP client settings. For more information on DNS client configuration see the resolver man page4. Also, Chapter 6 of O'Reilly's Linux Network Administrator's Guide5 is a good source of resolver and name service configuration information. For more information on bridging see the brctl man page6 and the Linux Foundation's Net:Bridge7 page.

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2. TCP/IP
The Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) is a standard set of protocols developed in the late 1970s by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as a means of communication between different types of computers and computer networks. TCP/IP is the driving force of the Internet, and thus it is the most popular set of network protocols on Earth.

2.1. TCP/IP Introduction

The two protocol components of TCP/IP deal with different aspects of computer networking. Internet Protocol, the "IP" of TCP/IP is a connectionless protocol which deals only with network packet routing using the IP Datagram as the basic unit of networking information. The IP Datagram consists of a header followed by a message. The Transmission Control Protocol is the "TCP" of TCP/IP and enables network hosts to establish connections which may be used to exchange data streams. TCP also guarantees that the data between connections is delivered and that it arrives at one network host in the same order as sent from another network host.

2.2. TCP/IP Configuration

The TCP/IP protocol configuration consists of several elements which must be set by editing the appropriate configuration files, or deploying solutions such as the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server which in turn, can be configured to provide the proper TCP/IP configuration settings to network clients automatically. These configuration values must be set correctly in order to facilitate the proper network operation of your Ubuntu system. The common configuration elements of TCP/IP and their purposes are as follows: IP address The IP address is a unique identifying string expressed as four decimal numbers ranging from zero (0) to two-hundred and fifty-five (255), separated by periods, with each of the four numbers representing eight (8) bits of the address for a total length of thirty-two (32) bits for the whole address. This format is called dotted quad notation. Netmask The Subnet Mask (or simply, netmask) is a local bit mask, or set of flags which separate the portions of an IP address significant to the network from the bits significant to the subnetwork. For example, in a Class C network, the standard netmask is 255.255.255.0 which masks the first three bytes of the IP address and allows the last byte of the IP address to remain available for specifying hosts on the subnetwork. Network Address The Network Address represents the bytes comprising the network portion of an IP address. For example, the host 12.128.1.2 in a Class A network would use 12.0.0.0 as the network address, where twelve (12) represents the first byte of the IP address, (the network part) and zeroes (0) in all of the remaining three bytes to represent the potential host values. A network host using the private IP address 192.168.1.100 would in turn use a Network Address of 192.168.1.0, which specifies the first three bytes of the Class C 192.168.1 network and a zero (0) for all the possible hosts on the network. 38

Networking Broadcast Address The Broadcast Address is an IP address which allows network data to be sent simultaneously to all hosts on a given subnetwork rather than specifying a particular host. The standard general broadcast address for IP networks is 255.255.255.255, but this broadcast address cannot be used to send a broadcast message to every host on the Internet because routers block it. A more appropriate broadcast address is set to match a specific subnetwork. For example, on the private Class C IP network, 192.168.1.0, the broadcast address is 192.168.1.255. Broadcast messages are typically produced by network protocols such as the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) and the Routing Information Protocol (RIP). Gateway Address A Gateway Address is the IP address through which a particular network, or host on a network, may be reached. If one network host wishes to communicate with another network host, and that host is not located on the same network, then a gateway must be used. In many cases, the Gateway Address will be that of a router on the same network, which will in turn pass traffic on to other networks or hosts, such as Internet hosts. The value of the Gateway Address setting must be correct, or your system will not be able to reach any hosts beyond those on the same network. Nameserver Address Nameserver Addresses represent the IP addresses of Domain Name Service (DNS) systems, which resolve network hostnames into IP addresses. There are three levels of Nameserver Addresses, which may be specified in order of precedence: The Primary Nameserver, the Secondary Nameserver, and the Tertiary Nameserver. In order for your system to be able to resolve network hostnames into their corresponding IP addresses, you must specify valid Nameserver Addresses which you are authorized to use in your system's TCP/IP configuration. In many cases these addresses can and will be provided by your network service provider, but many free and publicly accessible nameservers are available for use, such as the Level3 (Verizon) servers with IP addresses from 4.2.2.1 to 4.2.2.6. The IP address, Netmask, Network Address, Broadcast Address, and Gateway Address are typically specified via the appropriate directives in the file /etc/network/ interfaces. The Nameserver Addresses are typically specified via nameserver directives in the file /etc/resolv.conf. For more information, view the system manual page for interfaces or resolv.conf respectively, with the following commands typed at a terminal prompt: Access the system manual page for interfaces with the following command:

man interfaces

Access the system manual page for resolv.conf with the following command:

man resolv.conf

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2.3. IP Routing
IP routing is a means of specifying and discovering paths in a TCP/IP network along which network data may be sent. Routing uses a set of routing tables to direct the forwarding of network data packets from their source to the destination, often via many intermediary network nodes known as routers. There are two primary forms of IP routing: Static Routing and Dynamic Routing. Static routing involves manually adding IP routes to the system's routing table, and this is usually done by manipulating the routing table with the route command. Static routing enjoys many advantages over dynamic routing, such as simplicity of implementation on smaller networks, predictability (the routing table is always computed in advance, and thus the route is precisely the same each time it is used), and low overhead on other routers and network links due to the lack of a dynamic routing protocol. However, static routing does present some disadvantages as well. For example, static routing is limited to small networks and does not scale well. Static routing also fails completely to adapt to network outages and failures along the route due to the fixed nature of the route. Dynamic routing depends on large networks with multiple possible IP routes from a source to a destination and makes use of special routing protocols, such as the Router Information Protocol (RIP), which handle the automatic adjustments in routing tables that make dynamic routing possible. Dynamic routing has several advantages over static routing, such as superior scalability and the ability to adapt to failures and outages along network routes. Additionally, there is less manual configuration of the routing tables, since routers learn from one another about their existence and available routes. This trait also eliminates the possibility of introducing mistakes in the routing tables via human error. Dynamic routing is not perfect, however, and presents disadvantages such as heightened complexity and additional network overhead from router communications, which does not immediately benefit the end users, but still consumes network bandwidth.

2.4. TCP and UDP

TCP is a connection-based protocol, offering error correction and guaranteed delivery of data via what is known as flow control. Flow control determines when the flow of a data stream needs to be stopped, and previously sent data packets should to be re-sent due to problems such as collisions, for example, thus ensuring complete and accurate delivery of the data. TCP is typically used in the exchange of important information such as database transactions. The User Datagram Protocol (UDP), on the other hand, is a connectionless protocol which seldom deals with the transmission of important data because it lacks flow control or any other method to ensure reliable delivery of the data. UDP is commonly used in such applications as audio and video streaming, where it is considerably faster than TCP due to the lack of error correction and flow control, and where the loss of a few packets is not generally catastrophic.

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2.5. ICMP
The Internet Control Messaging Protocol (ICMP) is an extension to the Internet Protocol (IP) as defined in the Request For Comments (RFC) #792 and supports network packets containing control, error, and informational messages. ICMP is used by such network applications as the ping utility, which can determine the availability of a network host or device. Examples of some error messages returned by ICMP which are useful to both network hosts and devices such as routers, include Destination Unreachable and Time Exceeded.

2.6. Daemons
Daemons are special system applications which typically execute continuously in the background and await requests for the functions they provide from other applications. Many daemons are networkcentric; that is, a large number of daemons executing in the background on an Ubuntu system may provide network-related functionality. Some examples of such network daemons include the Hyper Text Transport Protocol Daemon (httpd), which provides web server functionality; the Secure SHell Daemon (sshd), which provides secure remote login shell and file transfer capabilities; and the Internet Message Access Protocol Daemon (imapd), which provides E-Mail services.

2.7. Resources
There are man pages for TCP8 and IP9 that contain more useful information. Also, see the TCP/IP Tutorial and Technical Overview10 IBM Redbook. Another resource is O'Reilly's TCP/IP Network Administration11.

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3. Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a network service that enables host computers to be automatically assigned settings from a server as opposed to manually configuring each network host. Computers configured to be DHCP clients have no control over the settings they receive from the DHCP server, and the configuration is transparent to the computer's user. The most common settings provided by a DHCP server to DHCP clients include: IP address and netmask IP address of the default-gateway to use IP adresses of the DNS servers to use However, a DHCP server can also supply configuration properties such as: Host Name Domain Name Time Server Print Server The advantage of using DHCP is that changes to the network, for example a change in the address of the DNS server, need only be changed at the DHCP server, and all network hosts will be reconfigured the next time their DHCP clients poll the DHCP server. As an added advantage, it is also easier to integrate new computers into the network, as there is no need to check for the availability of an IP address. Conflicts in IP address allocation are also reduced. A DHCP server can provide configuration settings using two methods: MAC Address This method entails using DHCP to identify the unique hardware address of each network card connected to the network and then continually supplying a constant configuration each time the DHCP client makes a request to the DHCP server using that network device. Address Pool This method entails defining a pool (sometimes also called a range or scope) of IP addresses from which DHCP clients are supplied their configuration properties dynamically and on a "first come, first served" basis. When a DHCP client is no longer on the network for a specified period, the configuration is expired and released back to the address pool for use by other DHCP Clients. Ubuntu is shipped with both DHCP server and client. The server is dhcpd (dynamic host configuration protocol daemon). The client provided with Ubuntu is dhclient and should be installed on all computers required to be automatically configured. Both programs are easy to install and configure and will be automatically started at system boot.

3.1. Installation
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sudo apt-get install isc-dhcp-server

You will probably need to change the default configuration by editing /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf to suit your needs and particular configuration. You also may need to edit /etc/default/isc-dhcp-server to specify the interfaces dhcpd should listen to. NOTE: dhcpd's messages are being sent to syslog. Look there for diagnostics messages.

3.2. Configuration
The error message the installation ends with might be a little confusing, but the following steps will help you configure the service: Most commonly, what you want to do is assign an IP address randomly. This can be done with settings as follows:

# minimal sample /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf default-lease-time 600; max-lease-time 7200; subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { range 192.168.1.150 192.168.1.200; option routers 192.168.1.254; option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.1, 192.168.1.2; option domain-name "mydomain.example"; }

This will result in the DHCP server giving clients an IP address from the range 192.168.1.150-192.168.1.200. It will lease an IP address for 600 seconds if the client doesn't ask for a specific time frame. Otherwise the maximum (allowed) lease will be 7200 seconds. The server will also "advise" the client to use 192.168.1.254 as the default-gateway and 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2 as its DNS servers. After changing the config file you have to restart the dhcpd:

sudo /etc/init.d/isc-dhcp-server restart

3.3. References
The dhcp3-server Ubuntu Wiki12 page has more information. For more /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf options see the dhcpd.conf man page13. ISC dhcp-server14

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4. Time Synchronisation with NTP

NTP is a TCP/IP protocol for synchronising time over a network. Basically a client requests the current time from a server, and uses it to set its own clock. Behind this simple description, there is a lot of complexity - there are tiers of NTP servers, with the tier one NTP servers connected to atomic clocks, and tier two and three servers spreading the load of actually handling requests across the Internet. Also the client software is a lot more complex than you might think - it has to factor out communication delays, and adjust the time in a way that does not upset all the other processes that run on the server. But luckily all that complexity is hidden from you! Ubuntu uses ntpdate and ntpd.

4.1. ntpdate
Ubuntu comes with ntpdate as standard, and will run it once at boot time to set up your time according to Ubuntu's NTP server.

ntpdate -s ntp.ubuntu.com

4.2. ntpd
The ntp daemon ntpd calculates the drift of your system clock and continuously adjusts it, so there are no large corrections that could lead to inconsistent logs for instance. The cost is a little processing power and memory, but for a modern server this is negligible.

4.3. Installation
To install ntpd, from a terminal prompt enter:

sudo apt-get install ntp

4.4. Configuration
Edit /etc/ntp.conf to add/remove server lines. By default these servers are configured:

# Use servers from the NTP Pool Project. Approved by Ubuntu Technical Board # on 2011-02-08 (LP: #104525). See http://www.pool.ntp.org/join.html for # more information. server 0.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org server 1.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org server 2.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org server 3.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org

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sudo /etc/init.d/ntp reload

4.5. View status

Use ntpq to see to see more info:

# sudo ntpq -p

remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter ============================================================================== +stratum2-2.NTP. 129.70.130.70 2 u 5 64 377 68.461 -44.274 110.334 +ntp2.m-online.n 212.18.1.106 2 u 5 64 377 54.629 -27.318 78.882 *145.253.66.170 .DCFa. 1 u 10 64 377 83.607 -30.159 68.343 +stratum2-3.NTP. 129.70.130.70 +europium.canoni 193.79.237.14 2 u 2 u 5 63 64 64 357 337 68.795 81.534 -68.168 104.612 -67.968 92.792

4.6. References
See the Ubuntu Time15 wiki page for more information. ntp.org, home of the Network Time Protocol project16

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There are many ways to remotely administer a Linux server. This chapter will cover one of the most popular OpenSSH, and one of the most growing usage Puppet .

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1. OpenSSH Server
1.1. Introduction
This section of the Ubuntu Server Guide introduces a powerful collection of tools for the remote control of networked computers and transfer of data between networked computers, called OpenSSH. You will also learn about some of the configuration settings possible with the OpenSSH server application and how to change them on your Ubuntu system. OpenSSH is a freely available version of the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol family of tools for remotely controlling a computer or transferring files between computers. Traditional tools used to accomplish these functions, such as telnet or rcp, are insecure and transmit the user's password in cleartext when used. OpenSSH provides a server daemon and client tools to facilitate secure, encrypted remote control and file transfer operations, effectively replacing the legacy tools. The OpenSSH server component, sshd, listens continuously for client connections from any of the client tools. When a connection request occurs, sshd sets up the correct connection depending on the type of client tool connecting. For example, if the remote computer is connecting with the ssh client application, the OpenSSH server sets up a remote control session after authentication. If a remote user connects to an OpenSSH server with scp, the OpenSSH server daemon initiates a secure copy of files between the server and client after authentication. OpenSSH can use many authentication methods, including plain password, public key, and Kerberos tickets.

1.2. Installation
Installation of the OpenSSH client and server applications is simple. To install the OpenSSH client applications on your Ubuntu system, use this command at a terminal prompt:
sudo apt-get install openssh-client

To install the OpenSSH server application, and related support files, use this command at a terminal prompt:
sudo apt-get install openssh-server

The openssh-server package can also be selected to install during the Server Edition installation process.

1.3. Configuration
You may configure the default behavior of the OpenSSH server application, sshd, by editing the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config. For information about the configuration directives used in this file, you may view the appropriate manual page with the following command, issued at a terminal prompt:
man sshd_config

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Remote Administration There are many directives in the sshd configuration file controlling such things as communication settings and authentication modes. The following are examples of configuration directives that can be changed by editing the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file. Prior to editing the configuration file, you should make a copy of the original file and protect it from writing so you will have the original settings as a reference and to reuse as necessary. Copy the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file and protect it from writing with the following commands, issued at a terminal prompt:

sudo cp /etc/ssh/sshd_config /etc/ssh/sshd_config.original sudo chmod a-w /etc/ssh/sshd_config.original

The following are examples of configuration directives you may change: To set your OpenSSH to listen on TCP port 2222 instead of the default TCP port 22, change the Port directive as such: Port 2222 To have sshd allow public key-based login credentials, simply add or modify the line: PubkeyAuthentication yes In the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file, or if already present, ensure the line is not commented out. To make your OpenSSH server display the contents of the /etc/issue.net file as a pre-login banner, simply add or modify the line: Banner /etc/issue.net In the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file. After making changes to the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file, save the file, and restart the sshd server application to effect the changes using the following command at a terminal prompt:
sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart

Many other configuration directives for sshd are available for changing the server application's behavior to fit your needs. Be advised, however, if your only method of access to a server is ssh, and you make a mistake in configuring sshd via the /etc/ssh/ sshd_config file, you may find you are locked out of the server upon restarting it, or that the sshd server refuses to start due to an incorrect configuration directive, so be extra careful when editing this file on a remote server.

1.4. SSH Keys

SSH keys allow authentication between two hosts without the need of a password. SSH key authentication uses two keys a private key and a public key.

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ssh-keygen -t dsa

This will generate the keys using a DSA authentication identity of the user. During the process you will be prompted for a password. Simply hit Enter when prompted to create the key. By default the public key is saved in the file ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub, while ~/.ssh/id_dsa is the private key. Now copy the id_dsa.pub file to the remote host and append it to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys by entering:

ssh-copy-id username@remotehost

Finally, double check the permissions on the authorized_keys file, only the authenticated user should have read and write permissions. If the permissions are not correct change them by:

chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys

You should now be able to SSH to the host without being prompted for a password.

1.5. References
Ubuntu Wiki SSH1 page. OpenSSH Website2 Advanced OpenSSH Wiki Page3

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2. Puppet
Puppet is a cross platform framework enabling system administrators to perform common tasks using code. The code can do a variety of tasks from installing new software, to checking file permissions, or updating user accounts. Puppet is great not only during the initial installation of a system, but also throughout the system's entire life cycle. In most circumstances puppet will be used in a client/server configuration. This section will cover installing and configuring Puppet in a client/server configuration. This simple example will demonstrate how to install Apache using Puppet.

2.1. Installation
To install Puppet, in a terminal on the server enter:

sudo apt-get install puppetmaster

On the client machine, or machines, enter:

sudo apt-get install puppet

2.2. Configuration
Prior to configuring puppet you may want to add a DNS CNAME record for puppet.example.com, where example.com is your domain. By default Puppet clients check DNS for puppet.example.com as the puppet server name, or Puppet Master. See Chapter 7, Domain Name Service (DNS) [p. 97] for more DNS details. If you do not wish to use DNS, you can add entries to the server and client /etc/hosts file. For example, in the Puppet server's /etc/hosts file add:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost puppet 192.168.1.17 meercat02.example.com meercat02

On each Puppet client, add an entry for the server:

192.168.1.16 meercat.example.com meercat puppet

Replace the example IP addresses and domain names above with your actual server and client addresses and domain names. Now setup some resources for apache2. Create a file /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp containing the following:

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package { 'apache2': ensure => installed } service { 'apache2': ensure => true, enable => true, require => Package['apache2'] }

Next, create a node file /etc/puppet/manifests/nodes.pp with:

node 'meercat02.example.com' { include apache2 }

Replace meercat02.example.com with your actual Puppet client's host name.

The final step for this simple Puppet server is to restart the daemon:

sudo /etc/init.d/puppetmaster restart

Now everything is configured on the Puppet server, it is time to configure the client. First, configure the Puppetagent daemon to start. Edit /etc/default/puppet, changing START to yes:

START=yes

Then start the service:

sudo /etc/init.d/puppet start

Back on the Puppet server sign the client certificate by entering:

sudo puppetca --sign meercat02.example.com

Check /var/log/syslog for any errors with the configuration. If all goes well the apache2 package and it's dependencies will be installed on the Puppet client. This example is very simple, and does not highlight many of Puppet's features and benefits. For more information see Section 2.3, Resources [p. 51].

2.3. Resources
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This section applies LDAP to network authentication.

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1. OpenLDAP Server
The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, or LDAP, is a protocol for querying and modifying a X.500-based directory service running over TCP/IP. The current LDAP version is LDAPv3, as defined in RFC45101, and the LDAP implementation used in Ubuntu is OpenLDAP, currently at version 2.4.25 (Oneiric). So this protocol accesses LDAP directories. Here are some key concepts and terms: A LDAP directory is a tree of data entries that is hierarchical in nature and is called the Directory Information Tree (DIT). An entry consists of a set of attributes. An attribute has a type (a name/description) and one or more values. Every attribute must be defined in at least one objectClass. Attributes and objectclasses are defined in schemas (an objectclass is actually considered as a special kind of attribute). Each entry has a unique identifier: it's Distinguished Name (DN or dn). This consists of it's Relative Distinguished Name (RDN) followed by the parent entry's DN. The entry's DN is not an attribute. It is not considered part of the entry itself. The terms object, container, and node have certain connotations but they all essentially mean the same thing as entry, the technically correct term. For example, below we have a single entry consisting of 11 attributes. It's DN is "cn=John Doe,dc=example,dc=com"; it's RDN is "cn=John Doe"; and it's parent DN is "dc=example,dc=com".
dn: cn=John Doe,dc=example,dc=com cn: John Doe givenName: John sn: Doe telephoneNumber: +1 888 555 6789 telephoneNumber: +1 888 555 1232 mail: [email protected] manager: cn=Larry Smith,dc=example,dc=com objectClass: inetOrgPerson objectClass: organizationalPerson objectClass: person objectClass: top

The above entry is in LDIF format (LDAP Data Interchange Format). Any information that you feed into your DIT must also be in such a format. It is defined in RFC28492. Although this guide will describe how to use it for central authentication, LDAP is good for anything that involves a large number of access requests to a mostly-read, attribute-based (name:value)
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1.1. Installation
Install the OpenLDAP server daemon and the traditional LDAP management utilities. These are found in packages slapd and ldap-utils respectively. The installation of slapd will create a working configuration. In particular, it will create a database instance that you can use to store your data. However, the suffix (or base DN) of this instance will be determined from the domain name of the localhost. If you want something different, edit /etc/hosts and replace the domain name with one that will give you the suffix you desire. For instance, if you want a suffix of dc=example,dc=com then your file would have a line similar to this:

127.0.1.1

hostname.example.com hostname

You can revert the change after package installation. This guide will use a database suffix of dc=example,dc=com.

Proceed with the install:

sudo apt-get install slapd ldap-utils

Since Ubuntu 8.10 slapd is designed to be configured within slapd itself by dedicating a separate DIT for that purpose. This allows one to dynamically configure slapd without the need to restart the service. This configuration database consists of a collection of text-based LDIF files located under / etc/ldap/slapd.d. This way of working is known by several names: the slapd-config method, the RTC method (Real Time Configuration), or the cn=config method. You can still use the traditional flat-file method (slapd.conf) but it's not recommended; the functionality will be eventually phased out. Ubuntu now uses the slapd-config method for slapd configuration and this guide reflects that. During the install you were prompted to define administrative credentials. These are LDAPbased credentials for the rootDN of your database instance. By default, this user's DN is cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com. Also by default, there is no administrative account created for the slapd-config database and you will therefore need to authenticate externally to LDAP in order to access it. We will see how to do this later on. Some classical schemas (cosine, nis, inetorgperson) come built-in with slapd nowadays. There is also an included "core" schema, a pre-requisite for any schema to work.

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1.2. Post-install Inspection

The installation process set up 2 DITs. One for slapd-config and one for your own data (dc=example,dc=com). Let's take a look. This is what the slapd-config database/DIT looks like. Recall that this database is LDIF-based and lives under /etc/ldap/slapd.d:

/etc/ldap/slapd.d/

### cn=config # # # # # # # # # # # ### cn=module{0}.ldif ### cn=schema # # # # ### cn={0}core.ldif ### cn={1}cosine.ldif ### cn={2}nis.ldif ### cn={3}inetorgperson.ldif

### cn=schema.ldif ### olcBackend={0}hdb.ldif ### olcDatabase={0}config.ldif ### olcDatabase={-1}frontend.ldif ### olcDatabase={1}hdb.ldif

### cn=config.ldif

Do not edit the slapd-config database directly. Make changes via the LDAP protocol (utilities). This is what the slapd-config DIT looks like via the LDAP protocol:

sudo ldapsearch -Q -LLL -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -b cn=config dn

dn: cn=config

dn: cn=module{0},cn=config

dn: cn=schema,cn=config

dn: cn={0}core,cn=schema,cn=config

dn: cn={1}cosine,cn=schema,cn=config

dn: cn={2}nis,cn=schema,cn=config

dn: cn={3}inetorgperson,cn=schema,cn=config

dn: olcBackend={0}hdb,cn=config

dn: olcDatabase={-1}frontend,cn=config

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dn: olcDatabase={0}config,cn=config

dn: olcDatabase={1}hdb,cn=config

Explanation of entries: cn=config: global settings cn=module{0},cn=config: a dynamically loaded module cn=schema,cn=config: contains hard-coded system-level schema cn={0}core,cn=schema,cn=config: the hard-coded core schema cn={1}cosine,cn=schema,cn=config: the cosine schema cn={2}nis,cn=schema,cn=config: the nis schema cn={3}inetorgperson,cn=schema,cn=config: the inetorgperson schema olcBackend={0}hdb,cn=config: the 'hdb' backend storage type olcDatabase={-1}frontend,cn=config: frontend database, default settings for other databases olcDatabase={0}config,cn=config: slapd configuration database (cn=config) olcDatabase={1}hdb,cn=config: your database instance (dc=examle,dc=com) This is what the dc=example,dc=com DIT looks like:

ldapsearch -x -LLL -H ldap:/// -b dc=example,dc=com dn

dn: dc=example,dc=com

dn: cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com

Explanation of entries: dc=example,dc=com: base of the DIT cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com: administrator (rootDN) for this DIT (set up during package install)

1.3. Modifying/Populating your Database

Let's introduce some content to our database. We will add the following: a node called People (to store users) a node called Groups (to store groups) a group called miners a user called john Create the following LDIF file and call it add_content.ldif:

dn: ou=People,dc=example,dc=com

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objectClass: organizationalUnit ou: People dn: ou=Groups,dc=example,dc=com objectClass: organizationalUnit ou: Groups dn: cn=miners,ou=Groups,dc=example,dc=com objectClass: posixGroup cn: miners gidNumber: 5000 dn: uid=john,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com objectClass: inetOrgPerson objectClass: posixAccount objectClass: shadowAccount uid: john sn: Doe givenName: John cn: John Doe displayName: John Doe uidNumber: 10000 gidNumber: 5000 userPassword: johnldap gecos: John Doe loginShell: /bin/bash homeDirectory: /home/john

It's important that uid and gid values in your directory do not collide with local values. Use high number ranges. Add the content:

ldapadd -x -D cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com -W -f add_content.ldif

Enter LDAP Password: ******** adding new entry "ou=People,dc=example,dc=com"

adding new entry "ou=Groups,dc=example,dc=com"

adding new entry "cn=miners,ou=Groups,dc=example,dc=com"

adding new entry "uid=john,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com"

We can check that the information has been correctly added with the ldapsearch utility:

ldapsearch -x -LLL -b dc=example,dc=com 'uid=john' cn gidNumber

dn: uid=john,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com cn: John Doe

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gidNumber: 5000

Explanation of switches: -x: "simple" binding; will not use the default SASL method -LLL: disable printing extraneous information uid=john: a "filter" to find the john user cn gidNumber: requests certain attributes to be displayed (the default is to show all attributes)

1.4. Modifying the slapd Configuration Database

The slapd-config DIT can also be queried and modified. Here are a few examples. Use ldapmodify to add an "Index" (DbIndex attribute) to your {1}hdb,cn=config database (dc=example,dc=com). Create a file, call it uid_index.ldif, with the following contents:
dn: olcDatabase={1}hdb,cn=config add: olcDbIndex olcDbIndex: uid eq,pres,sub

Then issue the command:

sudo ldapmodify -Q -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -f uid_index.ldif
modifying entry "olcDatabase={1}hdb,cn=config"

You can confirm the change in this way:

sudo ldapsearch -Q -LLL -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -b cn=config '(olcDatabase={1}hdb)' olcDbIndex
dn: olcDatabase={1}hdb,cn=config olcDbIndex: objectClass eq olcDbIndex: uid eq,pres,sub

Let's add a schema. It will first need to be converted to LDIF format. You can find unconverted schemas in addition to converted ones in the /etc/ldap/schema directory. It is not trivial to remove a schema from the slapd-config database. Practice adding schemas on a test system. In the following example we'll add the CORBA schema. 1. Create the conversion configuration file schema_convert.conf containing the following lines:
include /etc/ldap/schema/core.schema include /etc/ldap/schema/collective.schema

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include /etc/ldap/schema/corba.schema include /etc/ldap/schema/cosine.schema include /etc/ldap/schema/duaconf.schema include /etc/ldap/schema/dyngroup.schema include /etc/ldap/schema/inetorgperson.schema include /etc/ldap/schema/java.schema include /etc/ldap/schema/misc.schema include /etc/ldap/schema/nis.schema include /etc/ldap/schema/openldap.schema include /etc/ldap/schema/ppolicy.schema include /etc/ldap/schema/ldapns.schema include /etc/ldap/schema/pmi.schema

2. 3.

Create the output directory ldif_output. Determine the index of the schema:

slapcat -f schema_convert.conf -F ldif_output -n 0 | grep corba,cn=schema

cn={1}corba,cn=schema,cn=config

When slapd injests objects with the same parent DN it will create an index for that object. An index is contained within braces: {X}. 4. Use slapcat to perform the conversion:

slapcat -f schema_convert.conf -F ldif_output -n0 -H ldap:///cn={1}corba,cn=schema,cn=config

The converted schema is now in cn=corba.ldif 5. Edit cn=corba.ldif to arrive at the following attributes:

dn: cn=corba,cn=schema,cn=config ... cn: corba

Also remove the following lines from the bottom:

structuralObjectClass: olcSchemaConfig entryUUID: 52109a02-66ab-1030-8be2-bbf166230478 creatorsName: cn=config createTimestamp: 20110829165435Z entryCSN: 20110829165435.935248Z#000000#000#000000 modifiersName: cn=config modifyTimestamp: 20110829165435Z

Your attribute values will vary. 6. Finally, use ldapadd to add the new schema to the slapd-config DIT: 60

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sudo ldapadd -Q -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -f cn\=corba.ldif
adding new entry "cn=corba,cn=schema,cn=config"

7.

Confirm currently loaded schemas:

sudo ldapsearch -Q -LLL -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -b cn=schema,cn=config dn

dn: cn=schema,cn=config

dn: cn={0}core,cn=schema,cn=config

dn: cn={1}cosine,cn=schema,cn=config

dn: cn={2}nis,cn=schema,cn=config

dn: cn={3}inetorgperson,cn=schema,cn=config

dn: cn={4}corba,cn=schema,cn=config

For external applications and clients to authenticate using LDAP they will each need to be specifically configured to do so. Refer to the appropriate client-side documentation for details.

1.5. Logging
Activity logging for slapd is indispensible when implementing an OpenLDAP-based solution yet it must be manually enabled after software installation. Otherwise, only rudimentary messages will appear in the logs. Logging, like any other slapd configuration, is enabled via the slapd-config database. OpenLDAP comes with multiple logging subsystems (levels) with each one containing the lower one (additive). A good level to try is stats. The slapd-config3 man page has more to say on the different subsystems. Create the file logging.ldif with the following contents:

dn: cn=config changetype: modify add: olcLogLevel olcLogLevel: stats

Implement the change:

sudo ldapmodify -Q -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -f logging.ldif

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rsyslogd-2177: imuxsock lost 228 messages from pid 2547 due to rate-limiting

You may consider a change to rsyslog's configuration. In /etc/rsyslog.conf, put:

# Disable rate limiting (default is 200 messages in 5 seconds; below we make the 5 become 0) $SystemLogRateLimitInterval 0

And then restart the rsyslog daemon:

sudo service rsyslog restart

1.6. Replication
The LDAP service becomes increasingly important as more networked systems begin to depend on it. In such an environment, it is standard practice to build redundancy (high availability) into LDAP to prevent havoc should the LDAP server become unresponsive. This is done through LDAP replication. Replication is achieved via the Syncrepl engine. This allows changes to be synchronized using a Consumer - Provider model. The specific kind of replication we will implement in this guide is a combination of the following modes: refreshAndPersist and delta-syncrepl. This has the Provider push changed entries to the Consumer as soon as they're made but, in addition, only actual changes will be sent, not entire entries. 1.6.1. Provider Configuration Begin by configuring the Provider. 1. Create an LDIF file with the following contents and name it provider_sync.ldif:

# Add indexes to the frontend db. dn: olcDatabase={1}hdb,cn=config changetype: modify add: olcDbIndex olcDbIndex: entryCSN eq add: olcDbIndex olcDbIndex: entryUUID eq #Load the syncprov and accesslog modules. dn: cn=module{0},cn=config changetype: modify add: olcModuleLoad olcModuleLoad: syncprov

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add: olcModuleLoad olcModuleLoad: accesslog # Accesslog database definitions dn: olcDatabase={2}hdb,cn=config objectClass: olcDatabaseConfig objectClass: olcHdbConfig olcDatabase: {2}hdb olcDbDirectory: /var/lib/ldap/accesslog olcSuffix: cn=accesslog olcRootDN: cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com olcDbIndex: default eq olcDbIndex: entryCSN,objectClass,reqEnd,reqResult,reqStart # Accesslog db syncprov. dn: olcOverlay=syncprov,olcDatabase={2}hdb,cn=config changetype: add objectClass: olcOverlayConfig objectClass: olcSyncProvConfig olcOverlay: syncprov olcSpNoPresent: TRUE olcSpReloadHint: TRUE # syncrepl Provider for primary db dn: olcOverlay=syncprov,olcDatabase={1}hdb,cn=config changetype: add objectClass: olcOverlayConfig objectClass: olcSyncProvConfig olcOverlay: syncprov olcSpNoPresent: TRUE # accesslog overlay definitions for primary db dn: olcOverlay=accesslog,olcDatabase={1}hdb,cn=config objectClass: olcOverlayConfig objectClass: olcAccessLogConfig olcOverlay: accesslog olcAccessLogDB: cn=accesslog olcAccessLogOps: writes olcAccessLogSuccess: TRUE # scan the accesslog DB every day, and purge entries older than 7 days olcAccessLogPurge: 07+00:00 01+00:00

Change the rootDN in the LDIF file to match the one you have for your directory. 2. The apparmor profile for slapd will need to be adjusted for the accesslog database location. Edit /etc/apparmor.d/local/usr.sbin.slapd by adding the following:

/var/lib/ldap/accesslog/ r, /var/lib/ldap/accesslog/** rwk,

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sudo -u openldap mkdir /var/lib/ldap/accesslog sudo -u openldap cp /var/lib/ldap/DB_CONFIG /var/lib/ldap/accesslog sudo service apparmor reload

3.

Add the new content and, due to the apparmor change, restart the daemon:

sudo ldapadd -Q -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -f provider_sync.ldif sudo service slapd restart

The Provider is now configured. 1.6.2. Consumer Configuration And now configure the Consumer. 1. Install the software by going through Section 1.1, Installation [p. 55]. Make sure the slapd-config databse is identical to the Provider's. In particular, make sure schemas and the databse suffix are the same. 2. Create an LDIF file with the following contents and name it consumer_sync.ldif:

dn: cn=module{0},cn=config changetype: modify add: olcModuleLoad olcModuleLoad: syncprov dn: olcDatabase={1}hdb,cn=config changetype: modify add: olcDbIndex olcDbIndex: entryUUID eq add: olcSyncRepl credentials=secret searchbase="dc=example,dc=com" logbase="cn=accesslog" logfilter="(&(objectClass=auditWriteObject)(reqResult=0))" schemachecking=on type=refreshAndPersist retry="60 +" syncdata=accesslog add: olcUpdateRef olcUpdateRef: ldap://ldap01.example.com

olcSyncRepl: rid=0 provider=ldap://ldap01.example.com bindmethod=simple binddn="cn=admin,dc=exa

Ensure the following attributes have the correct values: ldap01.example.com (Provider server's hostname or IP address) binddn (the admin DN you're using) credentials (the admin DN password you're using) searchbase (the database suffix you're using) olcUpdateRef: (Provider server's hostname or IP address) 64

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sudo ldapadd -Q -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -f consumer_sync.ldif

You're done. The two databases (suffix: dc=example,dc=com) should now be synchronizing. To test if it worked simply query, on the Consumer, the DNs in the database:

sudo ldapsearch -Q -LLL -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -b dc=example,dc=com dn

You should see the user 'john' and the group 'miners' as well as the nodes 'People' and 'Groups'.

1.7. Access Control

The management of what type of access (read, write, etc) users should be granted to resources is known as access control. The configuration directives involved are called access control lists or ACL. When we installed the slapd package various ACL were set up automatically. We will look at a few important consequences of those defaults and, in so doing, we'll get an idea of how ACLs work and how they're configured. To get the effective ACL for an LDAP query we need to look at the ACL entries of the database being queried as well as those of the special frontend database instance. The ACLs belonging to the latter act as defaults in case those of the former do not match. The frontend database is the second to be consulted and the ACL to be applied is the first to match ("first match wins") among these 2 ACL sources. The following commands will give, respectively, the ACLs of the hdb database ("dc=example,dc=com") and those of the frontend database:

sudo ldapsearch -Q -LLL -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -b cn=config '(olcDatabase={1}hdb)' olcAccess

dn: olcDatabase={1}hdb,cn=config

olcAccess: {0}to attrs=userPassword,shadowLastChange by self write by anonymous auth by dn="cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com" writ olcAccess: {1}to dn.base="" by * read olcAccess: {2}to * by self write by dn="cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com" write by * read

The rootDN always has full rights to it's database. Including it in an ACL does provide an explicit configuration but it also causes slapd to incure a performance penalty.

sudo ldapsearch -Q -LLL -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -b cn=config '(olcDatabase={-1}frontend)' olcAccess

dn: olcDatabase={-1}frontend,cn=config olcAccess: {0}to * by dn.exact=gidNumber=0+uidNumber=0,cn=peercred,cn=external,cn=auth manage by * break olcAccess: {1}to dn.exact="" by * read olcAccess: {2}to dn.base="cn=Subschema" by * read

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The very first ACL is crucial:

olcAccess: {0}to attrs=userPassword,shadowLastChange by self write by anonymous auth by dn="cn=admin

This can be represented differently for easier digestion:

to attrs=userPassword by self write by anonymous auth by dn="cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com" write by * none to attrs=shadowLastChange by self write by anonymous auth by dn="cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com" write by * none

This compound ACL (there are 2) enforces the following: Anonymous 'auth' access is provided to the userPassword attribute for the initial connection to occur. Perhaps counter-intuitively, 'by anonymous auth' is needed even when anonymous access to the DIT is unwanted. Once the remote end is connected, howerver, authentication can occur (see next point). Authentication can happen because all users have 'read' (due to 'by self write') access to the userPassword attribute. The userPassword attribute is otherwise unaccessible by all other users, with the exception of the rootDN, who has complete access to it. In order for users to change their own password, using passwd or other utilities, the shadowLastChange attribute needs to be accessible once a user has authenticated. This DIT can be searched anonymously because of 'by * read' in this ACL:

to * by self write by dn="cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com" write by * read

If this is unwanted then you need to change the ACLs. To force authentication during a bind request you can alternatively (or in combination with the modified ACL) use the 'olcRequire: authc' directive. As previously mentioned, there is no administrative account created for the slapd-config database. There is, however, a SASL identity that is granted full access to it. It represents the localhost's superuser (root/sudo). Here it is: 66

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dn.exact=gidNumber=0+uidNumber=0,cn=peercred,cn=external,cn=auth

The following command will display the ACLs of the slapd-config database:

sudo ldapsearch -Q -LLL -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -b cn=config '(olcDatabase={0}config)' olcAccess

dn: olcDatabase={0}config,cn=config olcAccess: {0}to * by dn.exact=gidNumber=0+uidNumber=0,cn=peercred,cn=external,cn=auth manage by * break

Since this is a SASL identity we need to use a SASL mechanism when invoking the LDAP utility in question and and we have seen it plenty of times in this guide. It is the EXTERNAL mechanism. See the previous command for an example. Note that: 1. 2. You must use sudo to become the root identity in order for the ACL to match. The EXTERNAL mechanism works via IPC (UNIX domain sockets). This means you must use the ldapi URI format.

A succinct way to get all the ACLs is like this:

sudo ldapsearch -Q -LLL -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -b cn=config '(olcAccess=*)' olcAccess olcSuffix

There is much to say on the topic of access control. See the man page for slapd.access4.

1.8. TLS
When authenticating to an OpenLDAP server it is best to do so using an encrypted session. This can be accomplished using Transport Layer Security (TLS). Here, we will be our own Certificate Authority and then create and sign our LDAP server certificate as that CA. Since slapd is compiled using the gnutls library, we will use the certtool utility to complete these tasks. 1. Install the gnutls-bin and gnutls-bin packages:

sudo apt-get install gnutls-bin ssl-cert

2.

Create a private key for the Certificate Authority:

sudo sh -c "certtool --generate-privkey > /etc/ssl/private/cakey.pem"

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Create the template/file /etc/ssl/ca.info to define the CA:

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cn = Example Company ca cert_signing_key

4.

Create the self-signed CA certificate:

sudo certtool --generate-self-signed \ --load-privkey /etc/ssl/private/cakey.pem \ --template /etc/ssl/ca.info \ --outfile /etc/ssl/certs/cacert.pem

5.

Make a private key for the server:

sudo certtool --generate-privkey \ --bits 1024 \ --outfile /etc/ssl/private/ldap01_slapd_key.pem

Replace ldap01 in the filename with your server's hostname. Naming the certificate and key for the host and service that will be using them will help keep things clear. 6. Create the /etc/ssl/ldap01.info info file containing:

organization = Example Company cn = ldap01.example.com tls_www_server encryption_key signing_key expiration_days = 3650

The above certificate is good for 10 years. Adjust accordingly. 7. Create the server's certificate:

sudo certtool --generate-certificate \ --load-privkey /etc/ssl/private/ldap01_slapd_key.pem \ --load-ca-certificate /etc/ssl/certs/cacert.pem \ --load-ca-privkey /etc/ssl/private/cakey.pem \ --template /etc/ssl/ldap01.info \ --outfile /etc/ssl/certs/ldap01_slapd_cert.pem

Create the file certinfo.ldif with the following contents (adjust accordingly):

dn: cn=config add: olcTLSCACertificateFile olcTLSCACertificateFile: /etc/ssl/certs/cacert.pem add: olcTLSCertificateFile olcTLSCertificateFile: /etc/ssl/certs/ldap01_slapd_cert.pem -

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add: olcTLSCertificateKeyFile olcTLSCertificateKeyFile: /etc/ssl/private/ldap01_slapd_key.pem

Use the ldapmodify command to tell slapd about our TLS work via the slapd-config database:

sudo ldapmodify -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -f /etc/ssl/certinfo.ldif

Contratry to popular belief, you do not need ldaps:// in /etc/default/slapd in order to use encryption. You should have just:

SLAPD_SERVICES="ldap:/// ldapi:///"

LDAP over TLS/SSL (ldaps://) is deprecated in favour of StartTLS. The latter refers to an existing LDAP session (listening on TCP port 389) becoming protected by TLS/SSL whereas LDAPS, like HTTPS, is a distinct encrypted-from-the-start protocol that operates over TCP port 636. Tighten up ownership and permissions:

sudo adduser openldap ssl-cert sudo chgrp ssl-cert /etc/ssl/private/ldap01_slapd_key.pem sudo chmod g+r /etc/ssl/private/ldap01_slapd_key.pem sudo chmod o-r /etc/ssl/private/ldap01_slapd_key.pem

Restart OpenLDAP:

sudo service slapd restart

Check your host's logs (/var/log/syslog) to see if the server has started properly.

1.9. Replication and TLS

If you have set up replication between servers, it is common practice to encrypt (StartTLS) the replication traffic to prevent evesdropping. This is distinct from using encryption with authentication as we did above. In this section we will build on that TLS-authentication work. The assumption here is that you have set up replication between Provider and Consumer according to Section 1.6, Replication [p. 62] and have configured TLS for authentication on the Provider by following Section 1.8, TLS [p. 67]. As previously stated, the objective (for us) with replication is high availablity for the LDAP service. Since we have TLS for authentication on the Provider we will require the same on the Consumer. In addition to this, however, we want to encrypt replication traffic. What remains to be done is to create a key and certificate for the Consumer and then configure accordingly. We will generate the key/certificate on the Provider, to avoid having to create another CA certificate, and then transfer the necessary material over to the Consumer. 69

Network Authentication 1. On the Provider, Create a holding directory (which will be used for the eventual transfer) and then the Consumer's private key:

mkdir ldap02-ssl cd ldap02-ssl sudo certtool --generate-privkey \ --bits 1024 \ --outfile ldap02_slapd_key.pem

Create an info file, ldap02.info, for the Consumer server, adjusting it's values accordingly:

organization = Example Company cn = ldap02.example.com tls_www_server encryption_key signing_key expiration_days = 3650

Create the Consumer's certificate:

sudo certtool --generate-certificate \ --load-privkey ldap02_slapd_key.pem \ --load-ca-certificate /etc/ssl/certs/cacert.pem \ --load-ca-privkey /etc/ssl/private/cakey.pem \ --template ldap02.info \ --outfile ldap02_slapd_cert.pem

Get a copy of the CA certificate:

cp /etc/ssl/certs/cacert.pem .

We're done. Now transfer the ldap02-ssl directory to the Consumer. Here we use scp (adjust accordingly):

cd .. scp -r ldap02-ssl user@consumer:

2.

On the Consumer, Configure TLS authentication:

sudo apt-get install ssl-cert sudo adduser openldap ssl-cert sudo cp ldap02_slapd_cert.pem cacert.pem /etc/ssl/certs sudo cp ldap02_slapd_key.pem /etc/ssl/private sudo chgrp ssl-cert /etc/ssl/private/ldap02_slapd_key.pem

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sudo chmod g+r /etc/ssl/private/ldap02_slapd_key.pem sudo chmod o-r /etc/ssl/private/ldap02_slapd_key.pem

Create the file /etc/ssl/certinfo.ldif with the following contents (adjust accordingly):

dn: cn=config add: olcTLSCACertificateFile olcTLSCACertificateFile: /etc/ssl/certs/cacert.pem add: olcTLSCertificateFile olcTLSCertificateFile: /etc/ssl/certs/ldap02_slapd_cert.pem add: olcTLSCertificateKeyFile olcTLSCertificateKeyFile: /etc/ssl/private/ldap02_slapd_key.pem

Configure the slapd-config database:

sudo ldapmodify -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -f certinfo.ldif

Configure /etc/default/slapd as on the Provider (SLAPD_SERVICES). 3. On the Consumer, Configure TLS for Consumer-side replication. Modify the existing olcSyncrepl attribute by tacking on some TLS options. In so doing, we will see, for the first time, how to change an attribute's value(s). Create the file consumer_sync_tls.ldif with the following contents:

dn: olcDatabase={1}hdb,cn=config replace: olcSyncRepl olcSyncRepl: rid=0 provider=ldap://ldap01.example.com bindmethod=simple binddn="cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com" credentials=secret searchbase="dc=example,dc=com" logbase="cn=accesslog" logfilter="(&(objectClass=auditWriteObject)(reqResult=0))" schemachecking=on type=refreshAndPersist retry="60 +" syncdata=accesslog starttls=critical tls_reqcert=demand

The extra options specify, respectively, that the consumer must use StartTLS and that the CA certificate is required to verify the Provider's identity. Also note the LDIF syntax for changing the values of an attribute ('replace'). Implement these changes:

sudo ldapmodify -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -f consumer_sync_tls.ldif

And restart slapd:

sudo service slapd restart

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slapd[3620]: conn=1047 fd=20 ACCEPT from IP=10.153.107.229:57922 (IP=0.0.0.0:389) slapd[3620]: conn=1047 op=0 EXT oid=1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.20037 slapd[3620]: conn=1047 op=0 STARTTLS slapd[3620]: slapd[3620]: slapd[3620]: slapd[3620]: conn=1047 conn=1047 conn=1047 conn=1047 op=0 RESULT oid= err=0 text= fd=20 TLS established tls_ssf=128 ssf=128 op=1 BIND dn="cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com" method=128 op=1 BIND dn="cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com" mech=SIMPLE ssf=0

slapd[3620]: conn=1047 op=1 RESULT tag=97 err=0 text

1.10. LDAP Authentication

Once you have a working LDAP server, you will need to install libraries on the client that will know how and when to contact it. On Ubuntu, this has been traditionally accomplishd by installing the libnss-ldap package. This package will bring in other tools that will assist you in the configuration step. Install this package now:

sudo apt-get install libnss-ldap

You will be prompted for details of your LDAP server. If you make a mistake you can try again using:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure ldap-auth-config

The results of the dialog can be seen in /etc/ldap.conf. If your server requires options not covered in the menu edit this file accordingly. Now configure the LDAP profile for NSS:

sudo auth-client-config -t nss -p lac_ldap

Configure the system to use LDAP for authentication:

sudo pam-auth-update

From the menu, choose LDAP and any other authentication mechanisms you need. You should now be able to log in using LDAP-based credentials. LDAP clients will need to refer to multiple servers if replication is in use. In /etc/ldap.conf you would have something like:

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uri ldap://ldap01.example.com ldap://ldap02.example.com

The request will time out and the Consumer (ldap02) will attempt to be reached if the Provider (ldap01) becomes unresponsive. If you are going to use LDAP to store Samba users you will need to configure the Samba server to authenticate using LDAP. See Section 2, Samba and LDAP [p. 78] for details. An alternative to the libnss-ldap package is the libnss-ldapd package. This, however, will bring in the nscd package which is problably not wanted. Simply remove it afterwards.

1.11. User and Group Management

The ldap-utils package comes with enough utilities to manage the directory but the long string of options needed can make them a burden to use. The ldapscripts package contains wrapper scripts to these utilities that some people find easier to use. Install the package:

sudo apt-get install ldapscripts

Then edit the file /etc/ldapscripts/ldapscripts.conf to arrive at something similar to the following:

SERVER=localhost BINDDN='cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com' BINDPWDFILE="/etc/ldapscripts/ldapscripts.passwd" SUFFIX='dc=example,dc=com' GSUFFIX='ou=Groups' USUFFIX='ou=People' MSUFFIX='ou=Computers' GIDSTART=10000 UIDSTART=10000 MIDSTART=10000

Now, create the ldapscripts.passwd file to allow rootDN access to the directory:

sudo sh -c "echo -n 'secret' > /etc/ldapscripts/ldapscripts.passwd" sudo chmod 400 /etc/ldapscripts/ldapscripts.passwd

Replace secret with the actual password for your database's rootDN user.

The scripts are now ready to help manage your directory. Here are some examples of how to use them: Create a new user:

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sudo ldapadduser george example

This will create a user with uid george and set the user's primary group (gid) to example Change a user's password:

sudo ldapsetpasswd george

Changing password for user uid=george,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com New Password: New Password (verify):

Delete a user:

sudo ldapdeleteuser george

Add a group:

sudo ldapaddgroup qa

Delete a group:

sudo ldapdeletegroup qa

Add a user to a group:

sudo ldapaddusertogroup george qa

You should now see a memberUid attribute for the qa group with a value of george. Remove a user from a group:

sudo ldapdeleteuserfromgroup george qa

The memberUid attribute should now be removed from the qa group. The ldapmodifyuser script allows you to add, remove, or replace a user's attributes. The script uses the same syntax as the ldapmodify utility. For example:

sudo ldapmodifyuser george

# About to modify the following entry : dn: uid=george,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com objectClass: account objectClass: posixAccount cn: george uid: george uidNumber: 1001 gidNumber: 1001 homeDirectory: /home/george loginShell: /bin/bash gecos: george description: User account

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userPassword:: e1NTSEF9eXFsTFcyWlhwWkF1eGUybVdFWHZKRzJVMjFTSG9vcHk=

# Enter your modifications here, end with CTRL-D. dn: uid=george,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com replace: gecos gecos: George Carlin

The user's gecos should now be George Carlin. A nice feature of ldapscripts is the template system. Templates allow you to customize the attributes of user, group, and machine objectes. For example, to enable the user template edit /etc/ ldapscripts/ldapscripts.conf changing:
UTEMPLATE="/etc/ldapscripts/ldapadduser.template"

There are sample templates in the /etc/ldapscripts directory. Copy or rename the ldapadduser.template.sample file to /etc/ldapscripts/ldapadduser.template:
sudo cp /usr/share/doc/ldapscripts/examples/ldapadduser.template.sample \ /etc/ldapscripts/ldapadduser.template

Edit the new template to add the desired attributes. The following will create new users with an objectClass of inetOrgPerson:
dn: uid=<user>,<usuffix>,<suffix> objectClass: inetOrgPerson objectClass: posixAccount cn: <user> sn: <ask> uid: <user> uidNumber: <uid> gidNumber: <gid> homeDirectory: <home> loginShell: <shell> gecos: <user> description: User account title: Employee

Notice the <ask> option used for the sn attribute. This will make ldapadduser prompt you for it's value. There are utilities in the package that were not covered here. Here is a complete list:
ldaprenamemachine5 ldapadduser6 ldapdeleteuserfromgroup7

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ldapfinger8 ldapid9 ldapgid10 ldapmodifyuser11 ldaprenameuser12 lsldap13 ldapaddusertogroup14 ldapsetpasswd15 ldapinit16 ldapaddgroup17 ldapdeletegroup18 ldapmodifygroup19 ldapdeletemachine20 ldaprenamegroup21 ldapaddmachine22 ldapmodifymachine23 ldapsetprimarygroup24 ldapdeleteuser25

1.12. Resources
The primary resource is the upstream documentation: www.openldap.org26 There are many man pages that come with the slapd package. Here are some important ones, especially considering the material presented in this guide:
slapd27 slapd-config28 slapd.access29 slapo-syncprov30

Other man pages:

auth-client-config31 pam-auth-update32

Zytrax's LDAP for Rocket Scientists33; a less pedantic but comprehensive treatment of LDAP A Ubuntu community OpenLDAP wiki34 page has a collection of notes
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2. Samba and LDAP

This section covers the integration of Samba with LDAP. The Samba server's role will be that of a "standalone" server and the LDAP directory will provide the authentication layer in addition to containing the user, group, and machine account information that Samba requires in order to function (in any of it's 3 possible roles). The pre-requisite is an OpenLDAP server configured with a directory that can accept authentication requests. See Section 1, OpenLDAP Server [p. 54] for details on fulfilling this requirement. Once this section is completed, you will need to decide what specifically you want Samba to do for you and then configure it accordingly.

2.1. Software Installation

There are three packages needed when integrating Samba with LDAP: samba, samba-doc, and smbldap-tools packages. Strictly speaking, the smbldap-tools package isn't needed, but unless you have some other way to manage the various Samaba entities (users, groups, computers) in an LDAP context then you should install it. Install these packages now:

sudo apt-get install samba samba-doc smbldap-tools

2.2. LDAP Configuration

We will now configure the LDAP server so that it can accomodate Samba data. We will perform three tasks in this section: 1. 2. 3. Import a schema Index some entries Add objects

2.2.1. Samba schema In order for OpenLDAP to be used as a backend for Samba, logically, the DIT will need to use attributes that can properly describe Samba data. Such attributes can be obtained by introducing a Samba LDAP schema. Let's do this now. For more information on schemas and their installation see Section 1.4, Modifying the slapd Configuration Database [p. 59]. 1. The schema is found in the now-installed samba-doc package. It needs to be unzipped and copied to the /etc/ldap/schema directory:

sudo cp /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/examples/LDAP/samba.schema.gz /etc/ldap/schema

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sudo gzip -d /etc/ldap/schema/samba.schema.gz

2.

Have the configuration file schema_convert.conf that contains the following lines:

include /etc/ldap/schema/core.schema include /etc/ldap/schema/collective.schema include /etc/ldap/schema/corba.schema include /etc/ldap/schema/cosine.schema include /etc/ldap/schema/duaconf.schema include /etc/ldap/schema/dyngroup.schema include /etc/ldap/schema/inetorgperson.schema include include include include include /etc/ldap/schema/java.schema /etc/ldap/schema/misc.schema /etc/ldap/schema/nis.schema /etc/ldap/schema/openldap.schema /etc/ldap/schema/ppolicy.schema

include /etc/ldap/schema/ldapns.schema include /etc/ldap/schema/pmi.schema include /etc/ldap/schema/samba.schema

3. 4.

Have the directory ldif_output hold output. Determine the index of the schema:

slapcat -f schema_convert.conf -F ldif_output -n 0 | grep samba,cn=schema

dn: cn={14}samba,cn=schema,cn=config

5.

Convert the schema to LDIF format:

slapcat -f schema_convert.conf -F ldif_output -n0 -H ldap:///cn={14}samba,cn=schema,cn=config -

6.

Edit the generated cn=samba.ldif file by removing index information to arrive at:

dn: cn=samba,cn=schema,cn=config ... cn: samba

Remove the bottom lines:

structuralObjectClass: olcSchemaConfig entryUUID: b53b75ca-083f-102d-9fff-2f64fd123c95 creatorsName: cn=config createTimestamp: 20080827045234Z entryCSN: 20080827045234.341425Z#000000#000#000000 modifiersName: cn=config modifyTimestamp: 20080827045234Z

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sudo ldapadd -Q -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -f cn\=samba.ldif

To query and view this new schema:

sudo ldapsearch -Q -LLL -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -b cn=schema,cn=config 'cn=*samba*'

2.2.2. Samba indices Now that slapd knows about the Samba attributes, we can set up some indices based on them. Indexing entries is a way to improve performance when a client performs a filtered search on the DIT. Create the file samba_indices.ldif with the following contents:

dn: olcDatabase={1}hdb,cn=config changetype: modify add: olcDbIndex olcDbIndex: uidNumber eq olcDbIndex: gidNumber eq olcDbIndex: loginShell eq olcDbIndex: uid eq,pres,sub olcDbIndex: memberUid eq,pres,sub olcDbIndex: uniqueMember eq,pres olcDbIndex: sambaSID eq olcDbIndex: sambaPrimaryGroupSID eq olcDbIndex: sambaGroupType eq olcDbIndex: sambaSIDList eq olcDbIndex: sambaDomainName eq olcDbIndex: default sub

Using the ldapmodify utility load the new indices:

sudo ldapmodify -Q -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -f samba_indices.ldif

If all went well you should see the new indices using ldapsearch:

sudo ldapsearch -Q -LLL -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -b cn=config olcDatabase={1}hdb olcDbIndex

2.2.3. Adding Samba LDAP objects Next, configure the smbldap-tools package to match your environment. The package comes with a configuration script that will ask questions about the needed options. To run the script enter:

sudo gzip -d /usr/share/doc/smbldap-tools/configure.pl.gz sudo perl /usr/share/doc/smbldap-tools/configure.pl

You may need to comment out the strict pragma in the configure.pl file.

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sudo slapcat -l backup.ldif

Once you have a backup proceed to populate your directory:

sudo smbldap-populate

You can create a LDIF file containing the new Samba objects by executing sudo smbldap-populate -e samba.ldif. This allows you to look over the changes making sure everything is correct. If it is, rerun the script without the '-e' switch. Alternatively, you can take the LDIF file and import it's data per usual. Your LDAP directory now has the necessary information to authenticate Samba users.

2.3. Samba Configuration

There are multiple ways to configure Samba. For details on some common configurations see Chapter 17, Windows Networking [p. 229]. To configure Samba to use LDAP, edit it's configuration file /etc/samba/smb.conf commenting out the default passdb backend parameter and adding some ldap-related ones:

passdb backend = tdbsam

# LDAP Settings passdb backend = ldapsam:ldap://hostname ldap suffix = dc=example,dc=com ldap user suffix = ou=People ldap group suffix = ou=Groups ldap machine suffix = ou=Computers ldap idmap suffix = ou=Idmap ldap admin dn = cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com ldap ssl = start tls ldap passwd sync = yes ... add machine script = sudo /usr/sbin/smbldap-useradd -t 0 -w "%u"

Change the values to match your environment. Restart samba to enable the new settings:

sudo restart smbd

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sudo restart nmbd

Now inform Samba about the rootDN user's password (the one set during the installation of the slapd package):

sudo smbpasswd -w password

If you have existing LDAP users that you want to include in your new LDAP-backed Samba they will, of course, also need to be given some of the extra attributes. The smbpasswd utility can do this as well (your host will need to be able to see (enumerate) those users via NSS; install and configure either libnss-ldapd or libnss-ldap):

sudo smbpasswd -a username

You will prompted to enter a password. It will be considered as the new password for that user. Making it the same as before is reasonable. To manage user, group, and machine accounts use the utilities provided by the smbldap-tools package. Here are some examples: To add a new user:

sudo smbldap-useradd -a -P username

The -a option adds the Samba attributes, and the -P option calls the smbldap-passwd utility after the user is created allowing you to enter a password for the user. To remove a user:

sudo smbldap-userdel username

In the above command, use the -r option to remove the user's home directory. To add a group:

sudo smbldap-groupadd -a groupname

As for smbldap-useradd, the -a adds the Samba attributes. To make an existing user a member of a group:

sudo smbldap-groupmod -m username groupname

The -m option can add more than one user at a time by listing them in comma-separated format. To remove a user from a group:

sudo smbldap-groupmod -x username groupname

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sudo smbldap-useradd -t 0 -w username

Replace username with the name of the workstation. The -t 0 option creates the machine account without a delay, while the -w option specifies the user as a machine account. Also, note the add machine script parameter in /etc/samba/smb.conf was changed to use smbldap-useradd. There are utilities in the smbldap-tools package that were not covered here. Here is a complete list:
smbldap-groupadd37 smbldap-groupdel38 smbldap-groupmod39 smbldap-groupshow40 smbldap-passwd41 smbldap-populate42 smbldap-useradd43 smbldap-userdel44 smbldap-userinfo45 smbldap-userlist46 smbldap-usermod47 smbldap-usershow48

2.4. Resources
For more information on installing and configuring Samba see Chapter 17, Windows Networking [p. 229] of this Ubuntu Server Guide. There are multiple places where LDAP and Samba is documented in the upstream Samba HOWTO Collection49. Regarding the above, see specifically the passdb section50. Although dated (2007), the Linux Samba-OpenLDAP HOWTO51 contains valuable notes. The main page of the Samba Ubuntu community documentation52 has a plethora of links to articles that may prove useful.

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3. Kerberos
Kerberos is a network authentication system based on the principal of a trusted third party. The other two parties being the user and the service the user wishes to authenticate to. Not all services and applications can use Kerberos, but for those that can, it brings the network environment one step closer to being Single Sign On (SSO). This section covers installation and configuration of a Kerberos server, and some example client configurations.

3.1. Overview
If you are new to Kerberos there are a few terms that are good to understand before setting up a Kerberos server. Most of the terms will relate to things you may be familiar with in other environments: Principal: any users, computers, and services provided by servers need to be defined as Kerberos Principals. Instances: are used for service principals and special administrative principals. Realms: the unique realm of control provided by the Kerberos installation. Usually the DNS domain converted to uppercase (EXAMPLE.COM). Key Distribution Center: (KDC) consist of three parts, a database of all principals, the authentication server, and the ticket granting server. For each realm there must be at least one KDC. Ticket Granting Ticket: issued by the Authentication Server (AS), the Ticket Granting Ticket (TGT) is encrypted in the user's password which is known only to the user and the KDC. Ticket Granting Server: (TGS) issues service tickets to clients upon request. Tickets: confirm the identity of the two principals. One principal being a user and the other a service requested by the user. Tickets establish an encryption key used for secure communication during the authenticated session. Keytab Files: are files extracted from the KDC principal database and contain the encryption key for a service or host. To put the pieces together, a Realm has at least one KDC, preferably two for redundancy, which contains a database of Principals. When a user principal logs into a workstation, configured for Kerberos authentication, the KDC issues a Ticket Granting Ticket (TGT). If the user supplied credentials match, the user is authenticated and can then request tickets for Kerberized services from the Ticket Granting Server (TGS). The service tickets allow the user to authenticate to the service without entering another username and password.

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3.2. Kerberos Server

3.2.1. Installation Before installing the Kerberos server a properly configured DNS server is needed for your domain. Since the Kerberos Realm by convention matches the domain name, this section uses the example.com domain configured in Section 2.3, Primary Master [p. 100]. Also, Kerberos is a time sensitive protocol. So if the local system time between a client machine and the server differs by more than five minutes (by default), the workstation will not be able to authenticate. To correct the problem all hosts should have their time synchronized using the Network Time Protocol (NTP). For details on setting up NTP see Section 4, Time Synchronisation with NTP [p. 44]. The first step in installing a Kerberos Realm is to install the krb5-kdc and krb5-admin-server packages. From a terminal enter:

sudo apt-get install krb5-kdc krb5-admin-server

You will be asked at the end of the install to supply a name for the Kerberos and Admin servers, which may or may not be the same server, for the realm. Next, create the new realm with the kdb5_newrealm utility:

sudo krb5_newrealm

3.2.2. Configuration The questions asked during installation are used to configure the /etc/krb5.conf file. If you need to adjust the Key Distribution Center (KDC) settings simply edit the file and restart the krb5-kdc daemon.

1.

Now that the KDC running an admin user is needed. It is recommended to use a different username from your everyday username. Using the kadmin.local utility in a terminal prompt enter:

sudo kadmin.local
Authenticating as principal root/[email protected] with password. kadmin.local: addprinc steve/admin WARNING: no policy specified for steve/[email protected]; defaulting to no policy Enter password for principal "steve/[email protected]": Re-enter password for principal "steve/[email protected]": Principal "steve/[email protected]" created. kadmin.local: quit

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steve/[email protected]

This entry grants steve/admin the ability to perform any operation on all principals in the realm. 3. Now restart the krb5-admin-server for the new ACL to take affect:

sudo /etc/init.d/krb5-admin-server restart

4.

The new user principal can be tested using the kinit utility:

kinit steve/admin
steve/[email protected]'s Password:

After entering the password, use the klist utility to view information about the Ticket Granting Ticket (TGT):

klist
Credentials cache: FILE:/tmp/krb5cc_1000 Principal: steve/[email protected]

Issued Jul 13 17:53:34

Expires Jul 14 03:53:34

Principal krbtgt/[email protected]

You may need to add an entry into the /etc/hosts for the KDC. For example:

192.168.0.1

kdc01.example.com

kdc01

Replacing 192.168.0.1 with the IP address of your KDC. 5. In order for clients to determine the KDC for the Realm some DNS SRV records are needed. Add the following to /etc/named/db.example.com:

_kerberos._udp.EXAMPLE.COM. _kerberos._tcp.EXAMPLE.COM. _kerberos._udp.EXAMPLE.COM. _kerberos._tcp.EXAMPLE.COM. _kpasswd._udp.EXAMPLE.COM.

IN SRV 1

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kdc01.example.com. kdc01.example.com. kdc02.example.com. kdc02.example.com.

IN SRV 1 0 88 IN SRV 10 0 88 IN SRV 10 0 88 IN SRV 1

_kerberos-adm._tcp.EXAMPLE.COM. IN SRV 1

0 749 kdc01.example.com. 0 464 kdc01.example.com.

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3.3. Secondary KDC

Once you have one Key Distribution Center (KDC) on your network, it is good practice to have a Secondary KDC in case the primary becomes unavailable. 1. First, install the packages, and when asked for the Kerberos and Admin server names enter the name of the Primary KDC:

sudo apt-get install krb5-kdc krb5-admin-server

2.

Once you have the packages installed, create the Secondary KDC's host principal. From a terminal prompt, enter:

kadmin -q "addprinc -randkey host/kdc02.example.com"

After, issuing any kadmin commands you will be prompted for your username/ [email protected] principal password. 3. Extract the keytab file:

kadmin -q "ktadd -k keytab.kdc02 host/kdc02.example.com"

4.

There should now be a keytab.kdc02 in the current directory, move the file to /etc/ krb5.keytab:

sudo mv keytab.kdc02 /etc/krb5.keytab

If the path to the keytab.kdc02 file is different adjust accordingly.

Also, you can list the principals in a Keytab file, which can be useful when troubleshooting, using the klist utility:

sudo klist -k /etc/krb5.keytab

5.

Next, there needs to be a kpropd.acl file on each KDC that lists all KDCs for the Realm. For example, on both primary and secondary KDC, create /etc/krb5kdc/kpropd.acl:

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host/[email protected] host/[email protected]

6.

Create an empty database on the Secondary KDC:

sudo kdb5_util -s create

7.

Now start the kpropd daemon, which listens for connections from the kprop utility. kprop is used to transfer dump files:

sudo kpropd -S

8.

From a terminal on the Primary KDC, create a dump file of the principal database:

sudo kdb5_util dump /var/lib/krb5kdc/dump

9.

Extract the Primary KDC's keytab file and copy it to /etc/krb5.keytab:

kadmin -q "ktadd -k keytab.kdc01 host/kdc01.example.com" sudo mv keytab.kdc01 /etc/krb5.keytab

Make sure there is a host for kdc01.example.com before extracting the Keytab.

10. Using the kprop utility push the database to the Secondary KDC:

sudo kprop -r EXAMPLE.COM -f /var/lib/krb5kdc/dump kdc02.example.com

There should be a SUCCEEDED message if the propagation worked. If there is an error message check /var/log/syslog on the secondary KDC for more information. You may also want to create a cron job to periodically update the database on the Secondary KDC. For example, the following will push the database every hour:

# m h

dom mon dow

command

0 * * * * /usr/sbin/kdb5_util dump /var/lib/krb5kdc/dump && /usr/sbin/kprop -r EXAMPLE.COM -f /

11. Back on the Secondary KDC, create a stash file to hold the Kerberos master key:

sudo kdb5_util stash

12. Finally, start the krb5-kdc daemon on the Secondary KDC:

sudo /etc/init.d/krb5-kdc start

The Secondary KDC should now be able to issue tickets for the Realm. You can test this by stopping the krb5-kdc daemon on the Primary KDC, then use kinit to request a ticket. If all goes well you should receive a ticket from the Secondary KDC. 88

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3.4. Kerberos Linux Client

This section covers configuring a Linux system as a Kerberos client. This will allow access to any kerberized services once a user has successfully logged into the system. 3.4.1. Installation In order to authenticate to a Kerberos Realm, the krb5-user and libpam-krb5 packages are needed, along with a few others that are not strictly necessary but make life easier. To install the packages enter the following in a terminal prompt:

sudo apt-get install krb5-user libpam-krb5 libpam-ccreds auth-client-config

The auth-client-config package allows simple configuration of PAM for authentication from multiple sources, and the libpam-ccreds will cache authentication credentials allowing you to login in case the Key Distribution Center (KDC) is unavailable. This package is also useful for laptops that may authenticate using Kerberos while on the corporate network, but will need to be accessed off the network as well. 3.4.2. Configuration To configure the client in a terminal enter:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure krb5-config

You will then be prompted to enter the name of the Kerberos Realm. Also, if you don't have DNS configured with Kerberos SRV records, the menu will prompt you for the hostname of the Key Distribution Center (KDC) and Realm Administration server. The dpkg-reconfigure adds entries to the /etc/krb5.conf file for your Realm. You should have entries similar to the following:

[libdefaults] default_realm = EXAMPLE.COM ... [realms] EXAMPLE.COM = } kdc = 192.168.0.1 admin_server = 192.168.0.1 }

You can test the configuration by requesting a ticket using the kinit utility. For example:

kinit [email protected]
Password for [email protected]:

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klist
Ticket cache: FILE:/tmp/krb5cc_1000 Default principal: [email protected]

Valid starting 07/24/08 05:18:56

Expires 07/24/08 15:18:56

Service principal krbtgt/[email protected]

renew until 07/25/08 05:18:57

Kerberos 4 ticket cache: /tmp/tkt1000 klist: You have no tickets cached

Next, use the auth-client-config to configure the libpam-krb5 module to request a ticket during login:

sudo auth-client-config -a -p kerberos_example

You will should now receive a ticket upon successful login authentication.

3.5. Resources
For more information on Kerberos see the MIT Kerberos53 site. The Ubuntu Wiki Kerberos54 page has more details. O'Reilly's Kerberos: The Definitive Guide55 is a great reference when setting up Kerberos. Also, feel free to stop by the #ubuntu-server IRC channel on Freenode56 if you have Kerberos questions.

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4. Kerberos and LDAP

Replicating a Kerberos principal database between two servers can be complicated, and adds an additional user database to your network. Fortunately, MIT Kerberos can be configured to use an LDAP directory as a principal database. This section covers configuring a primary and secondary kerberos server to use OpenLDAP for the principal database.

4.1. Configuring OpenLDAP

First, the necessary schema needs to be loaded on an OpenLDAP server that has network connectivity to the Primary and Secondary KDCs. The rest of this section assumes that you also have LDAP replication configured between at least two servers. For information on setting up OpenLDAP see Section 1, OpenLDAP Server [p. 54]. It is also required to configure OpenLDAP for TLS and SSL connections, so that traffic between the KDC and LDAP server is encrypted. See Section 1.8, TLS [p. 67] for details. To load the schema into LDAP, on the LDAP server install the krb5-kdc-ldap package. From a terminal enter:

sudo apt-get install krb5-kdc-ldap

Next, extract the kerberos.schema.gz file:

sudo gzip -d /usr/share/doc/krb5-kdc-ldap/kerberos.schema.gz sudo cp /usr/share/doc/krb5-kdc-ldap/kerberos.schema /etc/ldap/schema/

The kerberos schema needs to be added to the cn=config tree. The procedure to add a new schema to slapd is also detailed in Section 1.4, Modifying the slapd Configuration Database [p. 59]. 1. First, create a configuration file named schema_convert.conf, or a similar descriptive name, containing the following lines:

include /etc/ldap/schema/core.schema include /etc/ldap/schema/collective.schema include /etc/ldap/schema/corba.schema include /etc/ldap/schema/cosine.schema include /etc/ldap/schema/duaconf.schema include /etc/ldap/schema/dyngroup.schema include /etc/ldap/schema/inetorgperson.schema include /etc/ldap/schema/java.schema include /etc/ldap/schema/misc.schema include /etc/ldap/schema/nis.schema include /etc/ldap/schema/openldap.schema include /etc/ldap/schema/ppolicy.schema include /etc/ldap/schema/kerberos.schema

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mkdir /tmp/ldif_output

3.

Now use slapcat to convert the schema files:

slapcat -f schema_convert.conf -F /tmp/ldif_output -n0 -s "cn={12}kerberos,cn=schema,cn=confi

Change the above file and path names to match your own if they are different. 4. Edit the generated /tmp/cn\=kerberos.ldif file, changing the following attributes:

dn: cn=kerberos,cn=schema,cn=config ... cn: kerberos

And remove the following lines from the end of the file:

structuralObjectClass: olcSchemaConfig entryUUID: 18ccd010-746b-102d-9fbe-3760cca765dc creatorsName: cn=config createTimestamp: 20090111203515Z entryCSN: 20090111203515.326445Z#000000#000#000000 modifiersName: cn=config modifyTimestamp: 20090111203515Z

The attribute values will vary, just be sure the attributes are removed. 5. Load the new schema with ldapadd:

ldapadd -x -D cn=admin,cn=config -W -f /tmp/cn\=kerberos.ldif

6.

Add an index for the krb5principalname attribute:

ldapmodify -x -D cn=admin,cn=config -W
Enter LDAP Password:
dn: olcDatabase={1}hdb,cn=config add: olcDbIndex olcDbIndex: krbPrincipalName eq,pres,sub

modifying entry "olcDatabase={1}hdb,cn=config"

7.

Finally, update the Access Control Lists (ACL):

ldapmodify -x -D cn=admin,cn=config -W
Enter LDAP Password:
dn: olcDatabase={1}hdb,cn=config replace: olcAccess olcAccess: to attrs=userPassword,shadowLastChange,krbPrincipalKey by dn="cn=admin,dc=exampl e,dc=com" write by anonymous auth by self write by * none -

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add: olcAccess olcAccess: to dn.base="" by * read add: olcAccess olcAccess: to * by dn="cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com" write by * read

modifying entry "olcDatabase={1}hdb,cn=config"

That's it, your LDAP directory is now ready to serve as a Kerberos principal database.

4.2. Primary KDC Configuration

With OpenLDAP configured it is time to configure the KDC. First, install the necessary packages, from a terminal enter:

sudo apt-get install krb5-kdc krb5-admin-server krb5-kdc-ldap

Now edit /etc/krb5.conf adding the following options to under the appropriate sections:

[libdefaults] default_realm = EXAMPLE.COM ... [realms] EXAMPLE.COM = { kdc = kdc01.example.com kdc = kdc02.example.com admin_server = kdc01.example.com admin_server = kdc02.example.com default_domain = example.com database_module = openldap_ldapconf } ... [domain_realm] .example.com = EXAMPLE.COM

... [dbdefaults] ldap_kerberos_container_dn = dc=example,dc=com [dbmodules] openldap_ldapconf = { db_library = kldap ldap_kdc_dn = "cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com"

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# this object needs to have read rights on # the realm container, principal container and realm sub-trees ldap_kadmind_dn = "cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com" # this object needs to have read and write rights on # the realm container, principal container and realm sub-trees ldap_service_password_file = /etc/krb5kdc/service.keyfile ldap_servers = ldaps://ldap01.example.com ldaps://ldap02.example.com ldap_conns_per_server = 5 }

Change example.com, dc=example,dc=com, cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com, and ldap01.example.com to the appropriate domain, LDAP object, and LDAP server for your network. Next, use the kdb5_ldap_util utility to create the realm:

sudo kdb5_ldap_util -D

cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com create -subtrees dc=example,dc=com -r EXAMPLE.

Create a stash of the password used to bind to the LDAP server. This password is used by the ldap_kdc_dn and ldap_kadmin_dn options in /etc/krb5.conf:

sudo kdb5_ldap_util -D

cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com stashsrvpw -f /etc/krb5kdc/service.keyfile cn=

Copy the CA certificate from the LDAP server:

scp ldap01:/etc/ssl/certs/cacert.pem . sudo cp cacert.pem /etc/ssl/certs

And edit /etc/ldap/ldap.conf to use the certificate:

TLS_CACERT /etc/ssl/certs/cacert.pem

The certificate will also need to be copied to the Secondary KDC, to allow the connection to the LDAP servers using LDAPS. You can now add Kerberos principals to the LDAP database, and they will be copied to any other LDAP servers configured for replication. To add a principal using the kadmin.local utility enter:

sudo kadmin.local
Authenticating as principal root/[email protected] with password. kadmin.local:
addprinc -x dn="uid=steve,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com" steve

WARNING: no policy specified for [email protected]; defaulting to no policy Enter password for principal "[email protected]": Re-enter password for principal "[email protected]": Principal "[email protected]" created.

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4.3. Secondary KDC Configuration

Configuring a Secondary KDC using the LDAP backend is similar to configuring one using the normal Kerberos database. First, install the necessary packages. In a terminal enter:

sudo apt-get install krb5-kdc krb5-admin-server krb5-kdc-ldap

Next, edit /etc/krb5.conf to use the LDAP backend:

[libdefaults] default_realm = EXAMPLE.COM ... [realms] EXAMPLE.COM = { kdc = kdc01.example.com kdc = kdc02.example.com admin_server = kdc01.example.com admin_server = kdc02.example.com default_domain = example.com database_module = openldap_ldapconf } ... [domain_realm] .example.com = EXAMPLE.COM ... [dbdefaults] ldap_kerberos_container_dn = dc=example,dc=com [dbmodules] openldap_ldapconf = { db_library = kldap ldap_kdc_dn = "cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com" # this object needs to have read rights on # the realm container, principal container and realm sub-trees ldap_kadmind_dn = "cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com"

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# this object needs to have read and write rights on # the realm container, principal container and realm sub-trees ldap_service_password_file = /etc/krb5kdc/service.keyfile ldap_servers = ldaps://ldap01.example.com ldaps://ldap02.example.com ldap_conns_per_server = 5 }

Create the stash for the LDAP bind password:

sudo kdb5_ldap_util -D

cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com stashsrvpw -f /etc/krb5kdc/service.keyfile cn=

Now, on the Primary KDC copy the /etc/krb5kdc/.k5.EXAMPLE.COM Master Key stash to the Secondary KDC. Be sure to copy the file over an encrypted connection such as scp, or on physical media.

sudo scp /etc/krb5kdc/.k5.EXAMPLE.COM [email protected]:~ sudo mv .k5.EXAMPLE.COM /etc/krb5kdc/

Again, replace EXAMPLE.COM with your actual realm. Finally, start the krb5-kdc daemon:

sudo /etc/init.d/krb5-kdc start

You now have redundant KDCs on your network, and with redundant LDAP servers you should be able to continue to authenticate users if one LDAP server, one Kerberos server, or one LDAP and one Kerberos server become unavailable.

4.4. Resources
The Kerberos Admin Guide57 has some additional details. For more information on kdb5_ldap_util see Section 5.658 and the kdb5_ldap_util man page59. Another useful link is the krb5.conf man page60. Also, see the Kerberos and LDAP61 Ubuntu wiki page.

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Domain Name Service (DNS) is an Internet service that maps IP addresses and fully qualified domain names (FQDN) to one another. In this way, DNS alleviates the need to remember IP addresses. Computers that run DNS are called name servers. Ubuntu ships with BIND (Berkley Internet Naming Daemon), the most common program used for maintaining a name server on Linux.

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1. Installation
At a terminal prompt, enter the following command to install dns:

sudo apt-get install bind9

A very useful package for testing and troubleshooting DNS issues is the dnsutils package. To install dnsutils enter the following:

sudo apt-get install dnsutils

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2. Configuration
There are many ways to configure BIND9. Some of the most common configurations are a caching nameserver, primary master, and as a secondary master. When configured as a caching nameserver BIND9 will find the answer to name queries and remember the answer when the domain is queried again. As a primary master server BIND9 reads the data for a zone from a file on it's host and is authoritative for that zone. In a secondary master configuration BIND9 gets the zone data from another nameserver authoritative for the zone.

2.1. Overview
The DNS configuration files are stored in the /etc/bind directory. The primary configuration file is / etc/bind/named.conf. The include line specifies the filename which contains the DNS options. The directory line in the / etc/bind/named.conf.options file tells DNS where to look for files. All files BIND uses will be relative to this directory. The file named /etc/bind/db.root describes the root nameservers in the world. The servers change over time, so the /etc/bind/db.root file must be maintained now and then. This is usually done as updates to the bind9 package. The zone section defines a master server, and it is stored in a file mentioned in the file option. It is possible to configure the same server to be a caching name server, primary master, and secondary master. A server can be the Start of Authority (SOA) for one zone, while providing secondary service for another zone. All the while providing caching services for hosts on the local LAN.

2.2. Caching Nameserver

The default configuration is setup to act as a caching server. All that is required is simply adding the IP Addresses of your ISP's DNS servers. Simply uncomment and edit the following in /etc/bind/
named.conf.options:

forwarders { 1.2.3.4; 5.6.7.8; };

Replace 1.2.3.4 and 5.6.7.8 with the IP Adresses of actual nameservers.

Now restart the DNS server, to enable the new configuration. From a terminal prompt:
sudo service bind9 restart

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2.3. Primary Master

In this section BIND9 will be configured as the Primary Master for the domain example.com. Simply replace example.com with your FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name). 2.3.1. Forward Zone File To add a DNS zone to BIND9, turning BIND9 into a Primary Master server, the first step is to edit / etc/bind/named.conf.local:
zone "example.com" { type master; file "/etc/bind/db.example.com"; };

Now use an existing zone file as a template to create the /etc/bind/db.example.com file:
sudo cp /etc/bind/db.local /etc/bind/db.example.com

Edit the new zone file /etc/bind/db.example.com change localhost. to the FQDN of your server, leaving the additional "." at the end. Change 127.0.0.1 to the nameserver's IP Address and root.localhost to a valid email address, but with a "." instead of the usual "@" symbol, again leaving the "." at the end. Also, create an A record for ns.example.com. The name server in this example:
; ; BIND data file for local loopback interface ; $TTL @ 604800 IN SOA ns.example.com. root.example.com. ( 2 ; Serial 604800 86400 2419200 604800 ) ; @ @ @ ns IN IN IN IN NS A AAAA A ns.example.com. 192.168.1.10 ::1 192.168.1.10 ; Refresh ; Retry ; Expire ; Negative Cache TTL

You must increment the Serial Number every time you make changes to the zone file. If you make multiple changes before restarting BIND9, simply increment the Serial once. Now, you can add DNS records to the bottom of the zone file. See Section 4.1, Common Record Types [p. 108] for details. 100

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sudo service bind9 restart

2.3.2. Reverse Zone File Now that the zone is setup and resolving names to IP Adresses a Reverse zone is also required. A Reverse zone allows DNS to resolve an address to a name. Edit /etc/bind/named.conf.local and add the following:
zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" { type master; file "/etc/bind/db.192"; };

Replace 1.168.192 with the first three octets of whatever network you are using. Also, name the zone file /etc/bind/db.192 appropriately. It should match the first octet of your network. Now create the /etc/bind/db.192 file:
sudo cp /etc/bind/db.127 /etc/bind/db.192

Next edit /etc/bind/db.192 changing the basically the same options as /etc/bind/db.example.com:
; ; BIND reverse data file for local loopback interface ; $TTL @ 604800 IN SOA ns.example.com. root.example.com. ( 2 604800 86400 2419200 604800 ) ; @ 10 IN IN NS PTR ns. ns.example.com. ; Serial ; Refresh ; Retry ; Expire ; Negative Cache TTL

The Serial Number in the Reverse zone needs to be incremented on each change as well. For each A record you configure in /etc/bind/db.example.com you need to create a PTR record in /etc/bind/ db.192. After creating the reverse zone file restart BIND9: 101

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sudo service bind9 restart

2.4. Secondary Master

Once a Primary Master has been configured a Secondary Master is needed in order to maintain the availability of the domain should the Primary become unavailable. First, on the Primary Master server, the zone transfer needs to be allowed. Add the allow-transfer option to the example Forward and Reverse zone definitions in /etc/bind/named.conf.local:

zone "example.com" { type master; file "/etc/bind/db.example.com"; allow-transfer { 192.168.1.11; }; }; zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" { type master; file "/etc/bind/db.192"; allow-transfer { 192.168.1.11; }; };

Replace 192.168.1.11 with the IP Address of your Secondary nameserver.

Restart BIND9 on the Primary Master:

sudo service bind9 restart

Next, on the Secondary Master, install the bind9 package the same way as on the Primary. Then edit the /etc/bind/named.conf.local and add the following declarations for the Forward and Reverse zones:

zone "example.com" { type slave; file "db.example.com"; masters { 192.168.1.10; }; }; zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" { type slave; file "db.192"; masters { 192.168.1.10; }; };

Replace 192.168.1.10 with the IP Address of your Primary nameserver.

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sudo service bind9 restart

In /var/log/syslog you should see something similar to:

client 192.168.1.10#39448: received notify for zone '1.168.192.in-addr.arpa' zone 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN: Transfer started. transfer of '100.18.172.in-addr.arpa/IN' from 192.168.1.10#53: connected using 192.168.1.11#37531 zone 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN: transferred serial 5 transfer of '100.18.172.in-addr.arpa/IN' from 192.168.1.10#53: Transfer completed: 1 messages, 6 records, 212 bytes, 0.002 secs (106000 bytes/sec) zone 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN: sending notifies (serial 5) client 192.168.1.10#20329: received notify for zone 'example.com' zone example.com/IN: Transfer started. transfer of 'example.com/IN' from 192.168.1.10#53: connected using 192.168.1.11#38577 zone example.com/IN: transferred serial 5 transfer of 'example.com/IN' from 192.168.1.10#53: Transfer completed: 1 messages, 8 records, 225 bytes, 0.002 secs (112500 bytes/sec)

Note: A zone is only transferred if the Serial Number on the Primary is larger than the one on the Secondary. If you want to have your Primary Master DNS notifying Secondary DNS Servers of zone changes, you can add also-notify { ipaddress; }; in to /etc/bind/ named.conf.local as shown in the example below:

zone "example.com" { type master; file "/etc/bind/db.example.com"; allow-transfer { 192.168.1.11; }; also-notify { 192.168.1.11; }; }; zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" { type master; file "/etc/bind/db.192"; allow-transfer { 192.168.1.11; }; also-notify { 192.168.1.11; }; };

The default directory for non-authoritative zone files is /var/cache/bind/. This directory is also configured in AppArmor to allow the named daemon to write to it. For more information on AppArmor see Section 4, AppArmor [p. 124].

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3. Troubleshooting
This section covers ways to help determine the cause when problems happen with DNS and BIND9.

3.1. Testing
3.1.1. resolv.conf The first step in testing BIND9 is to add the nameserver's IP Address to a hosts resolver. The Primary nameserver should be configured as well as another host to double check things. Simply edit /etc/ resolv.conf and add the following:

nameserver 192.168.1.10 nameserver 192.168.1.11

You should also add the IP Address of the Secondary nameserver in case the Primary becomes unavailable. 3.1.2. dig If you installed the dnsutils package you can test your setup using the DNS lookup utility dig: After installing BIND9 use dig against the loopback interface to make sure it is listening on port 53. From a terminal prompt:

dig -x 127.0.0.1

You should see lines similar to the following in the command output:

;; Query time: 1 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.1.10#53(192.168.1.10)

If you have configured BIND9 as a Caching nameserver "dig" an outside domain to check the query time:

dig ubuntu.com

Note the query time toward the end of the command output:

;; Query time: 49 msec

After a second dig there should be improvement:

;; Query time: 1 msec

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ping example.com

This tests if the nameserver can resolve the name ns.example.com to an IP Address. The command output should resemble:

PING ns.example.com (192.168.1.10) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.800 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.813 ms

3.1.4. named-checkzone A great way to test your zone files is by using the named-checkzone utility installed with the bind9 package. This utility allows you to make sure the configuration is correct before restarting BIND9 and making the changes live. To test our example Forward zone file enter the following from a command prompt:

named-checkzone example.com /etc/bind/db.example.com

If everything is configured correctly you should see output similar to:

zone example.com/IN: loaded serial 6 OK

Similarly, to test the Reverse zone file enter the following:

named-checkzone example.com /etc/bind/db.192

The output should be similar to:

zone example.com/IN: loaded serial 3 OK

The Serial Number of your zone file will probably be different.

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logging { category default { default_syslog; default_debug; }; category unmatched { null; }; };

This section covers configuring BIND9 to send debug messages related to DNS queries to a separate file. First, we need to configure a channel to specify which file to send the messages to. Edit /etc/ bind/named.conf.local and add the following:
logging { channel query.log { file "/var/log/query.log"; severity debug 3; }; };

Next, configure a category to send all DNS queries to the query file:
logging { channel query.log { file "/var/log/query.log"; severity debug 3; }; category queries { query.log; }; };

Note: the debug option can be set from 1 to 3. If a level isn't specified level 1 is the default.

Since the named daemon runs as the bind user the /var/log/query.log file must be created and the ownership changed:
sudo touch /var/log/query.log sudo chown bind /var/log/query.log

Before named daemon can write to the new log file the AppArmor profile must be updated. First, edit /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.named and add:
/var/log/query.log w,

Next, reload the profile:

cat /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.named | sudo apparmor_parser -r

For more information on AppArmor see Section 4, AppArmor [p. 124]

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sudo service bind9 restart

You should see the file /var/log/query.log fill with query information. This is a simple example of the BIND9 logging options. For coverage of advanced options see Section 4.2, More Information [p. 108].

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4. References
4.1. Common Record Types
This section covers some of the most common DNS record types. A record: This record maps an IP Address to a hostname.

www

IN

192.168.1.12

CNAME record: Used to create an alias to an existing A record. You cannot create a CNAME record pointing to another CNAME record.

web

IN

CNAME

www

MX record: Used to define where email should be sent to. Must point to an A record, not a CNAME.

IN mail IN

MX A

mail.example.com. 192.168.1.13

NS record: Used to define which servers serve copies of a zone. It must point to an A record, not a CNAME. This is where Primary and Secondary servers are defined.

IN ns ns2 IN

IN NS IN A

NS ns.example.com. ns2.example.com. A 192.168.1.10 192.168.1.11

4.2. More Information

The DNS HOWTO1 explains more advanced options for configuring BIND9. For in depth coverage of DNS and BIND9 see Bind9.net2. DNS and BIND3 is a popular book now in it's fifth edition. A great place to ask for BIND9 assistance, and get involved with the Ubuntu Server community, is the #ubuntu-server IRC channel on freenode4. Also, see the BIND9 Server HOWTO5 in the Ubuntu Wiki.

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Chapter 8. Security
Security should always be considered when installing, deploying, and using any type of computer system. Although a fresh installation of Ubuntu is relatively safe for immediate use on the Internet, it is important to have a balanced understanding of your systems security posture based on how it will be used after deployment. This chapter provides an overview of security related topics as they pertain to Ubuntu 11.10 Server Edition, and outlines simple measures you may use to protect your server and network from any number of potential security threats.

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1. User Management
User management is a critical part of maintaining a secure system. Ineffective user and privilege management often lead many systems into being compromised. Therefore, it is important that you understand how you can protect your server through simple and effective user account management techniques.

1.1. Where is root?

Ubuntu developers made a conscientious decision to disable the administrative root account by default in all Ubuntu installations. This does not mean that the root account has been deleted or that it may not be accessed. It merely has been given a password which matches no possible encrypted value, therefore may not log in directly by itself. Instead, users are encouraged to make use of a tool by the name of sudo to carry out system administrative duties. Sudo allows an authorized user to temporarily elevate their privileges using their own password instead of having to know the password belonging to the root account. This simple yet effective methodology provides accountability for all user actions, and gives the administrator granular control over which actions a user can perform with said privileges. If for some reason you wish to enable the root account, simply give it a password:

sudo passwd

Sudo will prompt you for your password, and then ask you to supply a new password for root as shown below:

[sudo] password for username: Enter new UNIX password:

(enter your own password)

(enter a new password for root) (repeat new password for root)

Retype new UNIX password:

passwd: password updated successfully

To disable the root account, use the following passwd syntax:

sudo passwd -l root

You should read more on Sudo by checking out it's man page:

man sudo

By default, the initial user created by the Ubuntu installer is a member of the group "admin" which is added to the file /etc/sudoers as an authorized sudo user. If you wish to give any other account full root access through sudo, simply add them to the admin group.

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1.2. Adding and Deleting Users

The process for managing local users and groups is straight forward and differs very little from most other GNU/Linux operating systems. Ubuntu and other Debian based distributions, encourage the use of the "adduser" package for account management. To add a user account, use the following syntax, and follow the prompts to give the account a password and identifiable characteristics such as a full name, phone number, etc.

sudo adduser username

To delete a user account and its primary group, use the following syntax:

sudo deluser username

Deleting an account does not remove their respective home folder. It is up to you whether or not you wish to delete the folder manually or keep it according to your desired retention policies. Remember, any user added later on with the same UID/GID as the previous owner will now have access to this folder if you have not taken the necessary precautions. You may want to change these UID/GID values to something more appropriate, such as the root account, and perhaps even relocate the folder to avoid future conflicts:

sudo chown -R root:root /home/username/ sudo mkdir /home/archived_users/ sudo mv /home/username /home/archived_users/

To temporarily lock or unlock a user account, use the following syntax, respectively:

sudo passwd -l username sudo passwd -u username

To add or delete a personalized group, use the following syntax, respectively:

sudo addgroup groupname sudo delgroup groupname

To add a user to a group, use the following syntax:

sudo adduser username groupname

1.3. User Profile Security

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Security If your server will be home to multiple users, you should pay close attention to the user home directory permissions to ensure confidentiality. By default, user home directories in Ubuntu are created with world read/execute permissions. This means that all users can browse and access the contents of other users home directories. This may not be suitable for your environment. To verify your current users home directory permissions, use the following syntax:

ls -ld /home/username

The following output shows that the directory /home/username has world readable permissions:

drwxr-xr-x

2 username username

4096 2007-10-02 20:03 username

You can remove the world readable permissions using the following syntax:

sudo chmod 0750 /home/username

Some people tend to use the recursive option (-R) indiscriminately which modifies all child folders and files, but this is not necessary, and may yield other undesirable results. The parent directory alone is sufficient for preventing unauthorized access to anything below the parent. A much more efficient approach to the matter would be to modify the adduser global default permissions when creating user home folders. Simply edit the file /etc/adduser.conf and modify the DIR_MODE variable to something appropriate, so that all new home directories will receive the correct permissions.

DIR_MODE=0750

After correcting the directory permissions using any of the previously mentioned techniques, verify the results using the following syntax:

ls -ld /home/username

The results below show that world readable permissions have been removed:

drwxr-x---

2 username username

4096 2007-10-02 20:03 username

1.4. Password Policy

A strong password policy is one of the most important aspects of your security posture. Many successful security breaches involve simple brute force and dictionary attacks against weak passwords. If you intend to offer any form of remote access involving your local password system, make sure you adequately address minimum password complexity requirements, maximum password lifetimes, and frequent audits of your authentication systems. 112

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password

[success=2 default=ignore]

pam_unix.so obscure sha512

If you would like to adjust the minimum length to 8 characters, change the appropriate variable to min=8. The modification is outlined below.

password

[success=2 default=ignore]

pam_unix.so obscure sha512 min=8

1.4.2. Password Expiration When creating user accounts, you should make it a policy to have a minimum and maximum password age forcing users to change their passwords when they expire. To easily view the current status of a user account, use the following syntax:

sudo chage -l username

The output below shows interesting facts about the user account, namely that there are no policies applied:

Last password change Password expires Password inactive Account expires Minimum number of days between password change Maximum number of days between password change Number of days of warning before password expires

: Jan 20, 2008 : never : never : never : 0 : 99999 : 7

To set any of these values, simply use the following syntax, and follow the interactive prompts:

sudo chage username

The following is also an example of how you can manually change the explicit expiration date (E) to 01/31/2008, minimum password age (-m) of 5 days, maximum password age (-M) of 90 days, inactivity period (-I) of 5 days after password expiration, and a warning time period (-W) of 14 days before password expiration.

sudo chage -E 01/31/2011 -m 5 -M 90 -I 30 -W 14 username

To verify changes, use the same syntax as mentioned previously:

sudo chage -l username

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Last password change Password expires Password inactive Account expires Minimum number of days between password change Maximum number of days between password change Number of days of warning before password expires

: Jan 20, 2008 : Apr 19, 2008 : May 19, 2008 : Jan 31, 2008 : 5 : 90 : 14

1.5. Other Security Considerations

Many applications use alternate authentication mechanisms that can be easily overlooked by even experienced system administrators. Therefore, it is important to understand and control how users authenticate and gain access to services and applications on your server. 1.5.1. SSH Access by Disabled Users Simply disabling/locking a user account will not prevent a user from logging into your server remotely if they have previously set up RSA public key authentication. They will still be able to gain shell access to the server, without the need for any password. Remember to check the users home directory for files that will allow for this type of authenticated SSH access. e.g. /home/ username/.ssh/authorized_keys. Remove or rename the directory .ssh/ in the user's home folder to prevent further SSH authentication capabilities. Be sure to check for any established SSH connections by the disabled user, as it is possible they may have existing inbound or outbound connections. Kill any that are found. Restrict SSH access to only user accounts that should have it. For example, you may create a group called "sshlogin" and add the group name as the value associated with the AllowGroups variable located in the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config.

AllowGroups sshlogin

Then add your permitted SSH users to the group "sshlogin", and restart the SSH service.

sudo adduser username sshlogin sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart

1.5.2. External User Database Authentication Most enterprise networks require centralized authentication and access controls for all system resources. If you have configured your server to authenticate users against external databases, be

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2. Console Security
As with any other security barrier you put in place to protect your server, it is pretty tough to defend against untold damage caused by someone with physical access to your environment, for example, theft of hard drives, power or service disruption, and so on. Therefore, console security should be addressed merely as one component of your overall physical security strategy. A locked "screen door" may deter a casual criminal, or at the very least slow down a determined one, so it is still advisable to perform basic precautions with regard to console security. The following instructions will help defend your server against issues that could otherwise yield very serious consequences.

2.1. Disable Ctrl+Alt+Delete

First and foremost, anyone that has physical access to the keyboard can simply use the Ctrl+Alt+Delete key combination to reboot the server without having to log on. Sure, someone could simply unplug the power source, but you should still prevent the use of this key combination on a production server. This forces an attacker to take more drastic measures to reboot the server, and will prevent accidental reboots at the same time. To disable the reboot action taken by pressing the Ctrl+Alt+Delete key combination, comment out the following line in the file /etc/init/control-alt-delete.conf.

#exec shutdown -r now "Control-Alt-Delete pressed"

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3. Firewall
3.1. Introduction
The Linux kernel includes the Netfilter subsystem, which is used to manipulate or decide the fate of network traffic headed into or through your server. All modern Linux firewall solutions use this system for packet filtering. The kernel's packet filtering system would be of little use to administrators without a userspace interface to manage it. This is the purpose of iptables. When a packet reaches your server, it will be handed off to the Netfilter subsystem for acceptance, manipulation, or rejection based on the rules supplied to it from userspace via iptables. Thus, iptables is all you need to manage your firewall if you're familiar with it, but many frontends are available to simplify the task.

3.2. ufw - Uncomplicated Firewall

The default firewall configuration tool for Ubuntu is ufw. Developed to ease iptables firewall configuration, ufw provides a user friendly way to create an IPv4 or IPv6 host-based firewall. ufw by default is initially disabled. From the ufw man page: ufw is not intended to provide complete firewall functionality via its command interface, but instead provides an easy way to add or remove simple rules. It is currently mainly used for host-based firewalls. The following are some examples of how to use ufw: First, ufw needs to be enabled. From a terminal prompt enter:
sudo ufw enable

To open a port (ssh in this example):

sudo ufw allow 22

Rules can also be added using a numbered format:

sudo ufw insert 1 allow 80

Similarly, to close an opened port:

sudo ufw deny 22

To remove a rule, use delete followed by the rule:

sudo ufw delete deny 22

It is also possible to allow access from specific hosts or networks to a port. The following example allows ssh access from host 192.168.0.2 to any ip address on this host:

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sudo ufw allow proto tcp from 192.168.0.2 to any port 22

Replace 192.168.0.2 with 192.168.0.0/24 to allow ssh access from the entire subnet. Adding the --dry-run option to a ufw command will output the resulting rules, but not apply them. For example, the following is what would be applied if opening the HTTP port:

sudo ufw --dry-run allow http

*filter :ufw-user-input - [0:0] :ufw-user-output - [0:0] :ufw-user-forward - [0:0] :ufw-user-limit - [0:0] :ufw-user-limit-accept - [0:0] ### RULES ###

### tuple ### allow tcp 80 0.0.0.0/0 any 0.0.0.0/0 -A ufw-user-input -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT

### END RULES ### -A ufw-user-input -j RETURN -A ufw-user-output -j RETURN -A ufw-user-forward -j RETURN -A ufw-user-limit -m limit --limit 3/minute -j LOG --log-prefix "[UFW LIMIT]: " -A ufw-user-limit -j REJECT -A ufw-user-limit-accept -j ACCEPT COMMIT Rules updated

ufw can be disabled by:

sudo ufw disable

To see the firewall status, enter:

sudo ufw status

And for more verbose status information use:

sudo ufw status verbose

To view the numbered format:

sudo ufw status numbered

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Security This is a quick introduction to using ufw. Please refer to the ufw man page for more information. 3.2.1. ufw Application Integration Applications that open ports can include an ufw profile, which details the ports needed for the application to function properly. The profiles are kept in /etc/ufw/applications.d, and can be edited if the default ports have been changed. To view which applications have installed a profile, enter the following in a terminal:

sudo ufw app list

Similar to allowing traffic to a port, using an application profile is accomplished by entering:

sudo ufw allow Samba

An extended syntax is available as well:

ufw allow from 192.168.0.0/24 to any app Samba

Replace Samba and 192.168.0.0/24 with the application profile you are using and the IP range for your network. There is no need to specify the protocol for the application, because that information is detailed in the profile. Also, note that the app name replaces the port number. To view details about which ports, protocols, etc are defined for an application, enter:

sudo ufw app info Samba

Not all applications that require opening a network port come with ufw profiles, but if you have profiled an application and want the file to be included with the package, please file a bug against the package in Launchpad.

ubuntu-bug nameofpackage

3.3. IP Masquerading
The purpose of IP Masquerading is to allow machines with private, non-routable IP addresses on your network to access the Internet through the machine doing the masquerading. Traffic from your private network destined for the Internet must be manipulated for replies to be routable back to the machine that made the request. To do this, the kernel must modify the source IP address of each packet so that replies will be routed back to it, rather than to the private IP address that made the request, which is impossible over the Internet. Linux uses Connection Tracking (conntrack) to keep track of which connections belong to which machines and reroute each return packet accordingly. Traffic leaving your private network is thus "masqueraded" as having originated from your Ubuntu gateway machine. This process is referred to in Microsoft documentation as Internet Connection Sharing.

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DEFAULT_FORWARD_POLICY="ACCEPT"

Then edit /etc/ufw/sysctl.conf and uncomment:

net/ipv4/ip_forward=1

Similarly, for IPv6 forwarding uncomment:

net/ipv6/conf/default/forwarding=1

Now we will add rules to the /etc/ufw/before.rules file. The default rules only configure the filter table, and to enable masquerading the nat table will need to be configured. Add the following to the top of the file just after the header comments:

# nat Table rules *nat :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [0:0] # Forward traffic from eth1 through eth0. -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.0.0/24 -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE # don't delete the 'COMMIT' line or these nat table rules won't be processed COMMIT

The comments are not strictly necessary, but it is considered good practice to document your configuration. Also, when modifying any of the rules files in /etc/ufw, make sure these lines are the last line for each table modified:

# don't delete the 'COMMIT' line or these rules won't be processed COMMIT

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Security In the above example replace eth0, eth1, and 192.168.0.0/24 with the appropriate interfaces and IP range for your network. Finally, disable and re-enable ufw to apply the changes:

sudo ufw disable && sudo ufw enable

IP Masquerading should now be enabled. You can also add any additional FORWARD rules to the /etc/ufw/before.rules. It is recommended that these additional rules be added to the ufw-beforeforward chain. 3.3.2. iptables Masquerading iptables can also be used to enable Masquerading. Similar to ufw, the first step is to enable IPv4 packet forwarding by editing /etc/sysctl.conf and uncomment the following line

net.ipv4.ip_forward=1

If you wish to enable IPv6 forwarding also uncomment:

net.ipv6.conf.default.forwarding=1

Next, execute the sysctl command to enable the new settings in the configuration file:

sudo sysctl -p

IP Masquerading can now be accomplished with a single iptables rule, which may differ slightly based on your network configuration:

sudo iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.0.0/16 -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE

The above command assumes that your private address space is 192.168.0.0/16 and that your Internet-facing device is ppp0. The syntax is broken down as follows: -t nat -- the rule is to go into the nat table -A POSTROUTING -- the rule is to be appended (-A) to the POSTROUTING chain -s 192.168.0.0/16 -- the rule applies to traffic originating from the specified address space -o ppp0 -- the rule applies to traffic scheduled to be routed through the specified network device -j MASQUERADE -- traffic matching this rule is to "jump" (-j) to the MASQUERADE target to be manipulated as described above Also, each chain in the filter table (the default table, and where most or all packet filtering occurs) has a default policy of ACCEPT, but if you are creating a firewall in addition to a gateway device, you may have set the policies to DROP or REJECT, in which case your masqueraded traffic needs to be allowed through the FORWARD chain for the above rule to work:

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sudo iptables -A FORWARD -s 192.168.0.0/16 -o ppp0 -j ACCEPT sudo iptables -A FORWARD -d 192.168.0.0/16 -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -i ppp0 -j ACCEPT

The above commands will allow all connections from your local network to the Internet and all traffic related to those connections to return to the machine that initiated them. If you want masquerading to be enabled on reboot, which you probably do, edit /etc/rc.local and add any commands used above. For example add the first command with no filtering:

iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.0.0/16 -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE

3.4. Logs
Firewall logs are essential for recognizing attacks, troubleshooting your firewall rules, and noticing unusual activity on your network. You must include logging rules in your firewall for them to be generated, though, and logging rules must come before any applicable terminating rule (a rule with a target that decides the fate of the packet, such as ACCEPT, DROP, or REJECT). If you are using ufw, you can turn on logging by entering the following in a terminal:

sudo ufw logging on

To turn logging off in ufw, simply replace on with off in the above command. If using iptables instead of ufw, enter:

sudo iptables -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -p tcp --dport 80 -j LOG --log-prefix "NEW_HTTP_CONN: "

A request on port 80 from the local machine, then, would generate a log in dmesg that looks like this:

[4304885.870000] NEW_HTTP_CONN: IN=lo OUT= MAC=00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:08:00 SRC=127.0.0

The above log will also appear in /var/log/messages, /var/log/syslog, and /var/log/kern.log. This behavior can be modified by editing /etc/syslog.conf appropriately or by installing and configuring ulogd and using the ULOG target instead of LOG. The ulogd daemon is a userspace server that listens for logging instructions from the kernel specifically for firewalls, and can log to any file you like, or even to a PostgreSQL or MySQL database. Making sense of your firewall logs can be simplified by using a log analyzing tool such as fwanalog, fwlogwatch, or lire.

3.5. Other Tools

There are many tools available to help you construct a complete firewall without intimate knowledge of iptables. For the GUI-inclined: Firestarter1 is quite popular and easy to use.

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3.6. References
The Ubuntu Firewall6 wiki page contains information on the development of ufw. Also, the ufw manual page contains some very useful information: man ufw. See the packet-filtering-HOWTO7 for more information on using iptables. The nat-HOWTO8 contains further details on masquerading. The IPTables HowTo9 in the Ubuntu wiki is a great resource.

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4. AppArmor
AppArmor is a Linux Security Module implementation of name-based mandatory access controls. AppArmor confines individual programs to a set of listed files and posix 1003.1e draft capabilities. AppArmor is installed and loaded by default. It uses profiles of an application to determine what files and permissions the application requires. Some packages will install their own profiles, and additional profiles can be found in the apparmor-profiles package. To install the apparmor-profiles package from a terminal prompt:

sudo apt-get install apparmor-profiles

AppArmor profiles have two modes of execution: Complaining/Learning: profile violations are permitted and logged. Useful for testing and developing new profiles. Enforced/Confined: enforces profile policy as well as logging the violation.

4.1. Using AppArmor

The apparmor-utils package contains command line utilities that you can use to change the AppArmor execution mode, find the status of a profile, create new profiles, etc. apparmor_status is used to view the current status of AppArmor profiles.

sudo apparmor_status

aa-complain places a profile into complain mode.

sudo aa-complain /path/to/bin

aa-enforce places a profile into enforce mode.

sudo aa-enforce /path/to/bin

The /etc/apparmor.d directory is where the AppArmor profiles are located. It can be used to manipulate the mode of all profiles. Enter the following to place all profiles into complain mode:

sudo aa-complain /etc/apparmor.d/*

To place all profiles in enforce mode:

sudo aa-enforce /etc/apparmor.d/*

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cat /etc/apparmor.d/profile.name | sudo apparmor_parser -a

To reload a profile:

cat /etc/apparmor.d/profile.name | sudo apparmor_parser -r

/etc/init.d/apparmor can be used to reload all profiles:

sudo /etc/init.d/apparmor reload

The /etc/apparmor.d/disable directory can be used along with the apparmor_parser -R option to disable a profile.

sudo ln -s /etc/apparmor.d/profile.name /etc/apparmor.d/disable/ sudo apparmor_parser -R /etc/apparmor.d/profile.name

To re-enable a disabled profile remove the symbolic link to the profile in /etc/apparmor.d/ disable/. Then load the profile using the -a option.

sudo rm /etc/apparmor.d/disable/profile.name cat /etc/apparmor.d/profile.name | sudo apparmor_parser -a

AppArmor can be disabled, and the kernel module unloaded by entering the following:

sudo /etc/init.d/apparmor stop sudo update-rc.d -f apparmor remove

To re-enable AppArmor enter:

sudo /etc/init.d/apparmor start sudo update-rc.d apparmor defaults

Replace profile.name with the name of the profile you want to manipulate. Also, replace / path/to/bin/ with the actual executable file path. For example for the ping command use /
bin/ping

4.2. Profiles
AppArmor profiles are simple text files located in /etc/apparmor.d/. The files are named after the full path to the executable they profile replacing the "/" with ".". For example /etc/apparmor.d/ bin.ping is the AppArmor profile for the /bin/ping command. There are two main type of rules used in profiles: Path entries: which detail which files an application can access in the file system.

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#include <tunables/global> /bin/ping flags=(complain) { #include <abstractions/base> #include <abstractions/consoles> #include <abstractions/nameservice> capability net_raw, capability setuid, network inet raw, /bin/ping mixr, /etc/modules.conf r, }

#include <tunables/global>: include statements from other files. This allows statements pertaining to multiple applications to be placed in a common file. /bin/ping flags=(complain): path to the profiled program, also setting the mode to complain. capability net_raw,: allows the application access to the CAP_NET_RAW Posix.1e capability. /bin/ping mixr,: allows the application read and execute access to the file. After editing a profile file the profile must be reloaded. See Section 4.1, Using AppArmor [p. 124] for details. 4.2.1. Creating a Profile Design a test plan: Try to think about how the application should be exercised. The test plan should be divided into small test cases. Each test case should have a small description and list the steps to follow. Some standard test cases are: Starting the program. Stopping the program. Reloading the program. Testing all the commands supported by the init script. Generate the new profile: Use aa-genprof to generate a new profile. From a terminal:

sudo aa-genprof executable

For example:

sudo aa-genprof slapd

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sudo aa-logprof

4.3. References
See the AppArmor Administration Guide11 for advanced configuration options. For details using AppArmor with other Ubuntu releases see the AppArmor Community Wiki12 page. The OpenSUSE AppArmor13 page is another introduction to AppArmor. A great place to ask for AppArmor assistance, and get involved with the Ubuntu Server community, is the #ubuntu-server IRC channel on freenode14.

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5. Certificates
One of the most common forms of cryptography today is public-key cryptography. Public-key cryptography utilizes a public key and a private key. The system works by encrypting information using the public key. The information can then only be decrypted using the private key. A common use for public-key cryptography is encrypting application traffic using a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS) connection. For example, configuring Apache to provide HTTPS, the HTTP protocol over SSL. This allows a way to encrypt traffic using a protocol that does not itself provide encryption. A Certificate is a method used to distribute a public key and other information about a server and the organization who is responsible for it. Certificates can be digitally signed by a Certification Authority or CA. A CA is a trusted third party that has confirmed that the information contained in the certificate is accurate.

5.1. Types of Certificates

To set up a secure server using public-key cryptography, in most cases, you send your certificate request (including your public key), proof of your company's identity, and payment to a CA. The CA verifies the certificate request and your identity, and then sends back a certificate for your secure server. Alternatively, you can create your own self-signed certificate. Note, that self-signed certificates should not be used in most production environments.

Continuing the HTTPS example, a CA-signed certificate provides two important capabilities that a self-signed certificate does not: Browsers (usually) automatically recognize the certificate and allow a secure connection to be made without prompting the user. When a CA issues a signed certificate, it is guaranteeing the identity of the organization that is providing the web pages to the browser. Most Web browsers, and computers, that support SSL have a list of CAs whose certificates they automatically accept. If a browser encounters a certificate whose authorizing CA is not in the list, the browser asks the user to either accept or decline the connection. Also, other applications may generate an error message when using a self-singed certificate. The process of getting a certificate from a CA is fairly easy. A quick overview is as follows: 1. Create a private and public encryption key pair. 2. Create a certificate request based on the public key. The certificate request contains information about your server and the company hosting it. 128

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5.2. Generating a Certificate Signing Request (CSR)

Whether you are getting a certificate from a CA or generating your own self-signed certificate, the first step is to generate a key. If the certificate will be used by service daemons, such as Apache, Postfix, Dovecot, etc, a key without a passphrase is often appropriate. Not having a passphrase allows the services to start without manual intervention, usually the preferred way to start a daemon. This section will cover generating a key with a passphrase, and one without. The non-passphrase key will then be used to generate a certificate that can be used with various service daemons. Running your secure service without a passphrase is convenient because you will not need to enter the passphrase every time you start your secure service. But it is insecure and a compromise of the key means a compromise of the server as well. To generate the keys for the Certificate Signing Request (CSR) run the following command from a terminal prompt:

openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 2048

Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus ..........................++++++ .......++++++ e is 65537 (0x10001) Enter pass phrase for server.key:

You can now enter your passphrase. For best security, it should at least contain eight characters. The minimum length when specifying -des3 is four characters. It should include numbers and/or punctuation and not be a word in a dictionary. Also remember that your passphrase is case-sensitive. Re-type the passphrase to verify. Once you have re-typed it correctly, the server key is generated and stored in the server.key file. Now create the insecure key, the one without a passphrase, and shuffle the key names: 129

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openssl rsa -in server.key -out server.key.insecure mv server.key server.key.secure mv server.key.insecure server.key

The insecure key is now named server.key, and you can use this file to generate the CSR without passphrase. To create the CSR, run the following command at a terminal prompt:

openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr

It will prompt you enter the passphrase. If you enter the correct passphrase, it will prompt you to enter Company Name, Site Name, Email Id, etc. Once you enter all these details, your CSR will be created and it will be stored in the server.csr file. You can now submit this CSR file to a CA for processing. The CA will use this CSR file and issue the certificate. On the other hand, you can create self-signed certificate using this CSR.

5.3. Creating a Self-Signed Certificate

To create the self-signed certificate, run the following command at a terminal prompt:

openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in server.csr -signkey server.key -out server.crt

The above command will prompt you to enter the passphrase. Once you enter the correct passphrase, your certificate will be created and it will be stored in the server.crt file. If your secure server is to be used in a production environment, you probably need a CAsigned certificate. It is not recommended to use self-signed certificate.

5.4. Installing the Certificate

You can install the key file server.key and certificate file server.crt, or the certificate file issued by your CA, by running following commands at a terminal prompt:

sudo cp server.crt /etc/ssl/certs sudo cp server.key /etc/ssl/private

Now simply configure any applications, with the ability to use public-key cryptography, to use the certificate and key files. For example, Apache can provide HTTPS, Dovecot can provide IMAPS and POP3S, etc.

5.5. Certification Authority

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sudo mkdir /etc/ssl/CA sudo mkdir /etc/ssl/newcerts

2.

The CA needs a few additional files to operate, one to keep track of the last serial number used by the CA, each certificate must have a unique serial number, and another file to record which certificates have been issued:

sudo sh -c "echo '01' > /etc/ssl/CA/serial" sudo touch /etc/ssl/CA/index.txt

3.

The third file is a CA configuration file. Though not strictly necessary, it is very convenient when issuing multiple certificates. Edit /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf, and in the [ CA_default ] change:

dir database certificate serial private_key

= /etc/ssl/

# Where everything is kept

= $dir/CA/index.txt # database index file. = $dir/certs/cacert.pem # The CA certificate = $dir/CA/serial # The current serial number = $dir/private/cakey.pem# The private key

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Next, create the self-singed root certificate:

openssl req -new -x509 -extensions v3_ca -keyout cakey.pem -out cacert.pem -days 3650

You will then be asked to enter the details about the certificate. 5. Now install the root certificate and key:

sudo mv cakey.pem /etc/ssl/private/ sudo mv cacert.pem /etc/ssl/certs/

6.

You are now ready to start signing certificates. The first item needed is a Certificate Signing Request (CSR), see Section 5.2, Generating a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) [p. 129] for details. Once you have a CSR, enter the following to generate a certificate signed by the CA:

sudo openssl ca -in server.csr -config /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf

After entering the password for the CA key, you will be prompted to sign the certificate, and again to commit the new certificate. You should then see a somewhat large amount of output related to the certificate creation. 7. There should now be a new file, /etc/ssl/newcerts/01.pem, containing the same output. Copy and paste everything beginning with the line: -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- and continuing through the line: ----END CERTIFICATE----- lines to a file named after the hostname of the

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5.6. References
For more detailed instructions on using cryptography see the SSL Certificates HOWTO15 by tlpd.org The Wikipedia HTTPS16 page has more information regarding HTTPS. For more information on OpenSSL see the OpenSSL Home Page17. Also, O'Reilly's Network Security with OpenSSL18 is a good in depth reference.

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6. eCryptfs
eCryptfs is a POSIX-compliant enterprise-class stacked cryptographic filesystem for Linux. Layering on top of the filesystem layer eCryptfs protects files no matter the underlying filesystem, partition type, etc. During installation there is an option to encrypt the /home partition. This will automatically configure everything needed to encrypt and mount the partition. As an example, this section will cover configuring /srv to be encrypted using eCryptfs.

6.1. Using eCryptfs

First, install the necessary packages. From a terminal prompt enter:

sudo apt-get install ecryptfs-utils

Now mount the partition to be encrypted:

sudo mount -t ecryptfs /srv /srv

You will then be prompted for some details on how ecryptfs should encrypt the data. To test that files placed in /srv are indeed encrypted copy the /etc/default folder to /srv:

sudo cp -r /etc/default /srv

Now unmount /srv, and try to view a file:

sudo umount /srv cat /srv/default/cron

Remounting /srv using ecryptfs will make the data viewable once again.

6.2. Automatically Mounting Encrypted Partitions

There are a couple of ways to automatically mount an ecryptfs encrypted filesystem at boot. This example will use a /root/.ecryptfsrc file containing mount options, along with a passphrase file residing on a USB key. First, create /root/.ecryptfsrc containing:

key=passphrase:passphrase_passwd_file=/mnt/usb/passwd_file.txt ecryptfs_sig=5826dd62cf81c615 ecryptfs_cipher=aes ecryptfs_key_bytes=16

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ecryptfs_passthrough=n ecryptfs_enable_filename_crypto=n

Adjust the ecryptfs_sig to the signature in /root/.ecryptfs/sig-cache.txt.

Next, create the /mnt/usb/passwd_file.txt passphrase file:

passphrase_passwd=[secrets]

Now add the necessary lines to /etc/fstab:

/dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb ext3 /srv /srv ecryptfs defaults 0 0

ro

0 0

Make sure the USB drive is mounted before the encrypted partition. Finally, reboot and the /srv should be mounted using eCryptfs.

6.3. Other Utilities

The ecryptfs-utils package includes several other useful utilities: ecryptfs-setup-private: creates a ~/Private directory to contain encrypted information. This utility can be run by unprivileged users to keep data private from other users on the system. ecryptfs-mount-private and ecryptfs-umount-private: will mount and unmount respectively, a users ~/Private directory. ecryptfs-add-passphrase: adds a new passphrase to the kernel keyring. ecryptfs-manager: manages eCryptfs objects such as keys. ecryptfs-stat: allows you to view the ecryptfs meta information for a file.

6.4. References
For more information on eCryptfs see the Launchpad project page19. There is also a Linux Journal20 article covering eCryptfs. Also, for more ecryptfs options see the ecryptfs man page21. The eCryptfs Ubuntu Wiki22 page also has more details.

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1. Overview
The monitoring of essential servers and services is an important part of system administration. Most network services are monitored for performance, availability, or both. This section will cover installation and configuration of Nagios for availability monitoring, and Munin for performance monitoring. The examples in this section will use two servers with hostnames server01 and server02. Server01 will be configured with Nagios to monitor services on itself and server02. Server01 will also be setup with the munin package to gather information from the network. Using the munin-node package, server02 will be configured to send information to server01. Hopefully these simple examples will allow you to monitor additional servers and services on your network.

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2. Nagios
2.1. Installation
First, on server01 install the nagios package. In a terminal enter:

sudo apt-get install nagios3 nagios-nrpe-plugin

You will be asked to enter a password for the nagiosadmin user. The user's credentials are stored in / etc/nagios3/htpasswd.users. To change the nagiosadmin password, or add additional users to the Nagios CGI scripts, use the htpasswd that is part of the apache2-utils package. For example, to change the password for the nagiosadmin user enter:

sudo htpasswd /etc/nagios3/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin

To add a user:

sudo htpasswd /etc/nagios3/htpasswd.users steve

Next, on server02 install the nagios-nrpe-server package. From a terminal on server02 enter:

sudo apt-get install nagios-nrpe-server

NRPE allows you to execute local checks on remote hosts. There are other ways of accomplishing this through other Nagios plugins as well as other checks.

2.2. Configuration Overview

There are a couple of directories containing Nagios configuration and check files. /etc/nagios3: contains configuration files for the operation of the nagios daemon, CGI files, hosts, etc. /etc/nagios-plugins: houses configuration files for the service checks. /etc/nagios: on the remote host contains the nagios-nrpe-server configuration files. /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/: where the check binaries are stored. To see the options of a check use the -h option. For example: /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_dhcp -h There are a plethora of checks Nagios can be configured to execute for any given host. For this example Nagios will be configured to check disk space, DNS, and a MySQL hostgroup. The DNS check will be on server02, and the MySQL hostgroup will include both server01 and server02. 137

Monitoring See Section 1, HTTPD - Apache2 Web Server [p. 144] for details on setting up Apache, Chapter 7, Domain Name Service (DNS) [p. 97] for DNS, and Section 1, MySQL [p. 162] for MySQL. Additionally, there are some terms that once explained will hopefully make understanding Nagios configuration easier: Host: a server, workstation, network device, etc that is being monitored. Host Group: a group of similar hosts. For example, you could group all web servers, file server, etc. Service: the service being monitored on the host. Such as HTTP, DNS, NFS, etc. Service Group: allows you to group multiple services together. This is useful for grouping multiple HTTP for example. Contact: person to be notified when an event takes place. Nagios can be configured to send emails, SMS messages, etc. By default Nagios is configured to check HTTP, disk space, SSH, current users, processes, and load on the localhost. Nagios will also ping check the gateway. Large Nagios installations can be quite complex to configure. It is usually best to start small, one or two hosts, get things configured the way you like then expand.

2.3. Configuration
1. First, create a host configuration file for server02. Unless otherwise specified, run all these commands on server01. In a terminal enter:

sudo cp /etc/nagios3/conf.d/localhost_nagios2.cfg /etc/nagios3/conf.d/server02.cfg

In the above and following command examples, replace "server01", "server02" 172.18.100.100, and 172.18.100.101 with the host names and IP addresses of your servers. 2. Next, edit /etc/nagios3/conf.d/server02.cfg:

define host{ use host_name alias address } # check DNS service. define service { use host_name service_description generic-service server02 DNS generic-host server02 Server 02 172.18.100.101 ; Name of host template to use

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check_command } check_dns!172.18.100.101

3.

Restart the nagios daemon to enable the new configuration:

sudo /etc/init.d/nagios3 restart

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Now add a service definition for the MySQL check by adding the following to /etc/nagios3/ conf.d/services_nagios2.cfg:

# check MySQL servers. define service { hostgroup_name service_description check_command use notification_interval } mysql-servers MySQL check_mysql_cmdlinecred!nagios!secret!$HOSTADDRESS generic-service 0 ; set > 0 if you want to be renotified

2.

A mysql-servers hostgroup now needs to be defined. Edit /etc/nagios3/conf.d/ hostgroups_nagios2.cfg adding:

# MySQL hostgroup. define hostgroup { hostgroup_name alias members } mysql-servers MySQL servers localhost, server02

3.

The Nagios check needs to authenticate to MySQL. To add a nagios user to MySQL enter:

mysql -u root -p -e "create user nagios identified by 'secret';"

The nagios user will need to be added all hosts in the mysql-servers hostgroup. 4. Restart nagios to start checking the MySQL servers.

sudo /etc/init.d/nagios3 restart

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Lastly configure NRPE to check the disk space on server02. On server01 add the service check to /etc/nagios3/conf.d/server02.cfg:

# NRPE disk check. define service { use host_name service_description check_command } generic-service server02 nrpe-disk check_nrpe_1arg!check_all_disks!172.18.100.101

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allowed_hosts=172.18.100.100

And below in the command definition area add:

command[check_all_disks]=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_disk -w 20% -c 10% -e

3.

Finally, restart nagios-nrpe-server:

sudo /etc/init.d/nagios-nrpe-server restart

4.

Also, on server01 restart nagios:

sudo /etc/init.d/nagios3 restart

You should now be able to see the host and service checks in the Nagios CGI files. To access them point a browser to http://server01/nagios3. You will then be prompted for the nagiosadmin username and password.

2.4. References
This section has just scratched the surface of Nagios' features. The nagios-plugins-extra and nagiossnmp-plugins contain many more service checks. For more information see Nagios1 website. Specifically the Online Documentation2 site. There is also a list of books3 related to Nagios and network monitoring: The Nagios Ubuntu Wiki4 page also has more details.

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3. Munin
3.1. Installation
Before installing Munin on server01 apache2 will need to be installed. The default configuration is fine for running a munin server. For more information see Section 1, HTTPD - Apache2 Web Server [p. 144]. First, on server01 install munin. In a terminal enter:

sudo apt-get install munin

Now on server02 install the munin-node package:

sudo apt-get install munin-node

3.2. Configuration
On server01 edit the /etc/munin/munin.conf adding the IP address for server02:

## First our "normal" host. [server02] address 172.18.100.101

Replace server02 and 172.18.100.101 with the actual hostname and IP address for your server. Next, configure munin-node on server02. Edit /etc/munin/munin-node.conf to allow access by server01:

allow ^172\.18\.100\.100$

Replace ^172\.18\.100\.100$ with IP address for your munin server.

Now restart munin-node on server02 for the changes to take effect:

sudo /etc/init.d/munin-node restart

Finally, in a browser go to http://server01/munin, and you should see links to nice graphs displaying information from the standard munin-plugins for disk, network, processes, and system. Since this is a new install it may take some time for the graphs to display anything useful.

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3.3. Additional Plugins

The munin-plugins-extra package contains performance checks additional services such as DNS, DHCP, Samba, etc. To install the package, from a terminal enter:

sudo apt-get install munin-plugins-extra

Be sure to install the package on both the server and node machines.

3.4. References
See the Munin5 website for more details. Specifically the Munin Documentation6 page includes information on additional plugins, writing plugins, etc. Also, there is a book in German by Open Source Press: Munin Graphisches Netzwerk- und SystemMonitoring7. Another resource is the Munin Ubuntu Wiki8 page.

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A Web server is a software responsible for accepting HTTP requests from clients, which are known as Web browsers, and serving them HTTP responses along with optional data contents, which usually are Web pages such as HTML documents and linked objects (images, etc.).

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1. HTTPD - Apache2 Web Server

Apache is the most commonly used Web Server on Linux systems. Web Servers are used to serve Web Pages requested by client computers. Clients typically request and view Web Pages using Web Browser applications such as Firefox, Opera, or Mozilla. Users enter a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) to point to a Web server by means of its Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) and a path to the required resource. For example, to view the home page of the Ubuntu Web site1 a user will enter only the FQDN. To request specific information about paid support2, a user will enter the FQDN followed by a path. The most common protocol used to transfer Web pages is the Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP). Protocols such as Hyper Text Transfer Protocol over Secure Sockets Layer (HTTPS), and File Transfer Protocol (FTP), a protocol for uploading and downloading files, are also supported. Apache Web Servers are often used in combination with the MySQL database engine, the HyperText Preprocessor (PHP) scripting language, and other popular scripting languages such as Python and Perl. This configuration is termed LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl/Python/PHP) and forms a powerful and robust platform for the development and deployment of Web-based applications.

1.1. Installation
The Apache2 web server is available in Ubuntu Linux. To install Apache2: At a terminal prompt enter the following command:

sudo apt-get install apache2

1.2. Configuration
Apache2 is configured by placing directives in plain text configuration files. These directives are separated between the following files and directories: apache2.conf: the main Apache2 configuration file. Contains settings that are global to Apache2. conf.d: contains configuration files which apply globally to Apache2. Other packages that use Apache2 to serve content may add files, or symlinks, to this directory. envvars: file where Apache2 environment variables are set. httpd.conf: historically the main Apache2 configuration file, named after the httpd daemon. The file can be used for user specific configuration options that globally effect Apache2. mods-available: this directory contains configuration files to both load modules and configure them. Not all modules will have specific configuration files, however.
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Web Servers mods-enabled: holds symlinks to the files in /etc/apache2/mods-available. When a module configuration file is symlinked it will be enabled the next time apache2 is restarted. ports.conf: houses the directives that determine which TCP ports Apache2 is listening on. sites-available: this directory has configuration files for Apache2 Virtual Hosts. Virtual Hosts allow Apache2 to be configured for multiple sites that have separate configurations. sites-enabled: like mods-enabled, sites-enabled contains symlinks to the /etc/apache2/sitesavailable directory. Similarly when a configuration file in sites-available is symlinked, the site configured by it will be active once Apache2 is restarted. In addition, other configuration files may be added using the Include directive, and wildcards can be used to include many configuration files. Any directive may be placed in any of these configuration files. Changes to the main configuration files are only recognized by Apache2 when it is started or restarted. The server also reads a file containing mime document types; the filename is set by the TypesConfig directive, and is /etc/mime.types by default. 1.2.1. Basic Settings This section explains Apache2 server essential configuration parameters. Refer to the Apache2 Documentation3 for more details. Apache2 ships with a virtual-host-friendly default configuration. That is, it is configured with a single default virtual host (using the VirtualHost directive) which can modified or used as-is if you have a single site, or used as a template for additional virtual hosts if you have multiple sites. If left alone, the default virtual host will serve as your default site, or the site users will see if the URL they enter does not match the ServerName directive of any of your custom sites. To modify the default virtual host, edit the file /etc/apache2/sites-available/default. The directives set for a virtual host only apply to that particular virtual host. If a directive is set server-wide and not defined within the virtual host settings, the default setting is used. For example, you can define a Webmaster email address and not define individual email addresses for each virtual host. If you wish to configure a new virtual host or site, copy that file into the same directory with a name you choose. For example:

sudo cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/default /etc/apache2/sites-available/mynewsite

Edit the new file to configure the new site using some of the directives described below. The ServerAdmin directive specifies the email address to be advertised for the server's administrator. The default value is webmaster@localhost. This should be changed to an email
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Web Servers address that is delivered to you (if you are the server's administrator). If your website has a problem, Apache2 will display an error message containing this email address to report the problem to. Find this directive in your site's configuration file in /etc/apache2/sites-available. The Listen directive specifies the port, and optionally the IP address, Apache2 should listen on. If the IP address is not specified, Apache2 will listen on all IP addresses assigned to the machine it runs on. The default value for the Listen directive is 80. Change this to 127.0.0.1:80 to cause Apache2 to listen only on your loopback interface so that it will not be available to the Internet, to (for example) 81 to change the port that it listens on, or leave it as is for normal operation. This directive can be found and changed in its own file, /etc/apache2/ports.conf The ServerName directive is optional and specifies what FQDN your site should answer to. The default virtual host has no ServerName directive specified, so it will respond to all requests that do not match a ServerName directive in another virtual host. If you have just acquired the domain name ubunturocks.com and wish to host it on your Ubuntu server, the value of the ServerName directive in your virtual host configuration file should be ubunturocks.com. Add this directive to the new virtual host file you created earlier (/etc/apache2/sites-available/mynewsite). You may also want your site to respond to www.ubunturocks.com, since many users will assume the www prefix is appropriate. Use the ServerAlias directive for this. You may also use wildcards in the ServerAlias directive. For example, the following configuration will cause your site to respond to any domain request ending in .ubunturocks.com.

ServerAlias *.ubunturocks.com

The DocumentRoot directive specifies where Apache2 should look for the files that make up the site. The default value is /var/www. No site is configured there, but if you uncomment the RedirectMatch directive in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf requests will be redirected to /var/www/ apache2-default where the default Apache2 site awaits. Change this value in your site's virtual host file, and remember to create that directory if necessary! Enable the new VirtualHost using the a2ensite utility and restart Apache2:

sudo a2ensite mynewsite sudo service apache2 restart

Be sure to replace mynewsite with a more descriptive name for the VirtualHost. One method is to name the file after the ServerName directive of the VirtualHost. Similarly, use the a2dissite utility to disable sites. This is can be useful when troubleshooting configuration problems with multiple VirtualHosts:

sudo a2dissite mynewsite sudo service apache2 restart

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grep ErrorDocument /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

By default, the server writes the transfer log to the file /var/log/apache2/access.log. You can change this on a per-site basis in your virtual host configuration files with the CustomLog directive, or omit it to accept the default, specified in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf. You may also specify the file to which errors are logged, via the ErrorLog directive, whose default is /var/log/apache2/ error.log. These are kept separate from the transfer logs to aid in troubleshooting problems with your Apache2 server. You may also specify the LogLevel (the default value is "warn") and the LogFormat (see /etc/apache2/apache2.conf for the default value). Some options are specified on a per-directory basis rather than per-server. Options is one of these directives. A Directory stanza is enclosed in XML-like tags, like so:

<Directory /var/www/mynewsite> ... </Directory>

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Web Servers ExecCGI - Allow execution of CGI scripts. CGI scripts are not executed if this option is not chosen. Most files should not be executed as CGI scripts. This would be very dangerous. CGI scripts should kept in a directory separate from and outside your DocumentRoot, and only this directory should have the ExecCGI option set. This is the default, and the default location for CGI scripts is /usr/lib/cgi-bin. Includes - Allow server-side includes. Server-side includes allow an HTML file to include other files. This is not a common option. See the Apache2 SSI HOWTO4 for more information. IncludesNOEXEC - Allow server-side includes, but disable the #exec and #include commands in CGI scripts. Indexes - Display a formatted list of the directory's contents, if no DirectoryIndex (such as index.html) exists in the requested directory. For security reasons, this should usually not be set, and certainly should not be set on your DocumentRoot directory. Enable this option carefully on a per-directory basis only if you are certain you want users to see the entire contents of the directory. Multiview - Support content-negotiated multiviews; this option is disabled by default for security reasons. See the Apache2 documentation on this option5. SymLinksIfOwnerMatch - Only follow symbolic links if the target file or directory has the same owner as the link. 1.2.3. httpd Settings This section explains some basic httpd daemon configuration settings. LockFile - The LockFile directive sets the path to the lockfile used when the server is compiled with either USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT or USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT. It must be stored on the local disk. It should be left to the default value unless the logs directory is located on an NFS share. If this is the case, the default value should be changed to a location on the local disk and to a directory that is readable only by root. PidFile - The PidFile directive sets the file in which the server records its process ID (pid). This file should only be readable by root. In most cases, it should be left to the default value. User - The User directive sets the userid used by the server to answer requests. This setting determines the server's access. Any files inaccessible to this user will also be inaccessible to your website's visitors. The default value for User is www-data. Unless you know exactly what you are doing, do not set the User directive to root. Using root as the User will create large security holes for your Web server. The Group directive is similar to the User directive. Group sets the group under which the server will answer requests. The default group is also www-data. 148

Web Servers 1.2.4. Apache2 Modules Apache2 is a modular server. This implies that only the most basic functionality is included in the core server. Extended features are available through modules which can be loaded into Apache2. By default, a base set of modules is included in the server at compile-time. If the server is compiled to use dynamically loaded modules, then modules can be compiled separately, and added at any time using the LoadModule directive. Otherwise, Apache2 must be recompiled to add or remove modules. Ubuntu compiles Apache2 to allow the dynamic loading of modules. Configuration directives may be conditionally included on the presence of a particular module by enclosing them in an <IfModule> block. You can install additional Apache2 modules and use them with your Web server. For example, run the following command from a terminal prompt to install the MySQL Authentication module:

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-auth-mysql

See the /etc/apache2/mods-available directory, for additional modules. Use the a2enmod utility to enable a module:

sudo a2enmod auth_mysql sudo service apache2 restart

Similarly, a2dismod will disable a module:

sudo a2dismod auth_mysql sudo service apache2 restart

1.3. HTTPS Configuration

The mod_ssl module adds an important feature to the Apache2 server - the ability to encrypt communications. Thus, when your browser is communicating using SSL, the https:// prefix is used at the beginning of the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) in the browser navigation bar. The mod_ssl module is available in apache2-common package. Execute the following command from a terminal prompt to enable the mod_ssl module:

sudo a2enmod ssl

There is a default HTTPS configuration file in /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl. In order for Apache2 to provide HTTPS, a certificate and key file are also needed. The default HTTPS configuration will use a certificate and key generated by the ssl-cert package. They are good for testing, but the auto-generated certificate and key should be replaced by a certificate specific to the site or server. For information on generating a key and obtaining a certificate see Section 5, Certificates [p. 128] 149

Web Servers To configure Apache2 for HTTPS, enter the following:

sudo a2ensite default-ssl

The directories /etc/ssl/certs and /etc/ssl/private are the default locations. If you install the certificate and key in another directory make sure to change SSLCertificateFile and SSLCertificateKeyFile appropriately. With Apache2 now configured for HTTPS, restart the service to enable the new settings:

sudo service apache2 restart

Depending on how you obtained your certificate you may need to enter a passphrase when Apache2 starts. You can access the secure server pages by typing https://your_hostname/url/ in your browser address bar.

1.4. References
Apache2 Documentation6 contains in depth information on Apache2 configuration directives. Also, see the apache2-doc package for the official Apache2 docs. See the Mod SSL Documentation7 site for more SSL related information. O'Reilly's Apache Cookbook8 is a good resource for accomplishing specific Apache2 configurations. For Ubuntu specific Apache2 questions, ask in the #ubuntu-server IRC channel on freenode.net9. Usually integrated with PHP and MySQL the Apache MySQL PHP Ubuntu Wiki 10 page is a good resource.

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2. PHP5 - Scripting Language

PHP is a general-purpose scripting language suited for Web development. The PHP script can be embedded into HTML. This section explains how to install and configure PHP5 in Ubuntu System with Apache2 and MySQL. This section assumes you have installed and configured Apache2 Web Server and MySQL Database Server. You can refer to Apache2 section and MySQL sections in this document to install and configure Apache2 and MySQL respectively.

2.1. Installation
The PHP5 is available in Ubuntu Linux. To install PHP5 you can enter the following command in the terminal prompt:

sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5

You can run PHP5 scripts from command line. To run PHP5 scripts from command line you should install php5-cli package. To install php5-cli you can enter the following command in the terminal prompt:

sudo apt-get install php5-cli

You can also execute PHP5 scripts without installing PHP5 Apache module. To accomplish this, you should install php5-cgi package. You can run the following command in a terminal prompt to install php5-cgi package:

sudo apt-get install php5-cgi

To use MySQL with PHP5 you should install php5-mysql package. To install php5-mysql you can enter the following command in the terminal prompt:

sudo apt-get install php5-mysql

Similarly, to use PostgreSQL with PHP5 you should install php5-pgsql package. To install php5pgsql you can enter the following command in the terminal prompt:

sudo apt-get install php5-pgsql

2.2. Configuration
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Web Servers By default, the Apache 2 Web server is configured to run PHP5 scripts. In other words, the PHP5 module is enabled in Apache2 Web server automatically when you install the module. Please verify if the files /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php5.conf and /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php5.load exist. If they do not exists, you can enable the module using a2enmod command. Once you install PHP5 related packages and enabled PHP5 Apache 2 module, you should restart Apache2 Web server to run PHP5 scripts. You can run the following command at a terminal prompt to restart your web server:
sudo service apache2 restart

2.3. Testing
To verify your installation, you can run following PHP5 phpinfo script:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

You can save the content in a file phpinfo.php and place it under DocumentRoot directory of Apache2 Web server. When point your browser to http://hostname/phpinfo.php, it would display values of various PHP5 configuration parameters.

2.4. References
For more in depth information see php.net11 documentation. There are a plethora of books on PHP. Two good books from O'Reilly are Learning PHP 512 and the PHP Cook Book13. Also, see the Apache MySQL PHP Ubuntu Wiki14 page for more information.

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3. Squid - Proxy Server

Squid is a full-featured web proxy cache server application which provides proxy and cache services for Hyper Text Transport Protocol (HTTP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), and other popular network protocols. Squid can implement caching and proxying of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) requests and caching of Domain Name Server (DNS) lookups, and perform transparent caching. Squid also supports a wide variety of caching protocols, such as Internet Cache Protocol, (ICP) the Hyper Text Caching Protocol, (HTCP) the Cache Array Routing Protocol (CARP), and the Web Cache Coordination Protocol. (WCCP) The Squid proxy cache server is an excellent solution to a variety of proxy and caching server needs, and scales from the branch office to enterprise level networks while providing extensive, granular access control mechanisms and monitoring of critical parameters via the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). When selecting a computer system for use as a dedicated Squid proxy, or caching servers, ensure your system is configured with a large amount of physical memory, as Squid maintains an in-memory cache for increased performance.

3.1. Installation
At a terminal prompt, enter the following command to install the Squid server:

sudo apt-get install squid

3.2. Configuration
Squid is configured by editing the directives contained within the /etc/squid/squid.conf configuration file. The following examples illustrate some of the directives which may be modified to affect the behavior of the Squid server. For more in-depth configuration of Squid, see the References section. Prior to editing the configuration file, you should make a copy of the original file and protect it from writing so you will have the original settings as a reference, and to re-use as necessary. Copy the /etc/squid/squid.conf file and protect it from writing with the following commands entered at a terminal prompt:

sudo cp /etc/squid/squid.conf /etc/squid/squid.conf.original sudo chmod a-w /etc/squid/squid.conf.original

To set your Squid server to listen on TCP port 8888 instead of the default TCP port 3128, change the http_port directive as such:

http_port 8888

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visible_hostname weezie

Using Squid's access control, you may configure use of Internet services proxied by Squid to be available only users with certain Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. For example, we will illustrate access by users of the 192.168.42.0/24 subnetwork only: Add the following to the bottom of the ACL section of your /etc/squid/squid.conf file:

acl fortytwo_network src 192.168.42.0/24

Then, add the following to the top of the http_access section of your /etc/squid/squid.conf file:

http_access allow fortytwo_network

Using the excellent access control features of Squid, you may configure use of Internet services proxied by Squid to be available only during normal business hours. For example, we'll illustrate access by employees of a business which is operating between 9:00AM and 5:00PM, Monday through Friday, and which uses the 10.1.42.0/42 subnetwork: Add the following to the bottom of the ACL section of your /etc/squid/squid.conf file:

acl biz_network src 10.1.42.0/24 acl biz_hours time M T W T F 9:00-17:00

Then, add the following to the top of the http_access section of your /etc/squid/squid.conf file:

http_access allow biz_network biz_hours

After making changes to the /etc/squid/squid.conf file, save the file and restart the squid server application to effect the changes using the following command entered at a terminal prompt:

sudo /etc/init.d/squid restart

3.3. References
Squid Website15 Ubuntu Wiki Squid16 page.
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4. Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails is an open source web framework for developing database backed web applications. It is optimized for sustainable productivity of the programmer since it lets the programmer to write code by favouring convention over configuration.

4.1. Installation
Before installing Rails you should install Apache and MySQL. To install the Apache package, please refer to Section 1, HTTPD - Apache2 Web Server [p. 144]. For instructions on installing MySQL refer to Section 1, MySQL [p. 162]. Once you have Apache and MySQL packages installed, you are ready to install Ruby on Rails package. To install the Ruby base packages and Ruby on Rails, you can enter the following command in the terminal prompt:

sudo apt-get install rails

4.2. Configuration
Modify the /etc/apache2/sites-available/default configuration file to setup your domains. The first thing to change is the DocumentRoot directive:

DocumentRoot /path/to/rails/application/public

Next, change the <Directory "/path/to/rails/application/public"> directive:

<Directory "/path/to/rails/application/public"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews ExecCGI AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow from all AddHandler cgi-script .cgi </Directory>

You should also enable the mod_rewrite module for Apache. To enable mod_rewrite module, please enter the following command in a terminal prompt:

sudo a2enmod rewrite

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sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /path/to/rails/application/public sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /path/to/rails/application/tmp

That's it! Now you have your Server ready for your Ruby on Rails applications.

4.3. References
See the Ruby on Rails17 website for more information. Also Agile Development with Rails18 is a great resource. Another place for more information is the Ruby on Rails Ubuntu Wiki19 page.

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5. Apache Tomcat
Apache Tomcat is a web container that allows you to serve Java Servlets and JSP (Java Server Pages) web applications. The Tomcat 6.0 packages in Ubuntu support two different ways of running Tomcat. You can install them as a classic unique system-wide instance, that will be started at boot time will run as the tomcat6 unprivileged user. But you can also deploy private instances that will run with your own user rights, and that you should start and stop by yourself. This second way is particularly useful in a development server context where multiple users need to test on their own private Tomcat instances.

5.1. System-wide installation

To install the Tomcat server, you can enter the following command in the terminal prompt:

sudo apt-get install tomcat6

This will install a Tomcat server with just a default ROOT webapp that displays a minimal "It works" page by default.

5.2. Configuration
Tomcat configuration files can be found in /etc/tomcat6. Only a few common configuration tweaks will be described here, please see Tomcat 6.0 documentation20 for more. 5.2.1. Changing default ports By default Tomcat 6.0 runs a HTTP connector on port 8080 and an AJP connector on port 8009. You might want to change those default ports to avoid conflict with another server on the system. This is done by changing the following lines in /etc/tomcat6/server.xml:

<Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1" connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="8443" /> ... <Connector port="8009" protocol="AJP/1.3" redirectPort="8443" />

5.2.2. Changing JVM used By default Tomcat will run preferably with OpenJDK-6, then try Sun's JVM, then try some other JVMs. If you have various JVMs installed, you can set which should be used by setting JAVA_HOME in /etc/default/tomcat6:

JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun
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<role rolename="admin"/> <user username="tomcat" password="s3cret" roles="admin"/>

5.3. Using Tomcat standard webapps

Tomcat is shipped with webapps that you can install for documentation, administration or demo purposes. 5.3.1. Tomcat documentation The tomcat6-docs package contains Tomcat 6.0 documentation, packaged as a webapp that you can access by default at http://yourserver:8080/docs. You can install it by entering the following command in the terminal prompt:

sudo apt-get install tomcat6-docs

5.3.2. Tomcat administration webapps The tomcat6-admin package contains two webapps that can be used to administer the Tomcat server using a web interface. You can install them by entering the following command in the terminal prompt:

sudo apt-get install tomcat6-admin

The first one is the manager webapp, which you can access by default at http://yourserver:8080/ manager/html. It is primarily used to get server status and restart webapps. Access to the manager application is protected by default: you need to define a user with the role "manager" in /etc/tomcat6/tomcat-users.xml before you can access it. The second one is the host-manager webapp, which you can access by default at http:// yourserver:8080/host-manager/html. It can be used to create virtual hosts dynamically. Access to the host-manager application is also protected by default: you need to define a user with the role "admin" in /etc/tomcat6/tomcat-users.xml before you can access it. For security reasons, the tomcat6 user cannot write to the /etc/tomcat6 directory by default. Some features in these admin webapps (application deployment, virtual host creation) need write access to that directory. If you want to use these features execute the following, to give users in the tomcat6 group the necessary rights:

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sudo chgrp -R tomcat6 /etc/tomcat6 sudo chmod -R g+w /etc/tomcat6

5.3.3. Tomcat examples webapps The tomcat6-examples package contains two webapps that can be used to test or demonstrate Servlets and JSP features, which you can access them by default at http://yourserver:8080/examples. You can install them by entering the following command in the terminal prompt:

sudo apt-get install tomcat6-examples

5.4. Using private instances

Tomcat is heavily used in development and testing scenarios where using a single system-wide instance doesn't meet the requirements of multiple users on a single system. The Tomcat 6.0 packages in Ubuntu come with tools to help deploy your own user-oriented instances, allowing every user on a system to run (without root rights) separate private instances while still using the system-installed libraries. It is possible to run the system-wide instance and the private instances in parallel, as long as they do not use the same TCP ports. 5.4.1. Installing private instance support You can install everything necessary to run private instances by entering the following command in the terminal prompt:

sudo apt-get install tomcat6-user

5.4.2. Creating a private instance You can create a private instance directory by entering the following command in the terminal prompt:

tomcat6-instance-create my-instance

This will create a new my-instance directory with all the necessary subdirectories and scripts. You can for example install your common libraries in the lib/ subdirectory and deploy your webapps in the webapps/ subdirectory. No webapps are deployed by default. 5.4.3. Configuring your private instance You will find the classic Tomcat configuration files for your private instance in the conf/ subdirectory. You should for example certainly edit the conf/server.xml file to change the default ports used by your private Tomcat instance to avoid conflict with other instances that might be running. 159

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my-instance/bin/startup.sh

You should check the logs/ subdirectory for any error. If you have a java.net.BindException: Address already in use<null>:8080 error, it means that the port you're using is already taken and that you should change it. You can stop your instance by entering the following command in the terminal prompt (supposing your instance is located in the my-instance directory):

my-instance/bin/shutdown.sh

5.5. References
See the Apache Tomcat21 website for more information. Tomcat: The Definitive Guide22 is a good resource for building web applications with Tomcat. For additional books see the Tomcat Books23 list page. Also, see theUbuntu Wiki Apache Tomcat24 page.

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Ubuntu provides two popular database servers. They are: MySQL PostgreSQL They are available in the main repository. This section explains how to install and configure these database servers.

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1. MySQL
MySQL is a fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL database server. It is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.

1.1. Installation
To install MySQL, run the following command from a terminal prompt:

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

During the installation process you will be prompted to enter a password for the MySQL root user. Once the installation is complete, the MySQL server should be started automatically. You can run the following command from a terminal prompt to check whether the MySQL server is running:

sudo netstat -tap | grep mysql

When you run this command, you should see the following line or something similar:

tcp

0 localhost:mysql

*:*

LISTEN

2556/mysqld

If the server is not running correctly, you can type the following command to start it:

sudo service mysql restart

1.2. Configuration
You can edit the /etc/mysql/my.cnf file to configure the basic settings -- log file, port number, etc. For example, to configure MySQL to listen for connections from network hosts, change the bindaddress directive to the server's IP address:

bind-address

= 192.168.0.5

Replace 192.168.0.5 with the appropriate address.

After making a change to /etc/mysql/my.cnf the mysql daemon will need to be restarted:

sudo service mysql restart

If you would like to change the MySQL root password, in a terminal enter:

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sudo dpkg-reconfigure mysql-server-5.1

The mysql daemon will be stopped, and you will be prompted to enter a new password.

1.3. Resources
See the MySQL Home Page1 for more information. Full documentation is available in both online and offline formats from the MySQL Developers portal2 For general SQL information see Using SQL Special Edition3 by Rafe Colburn. The Apache MySQL PHP Ubuntu Wiki4 page also has useful information.

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2. PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an object-relational database system that has the features of traditional commercial database systems with enhancements to be found in next-generation DBMS systems.

2.1. Installation
To install PostgreSQL, run the following command in the command prompt:

sudo apt-get install postgresql

Once the installation is complete, you should configure the PostgreSQL server based on your needs, although the default configuration is viable.

2.2. Configuration
By default, connection via TCP/IP is disabled. PostgreSQL supports multiple client authentication methods. IDENT authentication method is used for postgres and local users, unless otherwise configured. Please refer the PostgreSQL Administrator's Guide if you would like to configure alternatives like Kerberos5. The following discussion assumes that you wish to enable TCP/IP connections and use the MD5 method for client authentication. PostgreSQL configuration files are stored in the /etc/postgresql/ <version>/main directory. For example, if you install PostgreSQL 8.4, the configuration files are stored in the /etc/postgresql/8.4/main directory. To configure ident authentication, add entries to the /etc/postgresql/8.4/main/ pg_ident.conf file. There are detailed comments in the file to guide you. To enable TCP/IP connections, edit the file /etc/postgresql/8.4/main/postgresql.conf Locate the line #listen_addresses = 'localhost' and change it to:

listen_addresses = 'localhost'

To allow other computers to connect to your PostgreSQL server replace 'localhost' with the IP Address of your server, or alternatively to '0.0.0.0' to bind to all interfaces. You may also edit all other parameters, if you know what you are doing! For details, refer to the configuration file or to the PostgreSQL documentation. Now that we can connect to our PostgreSQL server, the next step is to set a password for the postgres user. Run the following command at a terminal prompt to connect to the default PostgreSQL template database:
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sudo -u postgres psql template1

The above command connects to PostgreSQL database template1 as user postgres. Once you connect to the PostgreSQL server, you will be at a SQL prompt. You can run the following SQL command at the psql prompt to configure the password for the user postgres.

ALTER USER postgres with encrypted password 'your_password';

After configuring the password, edit the file /etc/postgresql/8.4/main/pg_hba.conf to use MD5 authentication with the postgres user:

local

all

postgres

md5

Finally, you should restart the PostgreSQL service to initialize the new configuration. From a terminal prompt enter the following to restart PostgreSQL:

sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.4 restart

The above configuration is not complete by any means. Please refer the PostgreSQL Administrator's Guide6 to configure more parameters.

2.3. Resources
As mentioned above the Administrator's Guide7 is an excellent resource. The guide is also available in the postgresql-doc-8.4 package. Execute the following in a terminal to install the package:

sudo apt-get install postgresql-doc-8.4

To view the guide enter file:///usr/share/doc/postgresql-doc-8.4/html/index.html into the address bar of your browser. For general SQL information see Using SQL Special Edition8 by Rafe Colburn. Also, see the PostgreSQL Ubuntu Wiki9 page for more information.

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1. Overview
LAMP installations (Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP/Perl/Python) are a popular setup for Ubuntu servers. There is a plethora of Open Source applications written using the LAMP application stack. Some popular LAMP applications are Wiki's, Content Management Systems, and Management Software such as phpMyAdmin. One advantage of LAMP is the substantial flexibility for different database, web server, and scripting languages. Popular substitutes for MySQL include PostgreSQL and SQLite. Python, Perl, and Ruby are also frequently used instead of PHP. While Nginx, Cherokee and Lighttpd can replace Apache. The fastest way to get started is to install LAMP using tasksel, tasksel is a Debian/Ubuntu tool that installs multiple related packages as a co-ordinated "task" onto your system.

sudo tasksel install lamp-server

After installing it you'll be able to install most LAMP applications this way: Download an archive containing the application source files. Unpack the archive, usually in a directory accessible to a web server. Depending on where the source was extracted, configure a web server to serve the files. Configure the application to connect to the database. Run a script, or browse to a page of the application, to install the database needed by the application. Once the steps above, or similar steps, are completed you are ready to begin using the application. A disadvantage of using this approach is that the application files are not placed in the file system in a standard way, which can cause confusion as to where the application is installed. Another larger disadvantage is updating the application. When a new version is released, the same process used to install the application is needed to apply updates. Fortunately, a number of LAMP applications are already packaged for Ubuntu, and are available for installation in the same way as non-LAMP applications. Depending on the application some extra configuration and setup steps may be needed, however. This section covers howto install and configure the Wiki applications MoinMoin, MediaWiki, and the MySQL management application phpMyAdmin. A Wiki is a website that allows the visitors to easily add, remove and modify available content easily. The ease of interaction and operation makes Wiki an effective tool for mass collaborative authoring. The term Wiki is also referred to the collaborative software.

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2. Moin Moin
MoinMoin is a Wiki engine implemented in Python, based on the PikiPiki Wiki engine, and licensed under the GNU GPL.

2.1. Installation
To install MoinMoin, run the following command in the command prompt:

sudo apt-get install python-moinmoin

You should also install apache2 web server. For installing apache2 web server, please refer to Section 1.1, Installation [p. 144] sub-section in Section 1, HTTPD - Apache2 Web Server [p. 144] section.

2.2. Configuration
For configuring your first Wiki application, please run the following set of commands. Let us assume that you are creating a Wiki named mywiki:

cd /usr/share/moin sudo mkdir mywiki sudo cp -R data mywiki sudo cp -R underlay mywiki sudo cp server/moin.cgi mywiki sudo chown -R www-data.www-data mywiki sudo chmod -R ug+rwX mywiki sudo chmod -R o-rwx mywiki

Now you should configure MoinMoin to find your new Wiki mywiki. To configure MoinMoin, open / etc/moin/mywiki.py file and change the following line:
data_dir = '/org/mywiki/data'

to
data_dir = '/usr/share/moin/mywiki/data'

Also, below the data_dir option add the data_underlay_dir:

data_underlay_dir='/usr/share/moin/mywiki/underlay'

If the /etc/moin/mywiki.py file does not exists, you should copy /etc/moin/ moinmaster.py file to /etc/moin/mywiki.py file and do the above mentioned change. If you have named your Wiki as my_wiki_name you should insert a line ("my_wiki_name", r".*") in /etc/moin/farmconfig.py file after the line ("mywiki", r".*"). 168

LAMP Applications Once you have configured MoinMoin to find your first Wiki application mywiki, you should configure apache2 and make it ready for your Wiki application. You should add the following lines in /etc/apache2/sites-available/default file inside the <VirtualHost *> tag:

### moin ScriptAlias /mywiki "/usr/share/moin/mywiki/moin.cgi" alias /moin_static184 "/usr/share/moin/htdocs" <Directory /usr/share/moin/htdocs> Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory> ### end moin

Adjust the "moin_static184" in the alias line above, to the moinmoin version installed.

Once you configure the apache2 web server and make it ready for your Wiki application, you should restart it. You can run the following command to restart the apache2 web server:

sudo service apache2 restart

2.3. Verification
You can verify the Wiki application and see if it works by pointing your web browser to the following URL:

http://localhost/mywiki

For more details, please refer to the MoinMoin1 web site.

2.4. References
For more information see the moinmoin Wiki2. Also, see the Ubuntu Wiki MoinMoin3 page.

http://moinmo.in/

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3. MediaWiki
MediaWiki is an web based Wiki software written in the PHP language. It can either use MySQL or PostgreSQL Database Management System.

3.1. Installation
Before installing MediaWiki you should also install Apache2, the PHP5 scripting language and Database a Management System. MySQL or PostgreSQL are the most common, choose one depending on your need. Please refer to those sections in this manual for installation instructions. To install MediaWiki, run the following command in the command prompt:

sudo apt-get install mediawiki php5-gd

For additional MediaWiki functionality see the mediawiki-extensions package.

3.2. Configuration
The Apache configuration file mediawiki.conf for MediaWiki is installed in /etc/apache2/conf.d/ directory. You should uncomment the following line in this file to access MediaWiki application.

# Alias /mediawiki /var/lib/mediawiki

After you uncomment the above line, restart Apache server and access MediaWiki using the following url:

http://localhost/mediawiki/config/index.php

Please read the Checking environment... section in this page. You should be able to fix many issues by carefully reading this section. Once the configuration is complete, you should copy the LocalSettings.php file to /etc/mediawiki directory:

sudo mv /var/lib/mediawiki/config/LocalSettings.php /etc/mediawiki/

You may also want to edit /etc/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php adjusting:

ini_set( 'memory_limit', '64M' );

3.3. Extensions
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require_once "$IP/extensions/ExtentionName/ExtentionName.php";

3.4. References
For more details, please refer to the MediaWiki4 web site. The MediaWiki Administrators Tutorial Guide5 contains a wealth of information for new MediaWiki administrators. Also, the Ubuntu Wiki MediaWiki6 page is a good resource.

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4. phpMyAdmin
phpMyAdmin is a LAMP application specifically written for administering MySQL servers. Written in PHP, and accessed through a web browser, phpMyAdmin provides a graphical interface for database administration tasks.

4.1. Installation
Before installing phpMyAdmin you will need access to a MySQL database either on the same host as that phpMyAdmin is installed on, or on a host accessible over the network. For more information see Section 1, MySQL [p. 162]. From a terminal prompt enter:

sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

At the prompt choose which web server to be configured for phpMyAdmin. The rest of this section will use Apache2 for the web server. In a browser go to http://servername/phpmyadmin, replacing serveranme with the server's actual hostname. At the login, page enter root for the username, or another MySQL user if you any setup, and enter the MySQL user's password. Once logged in you can reset the root password if needed, create users, create/destroy databases and tables, etc.

4.2. Configuration
The configuration files for phpMyAdmin are located in /etc/phpmyadmin. The main configuration file is /etc/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php. This file contains configuration options that apply globally to phpMyAdmin. To use phpMyAdmin to administer a MySQL database hosted on another server, adjust the following in /etc/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php:

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'db_server';

Replace db_server with the actual remote database server name or IP address. Also, be sure that the phpMyAdmin host has permissions to access the remote database. Once configured, log out of phpMyAdmin and back in, and you should be accessing the new server. The config.header.inc.php and config.footer.inc.php files are used to add a HTML header and footer to phpMyAdmin. Another important configuration file is /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf, this file is symlinked to / etc/apache2/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf, and is used to configure Apache2 to serve the phpMyAdmin 172

LAMP Applications site. The file contains directives for loading PHP, directory permissions, etc. For more information on configuring Apache2 see Section 1, HTTPD - Apache2 Web Server [p. 144].

4.3. References
The phpMyAdmin documentation comes installed with the package and can be accessed from the phpMyAdmin Documentation link (a question mark with a box around it) under the phpMyAdmin logo. The official docs can also be access on the phpMyAdmin7 site. Also, Mastering phpMyAdmin8 is a great resource. A third resource is the phpMyAdmin Ubuntu Wiki9 page.

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If you have more than one computer on a single network. At some point you will probably need to share files between them. In this section we cover installing and configuring FTP, NFS, and CUPS.

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1. FTP Server
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a TCP protocol for uploading and downloading files between computers. FTP works on a client/server model. The server component is called an FTP daemon. It continuously listens for FTP requests from remote clients. When a request is received, it manages the login and sets up the connection. For the duration of the session it executes any of commands sent by the FTP client. Access to an FTP server can be managed in two ways: Anonymous Authenticated In the Anonymous mode, remote clients can access the FTP server by using the default user account called "anonymous" or "ftp" and sending an email address as the password. In the Authenticated mode a user must have an account and a password. User access to the FTP server directories and files is dependent on the permissions defined for the account used at login. As a general rule, the FTP daemon will hide the root directory of the FTP server and change it to the FTP Home directory. This hides the rest of the file system from remote sessions.

1.1. vsftpd - FTP Server Installation

vsftpd is an FTP daemon available in Ubuntu. It is easy to install, set up, and maintain. To install vsftpd you can run the following command:

sudo apt-get install vsftpd

1.2. Anonymous FTP Configuration

By default vsftpd is not configured to allow anonymous download. If you wish to enable anonymous download edit /etc/vsftpd.conf by changing:

anonymous_enable=Yes

During installation a ftp user is created with a home directory of /srv/ftp. This is the default FTP directory. If you wish to change this location, to /srv/files/ftp for example, simply create a directory in another location and change the ftp user's home directory:

sudo mkdir /srv/files/ftp sudo usermod -d /srv/files/ftp ftp

After making the change restart vsftpd:

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Finally, copy any files and directories you would like to make available through anonymous FTP to / srv/files/ftp, or /srv/ftp if you wish to use the default.

1.3. User Authenticated FTP Configuration

By default vsftpd is configured to authenticate system users and allow them to download files. If you want users to be able to upload files, edit /etc/vsftpd.conf:

write_enable=YES

Now restart vsftpd:

sudo restart vsftpd

Now when system users login to FTP they will start in their home directories where they can download, upload, create directories, etc. Similarly, by default, anonymous users are not allowed to upload files to FTP server. To change this setting, you should uncomment the following line, and restart vsftpd:

anon_upload_enable=YES

Enabling anonymous FTP upload can be an extreme security risk. It is best to not enable anonymous upload on servers accessed directly from the Internet. The configuration file consists of many configuration parameters. The information about each parameter is available in the configuration file. Alternatively, you can refer to the man page, man 5 vsftpd.conf for details of each parameter.

1.4. Securing FTP

There are options in /etc/vsftpd.conf to help make vsftpd more secure. For example users can be limited to their home directories by uncommenting:

chroot_local_user=YES

You can also limit a specific list of users to just their home directories:

chroot_list_enable=YES chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list

After uncommenting the above options, create a /etc/vsftpd.chroot_list containing a list of users one per line. Then restart vsftpd:

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sudo restart vsftpd

Also, the /etc/ftpusers file is a list of users that are disallowed FTP access. The default list includes root, daemon, nobody, etc. To disable FTP access for additional users simply add them to the list. FTP can also be encrypted using FTPS. Different from SFTP, FTPS is FTP over Secure Socket Layer (SSL). SFTP is a FTP like session over an encrypted SSH connection. A major difference is that users of SFTP need to have a shell account on the system, instead of a nologin shell. Providing all users with a shell may not be ideal for some environments, such as a shared web host. To configure FTPS, edit /etc/vsftpd.conf and at the bottom add:

ssl_enable=Yes

Also, notice the certificate and key related options:

rsa_cert_file=/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem rsa_private_key_file=/etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key

By default these options are set the certificate and key provided by the ssl-cert package. In a production environment these should be replaced with a certificate and key generated for the specific host. For more information on certificates see Section 5, Certificates [p. 128]. Now restart vsftpd, and non-anonymous users will be forced to use FTPS:

sudo restart vsftpd

To allow users with a shell of /usr/sbin/nologin access to FTP, but have no shell access, edit /etc/ shells adding the nologin shell:

# /etc/shells: valid login shells /bin/csh /bin/sh /usr/bin/es /usr/bin/ksh /bin/ksh /usr/bin/rc /usr/bin/tcsh /bin/tcsh /usr/bin/esh /bin/dash /bin/bash /bin/rbash /usr/bin/screen /usr/sbin/nologin

This is necessary because, by default vsftpd uses PAM for authentication, and the /etc/pam.d/ vsftpd configuration file contains: 177

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pam_shells.so

The shells PAM module restricts access to shells listed in the /etc/shells file. Most popular FTP clients can be configured connect using FTPS. The lftp command line FTP client has the ability to use FTPS as well.

1.5. References
See the vsftpd website1 for more information. For detailed /etc/vsftpd.conf options see the vsftpd.conf man page2. The CodeGurus article FTPS vs. SFTP: What to Choose3 has useful information contrasting FTPS and SFTP.

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2. Network File System (NFS)

NFS allows a system to share directories and files with others over a network. By using NFS, users and programs can access files on remote systems almost as if they were local files. Some of the most notable benefits that NFS can provide are: Local workstations use less disk space because commonly used data can be stored on a single machine and still remain accessible to others over the network. There is no need for users to have separate home directories on every network machine. Home directories could be set up on the NFS server and made available throughout the network. Storage devices such as floppy disks, CDROM drives, and USB Thumb drives can be used by other machines on the network. This may reduce the number of removable media drives throughout the network.

2.1. Installation
At a terminal prompt enter the following command to install the NFS Server:

sudo apt-get install nfs-kernel-server

2.2. Configuration
You can configure the directories to be exported by adding them to the /etc/exports file. For example:

/ubuntu /home

*(ro,sync,no_root_squash) *(rw,sync,no_root_squash)

You can replace * with one of the hostname formats. Make the hostname declaration as specific as possible so unwanted systems cannot access the NFS mount. To start the NFS server, you can run the following command at a terminal prompt:

sudo /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server start

2.3. NFS Client Configuration

Use the mount command to mount a shared NFS directory from another machine, by typing a command line similar to the following at a terminal prompt:

sudo mount example.hostname.com:/ubuntu /local/ubuntu

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example.hostname.com:/ubuntu /local/ubuntu nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr

If you have trouble mounting an NFS share, make sure the nfs-common package is installed on your client. To install nfs-common enter the following command at the terminal prompt:

sudo apt-get install nfs-common

2.4. References
Linux NFS faq4 Ubuntu Wiki NFS Howto5

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3. iSCSI Initiator
iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface) is a protocol that allows SCSI commands to be transmitted over a network. Typically iSCSI is implemented in a SAN (Storage Area Network) to allow servers to access a large store of hard drive space. The iSCSI protocol refers to clients as initiators and iSCSI servers as targets. Ubuntu Server can be configured as both an iSCSI iniator and a target. This guide provides commands and configuration options to setup an iSCSI initiator. It is assumed that you already have an iSCSI target on your local network and have the appropriate rights to connect to it. The instructions for setting up a target very greatly between hardware providers, so consult your vendor documentation to configure your specific iSCSI target.

3.1. iSCSI Initiator Install

To configure Ubuntu Server as an iSCSI initiator install the open-iscsi package. In a terminal enter:

sudo apt-get install open-iscsi

3.2. iSCSI Initiator Configuration

Once the open-iscsi package is installed, edit /etc/iscsi/iscsid.conf changing the following:

node.startup = automatic

You can check which targets are available by using the iscsiadm utility. Enter the following in a terminal:

sudo iscsiadm -m discovery -t st -p 192.168.0.10

-m: determines the mode that iscsiadm executes in. -t: specifies the type of discovery. -p: option indicates the target IP address. Change example 192.168.0.10 to the target IP address on your network.

If the target is available you should see output similar to the following:

192.168.0.10:3260,1 iqn.1992-05.com.emc:sl7b92030000520000-2

The iqn number and IP address above will vary depending on your hardware.

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sudo iscsiadm -m node --login

Check to make sure that the new disk has been detected using dmesg:

dmesg | grep sd
[ [ [ [ [ [ [ [ [ [ [ [ 4.322384] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 4.322797] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 41943040 512-byte logical blocks: (21.4 GB/20.0 GiB) 4.322843] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off 4.322846] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 4.322896] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Cache data unavailable 4.322899] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through 4.323230] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Cache data unavailable 4.323233] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through 4.325312] sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 >

4.325729] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Cache data unavailable 4.325732] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through 4.325735] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk

[ 2486.941805] sd 4:0:0:3: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 [ 2486.952093] sd 4:0:0:3: [sdb] 1126400000 512-byte logical blocks: (576 GB/537 GiB) [ 2486.954195] sd 4:0:0:3: [sdb] Write Protect is off [ 2486.954200] sd 4:0:0:3: [sdb] Mode Sense: 8f 00 00 08 [ 2486.954692] sd 4:0:0:3: [sdb] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 2486.960577] sdb: sdb1

[ 2486.964862] sd 4:0:0:3: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk

In the output above sdb is the new iSCSI disk. Remember this is just an example the output you on your screen will vary. Next, create a partition, format the file system, and mount the new iSCSI disk. In a terminal enter:

sudo fdisk /dev/sdb n p enter w

The above commands are from inside the fdisk utility see man fdisk for more detailed instructions. Also, the cfdisk utility is sometimes more user friendly. Now format the file system and mount it to /srv as an example:

sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1 sudo /dev/sdb1 /srv

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/dev/sdb1

/srv

ext4

defaults,auto,_netdev 0 0

It is a good idea to make sure everything is working as expected by rebooting the server.

3.3. References
Open-iSCSI Website6 Debian Open-iSCSI page7

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4. CUPS - Print Server

The primary mechanism for Ubuntu printing and print services is the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS). This printing system is a freely available, portable printing layer which has become the new standard for printing in most Linux distributions. CUPS manages print jobs and queues and provides network printing using the standard Internet Printing Protocol (IPP), while offering support for a very large range of printers, from dot-matrix to laser and many in between. CUPS also supports PostScript Printer Description (PPD) and autodetection of network printers, and features a simple web-based configuration and administration tool.

4.1. Installation
To install CUPS on your Ubuntu computer, simply use sudo with the apt-get command and give the packages to install as the first parameter. A complete CUPS install has many package dependencies, but they may all be specified on the same command line. Enter the following at a terminal prompt to install CUPS:

sudo apt-get install cups

Upon authenticating with your user password, the packages should be downloaded and installed without error. Upon the conclusion of installation, the CUPS server will be started automatically. For troubleshooting purposes, you can access CUPS server errors via the error log file at: /var/log/ cups/error_log. If the error log does not show enough information to troubleshoot any problems you encounter, the verbosity of the CUPS log can be increased by changing the LogLevel directive in the configuration file (discussed below) to "debug" or even "debug2", which logs everything, from the default of "info". If you make this change, remember to change it back once you've solved your problem, to prevent the log file from becoming overly large.

4.2. Configuration
The Common UNIX Printing System server's behavior is configured through the directives contained in the file /etc/cups/cupsd.conf. The CUPS configuration file follows the same syntax as the primary configuration file for the Apache HTTP server, so users familiar with editing Apache's configuration file should feel at ease when editing the CUPS configuration file. Some examples of settings you may wish to change initially will be presented here. Prior to editing the configuration file, you should make a copy of the original file and protect it from writing, so you will have the original settings as a reference, and to reuse as necessary. Copy the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file and protect it from writing with the following commands, issued at a terminal prompt: 184

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sudo cp /etc/cups/cupsd.conf /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.original sudo chmod a-w /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.original

ServerAdmin: To configure the email address of the designated administrator of the CUPS server, simply edit the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf configuration file with your preferred text editor, and add or modify the ServerAdmin line accordingly. For example, if you are the Administrator for the CUPS server, and your e-mail address is '[email protected]', then you would modify the ServerAdmin line to appear as such:

ServerAdmin [email protected]

Listen: By default on Ubuntu, the CUPS server installation listens only on the loopback interface at IP address 127.0.0.1. In order to instruct the CUPS server to listen on an actual network adapter's IP address, you must specify either a hostname, the IP address, or optionally, an IP address/port pairing via the addition of a Listen directive. For example, if your CUPS server resides on a local network at the IP address 192.168.10.250 and you'd like to make it accessible to the other systems on this subnetwork, you would edit the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and add a Listen directive, as such:

Listen 127.0.0.1:631

# existing loopback Listen

Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock # existing socket Listen Listen 192.168.10.250:631 # Listen on the LAN interface, Port 631 (IPP)

In the example above, you may comment out or remove the reference to the Loopback address (127.0.0.1) if you do not wish cupsd to listen on that interface, but would rather have it only listen on the Ethernet interfaces of the Local Area Network (LAN). To enable listening for all network interfaces for which a certain hostname is bound, including the Loopback, you could create a Listen entry for the hostname socrates as such:

Listen socrates:631

# Listen on all interfaces for the hostname 'socrates'

or by omitting the Listen directive and using Port instead, as in:

Port 631

# Listen on port 631 on all interfaces

For more examples of configuration directives in the CUPS server configuration file, view the associated system manual page by entering the following command at a terminal prompt:

man cupsd.conf

Whenever you make changes to the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf configuration file, you'll need to restart the CUPS server by typing the following command at a terminal prompt:

sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart

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4.3. Web Interface

CUPS can be configured and monitored using a web interface, which by default is available at http://localhost:631/admin. The web interface can be used to perform all printer management tasks. In order to perform administrative tasks via the web interface, you must either have the root account enabled on your server, or authenticate as a user in the lpadmin group. For security reasons, CUPS won't authenticate a user that doesn't have a password. To add a user to the lpadmin group, run at the terminal prompt:

sudo usermod -aG lpadmin username

Further documentation is available in the Documentation/Help tab of the web interface.

4.4. References
CUPS Website8 Debian Open-iSCSI page9

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The process of getting an email from one person to another over a network or the Internet involves many systems working together. Each of these systems must be correctly configured for the process to work. The sender uses a Mail User Agent (MUA), or email client, to send the message through one or more Mail Transfer Agents (MTA), the last of which will hand it off to a Mail Delivery Agent (MDA) for delivery to the recipient's mailbox, from which it will be retrieved by the recipient's email client, usually via a POP3 or IMAP server.

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1. Postfix
Postfix is the default Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) in Ubuntu. It attempts to be fast and easy to administer and secure. It is compatible with the MTA sendmail. This section explains how to install and configure postfix. It also explains how to set it up as an SMTP server using a secure connection (for sending emails securely). This guide does not cover setting up Postfix Virtual Domains, for information on Virtual Domains and other advanced configurations see Section 1.7.3, References [p. 193].

1.1. Installation
To install postfix run the following command:

sudo apt-get install postfix

Simply press return when the installation process asks questions, the configuration will be done in greater detail in the next stage.

1.2. Basic Configuration

To configure postfix, run the following command:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure postfix

The user interface will be displayed. On each screen, select the following values: Internet Site mail.example.com steve mail.example.com, localhost.localdomain, localhost No 127.0.0.0/8 [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128 192.168.0.0/24 0 + all Replace mail.example.com with the domain for which you'll accept email, 192.168.0.0/24 with the actual network and class range of your mail server, and steve with the appropriate username. Now is a good time to decide which mailbox format you want to use. By default Postfix will use mbox for the mailbox format. Rather than editing the configuration file directly, you can use the postconf command to configure all postfix parameters. The configuration parameters will be stored in 188

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/etc/postfix/main.cf

To configure the mailbox format for Maildir:

sudo postconf -e 'home_mailbox = Maildir/'

This will place new mail in /home/username/Maildir so you will need to configure your Mail Delivery Agent (MDA) to use the same path.

1.3. SMTP Authentication

SMTP-AUTH allows a client to identify itself through an authentication mechanism (SASL). Transport Layer Security (TLS) should be used to encrypt the authentication process. Once authenticated the SMTP server will allow the client to relay mail. 1. Configure Postfix for SMTP-AUTH using SASL (Dovecot SASL):

sudo postconf -e 'smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot' sudo postconf -e 'smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth-client' sudo postconf -e 'smtpd_sasl_local_domain =' sudo postconf -e 'smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous' sudo postconf -e 'broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes'

sudo postconf -e 'smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes' sudo postconf -e 'smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,re

The smtpd_sasl_path configuration is a path relative to the Postfix queue directory. 2. Next, generate or obtain a digital certificate for TLS. See Section 5, Certificates [p. 128] for details. This example also uses a Certificate Authority (CA). For information on generating a CA certificate see Section 5.5, Certification Authority [p. 130]. MUAs connecting to your mail server via TLS will need to recognize the certificate used for TLS. This can either be done using a certificate from a commercial CA or with a self-signed certificate that users manually install/accept. For MTA to MTA TLS certficates are never validated without advance agreement from the affected organizations. For MTA to MTA TLS, unless local policy requires it, there is no reason not to use a self-signed certificate. Refer to Section 5.3, Creating a Self-Signed Certificate [p. 130] for more details. 3. Once you have a certificate, configure Postfix to provide TLS encryption for both incoming and outgoing mail:

sudo postconf -e 'smtp_tls_security_level = may' sudo postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_security_level = may' sudo postconf -e 'smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes'

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sudo postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/server.key' sudo postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/server.crt' sudo postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1' sudo postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_received_header = yes' sudo postconf -e 'myhostname = mail.example.com'

4.

If you are using your own Certificate Authority to sign the certificate enter:

sudo postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/ssl/certs/cacert.pem'

Again, for more details about certificates see Section 5, Certificates [p. 128]. After running all the commands, Postfix is configured for SMTP-AUTH and a self-signed certificate has been created for TLS encryption. Now, the file /etc/postfix/main.cf should look like this1. The postfix initial configuration is complete. Run the following command to restart the postfix daemon:

sudo /etc/init.d/postfix restart

Postfix supports SMTP-AUTH as defined in RFC25542. It is based on SASL3. However it is still necessary to set up SASL authentication before you can use SMTP-AUTH.

1.4. Configuring SASL

Postfix supports two SASL implementations Cyrus SASL and Dovecot SASL. To enable Dovecot SASL the dovecot-common package will need to be installed. From a terminal prompt enter the following:

sudo apt-get install dovecot-common

Next you will need to edit /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf. In the auth default section uncomment the socket listen option and change the following:

socket listen { #master { # Master socket provides access to userdb information. It's typically # used to give Dovecot's local delivery agent access to userdb so it # can find mailbox locations. #path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master #mode = 0600 # Default user/group is the one who started dovecot-auth (root)
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#user = #group = #} client { # The client socket is generally safe to export to everyone. Typical use # is to export it to your SMTP server so it can do SMTP AUTH lookups # using it. path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth-client mode = 0660 user = postfix group = postfix } }

In order to let Outlook clients use SMTP-AUTH, in the auth default section of /etc/dovecot/ dovecot.conf add "login":

mechanisms = plain login

Once you have Dovecot configured restart it with:

sudo /etc/init.d/dovecot restart

1.5. Mail-Stack Delivery

Another option for configuring Postfix for SMTP-AUTH is using the mail-stack-delivery package (previously packaged as dovecot-postfix). This package will install Dovecot and configure Postfix to use it for both SASL authentication and as a Mail Delivery Agent (MDA). The package also configures Dovecot for IMAP, IMAPS, POP3, and POP3S. You may or may not want to run IMAP, IMAPS, POP3, or POP3S on your mail server. For example, if you are configuring your server to be a mail gateway, spam/virus filter, etc. If this is the case it may be easier to use the above commands to configure Postfix for SMTPAUTH. To install the package, from a terminal prompt enter:

sudo apt-get install mail-stack-delivery

You should now have a working mail server, but there are a few options that you may wish to further customize. For example, the package uses the certificate and key from the ssl-cert package, and in a production environment you should use a certificate and key generated for the host. See Section 5, Certificates [p. 128] for more details. Once you have a customized certificate and key for the host, change the following options in /etc/ postfix/main.cf:

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smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-mail.pem smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/ssl-mail.key

Then restart Postfix:

sudo /etc/init.d/postfix restart

1.6. Testing
SMTP-AUTH configuration is complete. Now it is time to test the setup. To see if SMTP-AUTH and TLS work properly, run the following command:

telnet mail.example.com 25

After you have established the connection to the postfix mail server, type:

ehlo mail.example.com

If you see the following lines among others, then everything is working perfectly. Type quit to exit.

250-STARTTLS 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN 250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN 250 8BITMIME

1.7. Troubleshooting
This section introduces some common ways to determine the cause if problems arise. 1.7.1. Escaping chroot The Ubuntu postfix package will by default install into a chroot environment for security reasons. This can add greater complexity when troubleshooting problems. To turn off the chroot operation locate for the following line in the /etc/postfix/master.cf configuration file:

smtp

inet

smtpd

and modify it as follows:

smtp

inet

smtpd

You will then need to restart Postfix to use the new configuration. From a terminal prompt enter:

sudo /etc/init.d/postfix restart

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tail -f /var/log/mail.err

The amount of detail that is recorded in the logs can be increased. Below are some configuration options for increasing the log level for some of the areas covered above. To increase TLS activity logging set the smtpd_tls_loglevel option to a value from 1 to 4.

sudo postconf -e 'smtpd_tls_loglevel = 4'

If you are having trouble sending or receiving mail from a specific domain you can add the domain to the debug_peer_list parameter.

sudo postconf -e 'debug_peer_list = problem.domain'

You can increase the verbosity of any Postfix daemon process by editing the /etc/postfix/ master.cf and adding a -v after the entry. For example edit the smtp entry:

smtp

unix

smtp -v

It is important to note that after making one of the logging changes above the Postfix process will need to be reloaded in order to recognize the new configuration: sudo /etc/ init.d/postfix reload To increase the amount of information logged when troubleshooting SASL issues you can set the following options in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

auth_debug=yes auth_debug_passwords=yes

Just like Postfix if you change a Dovecot configuration the process will need to be reloaded: sudo /etc/init.d/dovecot reload. Some of the options above can drastically increase the amount of information sent to the log files. Remember to return the log level back to normal after you have corrected the problem. Then reload the appropriate daemon for the new configuration to take affect. 1.7.3. References Administering a Postfix server can be a very complicated task. At some point you may need to turn to the Ubuntu community for more experienced help.

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2. Exim4
Exim4 is another Message Transfer Agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge for use on Unix systems connected to the Internet. Exim can be installed in place of sendmail, although the configuration of exim is quite different to that of sendmail.

2.1. Installation
To install exim4, run the following command:

sudo apt-get install exim4

2.2. Configuration
To configure Exim4, run the following command:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config

The user interface will be displayed. The user interface lets you configure many parameters. For example, In Exim4 the configuration files are split among multiple files. If you wish to have them in one file you can configure accordingly in this user interface. All the parameters you configure in the user interface are stored in /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf file. If you wish to re-configure, either you re-run the configuration wizard or manually edit this file using your favorite editor. Once you configure, you can run the following command to generate the master configuration file:

sudo update-exim4.conf

The master configuration file, is generated and it is stored in /var/lib/exim4/ config.autogenerated. At any time, you should not edit the master configuration file, /var/lib/exim4/ config.autogenerated manually. It is updated automatically every time you run updateexim4.conf You can run the following command to start Exim4 daemon.

sudo /etc/init.d/exim4 start

2.3. SMTP Authentication

This section covers configuring Exim4 to use SMTP-AUTH with TLS and SASL. 195

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sudo /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/examples/exim-gencert

Now Exim4 needs to be configured for TLS by editing /etc/exim4/conf.d/main/03_exim4config_tlsoptions add the following:

MAIN_TLS_ENABLE = yes

Next you need to configure Exim4 to use the saslauthd for authentication. Edit /etc/exim4/ conf.d/auth/30_exim4-config_examples and uncomment the plain_saslauthd_server and login_saslauthd_server sections:

plain_saslauthd_server: driver = plaintext public_name = PLAIN server_condition = ${if saslauthd{{$auth2}{$auth3}}{1}{0}} server_set_id = $auth2 server_prompts = : .ifndef AUTH_SERVER_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS server_advertise_condition = ${if eq{$tls_cipher}{}{}{*}} .endif # login_saslauthd_server: driver = plaintext public_name = LOGIN server_prompts = "Username:: : Password::" # don't send system passwords over unencrypted connections server_condition = ${if saslauthd{{$auth1}{$auth2}}{1}{0}} server_set_id = $auth1 .ifndef AUTH_SERVER_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS server_advertise_condition = ${if eq{$tls_cipher}{}{}{*}} .endif

Additionally, in order for outside mail client to be able to connect to new exim server, new user needs to be added into exim by using the following commands.

sudo /usr/share/doc/exim4/examples/exim-adduser

Users should protect the new exim password files with the following commands.

sudo chown root:Debian-exim /etc/exim4/passwd sudo chmod 640 /etc/exim4/passwd

Finally, update the Exim4 configuration and restart the service:

sudo update-exim4.conf

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2.4. Configuring SASL

This section provides details on configuring the saslauthd to provide authentication for Exim4. The first step is to install the sasl2-bin package. From a terminal prompt enter the following:

sudo apt-get install sasl2-bin

To configure saslauthd edit the /etc/default/saslauthd configuration file and set START=no to:

START=yes

Next the Debian-exim user needs to be part of the sasl group in order for Exim4 to use the saslauthd service:

sudo adduser Debian-exim sasl

Now start the saslauthd service:

sudo /etc/init.d/saslauthd start

Exim4 is now configured with SMTP-AUTH using TLS and SASL authentication.

2.5. References
See exim.org9 for more information. There is also an Exim4 Book10 available. Another resource is the Exim4 Ubuntu Wiki 11 page.

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3. Dovecot Server
Dovecot is a Mail Delivery Agent, written with security primarily in mind. It supports the major mailbox formats: mbox or Maildir. This section explain how to set it up as an imap or pop3 server.

3.1. Installation
To install dovecot, run the following command in the command prompt:

sudo apt-get install dovecot-imapd dovecot-pop3d

3.2. Configuration
To configure dovecot, you can edit the file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf. You can choose the protocol you use. It could be pop3, pop3s (pop3 secure), imap and imaps (imap secure). A description of these protocols is beyond the scope of this guide. For further information, refer to the Wikipedia articles on POP312 and IMAP13. IMAPS and POP3S are more secure that the simple IMAP and POP3 because they use SSL encryption to connect. Once you have chosen the protocol, amend the following line in the file /etc/ dovecot/dovecot.conf:

protocols = pop3 pop3s imap imaps

Next, choose the mailbox you would like to use. Dovecot supports maildir and mbox formats. These are the most commonly used mailbox formats. They both have their own benefits and are discussed on the Dovecot web site14. Once you have chosen your mailbox type, edit the file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf and change the following line:

mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir # (for maildir) or mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u # (for mbox)

You should configure your Mail Transport Agent (MTA) to transfer the incoming mail to this type of mailbox if it is different from the one you have configured. Once you have configured dovecot, restart the dovecot daemon in order to test your setup:

sudo /etc/init.d/dovecot restart

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bhuvan@rainbow:~$ telnet localhost pop3 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain. Escape character is '^]'. +OK Dovecot ready.

3.3. Dovecot SSL Configuration

To configure dovecot to use SSL, you can edit the file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf and amend following lines:

ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key ssl_disable = no disable_plaintext_auth = no

You can get the SSL certificate from a Certificate Issuing Authority or you can create self signed SSL certificate. The latter is a good option for email, because SMTP clients rarely complain about "selfsigned certificates". Please refer to Section 5, Certificates [p. 128] for details about how to create self signed SSL certificate. Once you create the certificate, you will have a key file and a certificate file. Please copy them to the location pointed in the /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf configuration file.

3.4. Firewall Configuration for an Email Server

To access your mail server from another computer, you must configure your firewall to allow connections to the server on the necessary ports. IMAP - 143 IMAPS - 993 POP3 - 110 POP3S - 995

3.5. References
See the Dovecot website15 for more information. Also, the Dovecot Ubuntu Wiki16 page has more details.

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4. Mailman
Mailman is an open source program for managing electronic mail discussions and e-newsletter lists. Many open source mailing lists (including all the Ubuntu mailing lists17) use Mailman as their mailing list software. It is powerful and easy to install and maintain.

4.1. Installation
Mailman provides a web interface for the administrators and users, using an external mail server to send and receive emails. It works perfectly with the following mail servers: Postfix Exim Sendmail Qmail We will see how to install and configure Mailman with, the Apache web server, and either the Postfix or Exim mail server. If you wish to install Mailman with a different mail server, please refer to the references section. You only need to install one mail server and Postfix is the default Ubuntu Mail Transfer Agent. 4.1.1. Apache2 To install apache2 you refer to Section 1.1, Installation [p. 144] for details. 4.1.2. Postfix For instructions on installing and configuring Postfix refer to Section 1, Postfix [p. 188] 4.1.3. Exim4 To install Exim4 refer to Section 2, Exim4 [p. 195]. Once exim4 is installed, the configuration files are stored in the /etc/exim4 directory. In Ubuntu, by default, the exim4 configuration files are split across different files. You can change this behavior by changing the following variable in the /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf file:

dc_use_split_config='true'

4.1.4. Mailman To install Mailman, run following command at a terminal prompt:

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sudo apt-get install mailman

It copies the installation files in /var/lib/mailman directory. It installs the CGI scripts in /usr/lib/cgibin/mailman directory. It creates list linux user. It creates the list linux group. The mailman process will be owned by this user.

4.2. Configuration
This section assumes you have successfully installed mailman, apache2, and postfix or exim4. Now you just need to configure them. 4.2.1. Apache2 An example Apache configuration file comes with Mailman and is placed in /etc/mailman/ apache.conf. In order for Apache to use the config file it needs to be copied to /etc/apache2/ sites-available:

sudo cp /etc/mailman/apache.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/mailman.conf

This will setup a new Apache VirtualHost for the Mailman administration site. Now enable the new configuration and restart Apache:

sudo a2ensite mailman.conf sudo service apache2 restart

Mailman uses apache2 to render its CGI scripts. The mailman CGI scripts are installed in the /usr/lib/ cgi-bin/mailman directory. So, the mailman url will be http://hostname/cgi-bin/mailman/. You can make changes to the /etc/apache2/sites-available/mailman.conf file if you wish to change this behavior. 4.2.2. Postfix For Postfix integration, we will associate the domain lists.example.com with the mailing lists. Please replace lists.example.com with the domain of your choosing. You can use the postconf command to add the necessary configuration to /etc/postfix/main.cf:

sudo postconf -e 'relay_domains = lists.example.com' sudo postconf -e 'transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport' sudo postconf -e 'mailman_destination_recipient_limit = 1'

In /etc/postfix/master.cf double check that you have the following transport:

mailman

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pipe

flags=FR user=list argv=/usr/lib/mailman/bin/postfix-to-mailman.py

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It calls the postfix-to-mailman.py script when a mail is delivered to a list. Associate the domain lists.example.com to the Mailman transport with the transport map. Edit the file /etc/postfix/transport:

lists.example.com

mailman:

Now have Postfix build the transport map by entering the following from a terminal prompt:

sudo postmap -v /etc/postfix/transport

Then restart Postfix to enable the new configurations:

sudo /etc/init.d/postfix restart

4.2.3. Exim4 Once Exim4 is installed, you can start the Exim server using the following command from a terminal prompt:

sudo /etc/init.d/exim4 start

In order to make mailman work with Exim4, you need to configure Exim4. As mentioned earlier, by default, Exim4 uses multiple configuration files of different types. For details, please refer to the Exim18 web site. To run mailman, we should add new a configuration file to the following configuration types: Main Transport Router Exim creates a master configuration file by sorting all these mini configuration files. So, the order of these configuration files is very important. 4.2.4. Main All the configuration files belonging to the main type are stored in the /etc/exim4/conf.d/main/ directory. You can add the following content to a new file, named 04_exim4-config_mailman:

# start # Home dir for your Mailman installation -- aka Mailman's prefix # directory. # On Ubuntu this should be "/var/lib/mailman"
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# This is normally the same as ~mailman MM_HOME=/var/lib/mailman # # User and group for Mailman, should match your --with-mail-gid # switch to Mailman's configure script. MM_UID=list MM_GID=list # # Domains that your lists are in - colon separated list # you may wish to add these into local_domains as well domainlist mm_domains=hostname.com # # -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= # # These values are derived from the ones above and should not need # editing unless you have munged your mailman installation # # The path of the Mailman mail wrapper script MM_WRAP=MM_HOME/mail/mailman # # The path of the list config file (used as a required file when # verifying list addresses) MM_LISTCHK=MM_HOME/lists/${lc::$local_part}/config.pck # end Value is normally "mailman"

4.2.5. Transport All the configuration files belonging to transport type are stored in the /etc/exim4/conf.d/ transport/ directory. You can add the following content to a new file named 40_exim4config_mailman:

mailman_transport: driver = pipe command = MM_WRAP \ '${if def:local_part_suffix \ {${sg{$local_part_suffix}{-(\\w+)(\\+.*)?}{\$1}}} \ {post}}' \ $local_part current_directory = MM_HOME home_directory = MM_HOME user = MM_UID group = MM_GID

4.2.6. Router All the configuration files belonging to router type are stored in the /etc/exim4/conf.d/router/ directory. You can add the following content in to a new file named 101_exim4-config_mailman:

mailman_router: driver = accept

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require_files = MM_HOME/lists/$local_part/config.pck local_part_suffix_optional local_part_suffix = -bounces : -bounces+* : \ -confirm+* : -join : -leave : \ -owner : -request : -admin transport = mailman_transport

The order of main and transport configuration files can be in any order. But, the order of router configuration files must be the same. This particular file must appear before the 200_exim4-config_primary file. These two configuration files contain same type of information. The first file takes the precedence. For more details, please refer to the references section. 4.2.7. Mailman Once mailman is installed, you can run it using the following command:

sudo /etc/init.d/mailman start

Once mailman is installed, you should create the default mailing list. Run the following command to create the mailing list:

sudo /usr/sbin/newlist mailman

Enter the email address of the person running the list: bhuvan at ubuntu.com Initial mailman password: To finish creating your mailing list, you must edit your /etc/aliases (or equivalent) file by adding the following lines, and possibly running the `newaliases' program: ## mailman mailing list mailman: mailman-admin: mailman-bounces: mailman-confirm: mailman-join: mailman-leave: mailman-owner: mailman-request: mailman-subscribe: mailman-unsubscribe: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman" "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin mailman" "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces mailman" "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm mailman" "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join mailman" "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave mailman" "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner mailman" "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request mailman" "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe mailman" "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe mailman"

Hit enter to notify mailman owner... #

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4.3. Administration
We assume you have a default installation. The mailman cgi scripts are still in the /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ mailman/ directory. Mailman provides a web based administration facility. To access this page, point your browser to the following url: http://hostname/cgi-bin/mailman/admin The default mailing list, mailman, will appear in this screen. If you click the mailing list name, it will ask for your authentication password. If you enter the correct password, you will be able to change administrative settings of this mailing list. You can create a new mailing list using the command line utility (/usr/sbin/newlist). Alternatively, you can create a new mailing list using the web interface.

4.4. Users
Mailman provides a web based interface for users. To access this page, point your browser to the following url: http://hostname/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo The default mailing list, mailman, will appear in this screen. If you click the mailing list name, it will display the subscription form. You can enter your email address, name (optional), and password to subscribe. An email invitation will be sent to you. You can follow the instructions in the email to subscribe.

4.5. References
GNU Mailman - Installation Manual19 HOWTO - Using Exim 4 and Mailman 2.1 together20 Also, see the Mailman Ubuntu Wiki21 page.

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5. Mail Filtering
One of the largest issues with email today is the problem of Unsolicited Bulk Email (UBE). Also known as SPAM, such messages may also carry viruses and other forms of malware. According to some reports these messages make up the bulk of all email traffic on the Internet. This section will cover integrating Amavisd-new, Spamassassin, and ClamAV with the Postfix Mail Transport Agent (MTA). Postfix can also check email validity by passing it through external content filters. These filters can sometimes determine if a message is spam without needing to process it with more resource intensive applications. Two common filters are opendkim and python-policyd-spf. Amavisd-new is a wrapper program that can call any number of content filtering programs for spam detection, antivirus, etc. Spamassassin uses a variety of mechanisms to filter email based on the message content. ClamAV is an open source antivirus application. opendkim implements a Sendmail Mail Filter (Milter) for the DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) standard. python-policyd-spf enables Sender Policy Framework (SPF) checking with Postfix. This is how the pieces fit together: An email message is accepted by Postfix. The message is passed through any external filters opendkim and python-policyd-spf in this case. Amavisd-new then processes the message. ClamAV is used to scan the message. If the message contains a virus Postfix will reject the message. Clean messages will then be analyzed by Spamassassin to find out if the message is spam. Spamassassin will then add X-Header lines allowing Amavisd-new to further manipulate the message. For example, if a message has a Spam score of over fifty the message could be automatically dropped from the queue without the recipient ever having to be bothered. Another, way to handle flagged messages is to deliver them to the Mail User Agent (MUA) allowing the user to deal with the message as they see fit.

5.1. Installation
See Section 1, Postfix [p. 188] for instructions on installing and configuring Postfix. To install the rest of the applications enter the following from a terminal prompt:

sudo apt-get install amavisd-new spamassassin clamav-daemon sudo apt-get install opendkim postfix-policyd-spf-python

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sudo apt-get install pyzor razor

Along with the main filtering applications compression utilities are needed to process some email attachments:

sudo apt-get install arj cabextract cpio lha nomarch pax rar unrar unzip zip

If some packages are not found, check that the multiverse repository is enabled in /etc/apt/
sources.list

If you make changes to the file, be sure to run sudo apt-get update before trying to install again.

5.2. Configuration
Now configure everything to work together and filter email. 5.2.1. ClamAV The default behaviour of ClamAV will fit our needs. For more ClamAV configuration options, check the configuration files in /etc/clamav. Add the clamav user to the amavis group in order for Amavisd-new to have the appropriate access to scan files:

sudo adduser clamav amavis sudo adduser amavis clamav

5.2.2. Spamassassin Spamassassin automatically detects optional components and will use them if they are present. This means that there is no need to configure pyzor and razor. Edit /etc/default/spamassassin to activate the Spamassassin daemon. Change ENABLED=0 to:

ENABLED=1

Now start the daemon:

sudo /etc/init.d/spamassassin start

5.2.3. Amavisd-new First activate spam and antivirus detection in Amavisd-new by editing /etc/amavis/conf.d/15content_filter_mode:

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use strict; # You can modify this file to re-enable SPAM checking through spamassassin # and to re-enable antivirus checking. # # Default antivirus checking mode # Uncomment the two lines below to enable it # @bypass_virus_checks_maps = ( \%bypass_virus_checks, \@bypass_virus_checks_acl, \$bypass_virus_checks_re);

# # Default SPAM checking mode # Uncomment the two lines below to enable it # @bypass_spam_checks_maps = ( \%bypass_spam_checks, \@bypass_spam_checks_acl, \$bypass_spam_checks_re); 1; # insure a defined return

Bouncing spam can be a bad idea as the return address is often faked. Consider editing /etc/amavis/ conf.d/20-debian_defaults to set $final_spam_destiny to D_DISCARD rather than D_BOUNCE, as follows:

$final_spam_destiny

= D_DISCARD;

Additionally, you may want to adjust the following options to flag more messages as spam:

$sa_tag_level_deflt = -999; # add spam info headers if at, or above that level $sa_tag2_level_deflt = 6.0; # add 'spam detected' headers at that level $sa_kill_level_deflt = 21.0; # triggers spam evasive actions $sa_dsn_cutoff_level = 4; # spam level beyond which a DSN is not sent

If the server's hostname is different from the domain's MX record you may need to manually set the $myhostname option. Also, if the server receives mail for multiple domains the @local_domains_acl option will need to be customized. Edit the /etc/amavis/conf.d/50-user file:

$myhostname = 'mail.example.com'; @local_domains_acl = ( "example.com", "example.org" );

If you want to cover multiple domains you can use the following in the/etc/amavis/conf.d/50-user

@local_domains_acl = qw(.);

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5.2.3.1. DKIM Whitelist Amavisd-new can be configured to automatically Whitelist addresses from domains with valid Domain Keys. There are some pre-configured domains in the /etc/amavis/conf.d/40policy_banks. There are multiple ways to configure the Whitelist for a domain: 'example.com' => 'WHITELIST',: will whitelist any address from the "example.com" domain. '.example.com' => 'WHITELIST',: will whitelist any address from any subdomains of "example.com" that have a valid signature. '.example.com/@example.com' => 'WHITELIST',: will whitelist subdomains of "example.com" that use the signature of example.com the parent domain. './@example.com' => 'WHITELIST',: adds addresses that have a valid signature from "example.com". This is usually used for discussion groups that sign their messages. A domain can also have multiple Whitelist configurations. After editing the file, restart amavisd-new:

sudo /etc/init.d/amavis restart

In this context, once a domain has been added to the Whitelist the message will not receive any anti-virus or spam filtering. This may or may not be the intended behavior you wish for a domain. 5.2.4. Postfix For Postfix integration, enter the following from a terminal prompt:

sudo postconf -e 'content_filter = smtp-amavis:[127.0.0.1]:10024'

Next edit /etc/postfix/master.cf and add the following to the end of the file:

smtp-amavis

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-o smtp_data_done_timeout=1200 -o smtp_send_xforward_command=yes -o disable_dns_lookups=yes -o max_use=20 127.0.0.1:10025 inet n smtpd

-o content_filter= -o local_recipient_maps= -o relay_recipient_maps= -o smtpd_restriction_classes= -o smtpd_delay_reject=no -o smtpd_client_restrictions=permit_mynetworks,reject

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-o smtpd_helo_restrictions= -o smtpd_sender_restrictions= -o smtpd_recipient_restrictions=permit_mynetworks,reject -o smtpd_data_restrictions=reject_unauth_pipelining -o smtpd_end_of_data_restrictions= -o mynetworks=127.0.0.0/8 -o smtpd_error_sleep_time=0 -o smtpd_soft_error_limit=1001 -o smtpd_hard_error_limit=1000 -o smtpd_client_connection_count_limit=0 -o smtpd_client_connection_rate_limit=0 -o receive_override_options=no_header_body_checks,no_unknown_recipient_checks

Also add the following two lines immediately below the "pickup" transport service:

-o content_filter= -o receive_override_options=no_header_body_checks

This will prevent messages that are generated to report on spam from being classified as spam. Now restart Postfix:

sudo /etc/init.d/postfix restart

Content filtering with spam and virus detection is now enabled. 5.2.5. Amavisd-new and Spamassassin When integrating Amavisd-new with Spamassassin, if you choose to disable the bayes filtering by editing /etc/spamassassin/local.cf and use cron to update the nightly rules, the result can cause a situation where a large amount of error messages are sent to the amavis user via the amavisd-new cron job. There are several ways to handle this situation: Configure your MDA to filter messages you do not wish to see. Change /usr/sbin/amavisd-new-cronjob to check for use_bayes 0. For example, edit /usr/sbin/ amavisd-new-cronjob and add the following to the top before the test statements:

egrep -q "^[ \t]*use_bayes[ \t]*0" /etc/spamassassin/local.cf && exit 0

5.3. Testing
First, test that the Amavisd-new SMTP is listening:

telnet localhost 10024 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.

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Escape character is '^]'. 220 [127.0.0.1] ESMTP amavisd-new service ready ^]

In the Header of messages that go through the content filter you should see:

X-Spam-Level: X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at example.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 tagged_above=-1000.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL, BAYES_00 X-Spam-Level:

Your output will vary, but the important thing is that there are X-Virus-Scanned and XSpam-Status entries.

5.4. Troubleshooting
The best way to figure out why something is going wrong is to check the log files. For instructions on Postfix logging see the Section 1.7, Troubleshooting [p. 192] section. Amavisd-new uses Syslog to send messages to /var/log/mail.log. The amount of detail can be increased by adding the $log_level option to /etc/amavis/conf.d/50-user, and setting the value from 1 to 5.

$log_level = 2;

When the Amavisd-new log output is increased Spamassassin log output is also increased. The ClamAV log level can be increased by editing /etc/clamav/clamd.conf and setting the following option:

LogVerbose true

By default ClamAV will send log messages to /var/log/clamav/clamav.log. After changing an applications log settings remember to restart the service for the new settings to take affect. Also, once the issue you are troubleshooting is resolved it is a good idea to change the log settings back to normal.

5.5. References
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1. Overview
In this section, we will discuss how to install and configure a IRC server, ircd-irc2. We will also discuss how to install and configure Jabber, an instance messaging server.

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The Ubuntu repository has many Internet Relay Chat servers. This section explains how to install and configure the original IRC server ircd-irc2.

2.1. Installation
To install ircd-irc2, run the following command in the command prompt:

sudo apt-get install ircd-irc2

The configuration files are stored in /etc/ircd directory. The documents are available in /usr/ share/doc/ircd-irc2 directory.

2.2. Configuration
The IRC settings can be done in the configuration file /etc/ircd/ircd.conf. You can set the IRC host name in this file by editing the following line:

M:irc.localhost::Debian ircd default configuration::000A

Please make sure you add DNS aliases for the IRC host name. For instance, if you set irc.livecipher.com as IRC host name, please make sure irc.livecipher.com is resolvable in your Domain Name Server. The IRC host name should not be same as the host name. The IRC admin details can be configured by editing the following line:

A:Organization, IRC dept.:Daemon <[email protected]>:Client Server::IRCnet:

You should add specific lines to configure the list of IRC ports to listen on, to configure Operator credentials, to configure client authentication, etc. For details, please refer to the example configuration file /usr/share/doc/ircd-irc2/ircd.conf.example.gz. The IRC banner to be displayed in the IRC client, when the user connects to the server can be set in / etc/ircd/ircd.motd file. After making necessary changes to the configuration file, you can restart the IRC server using following command:

sudo /etc/init.d/ircd-irc2 restart

2.3. References
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3. Jabber Instant Messaging Server

Jabber a popular instant message protocol is based on XMPP, an open standard for instant messaging, and used by many popular applications. This section covers setting up a Jabberd 2 server on a local LAN. This configuration can also be adapted to providing messaging services to users over the Internet.

3.1. Installation
To install jabberd2, in a terminal enter:

sudo apt-get install jabberd2

3.2. Configuration
A couple of XML configuration files will be used to configure jabberd2 for Berkeley DB user authentication. This is a very simple form of authentication. However, jabberd2 can be configured to use LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc for for user authentication. First, edit /etc/jabberd2/sm.xml changing:

<id>jabber.example.com</id>

Replace jabber.example.com with the hostname, or other id, of your server.

Now in the <storage> section change the <driver> to:

<driver>db</driver>

Next, edit /etc/jabberd2/c2s.xml in the <local> section change:

<id>jabber.example.com</id>

And in the <authreg> section adjust the <module> section to:

<module>db</module>

Finally, restart jabberd2 to enable the new settings:

sudo /etc/init.d/jabberd2 restart

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Chat Applications The advantage of using Berkeley DB for user data is that after being configured no additional maintenance is required. If you need more control over user accounts and credentials another authentication method is recommended.

3.3. References
The Jabberd2 Web Site2 contains more details on configuring Jabberd2. For more authentication options see the Jabberd2 Install Guide3. Also, the Setting Up Jabber Server Ubuntu Wiki4 page has more information.

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Chapter 16. Version Control System

Version control is the art of managing changes to information. It has long been a critical tool for programmers, who typically spend their time making small changes to software and then undoing those changes the next day. But the usefulness of version control software extends far beyond the bounds of the software development world. Anywhere you can find people using computers to manage information that changes often, there is room for version control.

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1. Bazaar
Bazaar is a new version control system sponsored by Canonical, the commercial company behind Ubuntu. Unlike Subversion and CVS that only support a central repository model, Bazaar also supports distributed version control, giving people the ability to collaborate more efficiently. In particular, Bazaar is designed to maximize the level of community participation in open source projects.

1.1. Installation
At a terminal prompt, enter the following command to install bzr:

sudo apt-get install bzr

1.2. Configuration
To introduce yourself to bzr, use the whoami command like this:

$ bzr whoami 'Joe Doe <[email protected]>'

1.3. Learning Bazaar

Bazaar comes with bundled documentation installed into /usr/share/doc/bzr/html by default. The tutorial is a good place to start. The bzr command also comes with built-in help:

$ bzr help

To learn more about the foo command:

$ bzr help foo

1.4. Launchpad Integration

While highly useful as a stand-alone system, Bazaar has good, optional integration with Launchpad1, the collaborative development system used by Canonical and the broader open source community to manage and extend Ubuntu itself. For information on how Bazaar can be used with Launchpad to collaborate on open source projects, see http://bazaar-vcs.org/LaunchpadIntegration2.

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2. Subversion
Subversion is an open source version control system. Using Subversion, you can record the history of source files and documents. It manages files and directories over time. A tree of files is placed into a central repository. The repository is much like an ordinary file server, except that it remembers every change ever made to files and directories.

2.1. Installation
To access Subversion repository using the HTTP protocol, you must install and configure a web server. Apache2 is proven to work with Subversion. Please refer to the HTTP subsection in the Apache2 section to install and configure Apache2. To access the Subversion repository using the HTTPS protocol, you must install and configure a digital certificate in your Apache 2 web server. Please refer to the HTTPS subsection in the Apache2 section to install and configure the digital certificate. To install Subversion, run the following command from a terminal prompt:

sudo apt-get install subversion libapache2-svn

2.2. Server Configuration

This step assumes you have installed above mentioned packages on your system. This section explains how to create a Subversion repository and access the project. 2.2.1. Create Subversion Repository The Subversion repository can be created using the following command from a terminal prompt:

svnadmin create /path/to/repos/project

2.2.2. Importing Files Once you create the repository you can import files into the repository. To import a directory, enter the following from a terminal prompt:

svn import /path/to/import/directory file:///path/to/repos/project

2.3. Access Methods

Subversion repositories can be accessed (checked out) through many different methods --on local disk, or through various network protocols. A repository location, however, is always a URL. The table describes how different URL schemes map to the available access methods. 221

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Table 16.1. Access Methods

Schema file:// http:// Access Method direct repository access (on local disk) Access via WebDAV protocol to Subversionaware Apache2 web server https:// svn:// svn+ssh:// Same as http://, but with SSL encryption Access via custom protocol to an svnserve server Same as svn://, but through an SSH tunnel

In this section, we will see how to configure Subversion for all these access methods. Here, we cover the basics. For more advanced usage details, refer to the svn book3. 2.3.1. Direct repository access (file://) This is the simplest of all access methods. It does not require any Subversion server process to be running. This access method is used to access Subversion from the same machine. The syntax of the command, entered at a terminal prompt, is as follows:

svn co file:///path/to/repos/project

or

svn co file://localhost/path/to/repos/project

If you do not specify the hostname, there are three forward slashes (///) -- two for the protocol (file, in this case) plus the leading slash in the path. If you specify the hostname, you must use two forward slashes (//). The repository permissions depend on filesystem permissions. If the user has read/write permission, he can checkout from and commit to the repository. 2.3.2. Access via WebDAV protocol (http://) To access the Subversion repository via WebDAV protocol, you must configure your Apache 2 web server. Add the following snippet between the <VirtualHost> and </VirtualHost> elements in /etc/ apache2/sites-available/default, or another VirtualHost file:

<Location /svn> DAV svn SVNPath /home/svn AuthType Basic

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AuthName "Your repository name" AuthUserFile /etc/subversion/passwd Require valid-user </Location>

The above configuration snippet assumes that Subversion repositories are created under /home/svn/ directory using svnadmin command. They can be accessible using http:// hostname/svn/repos_name url. To import or commit files to your Subversion repository over HTTP, the repository should be owned by the HTTP user. In Ubuntu systems, normally the HTTP user is www-data. To change the ownership of the repository files enter the following command from terminal prompt:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /path/to/repos

By changing the ownership of repository as www-data you will not be able to import or commit files into the repository by running svn import file:/// command as any user other than www-data. Next, you must create the /etc/subversion/passwd file that will contain user authentication details. To create a file issue the following command at a command prompt (which will create the file and add the first user):

sudo htpasswd -c /etc/subversion/passwd user_name

To add additional users omit the "-c" option as this option replaces the old file. Instead use this form:

sudo htpasswd /etc/subversion/passwd user_name

This command will prompt you to enter the password. Once you enter the password, the user is added. Now, to access the repository you can run the following command:
svn co http://servername/svn

The password is transmitted as plain text. If you are worried about password snooping, you are advised to use SSL encryption. For details, please refer next section. 2.3.3. Access via WebDAV protocol with SSL encryption (https://) Accessing Subversion repository via WebDAV protocol with SSL encryption (https://) is similar to http:// except that you must install and configure the digital certificate in your Apache2 web server. To use SSL with Subversion add the above Apache2 configuration to /etc/apache2/sitesavailable/default-ssl. For more information on setting up Apache2 with SSL see Section 1.3, HTTPS Configuration [p. 149]. You can install a digital certificate issued by a signing authority. Alternatively, you can install your own self-signed certificate. 223

Version Control System This step assumes you have installed and configured a digital certificate in your Apache 2 web server. Now, to access the Subversion repository, please refer to the above section! The access methods are exactly the same, except the protocol. You must use https:// to access the Subversion repository. 2.3.4. Access via custom protocol (svn://) Once the Subversion repository is created, you can configure the access control. You can edit the / path/to/repos/project/conf/svnserve.conf file to configure the access control. For example, to set up authentication, you can uncomment the following lines in the configuration file:
# [general] # password-db = passwd

After uncommenting the above lines, you can maintain the user list in the passwd file. So, edit the file passwd in the same directory and add the new user. The syntax is as follows:
username = password

For more details, please refer to the file. Now, to access Subversion via the svn:// custom protocol, either from the same machine or a different machine, you can run svnserver using svnserve command. The syntax is as follows:
$ svnserve -d --foreground -r /path/to/repos # -d -- daemon mode # --foreground -- run in foreground (useful for debugging) # -r -- root of directory to serve For more usage details, please refer to: $ svnserve --help

Once you run this command, Subversion starts listening on default port (3690). To access the project repository, you must run the following command from a terminal prompt:

svn co svn://hostname/project project --username user_name

Based on server configuration, it prompts for password. Once you are authenticated, it checks out the code from Subversion repository. To synchronize the project repository with the local copy, you can run the update sub-command. The syntax of the command, entered at a terminal prompt, is as follows:

cd project_dir ; svn update

For more details about using each Subversion sub-command, you can refer to the manual. For example, to learn more about the co (checkout) command, please run the following command from a terminal prompt:
svn co help

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Version Control System 2.3.5. Access via custom protocol with SSL encryption (svn+ssh://) The configuration and server process is same as in the svn:// method. For details, please refer to the above section. This step assumes you have followed the above step and started the Subversion server using svnserve command. It is also assumed that the ssh server is running on that machine and that it is allowing incoming connections. To confirm, please try to login to that machine using ssh. If you can login, everything is perfect. If you cannot login, please address it before continuing further. The svn+ssh:// protocol is used to access the Subversion repository using SSL encryption. The data transfer is encrypted using this method. To access the project repository (for example with a checkout), you must use the following command syntax:

svn co svn+ssh://hostname/var/svn/repos/project

You must use the full path (/path/to/repos/project) to access the Subversion repository using this access method. Based on server configuration, it prompts for password. You must enter the password you use to login via ssh. Once you are authenticated, it checks out the code from the Subversion repository.

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3. CVS Server
CVS is a version control system. You can use it to record the history of source files.

3.1. Installation
To install CVS, run the following command from a terminal prompt:

sudo apt-get install cvs

After you install cvs, you should install xinetd to start/stop the cvs server. At the prompt, enter the following command to install xinetd:

sudo apt-get install xinetd

3.2. Configuration
Once you install cvs, the repository will be automatically initialized. By default, the repository resides under the /srv/cvs directory. You can change this path by running following command:

cvs -d /your/new/cvs/repo init

Once the initial repository is set up, you can configure xinetd to start the CVS server. You can copy the following lines to the /etc/xinetd.d/cvspserver file.

service cvspserver { port = 2401 socket_type = stream protocol = tcp user = root wait = no type = UNLISTED server = /usr/bin/cvs server_args = -f --allow-root /srv/cvs pserver disable = no }

Be sure to edit the repository if you have changed the default repository (/srv/cvs) directory.

Once you have configured xinetd you can start the cvs server by running following command:

sudo /etc/init.d/xinetd restart

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sudo netstat -tap | grep cvs

When you run this command, you should see the following line or something similar:

tcp

0 *:cvspserver

*:* LISTEN

From here you can continue to add users, add new projects, and manage the CVS server. CVS allows the user to add users independently of the underlying OS installation. Probably the easiest way is to use the Linux Users for CVS, although it has potential security issues. Please refer to the CVS manual for details.

3.3. Add Projects

This section explains how to add new project to the CVS repository. Create the directory and add necessary document and source files to the directory. Now, run the following command to add this project to CVS repository:

cd your/project cvs -d :pserver:[email protected]:/srv/cvs import -m "Importing my project to CVS repository" .

You can use the CVSROOT environment variable to store the CVS root directory. Once you export the CVSROOT environment variable, you can avoid using -d option in the above cvs command. The string new_project is a vendor tag, and start is a release tag. They serve no purpose in this context, but since CVS requires them, they must be present. When you add a new project, the CVS user you use must have write access to the CVS repository (/srv/cvs). By default, the src group has write access to the CVS repository. So, you can add the user to this group, and he can then add and manage projects in the CVS repository.

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4. References
Bazaar Home Page4 Launchpad5 Subversion Home Page6 Subversion Book7 CVS Manual8 Easy Bazaar Ubuntu Wiki page9 Ubuntu Wiki Subversion page10

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Computer networks are often comprised of diverse systems, and while operating a network made up entirely of Ubuntu desktop and server computers would certainly be fun, some network environments must consist of both Ubuntu and Microsoft Windows systems working together in harmony. This section of the Ubuntu Server Guide introduces principles and tools used in configuring your Ubuntu Server for sharing network resources with Windows computers.

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1. Introduction
Successfully networking your Ubuntu system with Windows clients involves providing and integrating with services common to Windows environments. Such services assist the sharing of data and information about the computers and users involved in the network, and may be classified under three major categories of functionality: File and Printer Sharing Services. Using the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol to facilitate the sharing of files, folders, volumes, and the sharing of printers throughout the network. Directory Services. Sharing vital information about the computers and users of the network with such technologies as the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and Microsoft Active Directory. Authentication and Access. Establishing the identity of a computer or user of the network and determining the information the computer or user is authorized to access using such principles and technologies as file permissions, group policies, and the Kerberos authentication service. Fortunately, your Ubuntu system may provide all such facilities to Windows clients and share network resources among them. One of the principal pieces of software your Ubuntu system includes for Windows networking is the Samba suite of SMB server applications and tools. This section of the Ubuntu Server Guide will introduce some of the common Samba use cases, and how to install and configure the necessary packages. Additional detailed documentation and information on Samba can be found on the Samba website1.

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2. Samba File Server

One of the most common ways to network Ubuntu and Windows computers is to configure Samba as a File Server. This section covers setting up a Samba server to share files with Windows clients. The server will be configured to share files with any client on the network without prompting for a password. If your environment requires stricter Access Controls see Section 4, Securing a Samba File and Print Server [p. 236]

2.1. Installation
The first step is to install the samba package. From a terminal prompt enter:

sudo apt-get install samba

That's all there is to it; you are now ready to configure Samba to share files.

2.2. Configuration
The main Samba configuration file is located in /etc/samba/smb.conf. The default configuration file has a significant amount of comments in order to document various configuration directives. Not all the available options are included in the default configuration file. See the smb.conf man page or the Samba HOWTO Collection2 for more details. 1. First, edit the following key/value pairs in the [global] section of /etc/samba/smb.conf:

workgroup = EXAMPLE ... security = user

The security parameter is farther down in the [global] section, and is commented by default. Also, change EXAMPLE to better match your environment. 2. Create a new section at the bottom of the file, or uncomment one of the examples, for the directory to be shared:

[share] comment = Ubuntu File Server Share path = /srv/samba/share browsable = yes guest ok = yes read only = no create mask = 0755

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Windows Networking path: the path to the directory to share. This example uses /srv/samba/sharename because, according to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS), /srv3 is where site-specific data should be served. Technically Samba shares can be placed anywhere on the filesystem as long as the permissions are correct, but adhering to standards is recommended. browsable: enables Windows clients to browse the shared directory using Windows Explorer. guest ok: allows clients to connect to the share without supplying a password. read only: determines if the share is read only or if write privileges are granted. Write privileges are allowed only when the value is no, as is seen in this example. If the value is yes, then access to the share is read only. create mask: determines the permissions new files will have when created. 3. Now that Samba is configured, the directory needs to be created and the permissions changed. From a terminal enter:

sudo mkdir -p /srv/samba/share sudo chown nobody.nogroup /srv/samba/share/

The -p switch tells mkdir to create the entire directory tree if it doesn't exist.

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Finally, restart the samba services to enable the new configuration:

sudo restart smbd sudo restart nmbd

Once again, the above configuration gives all access to any client on the local network. For a more secure configuration see Section 4, Securing a Samba File and Print Server [p. 236]. From a Windows client you should now be able to browse to the Ubuntu file server and see the shared directory. If your client doesn't show your share automatically, try to access your server by its IP address, e.g. \\192.168.1.1, in a Windows Explorer window. To check that everything is working try creating a directory from Windows. To create additional shares simply create new [dir] sections in /etc/samba/smb.conf, and restart Samba. Just make sure that the directory you want to share actually exists and the permissions are correct. The file share named "[share]" and the path /srv/samba/share are just examples. Adjust the share and path names to fit your environment. It is a good idea to name a share after a directory on the file system. Another example would be a share name of [qa] with a path of /srv/samba/qa. 232

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2.3. Resources
For in depth Samba configurations see the Samba HOWTO Collection4 The guide is also available in printed format5. O'Reilly's Using Samba6 is another good reference. The Ubuntu Wiki Samba 7 page.

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3. Samba Print Server

Another common use of Samba is to configure it to share printers installed, either locally or over the network, on an Ubuntu server. Similar to Section 2, Samba File Server [p. 231] this section will configure Samba to allow any client on the local network to use the installed printers without prompting for a username and password. For a more secure configuration see Section 4, Securing a Samba File and Print Server [p. 236].

3.1. Installation
Before installing and configuring Samba it is best to already have a working CUPS installation. See Section 4, CUPS - Print Server [p. 184] for details. To install the samba package, from a terminal enter:

sudo apt-get install samba

3.2. Configuration
After installing samba edit /etc/samba/smb.conf. Change the workgroup attribute to what is appropriate for your network, and change security to user:

workgroup = EXAMPLE ... security = user

In the [printers] section change the guest ok option to yes:

browsable = yes guest ok = yes

After editing smb.conf restart Samba:

sudo restart smbd sudo restart nmbd

The default Samba configuration will automatically share any printers installed. Simply install the printer locally on your Windows clients.

3.3. Resources
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4. Securing a Samba File and Print Server

4.1. Samba Security Modes
There are two security levels available to the Common Internet Filesystem (CIFS) network protocol user-level and share-level. Samba's security mode implementation allows more flexibility, providing four ways of implementing user-level security and one way to implement share-level: security = user: requires clients to supply a username and password to connect to shares. Samba user accounts are separate from system accounts, but the libpam-smbpass package will sync system users and passwords with the Samba user database. security = domain: this mode allows the Samba server to appear to Windows clients as a Primary Domain Controller (PDC), Backup Domain Controller (BDC), or a Domain Member Server (DMS). See Section 5, Samba as a Domain Controller [p. 240] for further information. security = ADS: allows the Samba server to join an Active Directory domain as a native member. See Section 6, Samba Active Directory Integration [p. 244] for details. security = server: this mode is left over from before Samba could become a member server, and due to some security issues should not be used. See the Server Security13 section of the Samba guide for more details. security = share: allows clients to connect to shares without supplying a username and password. The security mode you choose will depend on your environment and what you need the Samba server to accomplish.

4.2. Security = User

This section will reconfigure the Samba file and print server, from Section 2, Samba File Server [p. 231] and Section 3, Samba Print Server [p. 234], to require authentication. First, install the libpam-smbpass package which will sync the system users to the Samba user database:

sudo apt-get install libpam-smbpass

If you chose the Samba Server task during installation libpam-smbpass is already installed.

Edit /etc/samba/smb.conf, and in the [share] section change:

guest ok = no

Finally, restart Samba for the new settings to take effect:

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sudo restart smbd sudo restart nmbd

Now when connecting to the shared directories or printers you should be prompted for a username and password. If you choose to map a network drive to the share you can check the Reconnect at Logon check box, which will require you to only enter the username and password once, at least until the password changes.

4.3. Share Security

There are several options available to increase the security for each individual shared directory. Using the [share] example, this section will cover some common options. 4.3.1. Groups Groups define a collection of computers or users which have a common level of access to particular network resources and offer a level of granularity in controlling access to such resources. For example, if a group qa is defined and contains the users freda, danika, and rob and a second group support is defined and consists of users danika, jeremy, and vincent then certain network resources configured to allow access by the qa group will subsequently enable access by freda, danika, and rob, but not jeremy or vincent. Since the user danika belongs to both the qa and support groups, she will be able to access resources configured for access by both groups, whereas all other users will have only access to resources explicitly allowing the group they are part of. By default Samba looks for the local system groups defined in /etc/group to determine which users belong to which groups. For more information on adding and removing users from groups see Section 1.2, Adding and Deleting Users [p. 111]. When defining groups in the Samba configuration file, /etc/samba/smb.conf, the recognized syntax is to preface the group name with an "@" symbol. For example, if you wished to define a group named sysadmin in a certain section of the /etc/samba/smb.conf, you would do so by entering the group name as @sysadmin. 4.3.2. File Permissions File Permissions define the explicit rights a computer or user has to a particular directory, file, or set of files. Such permissions may be defined by editing the /etc/samba/smb.conf file and specifying the explicit permissions of a defined file share. For example, if you have defined a Samba share called share and wish to give read-only permissions to the group of users known as qa, but wanted to allow writing to the share by the group called sysadmin and the user named vincent, then you could edit the /etc/samba/smb.conf file, and add the following entries under the [share] entry:

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read list = @qa write list = @sysadmin, vincent

Another possible Samba permission is to declare administrative permissions to a particular shared resource. Users having administrative permissions may read, write, or modify any information contained in the resource the user has been given explicit administrative permissions to. For example, if you wanted to give the user melissa administrative permissions to the share example, you would edit the /etc/samba/smb.conf file, and add the following line under the [share] entry:

admin users = melissa

After editing /etc/samba/smb.conf, restart Samba for the changes to take effect:

sudo restart smbd sudo restart nmbd

For the read list and write list to work the Samba security mode must not be set to security = share Now that Samba has been configured to limit which groups have access to the shared directory, the filesystem permissions need to be updated. Traditional Linux file permissions do not map well to Windows NT Access Control Lists (ACLs). Fortunately POSIX ACLs are available on Ubuntu servers providing more fine grained control. For example, to enable ACLs on /srv an EXT3 filesystem, edit /etc/fstab adding the acl option:

UUID=66bcdd2e-8861-4fb0-b7e4-e61c569fe17d /srv

ext3

noatime,relatime,acl 0

Then remount the partition:

sudo mount -v -o remount /srv

The above example assumes /srv on a separate partition. If /srv, or wherever you have configured your share path, is part of the / partition a reboot may be required. To match the Samba configuration above the sysadmin group will be given read, write, and execute permissions to /srv/samba/share, the qa group will be given read and execute permissions, and the files will be owned by the username melissa. Enter the following in a terminal:

sudo chown -R melissa /srv/samba/share/ sudo chgrp -R sysadmin /srv/samba/share/ sudo setfacl -R -m g:qa:rx /srv/samba/share/

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4.4. Samba AppArmor Profile

Ubuntu comes with the AppArmor security module, which provides mandatory access controls. The default AppArmor profile for Samba will need to be adapted to your configuration. For more details on using AppArmor see Section 4, AppArmor [p. 124]. There are default AppArmor profiles for /usr/sbin/smbd and /usr/sbin/nmbd, the Samba daemon binaries, as part of the apparmor-profiles packages. To install the package, from a terminal prompt enter:

sudo apt-get install apparmor-profiles apparmor-utils

This package contains profiles for several other binaries.

By default the profiles for smbd and nmbd are in complain mode allowing Samba to work without modifying the profile, and only logging errors. To place the smbd profile into enforce mode, and have Samba work as expected, the profile will need to be modified to reflect any directories that are shared. Edit /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.smbd adding information for [share] from the file server example:

/srv/samba/share/ r, /srv/samba/share/** rwkix,

Now place the profile into enforce and reload it:

sudo aa-enforce /usr/sbin/smbd cat /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.smbd | sudo apparmor_parser -r

You should now be able to read, write, and execute files in the shared directory as normal, and the smbd binary will have access to only the configured files and directories. Be sure to add entries for each directory you configure Samba to share. Also, any errors will be logged to /var/log/syslog.

4.5. Resources
For in depth Samba configurations see the Samba HOWTO Collection14 The guide is also available in printed format15. O'Reilly's Using Samba16 is also a good reference. Chapter 1817 of the Samba HOWTO Collection is devoted to security. For more information on Samba and ACLs see the Samba ACLs page 18. The Ubuntu Wiki Samba 19 page.

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5. Samba as a Domain Controller

Although it cannot act as an Active Directory Primary Domain Controller (PDC), a Samba server can be configured to appear as a Windows NT4-style domain controller. A major advantage of this configuration is the ability to centralize user and machine credentials. Samba can also use multiple backends to store the user information.

5.1. Primary Domain Controller

This section covers configuring Samba as a Primary Domain Controller (PDC) using the default smbpasswd backend. 1. First, install Samba, and libpam-smbpass to sync the user accounts, by entering the following in a terminal prompt:

sudo apt-get install samba libpam-smbpass

2.

Next, configure Samba by editing /etc/samba/smb.conf. The security mode should be set to user, and the workgroup should relate to your organization:

workgroup = EXAMPLE ... security = user

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In the commented Domains section add or uncomment the following:

domain logons = yes logon path = \\%N\%U\profile logon drive = H: logon home = \\%N\%U logon script = logon.cmd

add machine script = sudo /usr/sbin/useradd -N -g machines -c Machine -d /var/lib/samba -s /

If you wish to not use Roaming Profiles leave the logon home and logon path options commented. domain logons: provides the netlogon service causing Samba to act as a domain controller. logon path: places the user's Windows profile into their home directory. It is also possible to configure a [profiles] share placing all profiles under a single directory. logon drive: specifies the home directory local path. logon home: specifies the home directory location. logon script: determines the script to be run locally once a user has logged in. The script needs to be placed in the [netlogon] share. add machine script: a script that will automatically create the Machine Trust Account needed for a workstation to join the domain. 240

Windows Networking In this example the machines group will need to be created using the addgroup utility see Section 1.2, Adding and Deleting Users [p. 111] for details. 4. Uncomment the [homes] share to allow the logon home to be mapped:

[homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no read only = no create mask = 0700 directory mask = 0700 valid users = %S

5.

When configured as a domain controller a [netlogon] share needs to be configured. To enable the share, uncomment:

[netlogon] comment = Network Logon Service path = /srv/samba/netlogon guest ok = yes read only = yes share modes = no

The original netlogon share path is /home/samba/netlogon, but according to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS), /srv20 is the correct location for site-specific data provided by the system. 6. Now create the netlogon directory, and an empty (for now) logon.cmd script file:

sudo mkdir -p /srv/samba/netlogon sudo touch /srv/samba/netlogon/logon.cmd

You can enter any normal Windows logon script commands in logon.cmd to customize the client's environment. 7. Restart Samba to enable the new domain controller:

sudo restart smbd sudo restart nmbd

8.

Lastly, there are a few additional commands needed to setup the appropriate rights. With root being disabled by default, in order to join a workstation to the domain, a system group needs to be mapped to the Windows Domain Admins group. Using the net utility, from a terminal enter:

sudo net groupmap add ntgroup="Domain Admins" unixgroup=sysadmin rid=512 type=d

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sudo smbpasswd -a sysadmin

Also, rights need to be explicitly provided to the Domain Admins group to allow the add machine script (and other admin functions) to work. This is achieved by executing:

net rpc rights grant -U sysadmin "EXAMPLE\Domain Admins" SeMachineAccountPrivilege \ SePrintOperatorPrivilege SeAddUsersPrivilege SeDiskOperatorPrivilege SeRemoteShutdownPrivilege

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You should now be able to join Windows clients to the Domain in the same manner as joining them to an NT4 domain running on a Windows server.

5.2. Backup Domain Controller

With a Primary Domain Controller (PDC) on the network it is best to have a Backup Domain Controller (BDC) as well. This will allow clients to authenticate in case the PDC becomes unavailable. When configuring Samba as a BDC you need a way to sync account information with the PDC. There are multiple ways of accomplishing this scp, rsync, or by using LDAP as the passdb backend. Using LDAP is the most robust way to sync account information, because both domain controllers can use the same information in real time. However, setting up a LDAP server may be overly complicated for a small number of user and computer accounts. See Section 2, Samba and LDAP [p. 78] for details. 1. First, install samba and libpam-smbpass. From a terminal enter:

sudo apt-get install samba libpam-smbpass

2.

Now, edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and uncomment the following in the [global]:

workgroup = EXAMPLE ... security = user

3.

In the commented Domains uncomment or add:

domain logons = yes domain master = no

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sudo chgrp -R admin /var/lib/samba

5.

Next, sync the user accounts, using scp to copy the /var/lib/samba directory from the PDC:

sudo scp -r username@pdc:/var/lib/samba /var/lib

Replace username with a valid username and pdc with the hostname or IP Address of your actual PDC. 6. Finally, restart samba:

sudo restart smbd sudo restart nmbd

You can test that your Backup Domain controller is working by stopping the Samba daemon on the PDC, then trying to login to a Windows client joined to the domain. Another thing to keep in mind is if you have configured the logon home option as a directory on the PDC, and the PDC becomes unavailable, access to the user's Home drive will also be unavailable. For this reason it is best to configure the logon home to reside on a separate file server from the PDC and BDC.

5.3. Resources
For in depth Samba configurations see the Samba HOWTO Collection21 The guide is also available in printed format22. O'Reilly's Using Samba23 is also a good reference. Chapter 424 of the Samba HOWTO Collection explains setting up a Primary Domain Controller. Chapter 525 of the Samba HOWTO Collection explains setting up a Backup Domain Controller. The Ubuntu Wiki Samba 26 page.

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6. Samba Active Directory Integration

6.1. Accessing a Samba Share
Another, use for Samba is to integrate into an existing Windows network. Once part of an Active Directory domain, Samba can provide file and print services to AD users. The simplest way to join an AD domain is to use Likewise-open. For detailed instructions see the Likewise Open Installation and Administration Guide27. Once part of the Active Directory domain, enter the following command in the terminal prompt:

sudo apt-get install samba smbfs smbclient

Next, edit /etc/samba/smb.conf changing:

workgroup = EXAMPLE ... security = ads realm = EXAMPLE.COM ... idmap backend = lwopen idmap uid = 50-9999999999 idmap gid = 50-9999999999

Restart samba for the new settings to take effect:

sudo restart smbd sudo restart nmbd

You should now be able to access any Samba shares from a Windows client. However, be sure to give the appropriate AD users or groups access to the share directory. See Section 4, Securing a Samba File and Print Server [p. 236] for more details.

6.2. Accessing a Windows Share

Now that the Samba server is part of the Active Directory domain you can access any Windows server shares: To mount a Windows file share enter the following in a terminal prompt:

mount.cifs //fs01.example.com/share mount_point

It is also possible to access shares on computers not part of an AD domain, but a username and password will need to be provided.
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//192.168.0.5/share /mnt/windows cifs auto,username=steve,password=secret,rw 0

Another way to copy files from a Windows server is to use the smbclient utility. To list the files in a Windows share:

smbclient //fs01.example.com/share -k -c "ls"

To copy a file from the share, enter:

smbclient //fs01.example.com/share -k -c "get file.txt"

This will copy the file.txt into the current directory. And to copy a file to the share:

smbclient //fs01.example.com/share -k -c "put /etc/hosts hosts"

This will copy the /etc/hosts to //fs01.example.com/share/hosts. The -c option used above allows you to execute the smbclient command all at once. This is useful for scripting and minor file operations. To enter the smb: \> prompt, a FTP like prompt where you can execute normal file and directory commands, simply execute:

smbclient //fs01.example.com/share -k

Replace all instances of fs01.example.com/share, //192.168.0.5/share, username=steve,password=secret, and file.txt with your server's IP, hostname, share name, file name, and an actual username and password with rights to the share.

6.3. Resources
For more smbclient options see the man page: man smbclient, also available online28. The mount.cifs man page29 is also useful for more detailed information. The Ubuntu Wiki Samba 30 page.

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There are many ways to backup an Ubuntu installation. The most important thing about backups is to develop a backup plan consisting of what to backup, where to back it up to, and how to restore it. The following sections discuss various ways of accomplishing these tasks.

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1. Shell Scripts
One of the simplest ways to backup a system is using a shell script. For example, a script can be used to configure which directories to backup, and use those directories as arguments to the tar utility creating an archive file. The archive file can then be moved or copied to another location. The archive can also be created on a remote file system such as an NFS mount. The tar utility creates one archive file out of many files or directories. tar can also filter the files through compression utilities reducing the size of the archive file.

1.1. Simple Shell Script

The following shell script uses tar to create an archive file on a remotely mounted NFS file system. The archive filename is determined using additional command line utilities.

#!/bin/sh #################################### # # Backup to NFS mount script. # #################################### # What to backup. backup_files="/home /var/spool/mail /etc /root /boot /opt" # Where to backup to. dest="/mnt/backup" # Create archive filename. day=$(date +%A) hostname=$(hostname -s) archive_file="$hostname-$day.tgz" # Print start status message. echo "Backing up $backup_files to $dest/$archive_file" date echo # Backup the files using tar. tar czf $dest/$archive_file $backup_files # Print end status message. echo echo "Backup finished" date # Long listing of files in $dest to check file sizes. ls -lh $dest

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1.2. Executing the Script

1.2.1. Executing from a Terminal The simplest way of executing the above backup script is to copy and paste the contents into a file. backup.sh for example. Then from a terminal prompt:

sudo bash backup.sh

This is a great way to test the script to make sure everything works as expected. 1.2.2. Executing with cron The cron utility can be used to automate the script execution. The cron daemon allows the execution of scripts, or commands, at a specified time and date. cron is configured through entries in a crontab file. crontab files are separated into fields: 248

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# m h dom mon dow

command

m: minute the command executes on between 0 and 59. h: hour the command executes on between 0 and 23. dom: day of month the command executes on. mon: the month the command executes on between 1 and 12. dow: the day of the week the command executes on between 0 and 7. Sunday may be specified by using 0 or 7, both values are valid. command: the command to execute. To add or change entries in a crontab file the crontab -e command should be used. Also, the contents of a crontab file can be viewed using the crontab -l command. To execute the backup.sh script listed above using cron. Enter the following from a terminal prompt:

sudo crontab -e

Using sudo with the crontab -e command edits the root user's crontab. This is necessary if you are backing up directories only the root user has access to. Add the following entry to the crontab file:

# m h dom mon dow

command

0 0 * * * bash /usr/local/bin/backup.sh

The backup.sh script will now be executed every day at 12:00 am. The backup.sh script will need to be copied to the /usr/local/bin/ directory in order for this entry to execute properly. The script can reside anywhere on the file system simply change the script path appropriately. For more in depth crontab options see Section 1.4, References [p. 250].

1.3. Restoring from the Archive

Once an archive has been created it is important to test the archive. The archive can be tested by listing the files it contains, but the best test is to restore a file from the archive. To see a listing of the archive contents. From a terminal prompt:

tar -tzvf /mnt/backup/host-Monday.tgz

To restore a file from the archive to a different directory enter:

tar -xzvf /mnt/backup/host-Monday.tgz -C /tmp etc/hosts

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cd / sudo tar -xzvf /mnt/backup/host-Monday.tgz

This will overwrite the files currently on the file system.

1.4. References
For more information on shell scripting see the Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide1 The book Teach Yourself Shell Programming in 24 Hours2 is available online and a great resource for shell scripting. The CronHowto Wiki Page3 contains details on advanced cron options. See the GNU tar Manual4 for more tar options. The Wikipedia Backup Rotation Scheme5 article contains information on other backup rotation schemes. The shell script uses tar to create the archive, but there many other command line utilities that can be used. For example: cpio6: used to copy files to and from archives. dd7: part of the coreutils package. A low level utility that can copy data from one format to another rsnapshot8: a file system snap shot utility used to create copies of an entire file system.

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2. Archive Rotation
The shell script in section Section 1, Shell Scripts [p. 247] only allows for seven different archives. For a server whose data doesn't change often this may be enough. If the server has a large amount of data a more robust rotation scheme should be used.

2.1. Rotating NFS Archives

In this section the shell script will be slightly modified to implement a grandfather-father-son rotation scheme (monthly-weekly-daily): The rotation will do a daily backup Sunday through Friday. On Saturday a weekly backup is done giving you four weekly backups a month. The monthly backup is done on the first of the month rotating two monthly backups based on if the month is odd or even. Here is the new script:

#!/bin/bash #################################### # # Backup to NFS mount script with # grandfather-father-son rotation. # #################################### # What to backup. backup_files="/home /var/spool/mail /etc /root /boot /opt" # Where to backup to. dest="/mnt/backup" # Setup variables for the archive filename. day=$(date +%A) hostname=$(hostname -s) # Find which week of the month 1-4 it is. day_num=$(date +%d) if (( $day_num <= 7 )); then week_file="$hostname-week1.tgz" elif (( $day_num > 7 && $day_num <= 14 )); then week_file="$hostname-week2.tgz" elif (( $day_num > 14 && $day_num <= 21 )); then week_file="$hostname-week3.tgz" elif (( $day_num > 21 && $day_num < 32 )); then week_file="$hostname-week4.tgz" fi

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# Find if the Month is odd or even. month_num=$(date +%m) month=$(expr $month_num % 2) if [ $month -eq 0 ]; then month_file="$hostname-month2.tgz" else month_file="$hostname-month1.tgz" fi # Create archive filename. if [ $day_num == 1 ]; then archive_file=$month_file elif [ $day != "Saturday" ]; then archive_file="$hostname-$day.tgz" else archive_file=$week_file fi # Print start status message. echo "Backing up $backup_files to $dest/$archive_file" date echo # Backup the files using tar. tar czf $dest/$archive_file $backup_files # Print end status message. echo echo "Backup finished" date # Long listing of files in $dest to check file sizes. ls -lh $dest/

The script can be executed using the same methods as in Section 1.2, Executing the Script [p. 248]. It is good practice to take backup media off site in case of a disaster. In the shell script example the backup media is another server providing an NFS share. In all likelihood taking the NFS server to another location would not be practical. Depending upon connection speeds it may be an option to copy the archive file over a WAN link to a server in another location. Another option is to copy the archive file to an external hard drive which can then be taken off site. Since the price of external hard drives continue to decrease it may be cost-effective to use two drives for each archive level. This would allow you to have one external drive attached to the backup server and one in another location.

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#!/bin/bash #################################### # # Backup to tape drive script. # #################################### # What to backup. backup_files="/home /var/spool/mail /etc /root /boot /opt" # Where to backup to. dest="/dev/st0" # Print start status message. echo "Backing up $backup_files to $dest" date echo # Make sure the tape is rewound. mt -f $dest rewind # Backup the files using tar. tar czf $dest $backup_files # Rewind and eject the tape. mt -f $dest rewoffl # Print end status message. echo echo "Backup finished" date

The default device name for a SCSI tape drive is /dev/st0. Use the appropriate device path for your system. Restoring from a tape drive is basically the same as restoring from a file. Simply rewind the tape and use the device path instead of a file path. For example to restore the /etc/hosts file to /tmp/etc/ hosts:

mt -f /dev/st0 rewind tar -xzf /dev/st0 -C /tmp etc/hosts

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3. Bacula
Bacula is a backup program enabling you to backup, restore, and verify data across your network. There are Bacula clients for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. Making it a cross platform network wide solution.

3.1. Overview
Bacula is made up of several components and services used to manage which files to backup and where to back them up to: Bacula Director: a service that controls all backup, restore, verify, and archive operations. Bacula Console: an application allowing communication with the Director. There are three versions of the Console: Text based command line version. Gnome based GTK+ Graphical User Interface (GUI) interface. wxWidgets GUI interface. Bacula File: also known as the Bacula Client program. This application is installed on machines to be backed up, and is responsible for the data requested by the Director. Bacula Storage: the programs that perform the storage and recovery of data to the physical media. Bacula Catalog: is responsible for maintaining the file indexes and volume databases for all files backed up, enabling quick location and restoration of archived files. The Catalog supports three different databases MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. Bacula Monitor: allows the monitoring of the Director, File daemons, and Storage daemons. Currently the Monitor is only available as a GTK+ GUI application. These services and applications can be run on multiple servers and clients, or they can be installed on one machine if backing up a single disk or volume.

3.2. Installation
If using MySQL or PostgreSQL as your database, you should already have the services available. Bacula will not install them for you. There are multiple packages containing the different Bacula components. To install Bacula, from a terminal prompt enter:

sudo apt-get install bacula

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Backups During the install process you will be asked to supply credentials for the database administrator and the bacula database owner. The database administrator will need to have the appropriate rights to create a database, see Section 1, MySQL [p. 162] for more information.

3.3. Configuration
Bacula configuration files are formatted based on resources comprising of directives surrounded by {} braces. Each Bacula component has an individual file in the /etc/bacula directory. The various Bacula components must authorize themselves to each other. This is accomplished using the password directive. For example, the Storage resource password in the /etc/bacula/baculadir.conf file must match the Director resource password in /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf. By default the backup job named Client1 is configured to archive the Bacula Catalog. If you plan on using the server to backup more than one client you should change the name of this job to something more descriptive. To change the name edit /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf:

# # Define the main nightly save backup job # By default, this job will back up to disk in Job { Name = "BackupServer" JobDefs = "DefaultJob" Write Bootstrap = "/var/lib/bacula/Client1.bsr" }

The example above changes the job name to BackupServer matching the machine's host name. Replace BackupServer with your appropriate hostname, or other descriptive name. The Console can be used to query the Director about jobs, but to use the Console with a non-root user, the user needs to be in the bacula group. To add a user to the bacula group enter the following from a terminal:

sudo adduser $username bacula

Replace $username with the actual username. Also, if you are adding the current user to the group you should log out and back in for the new permissions to take effect.

3.4. Localhost Backup

This section describes how to backup specified directories on a single host to a local tape drive. First, the Storage device needs to be configured. Edit /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf add:

Device { Name = "Tape Drive" Device Type = tape

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Media Type = DDS-4 Archive Device = /dev/st0 Hardware end of medium = No; AutomaticMount = yes; AlwaysOpen = Yes; RemovableMedia = yes; RandomAccess = no; Alert Command = "sh -c 'tapeinfo -f %c | grep TapeAlert'" }

# when device opened, read it

The example is for a DDS-4 tape drive. Adjust the Media Type and Archive Device to match your hardware. You could also uncomment one of the other examples in the file. After editing /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf the Storage daemon will need to be restarted:

sudo /etc/init.d/bacula-sd restart

Now add a Storage resource in /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf to use the new Device:

# Definition of "Tape Drive" storage device Storage { Name = TapeDrive # Do not use "localhost" here Address = backupserver SDPort = 9103 Password = "Cv70F6pf1t6pBopT4vQOnigDrR0v3LT3Cgkiyj" Device = "Tape Drive" Media Type = tape } # N.B. Use a fully qualified name here

The Address directive needs to be the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) of the server. Change backupserver to the actual host name. Also, make sure the Password directive matches the password string in /etc/bacula/baculasd.conf. Create a new FileSet, which will determine what directories to backup, by adding:

# LocalhostBacup FileSet. FileSet { Name = "LocalhostFiles" Include { Options { signature = MD5 compression=GZIP } File = /etc File = /home }

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This FileSet will backup the /etc and /home directories. The Options resource directives configure the FileSet to create a MD5 signature for each file backed up, and to compress the files using GZIP. Next, create a new Schedule for the backup job:

# LocalhostBackup Schedule -- Daily. Schedule { Name = "LocalhostDaily" Run = Full daily at 00:01 }

The job will run every day at 00:01 or 12:01 am. There are many other scheduling options available. Finally create the Job:

# Localhost backup. Job { Name = "LocalhostBackup" JobDefs = "DefaultJob" Enabled = yes Level = Full FileSet = "LocalhostFiles" Schedule = "LocalhostDaily" Storage = TapeDrive Write Bootstrap = "/var/lib/bacula/LocalhostBackup.bsr" }

The job will do a Full backup every day to the tape drive. Each tape used will need to have a Label. If the current tape does not have a label Bacula will send an email letting you know. To label a tape using the Console enter the following from a terminal:

bconsole

At the Bacula Console prompt enter:

label

You will then be prompted for the Storage resource:

Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog Using Catalog "MyCatalog" The defined Storage resources are: 1: File 2: TapeDrive Select Storage resource (1-2):2

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Enter new Volume name: Defined Pools: 1: Default 2: Scratch

Sunday

Replace Sunday with the desired label. Now, select the Pool:

Select the Pool (1-2):

Connecting to Storage daemon TapeDrive at backupserver:9103 ... Sending label command for Volume "Sunday" Slot 0 ...

Congratulations, you have now configured Bacula to backup the localhost to an attached tape drive.

3.5. Resources
For more Bacula configuration options refer to the Bacula User's Manual9 The Bacula Home Page10 contains the latest Bacula news and developments. Also, see the Bacula Ubuntu Wiki11 page.

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Virtualization is being adopted in many different environments and situations. If you are a developer, virtualization can provide you with a contained environment where you can safely do almost any sort of development safe from messing up your main working environment. If you are a systems administrator, you can use virtualization to more easily separate your services and move them around based on demand. The default virtualization technology supported in Ubuntu is KVM, a technology that takes advantage of virtualization extensions built into Intel and AMD hardware. For hardware without virtualization extensions Xen and Qemu are popular solutions.

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1. libvirt
The libvirt library is used to interface with different virtualization technologies. Before getting started with libvirt it is best to make sure your hardware supports the necessary virtualization extensions for KVM. Enter the following from a terminal prompt:

kvm-ok

A message will be printed informing you if your CPU does or does not support hardware virtualization. On most computer whose processor supports virtualization, it is necessary to activate an option in the BIOS to enable it.

1.1. Virtual Networking

There are a few different ways to allow a virtual machine access to the external network. The default virtual network configuration is usermode networking, which uses the SLIRP protocol and traffic is NATed through the host interface to the outside network. To enable external hosts to directly access services on virtual machines a bridge needs to be configured. This allows the virtual interfaces to connect to the outside network through the physical interface, making them appear as normal hosts to the rest of the network. For information on setting up a bridge see Section 1.4, Bridging [p. 36].

1.2. Installation
To install the necessary packages, from a terminal prompt enter:

sudo apt-get install kvm libvirt-bin

After installing libvirt-bin, the user used to manage virtual machines will need to be added to the libvirtd group. Doing so will grant the user access to the advanced networking options. In a terminal enter:

sudo adduser $USER libvirtd

If the user chosen is the current user, you will need to log out and back in for the new group membership to take effect. You are now ready to install a Guest operating system. Installing a virtual machine follows the same process as installing the operating system directly on the hardware. You either need a way to automate the installation, or a keyboard and monitor will need to be attached to the physical machine. 260

Virtualization In the case of virtual machines a Graphical User Interface (GUI) is analogous to using a physical keyboard and mouse. Instead of installing a GUI the virt-viewer application can be used to connect to a virtual machine's console using VNC. See Section 1.6, Virtual Machine Viewer [p. 263] for more information. There are several ways to automate the Ubuntu installation process, for example using preseeds, kickstart, etc. Refer to the Ubuntu Installation Guide1 for details. Yet another way to install an Ubuntu virtual machine is to use ubuntu-vm-builder. ubuntu-vm-builder allows you to setup advanced partitions, execute custom post-install scripts, etc. For details see Section 2, JeOS and vmbuilder [p. 265]

1.3. virt-install
virt-install is part of the virtinst package. To install it, from a terminal prompt enter:

sudo apt-get install virtinst

There are several options available when using virt-install. For example:

sudo virt-install -n web_devel -r 256 \ --disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/web_devel.img,bus=virtio,size=4 -c jeos.iso --accelerate \ --network network=default,model=virtio --connect=qemu:///system --vnc \ --noautoconsole -v

-n web_devel: the name of the new virtual machine will be web_devel in this example. -r 256: specifies the amount of memory the virtual machine will use in megabytes. --disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/web_devel.img,size=4: indicates the path to the virtual disk which can be a file, partition, or logical volume. In this example a file named web_devel.img in the /var/lib/libvirt/images/ directory, with a size of 4 gigabytes, and using virtio for the disk bus. -c jeos.iso: file to be used as a virtual CDROM. The file can be either an ISO file or the path to the host's CDROM device. --accelerate: enables the kernel's acceleration technologies. --network provides details related to the VM's network interface. Here the default network is used, and the interface model is configured for virtio. --vnc: exports the guest's virtual console using VNC. --noautoconsole: will not automatically connect to the virtual machine's console. -v: creates a fully virtualized guest. After launching virt-install you can connect to the virtual machine's console either locally using a GUI or with the virt-viewer utility.
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1.4. virt-clone
The virt-clone application can be used to copy one virtual machine to another. For example:

sudo virt-clone -o web_devel -n database_devel -f /path/to/database_devel.img --connect=qemu:///syst

-o: original virtual machine. -n: name of the new virtual machine. -f: path to the file, logical volume, or partition to be used by the new virtual machine. --connect: specifies which hypervisor to connect to. Also, use -d or --debug option to help troubleshoot problems with virt-clone. Replace web_devel and database_devel with appropriate virtual machine names.

1.5. Virtual Machine Management

1.5.1. virsh There are several utilities available to manage virtual machines and libvirt. The virsh utility can be used from the command line. Some examples: To list running virtual machines:

virsh -c qemu:///system list

To start a virtual machine:

virsh -c qemu:///system start web_devel

Similarly, to start a virtual machine at boot:

virsh -c qemu:///system autostart web_devel

Reboot a virtual machine with:

virsh -c qemu:///system reboot web_devel

The state of virtual machines can be saved to a file in order to be restored later. The following will save the virtual machine state into a file named according to the date:

virsh -c qemu:///system save web_devel web_devel-022708.state

Once saved the virtual machine will no longer be running. A saved virtual machine can be restored using:

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virsh -c qemu:///system restore web_devel-022708.state

To shutdown a virtual machine do:

virsh -c qemu:///system shutdown web_devel

A CDROM device can be mounted in a virtual machine by entering:

virsh -c qemu:///system attach-disk web_devel /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom

In the above examples replace web_devel with the appropriate virtual machine name, and web_devel-022708.state with a descriptive file name. 1.5.2. Virtual Machine Manager The virt-manager package contains a graphical utility to manage local and remote virtual machines. To install virt-manager enter:

sudo apt-get install virt-manager

Since virt-manager requires a Graphical User Interface (GUI) environment it is recommended to be installed on a workstation or test machine instead of a production server. To connect to the local libvirt service enter:

virt-manager -c qemu:///system

You can connect to the libvirt service running on another host by entering the following in a terminal prompt:

virt-manager -c qemu+ssh://virtnode1.mydomain.com/system

The above example assumes that SSH connectivity between the management system and virtnode1.mydomain.com has already been configured, and uses SSH keys for authentication. SSH keys are needed because libvirt sends the password prompt to another process. For details on configuring SSH see Section 1, OpenSSH Server [p. 47]

1.6. Virtual Machine Viewer

The virt-viewer application allows you to connect to a virtual machine's console. virt-viewer does require a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to interface with the virtual machine. To install virt-viewer from a terminal enter:

sudo apt-get install virt-viewer

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virt-viewer -c qemu:///system web_devel

Similar to virt-manager, virt-viewer can connect to a remote host using SSH with key authentication, as well:

virt-viewer -c qemu+ssh://virtnode1.mydomain.com/system web_devel

Be sure to replace web_devel with the appropriate virtual machine name. If configured to use a bridged network interface you can also setup SSH access to the virtual machine. See Section 1, OpenSSH Server [p. 47] and Section 1.4, Bridging [p. 36] for more details.

1.7. Resources
See the KVM2 home page for more details. For more information on libvirt see the libvirt home page3 The Virtual Machine Manager4 site has more information on virt-manager development. Also, stop by the #ubuntu-virt IRC channel on freenode5 to discuss virtualization technology in Ubuntu. Another good resource is the Ubuntu Wiki KVM6 page.

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2. JeOS and vmbuilder

2.1. Introduction
2.1.1. What is JeOS Ubuntu JeOS (pronounced "Juice") is an efficient variant of the Ubuntu Server operating system, configured specifically for virtual appliances. No longer available as a CD-ROM ISO for download, but only as an option either: While installing from the Server Edition ISO (pressing F4 on the first screen will allow you to pick "Minimal installation", which is the package selection equivalent to JeOS). Or to be built using Ubuntu's vmbuilder, which is described here. JeOS is a specialized installation of Ubuntu Server Edition with a tuned kernel that only contains the base elements needed to run within a virtualized environment. Ubuntu JeOS has been tuned to take advantage of key performance technologies in the latest virtualization products from VMware. This combination of reduced size and optimized performance ensures that Ubuntu JeOS Edition delivers a highly efficient use of server resources in large virtual deployments. Without unnecessary drivers, and only the minimal required packages, ISVs can configure their supporting OS exactly as they require. They have the peace of mind that updates, whether for security or enhancement reasons, will be limited to the bare minimum of what is required in their specific environment. In turn, users deploying virtual appliances built on top of JeOS will have to go through fewer updates and therefore less maintenance than they would have had to with a standard full installation of a server. 2.1.2. What is vmbuilder With vmbuilder, there is no need to download a JeOS ISO anymore. vmbuilder will fetch the various package and build a virtual machine tailored for your needs in about a minute. vmbuilder is a script that automates the process of creating a ready to use Linux based VM. The currently supported hypervisors are KVM and Xen. You can pass command line options to add extra packages, remove packages, choose which version of Ubuntu, which mirror etc. On recent hardware with plenty of RAM, tmpdir in /dev/shm or using a tmpfs, and a local mirror, you can bootstrap a VM in less than a minute. First introduced as a shell script in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, ubuntu-vm-builder started with little emphasis as a hack to help developers test their new code in a virtual machine without having to restart from scratch each time. As a few Ubuntu administrators started to notice this script, a few of them went on improving it and adapting it for so many use case that Soren Hansen (the author of the script and 265

Virtualization Ubuntu virtualization specialist, not the golf player) decided to rewrite it from scratch for Intrepid as a python script with a few new design goals: Develop it so that it can be reused by other distributions. Use a plugin mechanisms for all virtualization interactions so that others can easily add logic for other virtualization environments. Provide an easy to maintain web interface as an option to the command line interface. But the general principles and commands remain the same.

2.2. Initial Setup

It is assumed that you have installed and configured libvirt and KVM locally on the machine you are using. For details on how to perform this, please refer to: Section 1, libvirt [p. 260] The KVM7 Wiki page. We also assume that you know how to use a text based text editor such as nano or vi. If you have not used any of them before, you can get an overview of the various text editors available by reading the PowerUsersTextEditors8 page. This tutorial has been done on KVM, but the general principle should remain on other virtualization technologies. 2.2.1. Install vmbuilder The name of the package that we need to install is python-vm-builder. In a terminal prompt enter:

sudo apt-get install python-vm-builder

If you are running Hardy, you can still perform most of this using the older version of the package named ubuntu-vm-builder, there are only a few changes to the syntax of the tool.

2.3. Defining Your Virtual Machine

Defining a virtual machine with Ubuntu's vmbuilder is quite simple, but here are a few thing to consider: If you plan on shipping a virtual appliance, do not assume that the end-user will know how to extend disk size to fit their need, so either plan for a large virtual disk to allow for your appliance to grow, or explain fairly well in your documentation how to allocate more space. It might actually be a good idea to store data on some separate external storage. Given that RAM is much easier to allocate in a VM, RAM size should be set to whatever you think is a safe minimum for your appliance.
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vmbuilder kvm ubuntu --help

2.3.1. Base Parameters As this example is based on KVM and Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot), and we are likely to rebuild the same virtual machine multiple time, we'll invoke vmbuilder with the following first parameters:

sudo vmbuilder kvm ubuntu --suite oneiric --flavour virtual --arch i386

-o --libvirt qemu:///system

The --suite defines the Ubuntu release, the --flavour specifies that we want to use the virtual kernel (that's the one used to build a JeOS image), the --arch tells that we want to use a 32 bit machine, the o tells vmbuilder to overwrite the previous version of the VM and the --libvirt tells to inform the local virtualization environment to add the resulting VM to the list of available machines. Notes: Because of the nature of operations performed by vmbuilder, it needs to have root privilege, hence the use of sudo. If your virtual machine needs to use more than 3Gb of ram, you should build a 64 bit machine (-arch amd64). Until Ubuntu 8.10, the virtual kernel was only built for 32 bit architecture, so if you want to define an amd64 machine on Hardy, you should use --flavour server instead. 2.3.2. JeOS Installation Parameters 2.3.2.1. JeOS Networking 2.3.2.1.1. Assigning a fixed IP address As a virtual appliance that may be deployed on various very different networks, it is very difficult to know what the actual network will look like. In order to simplify configuration, it is a good idea to take an approach similar to what network hardware vendors usually do, namely assigning an initial fixed IP address to the appliance in a private class network that you will provide in your documentation. An address in the range 192.168.0.0/255 is usually a good choice. To do this we'll use the following parameters: --ip ADDRESS: IP address in dotted form (defaults to dhcp if not specified) --hostname NAME: Set NAME as the hostname of the guest. --mask VALUE: IP mask in dotted form (default: 255.255.255.0) --net VALUE: IP net address (default: X.X.X.0) 267

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sudo vmbuilder kvm ubuntu --suite oneiric --flavour virtual --arch i386 -o --libvirt qemu:///system

2.3.2.1.2. Bridging Because our appliance will be likely to need to be accessed by remote hosts, we need to configure libvirt so that the appliance uses bridge networking. To do this add the --bridge option to the command:

sudo vmbuilder kvm ubuntu --suite oneiric --flavour virtual --arch i386 -o --libvirt qemu:///system

You will need to have previously setup a bridge interface, see Section 1.4, Bridging [p. 36] for more information. Also, if the interface name is different change br0 to the actual bridge interface. 2.3.2.2. Partitioning Partitioning of the virtual appliance will have to take into consideration what you are planning to do with is. Because most appliances want to have a separate storage for data, having a separate /var would make sense. In order to do this vmbuilder provides us with --part:

--part PATH Allows you to specify a partition table in a partition file, located at PATH. Each line of the par (root first): mountpoint size where size is in megabytes. You can have up to 4 virtual disks, a new disk starts on a line with ---. ie : root 1000 /opt 1000 swap 256 --/var 2000 /log 1500

In our case we will define a text file name vmbuilder.partition which will contain the following:

root 8000 swap 4000 --/var 20000

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sudo vmbuilder kvm ubuntu --suite oneiric --flavour virtual --arch i386 \ -o --libvirt qemu:///system --ip 192.168.0.100 --hostname myvm --part vmbuilder.partition

Using a "\" in a command will allow long command strings to wrap to the next line.

2.3.2.3. User and Password Again setting up a virtual appliance, you will need to provide a default user and password that is generic so that you can include it in your documentation. We will see later on in this tutorial how we will provide some security by defining a script that will be run the first time a user actually logs in the appliance, that will, among other things, ask him to change his password. In this example I will use 'user' as my user name, and 'default' as the password. To do this we use the following optional parameters: --user USERNAME: Sets the name of the user to be added. Default: ubuntu. --name FULLNAME: Sets the full name of the user to be added. Default: Ubuntu. --pass PASSWORD: Sets the password for the user. Default: ubuntu. Our resulting command line becomes:

sudo vmbuilder kvm ubuntu --suite oneiric --flavour virtual --arch i386 \ -o --libvirt qemu:///system --ip 192.168.0.100 --hostname myvm --part vmbuilder.partition \ --user user --name user --pass default

2.3.3. Installing Required Packages In this example we will be installing a package (Limesurvey) that accesses a MySQL database and has a web interface. We will therefore require our OS to provide us with: Apache PHP MySQL OpenSSH Server Limesurvey (as an example application that we have packaged) This is done using vmbuilder by specifying the --addpkg option multiple times:

--addpkg PKG Install PKG into the guest (can be specfied multiple times)

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--components COMP1,COMP2,...,COMPN A comma separated list of distro components to include (e.g. main,universe). This default to "main" --ppa=PPA Add ppa belonging to PPA to the vm's sources.list.

Limesurvey not being part of the archive at the moment, we'll specify it's PPA (personal package archive) address so that it is added to the VM /etc/apt/source.list, so we add the following options to the command line:

--addpkg apache2 --addpkg apache2-mpm-prefork --addpkg apache2-utils --addpkg apache2.2-common \ --addpkg dbconfig-common --addpkg libapache2-mod-php5 --addpkg mysql-client --addpkg php5-c --addpkg php5-gd --addpkg php5-ldap --addpkg php5-mysql --addpkg wwwconfig-common \ --addpkg mysql-server --ppa nijaba

2.3.4. Speed Considerations 2.3.4.1. Package Caching When vmbuilder creates builds your system, it has to go fetch each one of the packages that composes it over the network to one of the official repositories, which, depending on your internet connection speed and the load of the mirror, can have a big impact on the actual build time. In order to reduce this, it is recommended to either have a local repository (which can be created using apt-mirror) or using a caching proxy such as apt-proxy. The later option being much simpler to implement and requiring less disk space, it is the one we will pick in this tutorial. To install it, simply type:

sudo apt-get install apt-proxy

Once this is complete, your (empty) proxy is ready for use on http://mirroraddress:9999 and will find ubuntu repository under /ubuntu. For vmbuilder to use it, we'll have to use the --mirror option:

--mirror=URL

Use Ubuntu mirror at URL instead of the default, which is http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu for official arches and http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports otherwise

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--mirror http://mirroraddress:9999/ubuntu

The mirror address specified here will also be used in the /etc/apt/sources.list of the newly created guest, so it is useful to specify here an address that can be resolved by the guest or to plan on reseting this address later on. 2.3.4.2. Install a Local Mirror If we are in a larger environment, it may make sense to setup a local mirror of the Ubuntu repositories. The package apt-mirror provides you with a script that will handle the mirroring for you. You should plan on having about 20 gigabyte of free space per supported release and architecture. By default, apt-mirror uses the configuration file in /etc/apt/mirror.list. As it is set up, it will replicate only the architecture of the local machine. If you would like to support other architectures on your mirror, simply duplicate the lines starting with deb, replacing the deb keyword by /deb-{arch} where arch can be i386, amd64, etc... For example, on an amd64 machine, to have the i386 archives as well, you will have:

deb

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oneiric main restricted universe multiverse http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oneiric main restricted universe multiverse

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deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oneiric-updates main restricted universe multiverse /deb-i386 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oneiric-updates main restricted universe multiverse deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-backports main restricted universe multiverse /deb-i386 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oneiric-backports main restricted universe multiverse deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oneiric-security main restricted universe multiverse /deb-i386 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oneiric-security main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oneiric main/debian-installer restricted/debian-installer unive

/deb-i386 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oneiric main/debian-installer restricted/debian-installer

Notice that the source packages are not mirrored as they are seldom used compared to the binaries and they do take a lot more space, but they can be easily added to the list. Once the mirror has finished replicating (and this can be quite long), you need to configure Apache so that your mirror files (in /var/spool/apt-mirror if you did not change the default), are published by your Apache server. For more information on Apache see Section 1, HTTPD - Apache2 Web Server [p. 144].

2.4. Package the Application

Two option are available to us: The recommended method to do so is to make a Debian package. Since this is outside of the scope of this tutorial, we will not perform this here and invite the reader to read the documentation 271

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2.5. Useful Additions

2.5.1. Configuring Automatic Updates To have your system be configured to update itself on a regular basis, we will just install unattendedupgrades, so we add the following option to our command line:

--addpkg unattended-upgrades

As we have put our application package in a PPA, the process will update not only the system, but also the application each time we update the version in the PPA. 2.5.2. ACPI Event Handling For your virtual machine to be able to handle restart and shutdown events it is being sent, it is a good idea to install the acpid package as well. To do this we just add the following option:

--addpkg acpid

2.6. Final Command

Here is the command with all the options discussed above:

sudo vmbuilder kvm ubuntu --suite oneiric --flavour virtual --arch i386 -o \ --libvirt qemu:///system --ip 192.168.0.100 --hostname myvm --part vmbuilder.partition --us --name user --pass default --addpkg apache2 --addpkg apache2-mpm-prefork \ --addpkg apache2-utils --addpkg apache2.2-common --addpkg dbconfig-common \ --addpkg libapache2-mod-php5 --addpkg mysql-client --addpkg php5-cli \ --addpkg php5-gd --addpkg php5-ldap --addpkg php5-mysql --addpkg wwwconfig-common \ --addpkg mysql-server --addpkg unattended-upgrades --addpkg acpid --ppa nijaba \ --mirror http://mirroraddress:9999/ubuntu

2.7. Resources
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3. UEC
3.1. Overview
This tutorial covers UEC installation from the Ubuntu 11.10 Server Edition CD, and assumes a basic network topology, with a single system serving as the "all-in-one controller", and one or more nodes attached. From this Tutorial you will learn how to install, configure, register and perform several operations on a basic UEC setup that results in a cloud with a one controller "front-end" and one or several node(s) for running Virtual Machine (VM) instances. You will also use examples to help get you started using your own private compute cloud.

3.2. Prerequisites
To deploy a minimal cloud infrastructure, youll need at least two dedicated systems: A front end. One or more node(s). The following are recommendations, rather than fixed requirements. However, our experience in developing this documentation indicated the following suggestions. 3.2.1. Front End Requirements Use the following table for a system that will run one or more of: Cloud Controller (CLC) Cluster Controller (CC) Walrus (the S3-like storage service) Storage Controller (SC)

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Table 19.1. UEC Front End Requirements

Hardware CPU Minimum 1 GHz Suggested 2 x 2 GHz Notes For an all-in-one front end, it helps to have at least a dual core processor. The Java web front end benefits from lots of available memory. Slower disks will work, but will yield much longer instance startup times. 40GB is only enough space for only a single image, cache, etc., Eucalyptus does not like to run out of disk space. Networking 100 Mbps 1000 Mbps Machine images are hundreds of MB, and need to be copied over the network to nodes.

Memory

2 GB

4 GB

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7200 RPM SATA

Disk Space

40 GB

200 GB

3.2.2. Node Requirements The other system(s) are nodes, which will run: the Node Controller (NC)

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Table 19.2. UEC Node Requirements

Hardware CPU Minimum VT Extensions Suggested VT, 64-bit, Multicore Notes 64-bit can run both i386, and amd64 instances; by default, Eucalyptus will only run 1 VM per CPU core on a Node. Memory 1 GB 4 GB Additional memory means more, and larger guests. Eucalyptus nodes are disk-intensive; I/O wait will likely be the performance bottleneck. Images will be cached locally, Eucalyptus does not like to run out of disk space. Machine images are hundreds of MB, and need to be copied over the network to nodes.

Disk

5400 RPM IDE

7200 RPM SATA or SCSI

Disk Space

40 GB

100 GB

Networking

100 Mbps

1000 Mbps

3.3. Installing the Cloud/Cluster/Storage/Walrus Front End Server

1. 2. Download the Ubuntu 11.10 Server ISO file, and burn it to a CD. When you boot, select Install Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud. The installer will detect if any other Eucalyptus components are present. You can then choose which components to install, based on your chosen topology14. When asked whether you want a Cluster or a Node install, select Cluster. It will ask two other cloud-specific questions during the course of the install: Name of your cluster. e.g. cluster1. A range of public IP addresses on the LAN that the cloud can allocate to instances. e.g. 192.168.1.200-192.168.1.249.

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3.4. Installing the Node Controller(s)

The node controller install is even simpler. Just make sure that you are connected to the network on which the cloud/cluster controller is already running. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Boot from the same ISO on the node(s). When you boot, select Install Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud. Select Install Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud. It should detect the Cluster and preselect Node install for you. Confirm the partitioning scheme. The rest of the installation should proceed uninterrupted; complete the installation and reboot the node.

3.5. Register the Node(s)

1. Nodes are the physical systems within UEC that actually run the virtual machine instances of the cloud. All component registration should be automatic, assuming: a. Public SSH keys have been exchanged properly. b. The services are configured properly. c. The appropriate uec-component-listener is running. d. Verify Registration. Steps a to e should only be required if you're using the UEC/PackageInstall15 method. Otherwise, if you are following this guide, these steps should already be completed automatically for you, and therefore you can skip "a" to "e". 2. Exchange Public Keys The Cloud Controller's eucalyptus user needs to have SSH access to the Walrus Controller, Cluster Controller, and Storage Controller as the eucalyptus user. Install the Cloud Controller's eucalyptus user's public ssh key by: On the target controller, temporarily set a password for the eucalyptus user:
sudo passwd eucalyptus

Then, on the Cloud Controller:

sudo -u eucalyptus ssh-copy-id -i ~eucalyptus/.ssh/id_rsa.pub eucalyptus@<IP_OF_NODE>

You can now remove the password of the eucalyptus account on the target controller, if you wish:

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3.

Configuring the Services On the Cloud Controller: For the Cluster Controller Registration: Define the shell variable CC_NAME in /etc/eucalyptus/eucalyptus-cc.conf Define the shell variable CC_IP_ADDR in /etc/eucalyptus/eucalyptus-ipaddr.conf, as a space separated list of one or more IP addresses. For the Walrus Controller Registration: Define the shell variable WALRUS_IP_ADDR in /etc/eucalyptus/eucalyptusipaddr.conf, as a single IP address. On the Cluster Controller: For Storage Controller Registration: Define the shell variable CC_NAME in /etc/eucalyptus/eucalyptus-cc.conf Define the shell variable SC_IP_ADDR in /etc/eucalyptus/eucalyptus-ipaddr.conf, as a space separated list of one or more IP addresses.

4.

Publish Now start the publication services. Walrus Controller:

sudo start eucalyptus-walrus-publication

Cluster Controller:
sudo start eucalyptus-cc-publication

Storage Controller:
sudo start eucalyptus-sc-publication

Node Controller:
sudo start eucalyptus-nc-publication

5.

Start the Listener On the Cloud Controller and the Cluster Controller(s), run:
sudo start uec-component-listener

6.

Verify Registration
cat /var/log/eucalyptus/registration.log

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2010-04-08 15:46:36-05:00 | 24243 -> Calling node cluster1 node 10.1.1.75 2010-04-08 15:46:36-05:00 | 24243 -> euca_conf --register-nodes returned 0 2010-04-08 15:48:47-05:00 | 25858 -> Calling walrus Walrus 10.1.1.71 2010-04-08 15:48:51-05:00 | 25858 -> euca_conf --register-walrus returned 0 2010-04-08 15:49:04-05:00 | 26237 -> Calling cluster cluster1 10.1.1.71 2010-04-08 15:49:08-05:00 | 26237 -> euca_conf --register-cluster returned 0 2010-04-08 15:49:17-05:00 | 26644 -> Calling storage cluster1 storage 10.1.1.71 2010-04-08 15:49:18-05:00 | 26644 -> euca_conf --register-sc returned 0

The output on your machine will vary from the example above.

3.6. Obtain Credentials

After installing and booting the Cloud Controller, users of the cloud will need to retrieve their credentials. This can be done either through a web browser, or at the command line. 3.6.1. From a Web Browser 1. From your web browser (either remotely or on your Ubuntu server) access the following URL:

https://<cloud-controller-ip-address>:8443/

You must use a secure connection, so make sure you use "https" not "http" in your URL. You will get a security certificate warning. You will have to add an exception to view the page. If you do not accept it you will not be able to view the Eucalyptus configuration page. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Use username 'admin' and password 'admin' for the first time login (you will be prompted to change your password). Then follow the on-screen instructions to update the admin password and email address. Once the first time configuration process is completed, click the 'credentials' tab located in the top-left portion of the screen. Click the 'Download Credentials' button to get your certificates. Save them to ~/.euca. Unzip the downloaded zip file into a safe location (~/.euca).

unzip -d ~/.euca mycreds.zip

3.6.2. From a Command Line Alternatively, if you are on the command line of the Cloud Controller, you can run:

mkdir -p ~/.euca chmod 700 ~/.euca

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cd ~/.euca sudo euca_conf --get-credentials mycreds.zip unzip mycreds.zip ln -s ~/.euca/eucarc ~/.eucarc cd -

3.6.3. Extracting and Using Your Credentials Now you will need to setup EC2 API and AMI tools on your server using X.509 certificates. 1. Install the required cloud user tools:

sudo apt-get install euca2ools

2.

To validate that everything is working correctly, get the local cluster availability details:

. ~/.euca/eucarc euca-describe-availability-zones verbose

AVAILABILITYZONE AVAILABILITYZONE AVAILABILITYZONE AVAILABILITYZONE AVAILABILITYZONE AVAILABILITYZONE AVAILABILITYZONE myowncloud |- vm types |- m1.small |- c1.medium |- m1.large |- m1.xlarge |- c1.xlarge 192.168.1.1 free / max 0004 / 0004 0004 / 0004 0002 / 0002 0002 / 0002 0001 / 0001 cpu 1 1 2 2 4 ram 128 256 512 1024 2048 disk 2 5 10 20 20

Your output from the above command will vary.

3.7. Install an Image from the Store

The following is by far the simplest way to install an image. However, advanced users may be interested in learning how to Bundle their own image16. The simplest way to add an image to UEC is to install it from the Image Store on the UEC web interface. 1. Access the web interface at the following URL (Make sure you specify https):

https://<cloud-controller-ip-address>:8443/

2. 3. 4. 5.
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Enter your login and password (if requested, as you may still be logged in from earlier). Click on the Store tab. Browse available images. Click on install for the image you want.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEC/BundlingImages

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3.8. Run an Image

There are multiple ways to instantiate an image in UEC: Use the command line. Use one of the UEC compatible management tools such as Landscape. Use the ElasticFox17 extension to Firefox. Here we will describe the process from the command line: 1. Before running an instance of your image, you should first create a keypair (ssh key) that you can use to log into your instance as root, once it boots. The key is stored, so you will only have to do this once. Run the following command:

if [ ! -e ~/.euca/mykey.priv ]; then mkdir -p -m 700 ~/.euca touch ~/.euca/mykey.priv chmod 0600 ~/.euca/mykey.priv euca-add-keypair mykey > ~/.euca/mykey.priv fi

You can call your key whatever you like (in this example, the key is called 'mykey'), but remember what it is called. If you forget, you can always run euca-describe-keypairs to get a list of created keys stored in the system. 2. You must also allow access to port 22 in your instances:

euca-authorize default -P tcp -p 22 -s 0.0.0.0/0

3.

Next, you can create instances of your registered image:

euca-run-instances $EMI -k mykey -t m1.small

If you receive an error regarding image_id, you may find it by viewing Images page or click "How to Run" on the Store page to see the sample command. 4. The first time you run an instance, the system will be setting up caches for the image from which it will be created. This can often take some time the first time an instance is run given that VM images are usually quite large. To monitor the state of your instance, run: 281

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watch -n5 euca-describe-instances

In the output, you should see information about the instance, including its state. While first-time caching is being performed, the instance's state will be 'pending'. 5. When the instance is fully started, the above state will become 'running'. Look at the IP address assigned to your instance in the output, then connect to it:

IPADDR=$(euca-describe-instances | grep $EMI | grep running | tail -n1 | awk '{print $4}') ssh -i ~/.euca/mykey.priv ubuntu@$IPADDR

6.

And when you are done with this instance, exit your SSH connection, then terminate your instance:

INSTANCEID=$(euca-describe-instances | grep $EMI | grep running | tail -n1 | awk '{print $2}') euca-terminate-instances $INSTANCEID

3.8.1. First Boot The cloud-init package provides "first boot" functionality for the Ubuntu UEC images. It is in charge of taking the generic filesystem image that is booting and customizing it for this particular instance. That includes things like: Setting the hostname. Putting the provided ssh public keys into ~ubuntu/.ssh/authorized_keys. Running a user provided script, or otherwise modifying the image. Setting hostname and configuring a system so the person who launched it can actually log into it are not terribly interesting. The interesting things that can be done with cloud-init are made possible by data provided at launch time called user-data18. First, install the cloud-init package:

sudo apt-get install cloud-init

If the user-data starts with '#!', then it will be stored and executed as root late in the boot process of the instance's first boot (similar to a traditional 'rc.local' script). Output from the script is directed to the console. For example, create a file named ud.txt containing:

#!/bin/sh echo ========== Hello World: $(date) ========== echo "I have been up for $(cut -d\ -f 1 < /proc/uptime) sec"

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euca-run-instances $EMI -k mykey -t m1.small

--user-data-file=ud.txt

Wait now for the system to come up and console to be available. To see the result of the data file commands enter:

euca-get-console-output $EMI | grep --after-context=1 Hello

========== Hello World: Mon Mar 29 18:05:05 UTC 2010 ========== I have been up for 28.26 sec

Your output may vary.

The simple approach shown above gives a great deal of power. The user-data can contain a script in any language where an interpreter already exists in the image (#!/bin/sh, #!/usr/bin/python, #!/usr/bin/ perl, #!/usr/bin/awk ... ). For many cases, the user may not be interested in writing a program. For this case, cloud-init provides "cloud-config", a configuration based approach towards customization. To utilize the cloud-config syntax, the supplied user-data must start with a '#cloud-config'. For example, create a text file named cloud-config.txt containing:

#cloud-config apt_upgrade: true apt_sources: - source: "ppa:ubuntu-server-edgers/server-edgers-apache " packages: - build-essential - pastebinit runcmd: - echo ======= Hello World ===== - echo "I have been up for $(cut -d\ -f 1 < /proc/uptime) sec"

Create a new instance:

euca-run-instances $EMI -k mykey -t m1.small --user-data-file=cloud-config.txt

Now, when the above system is booted, it will have: Added the Apache Edgers PPA. Run an upgrade to get all updates available Installed the 'build-essential' and 'pastebinit' packages Printed a similar message to the script above 283

Virtualization The Apache Edgers PPA, in the above example, contains the latest version of Apache from upstream source repositories. Package versions in the PPA are unsupported, and depending on your situation, this may or may not be desirable. See the Ubuntu Server Edgers19 web page for more details. The 'runcmd' commands are run at the same point in boot that the '#!' script would run in the previous example. It is present to allow you to get the full power of a scripting language if you need it without abandoning cloud-config. For more information on what kinds of things can be done with cloud-config, see doc/examples20 in the source.

3.9. More Information

How to use the Storage Controller21 Controlling eucalyptus services: sudo service eucalyptus [start|stop|restart] (on the CLC/CC/SC/Walrus side) sudo service eucalyptus-nc [start|stop|restart] (on the Node side) Locations of some important files: Log files: /var/log/eucalyptus Configuration files: /etc/eucalyptus Database: /var/lib/eucalyptus/db Keys: /var/lib/eucalyptus /var/lib/eucalyptus/.ssh Don't forget to source your ~/.euca/eucarc before running the client tools.

3.10. References
For information on loading instances see the Eucalyptus Wiki22 page. Eucalyptus Project Site (forums, documentation, downloads)23. Eucalyptus on Launchpad (bugs, code)24. Eucalyptus Troubleshooting (1.5)25.
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http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~cloud-init-dev/cloud-init/trunk/files/head:/doc/examples/ https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEC/StorageController

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3.11. Glossary
The Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud documentation uses terminology that might be unfamiliar to some readers. This page is intended to provide a glossary of such terms and acronyms. Cloud - A federated set of physical machines that offer computing resources through virtual machines, provisioned and recollected dynamically. Cloud Controller (CLC) - Eucalyptus component that provides the web UI (an https server on port 8443), and implements the Amazon EC2 API. There should be only one Cloud Controller in an installation of UEC. This service is provided by the Ubuntu eucalyptus-cloud package. Cluster - A collection of nodes, associated with a Cluster Controller. There can be more than one Cluster in an installation of UEC. Clusters are sometimes physically separate sets of nodes. (e.g. floor1, floor2, floor2). Cluster Controller (CC) - Eucalyptus component that manages collections of node resources. This service is provided by the Ubuntu eucalyptus-cc package. EBS - Elastic Block Storage. EC2 - Elastic Compute Cloud. Amazon's pay-by-the-hour, pay-by-the-gigabyte public cloud computing offering. EKI - Eucalyptus Kernel Image. EMI - Eucalyptus Machine Image. ERI - Eucalyptus Ramdisk Image. Eucalyptus - Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems. An open source project originally from the University of California at Santa Barbara, now supported by Eucalyptus Systems, a Canonical Partner. Front-end - Physical machine hosting one (or more) of the high level Eucalyptus components (cloud, walrus, storage controller, cluster controller). Node - A node is a physical machine that's capable of running virtual machines, running a node controller. Within Ubuntu, this generally means that the CPU has VT extensions, and can run the KVM hypervisor. Node Controller (NC) - Eucalyptus component that runs on nodes which host the virtual machines that comprise the cloud. This service is provided by the Ubuntu package eucalyptus-nc. S3 - Simple Storage Service. Amazon's pay-by-the-gigabyte persistent storage solution for EC2. Storage Controller (SC) - Eucalyptus component that manages dynamic block storage services (EBS). Each 'cluster' in a Eucalyptus installation can have its own Storage Controller. This component is provided by the eucalyptus-sc package. UEC - Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud. Ubuntu's cloud computing solution, based on Eucalyptus. 285

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1. DRBD
Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD) mirrors block devices between multiple hosts. The replication is transparent to other applications on the host systems. Any block device hard disks, partitions, RAID devices, logical volumes, etc can be mirrored. To get started using drbd, first install the necessary packages. From a terminal enter:

sudo apt-get install drbd8-utils

If you are using the virtual kernel as part of a virtual machine you will need to manually compile the drbd module. It may be easier to install the linux-server package inside the virtual machine. This section covers setting up a drbd to replicate a separate /srv partition, with an ext3 filesystem between two hosts. The partition size is not particularly relevant, but both partitions need to be the same size.

1.1. Configuration
The two hosts in this example will be called drbd01 and drbd02. They will need to have name resolution configured either through DNS or the /etc/hosts file. See Chapter 7, Domain Name Service (DNS) [p. 97] for details. To configure drbd, on the first host edit /etc/drbd.conf:

global { usage-count no; } common { syncer { rate 100M; } } resource r0 { protocol C; startup { wfc-timeout 15; degr-wfc-timeout 60; } net { cram-hmac-alg sha1; shared-secret "secret"; } on drbd01 { device /dev/drbd0; disk /dev/sdb1; address 192.168.0.1:7788; meta-disk internal; } on drbd02 { device /dev/drbd0; disk /dev/sdb1; address 192.168.0.2:7788;

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meta-disk internal; } }

There are many other options in /etc/drbd.conf, but for this example their default values are fine. Now copy /etc/drbd.conf to the second host:

scp /etc/drbd.conf drbd02:~

And, on drbd02 move the file to /etc:

sudo mv drbd.conf /etc/

Now using the drbdadm utility initialize the meta data storage. On each server execute:

sudo drbdadm create-md r0

Next, on both hosts, start the drbd daemon:

sudo /etc/init.d/drbd start

On the drbd01, or whichever host you wish to be the primary, enter the following:

sudo drbdadm -- --overwrite-data-of-peer primary all

After executing the above command, the data will start syncing with the secondary host. To watch the progress, on drbd02 enter the following:

watch -n1 cat /proc/drbd

To stop watching the output press Ctrl+c. Finally, add a filesystem to /dev/drbd0 and mount it:

sudo mkfs.ext3 /dev/drbd0 sudo mount /dev/drbd0 /srv

1.2. Testing
To test that the data is actually syncing between the hosts copy some files on the drbd01, the primary, to /srv:

sudo cp -r /etc/default /srv

Next, unmount /srv:

sudo umount /srv

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sudo drbdadm secondary r0

Now on the secondary server promote it to the primary role:

sudo drbdadm primary r0

Lastly, mount the partition:

sudo mount /dev/drbd0 /srv

Using ls you should see /srv/default copied from the former primary host drbd01.

1.3. References
For more information on DRBD see the DRBD web site1. The drbd.conf man page2 contains details on the options not covered in this guide. Also, see the drbdadm man page3. The DRBD Ubuntu Wiki4 page also has more information.

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OpenVPN is a Virtual Private Networking (VPN) solution provided in the Ubuntu Repositories. It is flexible, reliable and secure. It belongs to the family of SSL/TLS VPN stacks (different from IPSec VPNs). This chapter will cover installing and configuring OpenVPN to create a VPN.

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1. OpenVPN
If you want more than just pre-shared keys OpenVPN makes it easy to setup and use a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) to use SSL/TLS certificates for authentication and key exchange between the VPN server and clients. OpenVPN can be used in a routed or bridged VPN mode and can be configured to use either UDP or TCP. The port number can be configured as well, but port 1194 is the official one. And it is only using that single port for all communication. VPN client implementations are available for almost anything including all Linux distributions, OS X, Windows and OpenWRT based WLAN routers.

1.1. Server Installation

To install openvpn in a terminal enter:
sudo apt-get install openvpn

1.2. Public Key Infrastructure Setup

The first step in building an OpenVPN configuration is to establish a PKI (public key infrastructure). The PKI consists of: a separate certificate (also known as a public key) and private key for the server and each client, and a master Certificate Authority (CA) certificate and key which is used to sign each of the server and client certificates. OpenVPN supports bidirectional authentication based on certificates, meaning that the client must authenticate the server certificate and the server must authenticate the client certificate before mutual trust is established. Both server and client will authenticate the other by first verifying that the presented certificate was signed by the master certificate authority (CA), and then by testing information in the nowauthenticated certificate header, such as the certificate common name or certificate type (client or server). 1.2.1. Certificate Authority Setup To setup your own Certificate Authority (CA) and generating certificates and keys for an OpenVPN server and multiple clients first copy the easy-rsa directory to /etc/openvpn. This will ensure that any changes to the scripts will not be lost when the package is updated. From a terminal change to user root and:
mkdir /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/ cp -r /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/easy-rsa/2.0/* /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/

Next, edit /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/vars adjusting the following to your environment: 292

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export KEY_COUNTRY="US" export KEY_PROVINCE="NC" export KEY_CITY="Winston-Salem" export KEY_ORG="Example Company" export KEY_EMAIL="[email protected]"

Enter the following to generate the master Certificate Authority (CA) certificate and key:

cd /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/ source vars ./clean-all ./build-ca

1.2.2. Server Certificates Next, we will generate a certificate and private key for the server:

./build-key-server myservername

As in the previous step, most parameters can be defaulted. Two other queries require positive responses, "Sign the certificate? [y/n]" and "1 out of 1 certificate requests certified, commit? [y/n]". Diffie Hellman parameters must be generated for the OpenVPN server:

./build-dh

All certificates and keys have been generated in the subdirectory keys/. Common practice is to copy them to /etc/openvpn/:

cd keys/ cp myservername.crt myservername.key ca.crt dh1024.pem /etc/openvpn/

1.2.3. Client Certificates The VPN client will also need a certificate to authenticate itself to the server. Usually you create a different certificate for each client. To create the certificate, enter the following in a terminal while being user root:

cd /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/ source vars ./build-key client1

Copy the following files to the client using a secure method: /etc/openvpn/ca.crt /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/keys/client1.crt /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/keys/client1.key 293

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1.3. Simple Server Configuration

Along with your OpenVPN installation you got these sample config files (and many more if if you check):

root@server:/# ls -l /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/sample-config-files/ total 68 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3427 2011-07-04 15:09 client.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4141 2011-07-04 15:09 server.conf.gz

Start with copying and unpacking server.conf.gz to /etc/openvpn/server.conf.

sudo cp /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/sample-config-files/server.conf.gz /etc/openvpn/ sudo gzip -d /etc/openvpn/server.conf.gz

Edit /etc/openvpn/server.conf to make sure the following lines are pointing to the certificates and keys you created in the section above.

ca ca.crt cert myservername.crt key myservername.key dh dh1024.pem

That is the minimum you have to configure to get a working OpenVPN server. You can use all the default settings in the sample server.conf file. Now start the server. You will find logging and error messages in your syslog.

root@server:/etc/openvpn# /etc/init.d/openvpn start * Starting virtual private network daemon(s)... * Autostarting VPN 'server' [ OK ]

Now check if OpenVPN created a tun0 interface:

root@server:/etc/openvpn# ifconfig tun0 tun0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 inet addr:10.8.0.1 P-t-P:10.8.0.2 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST [...] MTU:1500 Metric:1

1.4. Simple Client Configuration

There are various different OpenVPN client implementations with and without GUIs. You can read more about clients in a later section. For now we use the OpenVPN client for Ubuntu which 294

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sudo apt-get install openvpn

This time copy the client.conf sample config file to /etc/openvpn/.

sudo cp /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/sample-config-files/client.conf /etc/openvpn/

Copy the client keys and the certificate of the CA you created in the section above to e.g. /etc/ openvpn/ and edit /etc/openvpn/client.conf to make sure the following lines are pointing to those files. If you have the files in /etc/openvpn/ you can omit the path.

ca ca.crt cert client1.crt key client1.key

And you have to at least specify the OpenVPN server name or address. Make sure the keyword client is in the config. That's what enables client mode.

client remote vpnserver.example.com 1194

Now start the OpenVPN client:

root@client:/etc/openvpn# /etc/init.d/openvpn start * Starting virtual private network daemon(s)... * Autostarting VPN 'client' [ OK ]

Check if it created a tun0 interface:

root@client:/etc/openvpn# ifconfig tun0 tun0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 inet addr:10.8.0.6 P-t-P:10.8.0.5 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

Check if you can ping the OpenVPN server:

root@client:/etc/openvpn# ping 10.8.0.1 PING 10.8.0.1 (10.8.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 10.8.0.1: icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=0.920 ms

The OpenVPN server always uses the first usable IP address in the client network and only that IP is pingable. E.g. if you configured a /24 for the client network mask, the .1 address will be used. The P-t-P address you see in the ifconfig output above is usually not answering ping requests. 295

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root@client:/etc/openvpn# netstat -rn Kernel IP routing table Destination 10.8.0.5 10.8.0.1 192.168.42.0 0.0.0.0 Gateway 0.0.0.0 10.8.0.5 0.0.0.0 192.168.42.1 Genmask Flags 255.255.255.255 UH 255.255.255.255 UGH 255.255.255.0 U 0.0.0.0 UG MSS Window 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 irtt Iface 0 tun0 0 tun0 0 eth0 0 eth0

1.5. First trouble shooting

If the above didn't work for you, check this: Check your syslog, e.g. grep -i vpn /var/log/syslog Can the client connect to the server machine? Maybe a firewall is blocking access? Check syslog on server. Client and server must use same protocol and port, e.g. UDP port 1194, see port and proto config option Client and server must use same config regarding compression, see comp-lzo config option Client and server must use same config regarding bridged vs routed mode, see server vs serverbridge config option

1.6. Advanved configuration

1.6.1. Advanced routed VPN configuration on server The above is a very simple working VPN. The client can access services on the VPN server machine through an encrypted tunnel. If you want to reach more servers or anything in other networks, push some routes to the clients. E.g. if your company's network can be summarized to the network 192.168.0.0/16, you could push this route to the clients. But you will also have to change the routing for the way back - your servers need to know a route to the VPN client-network. Or you might push a default gateway to all the clients to send all their internet traffic to the VPN gateway first and from there via the company firewall into the internet. This section shows you some possible options. Push routes to the client to allow it to reach other private subnets behind the server. Remember that these private subnets will also need to know to route the OpenVPN client address pool (10.8.0.0/24) back to the OpenVPN server.

push "route 10.0.0.0 255.0.0.0"

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push "redirect-gateway def1 bypass-dhcp"

Configure server mode and supply a VPN subnet for OpenVPN to draw client addresses from. The server will take 10.8.0.1 for itself, the rest will be made available to clients. Each client will be able to reach the server on 10.8.0.1. Comment this line out if you are ethernet bridging.

server 10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0

Maintain a record of client to virtual IP address associations in this file. If OpenVPN goes down or is restarted, reconnecting clients can be assigned the same virtual IP address from the pool that was previously assigned.

ifconfig-pool-persist ipp.txt

Push DNS servers to the client.

push "dhcp-option DNS 10.0.0.2" push "dhcp-option DNS 10.1.0.2"

Allow client to client communication.

client-to-client

Enable compression on the VPN link.

comp-lzo

The keepalive directive causes ping-like messages to be sent back and forth over the link so that each side knows when the other side has gone down. Ping every 1 second, assume that remote peer is down if no ping received during a 3 second time period.

keepalive 1 3

It's a good idea to reduce the OpenVPN daemon's privileges after initialization.

user nobody group nogroup

OpenVPN 2.0 includes a feature that allows the OpenVPN server to securely obtain a username and password from a connecting client, and to use that information as a basis for authenticating the client. To use this authentication method, first add the auth-user-pass directive to the client configuration. It 297

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# client config! auth-user-pass

This will tell the OpenVPN server to validate the username/password entered by clients using the login PAM module. Useful if you have centralized authentication with e.g. Kerberos.

plugin /usr/lib/openvpn/openvpn-auth-pam.so login

Please read the OpenVPN hardening security guide1 for further security advice.

1.6.2. Advanced bridged VPN configuration on server OpenVPN can be setup for either a routed or a bridged VPN mode. Sometimes this is also referred to as OSI layer-2 versus layer-3 VPN. In a bridged VPN all layer-2 frames - e.g. all ethernet frames - are sent to the VPN partners and in a routed VPN only layer-3 packets are sent to VPN partners. In bridged mode all traffic including traffic which was traditionally LAN-local like local network broadcasts, DHCP requests, ARP requests etc. are sent to VPN partners whereas in routed mode this would be filtered. 1.6.2.1. Prepare interface config for bridging on server Make sure you have the bridge-utils package installed:

sudo apt-get install bridge-utils

Before you setup OpenVPN in bridged mode you need to change your interface configuration. Let's assume your server has an interface eth0 connected to the internet and an interface eth1 connected to the LAN you want to bridge. Your /etc/network/interfaces would like this:

auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 1.2.3.4 netmask 255.255.255.248 default 1.2.3.1 auto eth1 iface eth1 inet static address 10.0.0.4 netmask 255.255.255.0

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auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 1.2.3.4 netmask 255.255.255.248 default 1.2.3.1 auto eth1 iface eth1 inet manual up ip link set $IFACE up promisc on auto br0 iface br0 inet static address 10.0.0.4 netmask 255.255.255.0 bridge_ports eth1

At this point you need to restart networking. Be prepared that this might not work as expected and that you will lose remote connectivity. Make sure you can solve problems having local access.
sudo /etc/init.d/network restart

1.6.2.2. Prepare server config for bridging Edit /etc/openvpn/server.conf changing the following options to:
;dev tun dev tap up "/etc/openvpn/up.sh br0 eth1" ;server 10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0 server-bridge 10.0.0.4 255.255.255.0 10.0.0.128 10.0.0.254

Next, create a helper script to add the tap interface to the bridge and to ensure that eth1 is promiscuous mode. Create /etc/openvpn/up.sh:
#!/bin/sh BR=$1 ETHDEV=$2 TAPDEV=$3 /sbin/ip link set "$TAPDEV" up /sbin/ip link set "$ETHDEV" promisc on /sbin/brctl addif $BR $TAPDEV

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After configuring the server, restart openvpn by entering:

sudo /etc/init.d/openvpn restart

1.6.2.3. Client Configuration First, install openvpn on the client:

sudo apt-get install openvpn

Then with the server configured and the client certificates copied to the /etc/openvpn/ directory, create a client configuration file by copying the example. In a terminal on the client machine enter:
sudo cp /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/sample-config-files/client.conf /etc/openvpn

Now edit /etc/openvpn/client.conf changing the following options:

dev tap ;dev tun

Finally, restart openvpn:

sudo /etc/init.d/openvpn restart

You should now be able to connect to the remote LAN through the VPN.

1.7. Client software implementations

1.7.1. Linux Network-Manager GUI for OpenVPN Many Linux distributions including Ubuntu desktop variants come with Network Manager, a nice GUI to configure your network settings. It also can manage your VPN connections. Make sure you have package network-manager-openvpn installed. Here you see that the installation installs all other required packages as well:
root@client:~# apt-get install network-manager-openvpn Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: liblzo2-2 libpkcs11-helper1 network-manager-openvpn-gnome openvpn Suggested packages: resolvconf The following NEW packages will be installed: liblzo2-2 libpkcs11-helper1 network-manager-openvpn network-manager-openvpn-gnome openvpn

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To inform network-manager about the new installed packages you will have to restart it:

root@client:~# restart network-manager network-manager start/running, process 3078

Open the Network Manager GUI, select the VPN tab and then the 'Add' button. Select OpenVPN as the VPN type in the opening requester and press 'Create'. In the next window add the OpenVPN's server name as the 'Gateway', set 'Type' to 'Certificates (TLS)', point 'User Certificate' to your user certificate, 'CA Certificate' to your CA certificate and 'Private Key' to your private key file. Use the advanced button to enable compression or other special settings you set on the server. Now try to establish your VPN. 1.7.2. OpenVPN with GUI for Mac OS X: Tunnelblick Tunnelblick is an excellent free, open source implementation of a GUI for OpenVPN for OS X. The project's homepage is at http://code.google.com/p/tunnelblick/. Download the latest OS X installer from there and install it. Then put your client.ovpn config file together with the certificates and keys in /Users/username/Library/Application Support/Tunnelblick/Configurations/ and lauch Tunnelblick from your Application folder.

# sample client.ovpn for Tunnelblick client remote blue.example.com port 1194 proto udp dev tun dev-type tun ns-cert-type server reneg-sec 86400 auth-user-pass auth-nocache auth-retry interact comp-lzo yes verb 3 ca ca.crt cert client.crt key client.key

1.7.3. OpenVPN with GUI for Win 7 First download and install the latest OpenVPN Windows Installer2. OpenVPN 2.2.1 was the latest when this was written. Additionally download an alternative Open VPN Windows GUI. The
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# C:\Program Files\OpenVPN\config\client.ovpn client remote server.example.com port 1194 proto udp dev tun dev-type tun ns-cert-type server reneg-sec 86400 auth-user-pass auth-retry interact comp-lzo yes verb 3 ca ca.crt cert "C:\\Users\\username\\My Documents\\openvpn\\client.crt" key "C:\\Users\\username\\My Documents\\openvpn\\client.key" management 127.0.0.1 1194 management-hold management-query-passwords auth-retry interact

1.7.4. OpenVPN for OpenWRT OpenWRT is described as a Linux distribution for embedded devices like WLAN router. There are certain types of WLAN routers who can be flashed to run OpenWRT. Depending on the available memory on your OpenWRT router you can run software like OpenVPN and you could for example build a small inexpensive branch office router with VPN connectivity to the central office. More info on OpenVPN on OpenWRT is here3. And here is the OpenWRT project's homepage: http:// openwrt.org Log into your OpenWRT router and install OpenVPN:

opkg update opkg install openvpn

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config openvpn client1 option enable 1 # option client 1 option dev tap option dev tun option option option option proto udp ca /etc/openvpn/ca.crt cert /etc/openvpn/client.crt key /etc/openvpn/client.key

option comp_lzo 1

Restart OpenVPN:

/etc/init.d/openvpn restart

You will have to see if you need to adjust your router's routing and firewall rules.

1.8. References
See the OpenVPN4 website for additional information. OpenVPN hardening security guide5 Also, Pakt's OpenVPN: Building and Integrating Virtual Private Networks6 is a good resource.

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There are many very useful applications developed by the Ubuntu Server Team, and others that are well integrated with Ubuntu Server Edition, that might not be well known. This chapter will showcase some useful applications that can make administering an Ubuntu server, or many Ubuntu servers, that much easier.

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1. pam_motd
When logging into an Ubuntu server you may have noticed the informative Message Of The Day (MOTD). This information is obtained and displayed using a couple of packages: landscape-common: provides the core libraries of landscape-client, which can be used to manage systems using the web based Landscape application. The package includes the /usr/bin/landscapesysinfo utility which is used to gather the information displayed in the MOTD. update-notifier-common: is used to automatically update the MOTD via pam_motd module. pam_motd executes the scripts in /etc/update-motd.d in order based on the number prepended to the script. The output of the scripts is written to /var/run/motd, keeping the numerical order, then concatenated with /etc/motd.tail. You can add your own dynamic information to the MOTD. For example, to add local weather information: First, install the weather-util package:

sudo apt-get install weather-util

The weather utility uses METAR data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and forecasts from the National Weather Service. In order to find local information you will need the 4-character ICAO location indicator. This can be determined by browsing to the National Weather Service1 site. Although the National Weather Service is a United States government agency there are weather stations available world wide. However, local weather information for all locations outside the U.S. may not be available. Create /usr/local/bin/local-weather, a simple shell script to use weather with your local ICAO indicator:

#!/bin/sh # # # Prints the local weather information for the MOTD. # # # Replace KINT with your local weather station. # Local stations can be found here: http://www.weather.gov/tg/siteloc.shtml echo weather -i KINT echo

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sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/local-weather

Next, create a symlink to /etc/update-motd.d/98-local-weather:

sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/local-weather /etc/update-motd.d/98-local-weather

Finally, exit the server and re-login to view the new MOTD. You should now be greeted with some useful information, and some information about the local weather that may not be quite so useful. Hopefully the local-weather example demonstrates the flexibility of pam_motd.

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2. etckeeper
etckeeper allows the contents of /etc be easily stored in Version Control System (VCS) repository. It hooks into apt to automatically commit changes to /etc when packages are installed or upgraded. Placing /etc under version control is considered an industry best practice, and the goal of etckeeper is to make this process as painless as possible. Install etckeeper by entering the following in a terminal:

sudo apt-get install etckeeper

The main configuration file, /etc/etckeeper/etckeeper.conf, is fairly simple. The main option is which VCS to use. By default etckeeper is configured to use bzr for version control. The repository is automatically initialized (and committed for the first time) during package installation. It is possible to undo this by entering the following command:

sudo etckeeper uninit

By default, etckeeper will commit uncommitted changes made to /etc daily. This can be disabled using the AVOID_DAILY_AUTOCOMMITS configuration option. It will also automatically commit changes before and after package installation. For a more precise tracking of changes, it is recommended to commit your changes manually, together with a commit message, using:

sudo etckeeper commit "..Reason for configuration change.."

Using the VCS commands you can view log information about files in /etc:

sudo bzr log /etc/passwd

To demonstrate the integration with the package management system, install postfix:

sudo apt-get install postfix

When the installation is finished, all the postfix configuration files should be committed to the repository:

Committing to: /etc/ added aliases.db modified group modified groupmodified gshadow modified gshadowmodified passwd modified passwdadded postfix

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added resolvconf added rsyslog.d modified shadow modified shadowadded init.d/postfix added network/if-down.d/postfix added network/if-up.d/postfix added postfix/dynamicmaps.cf added postfix/main.cf added postfix/master.cf added postfix/post-install added postfix/postfix-files added postfix/postfix-script added postfix/sasl added ppp/ip-down.d added ppp/ip-down.d/postfix added ppp/ip-up.d/postfix added rc0.d/K20postfix added rc1.d/K20postfix added rc2.d/S20postfix added rc3.d/S20postfix added rc4.d/S20postfix added rc5.d/S20postfix added rc6.d/K20postfix added resolvconf/update-libc.d added resolvconf/update-libc.d/postfix added rsyslog.d/postfix.conf added ufw/applications.d/postfix Committed revision 2.

For an example of how etckeeper tracks manual changes, add new a host to /etc/hosts. Using bzr you can see which files have been modified:

sudo bzr status /etc/

modified: hosts

Now commit the changes:

sudo etckeeper commit "new host"

For more information on bzr see Section 1, Bazaar [p. 220].

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3. Byobu
One of the most useful applications for any system administrator is screen. It allows the execution of multiple shells in one terminal. To make some of the advanced screen features more user friendly, and provide some useful information about the system, the byobu package was created. When executing byobu pressing the F9 key will bring up the Configuration menu. This menu will allow you to: View the Help menu Change Byobu's background color Change Byobu's foreground color Toggle status notifications Change the key binding set Change the escape sequence Create new windows Manage the default windows Byobu currently does not launch at login (toggle on) The key bindings determine such things as the escape sequence, new window, change window, etc. There are two key binding sets to choose from f-keys and screen-escape-keys. If you wish to use the original key bindings choose the none set. byobu provides a menu which displays the Ubuntu release, processor information, memory information, and the time and date. The effect is similar to a desktop menu. Using the "Byobu currently does not launch at login (toggle on)" option will cause byobu to be executed any time a terminal is opened. Changes made to byobu are on a per user basis, and will not affect other users on the system. One difference when using byobu is the scrollback mode. Press the F7 key to enter scrollback mode. Scrollback mode allows you to navigate past output using vi like commands. Here is a quick list of movement commands: h - Move the cursor left by one character j - Move the cursor down by one line k - Move the cursor up by one line l - Move the cursor right by one character 0 - Move to the beginning of the current line $ - Move to the end of the current line G - Moves to the specified line (defaults to the end of the buffer) / - Search forward 309

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4. References
See the update-motd man page2 for more options available to update-motd. The Debian Package of the Day weather3 article has more details about using the weatherutility. See the etckeeper4 site for more details on using etckeeper. The etckeeper Ubuntu Wiki5 page. For the latest news and information about bzr see the bzr6 web site. For more information on screen see the screen web site7. And the Ubuntu Wiki screen8 page. Also, see the byobu project page9 for more information.

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1. Reporting Bugs in Ubuntu Server Edition

While the Ubuntu Project attempts to release software with as few bugs as possible, they do occur. You can help fix these bugs by reporting ones that you find to the project. The Ubuntu Project uses Launchpad1 to track its bug reports. In order to file a bug about Ubuntu Server on Launchpad, you will need to create an account2.

1.1. Reporting Bugs With ubuntu-bug

The preferred way to report a bug is with the ubuntu-bug command. The ubuntu-bug tool gathers information about the system useful to developers in diagnosing the reported problem that will then be included in the bug report filed on Launchpad. Bug reports in Ubuntu need to be filed against a specific software package, thus the name of the package that the bug occurs in needs to be given to ubuntu-bug:

ubuntu-bug PACKAGENAME

For example, to file a bug against the openssh-server package, you would do:

ubuntu-bug openssh-server

You can specify either a binary package or the source package for ubuntu-bug. Again using opensshserver as an example, you could also generate the report against the source package for opensshserver, openssh:

ubuntu-bug openssh

See Chapter 3, Package Management [p. 17] for more information about packages in Ubuntu. The ubuntu-bug command will gather information about the system in question, possibly including information specific to the specified package, and then ask you what you would like to do with collected information:

ubuntu-bug postgresql *** Collecting problem information The collected information can be sent to the developers to improve the application. This might take a few minutes. ..........

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*** Send problem report to the developers? After the problem report has been sent, please fill out the form in the automatically opened web browser. What would you like to do? Your options are: S: Send report (1.7 KiB) V: View report K: Keep report file for sending later or copying to somewhere else C: Cancel Please choose (S/V/K/C):

The options available are: Send Report Selecting Send Report submits the collected information to Launchpad as part of the the process of filing a bug report. You will be given the opportunity to describe the situation that led up to the occurrence of the bug.

*** Uploading problem information The collected information is being sent to the bug tracking system. This might take a few minutes. 91% *** To continue, you must visit the following URL: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/postgresql-8.4/+filebug/kc6eSnTLnLxF8u0t3e56EukFeqJ? You can launch a browser now, or copy this URL into a browser on another computer. Choices: 1: Launch a browser now C: Cancel Please choose (1/C):

If you choose to start a browser, by default the text based web browser w3m will be used to finish filing the bug report. Alternately, you can copy the given URL to a currently running web browser. View Report Selecting View Report causes the collected information to be displayed to the terminal for review.

Package: postgresql 8.4.2-2 PackageArchitecture: all Tags: lucid ProblemType: Bug ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-server x86_64 Dependencies:

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After viewing the report, you will be brought back to the same menu asking what you would like to do with the report. Keep Report File Selecting Keep Report File causes the gathered information to be written to a file. This file can then be used to later file a bug report or transferred to a different Ubuntu system for reporting. To submit the report file, simply give it as an argument to the ubuntu-bug command:

What would you like to do? Your options are: S: Send report (1.7 KiB) V: View report K: Keep report file for sending later or copying to somewhere else C: Cancel Please choose (S/V/K/C): k Problem report file: /tmp/apport.postgresql.v4MQas.apport ubuntu-bug /tmp/apport.postgresql.v4MQas.apport *** Send problem report to the developers? ...

Cancel Selecting Cancel causes the collected information to be discarded.

1.2. Reporting Application Crashes

The software package that provides the ubuntu-bug utility, apport, can be configured to trigger when applications crash. This is disabled by default, as capturing a crash can be resource intensive depending on how much memory the application that crashed was using as apport captures and processes the core dump. Configuring apport to capture information about crashing applications requires a couple of steps. First, gdb needs to be installed; it is not installed by default in Ubuntu Server Edition.

sudo apt-get install gdb

See Chapter 3, Package Management [p. 17] for more information about managing packages in Ubuntu. Once you have ensured that gdb is installed, open the file /etc/default/apport in your text editor, and change the enabled setting to be 1 like so:

# set this to 0 to disable apport, or to 1 to enable it # you can temporarily override this with # sudo service apport start force_start=1

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enabled=1 # set maximum core dump file size (default: 209715200 bytes == 200 MB) maxsize=209715200

Once you have completed editing /etc/default/apport, start the apport service:

sudo start apport

After an application crashes, use the apport-cli command to search for the existing saved crash report information:

apport-cli *** dash closed unexpectedly on 2010-03-11 at 21:40:59. If you were not doing anything confidential (entering passwords or other private information), you can help to improve the application by reporting the problem. What would you like to do? Your options are: R: Report Problem... I: Cancel and ignore future crashes of this program version C: Cancel Please choose (R/I/C):

Selecting Report Problem will walk you through similar steps as when using ubuntu-bug. One important difference is that a crash report will be marked as private when filed on Launchpad, meaning that it will be visible to only a limited set of bug triagers. These triagers will review the gathered data for private information before making the bug report publicly visible.

1.3. Resources
See the Reporting Bugs3 Ubuntu wiki page. Also, the Apport4 page has some useful information. Though some of it pertains to using a GUI.

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