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DanielLawson and PerryLorier have been doing some work with [LDAP] enabled services for small organisations.  Their first project was to write a scalable mail hosting system backed out of [LDAP].  DanielLawson also did some work on doing Proxy and Samba administration for CrawshawSchool.  Thus the idea was borne to create some packages for [Linux] allowing people to provide services for an organisation.

!! Goal

To provide reliable, scalable and secure services for an organisation.

!! Features

Initial Featureset:
* Mail Administration using the mail system as described by DanielLawson
* Samba Administration
* Proxy Administration
* Intranet webhosting
  * A Wiki for documentation?
  * Nagios for service monitoring
* Extranet webhosting
* [DHCP]
* [DNS]
* FireWall~ing/IP Masqurading
* [PostgreSQL](?) DataBase
* [LDAP] for configuration of the various subsystems
* A pluggable extensible architecture

We would like help from the [WLUG] and greater [Linux] community to help with this goal.

!! Technical Details

Note, the following is only based on what we've had experience with. If there are better tools out there for a given purpose, give us a hand by championing them :)

! Mail Administration

Using the system described by DanielLawson and used by MetaNet for mail hosting.  [OpenLDAP] for storage of account information.  Cyrus for [IMAP].  Exim for [SMTP].

! [Samba] Administration

Currently using Samba 3.0, as it has some features we required. Samba 2.2 and Samba TNG are usable however, although their operation is slightly different. Samba 3.0 is the future, and its more or less stable at the moment, so using it shouldn't be an issue.

! Proxy Administration

Using squid for proxy hosting. Automatic Proxy Detection via wpad.pac (see [WPAD]). Optional DansGuardian and/or SquidGuard for web filtering.  See SquidNotes. [SRG | http://www.crc.net.nz/software/srg.php] has been written by MattBrown to overcome some of the problems of sarg. SRG is a flexible log file analysation tool that can generate reports right down to the level of individual files requested.

! Intranet webhosting

Nagios for service monitering.  a wiki for documentation management.

! Extranet webhosting

Allowing for hosting multiple external websites

! [DHCP]

For automatic management and configuration of internal machines.

! [DNS]

Internal [DNS] for internal hosts, and optional hosting of external [DNS].

! FireWall~ing/IP Masquerading

For allowing multiple machines to access the Internet, with optional filtering, firewalling and transparent proxying.

! [PostgreSQL]

For hosting company databases.  Perhaps investigate [GNUEnterprise] for internal company projects

! [LDAP]

For hosting information about users and to act as a configuration backend for the system

!! Helping out

We'd love people to helpout with this project, creating administration for the various components, packaging and testing, as well as documentation and support.

See also: SecurityServer, ThingsToDoWithYourLinuxBox
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Last edited on Tuesday, November 23, 2004 11:11:25 am by JohnMcPherson
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