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LDAP-controlled CentOS server with embedded preconfigured Ubuntu miniDAD clients that "know" how to contact DAD

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Collegiate:
No

One-line Description:
LDAP-controlled CentOS server with embedded preconfigured Ubuntu miniDAD clients that "know" how to contact DAD

Filename:
DAD-miniDAD.tar.bz2

Size Compressed:
1123.07

Allocated Memory:
256

Username:
dadmin

Password:
self-defined

VMware Tools Installed?:
Yes

Operating System:
CentOS4.3 and Ubuntu 5.10

Applications:
Centos 4.3, Ubuntu 5.10, Apache 2052, OpenLDAP 2.3.21, dovecot 1.0b8, Samba 3.0.22

Description:
In order to promote the distribution of Open Source in corporate departments, we have created DAD, the Departemental Authentication Device, a fully LDAP-enabled and ready-to-run Linux-based file-, DNS, e-mail and web server environment which additionally contains a down-loadable and ready-to-run Ubuntu-based workstation called miniDAD. DAD facilitates the migration from proprietary desktop operating systems and promotes the use of VMware's virtualization products, starting at VMware Player and ending at VMware ESX. A unique LDAP-Controlled Software Distribution system allows remote configuration and provisioning of all miniDAD client systems. A unique feature of DAD and miniDAD is that the latter requires only NAT networking, and that, without any further interaction on the client, the latter knows how to contact the former!
The miniDAD client contained in DAD and readily down-loadable from DAD utilizes services on DAD including but not limited to LDAP authentication, home directories on auto-mounted NFS drives, personal settings from LDAP, etc. Upon startup of DAD the administrator answers a few questions and DAD is ready to rumble, completely customized with its own Certification Authority, secure HTTP server & lots more. When miniDAD is downloaded from DAD it is automatically configured to use settings pulled from DAD. These include language and keyboard settings, and software configuration files which can automatically be distributed to the miniDAD machines (all LDAP based of course).
We have created DAD for the enterprise administrator who wants to easily deploy Open Source to the site's user-base and who wants a migration path. All utilities supplied with DAD are geared towards making the process both painless and efficient. We've even included a utility which, when run on a Windows server, will export a list of users in such a way as that these can easily be imported into DAD. Alternatively, an NT trust can be set up between DAD and the Windows world.
On boot, DAD will automatically ask you for required networking parameters. When boot completes, you can visit http://you-ip-address-here/ to read the documentation. Alternatively please see included readmefirst.pdf for instructions on how to start using both DAD and miniDAD.
All software included in DAD/miniDAD is licensed under one of the Open Source licences: GPL, Apache, Mozilla Public, BSD-like or free.

Technical Specifications

Operating System:

CentOS4.3 and Ubuntu 5.10

VMware Tools installed: No

Size: 1123MB

Allocated Memory (RAM): 256

Applications Installed:

Centos 4.3, Ubuntu 5.10, Apache 2052, OpenLDAP 2.3.21, dovecot 1.0b8, Samba 3.0.22

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