CS 241 Assignment #18

Most students completed this guided exercise in class
   on may 24, 2007 (class #15)

   this assignment must be done in class!

Start your Fedora under VMware.
 In the Firefox browser
  http://www.webmin.com
   downloads
    rpm  (on left)
     save
      after save was done
       open
        unable to verify the package
         install anyway
          (launched an rpm graphical installed)
           apply

in Firefox
 https://localhost:10000
 or
 https://127.0.0.1:10000
  you will see a msg that it cannot verify the site certificate
   accept this certificate permanently
   or
   accept this certificate for this time only
     OK
     user: root
      password (root's password)
       click: never remember the password for this site

System (on left)
 users and groups
   create a group called: supervisors   (shorten this if needed)
   create a user in that group named: sally
    whose home dir is /usr/people/sally
     (to set the home dir, turn off "automatic")

Server (on left)
 BIND DNS server
  create master zone
   domain name: rancho.com
   email:   root@unix000.sac.edu
               change 000 to your system number
    Create

    from a cmd login
       cd /var/named/chroot/etc
       vi named.conf
          you should see your rancho.com zone in this file

    from webmin for the rancho.com domain
     add an address record
        www       10.1.2.3
          create

     add a mail server record (MX)
      name: rancho.com.
      mail server: www
      priority 10
      create

   service named restart

to get credit for this homework

CTRL-ALT-F1
   tail /etc/passwd /etc/group

CTRL-ALT-F2
   nslookup www.rancho.com 127.0.0.1
    
   nslookup -query=mx rancho.com 127.0.0.1