1. TRC Mini-Grant 2002 Dell PowerEdge 2500 Server

2. Project Goals Provide CS students with exposure to Linux (Unix) computing environment in CS courses Provide new opportunities for independent studies based on state of the art hardware and software Provide resources for CS research

3. Dell PowerEdge 2500 Server 2 Pentium III 1Ghz CPUs 512MB SDRAM 1 18GB SCSI DISK 1 36GB SCSI DISK 24X CD-ROM Floppy Disk Drive 20/40GB Tape Backup Red Hat Linux 7.2 Operating System

4. Total cost $$3555 TRC MiniGrant$2955 CASPS Dean’s Fune$ 200 Math/Computer Science$ 400 System Installation, Configuration, Administration provide by CS Faculty

5. Linux Popular version of Unix that runs on PCs and other hardware platforms Used for a significant number of Web servers around the world

6. Accomplishments to date Used by CS345 Operating Systems students Used for an independent study Used by CS227 Computer Networks students

7. CS345 Operating Systems Learned basic and advance Linux user skills Learned thread programming as used in servers Learned shell script programming

8. Independent Study Learned Linux installation, configuration and administration Investigated alternative GUIs Explored security issues Learned how to configure Firewall SSH (Secure shell)

9. access denied hacker valid user with name and password access denied login successful Access Control: The Firewall

10. hacker eyeing the network can “see” user name & password server user, attempting to log on User:gail, password:x2cat$f Why NOT To Use Telnet or FTP

11. hacker eyeing the network can’t understand the ciphertext server user, attempting to log on o%W8H)#02m19cSr Remote login using SSH

12. CS227 Computer Networks Used as a server to respond to network queries Used as a software repository to facilitate network installations Network Server

13. The Future Server side programming – CS330 Advanced system administration and configuration Security research Development of Linux based security labs for CS327

14. Integration into other CS courses Use for development and offering of new Web technologies course Use in CS courses supporting IT major Use in courses supporting MIS major

15. Thanks to the Readers Committee for the TRC Mini- Grant for providing funding to support women’s leadership in technology