My blog at Igalia » Master http://blogs.igalia.com/xavi Blogging about my free software experiences Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:25:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Master on Free Software http://blogs.igalia.com/xavi/2009/09/17/master-on-free-software/ http://blogs.igalia.com/xavi/2009/09/17/master-on-free-software/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:20:20 +0000 xcastanho http://blogs.igalia.com/xavi/?p=57 Tomorrow is the last day to register in Master on Free Software, organized by Igalia and URJC. I would like to encourage everyone in doubt to join this master because you will learn and work a lot :) , if you need more information you could access to our website.

During last days, Chema and me have been talking to some radios explaining how this master is and I hope some of you could listen to us :) .

Go for it!.

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  • Base DN: dc=mswl,dc=com
  • Users branch: ou=People,dc=mswl,dc=com
  • Groups branch: ou=Groups,dc=mswl,dc=com

All the students were able to configure their own LDAP with a user and a group to test it. Once they had our LDAP configured, they could configure PAM to authenticate users, using pam_ldap.so, a module that allows to configure PAM with an existent LDAP server. For example, authenticating users that only exists in our LDAP.

All the information related with this class has been uploaded to the Master’s Moodle.

I hope the students enjoyed this class! :)

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  • Services related with systems and network administration.
  • Web services related with web systems administration.
  • Workshop on systems integration.
  • Scripting.
  • Network, user and physical security.

Berto, Javi Muñoz, Quique and me have been the teachers, but we counted on Marcelo Branco who gave a talk about “Libre Software and open standards in Public Administration”.

During this subject we have tried to teach in a practical way testing almost all the topics while the teacher was explaining the concepts. Thanks to this approach our students have been able to develop a custom Single Sign On and a Soap Server, analyze the configuration of different servers (Apache, LDAP, etc.), practice firewalling and some hacking concepts or develop some scripts in bash and perl. You can download documents and examples from URJC Moodle.

Next Saturday I’m going to have a debate with the students about all the subject and I will try to obtain some feedback in order to improve it for the next Master on Free/Libre Software in Vigo.

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