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<sect1 id="configuration-ppp-packages">
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    <title>Installing Required Packages</title>
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    <para>
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        Start with a minimal installation of &TC;;, bootup the
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        operating system, and login as root user. Later, install the
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        <quote>Dialup Networking Support</quote> group of packages
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        available in the [base] repository of &TC;;. The
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        installation of this group of packages is required both in
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        server and client computers. If you don't have this group of
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        packages installed in your computer, then you can do it as the
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        following command describes:
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    </para>
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    <screen>yum groupinstall "Dialup Networking Support"</screen>
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    <para>
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        Other packages might be required based on whether you are
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        configuring the computer to be a server or a client.  The
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        implementation described in this chapter considers both a
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        server and client configuration so you can pick up the one
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        fitting your case.
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    </para>
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    <sect2 id="configurations-ppp-packages-server">
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    <title>Server Installation</title>
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    <sect3 id="configurations-ppp-packages-server-dns">
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    <title>Name Server</title>
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    <para>
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        The name server provides the software required to translate
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        domain names into IP address and IP addresses into domain
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        names. With this software you can rembember addresses like
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        <ulink url="https://projects.centos.org/" /> instead of addresses like
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        <ulink url="https://192.168.0.1/" />.  There are other
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        feautres (e.g., mail exchanger resolution, zone delegation,
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        etc.) provided by this software that aren't used in the
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        point-to-point configuration we describe in this chapter.
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    </para>
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    <para>
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        To install this software, run the following command:
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    </para>
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    <screen>yum install bind</screen>
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    <note>
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    <para>
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        There is a <package>bind-chroot</package> packages, however,
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        we aren't using it because SELinux is already enforced on the
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        &TC;; filesystem and it provides far more security than the
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        idea of <package>bind-chroot</package> package itself does.
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    </para>
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    </note>
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    </sect3>
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    <sect3 id="configurations-ppp-packages-server-mail">
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    <title>Mail Server</title>
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    <para>
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        The mail server provides the software required to let you
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        send/receive e-mail messages to/from others. The mail server
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        is splitted in three basic components: The Mail Transfer Agent
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        (<package>postfix</package>), The Mail Delivery Agent
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        (<package>Cyrus-Imapd</package>) and an intermediary daemon
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        named <systemitem class="daemon">saslauthd</systemitem> to
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        handle users' authentication. The mail transfer agent is the
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        program your e-mail client sends e-mail messages to. The mail
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        delivery agent, on the other hand, is the program your e-mail
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        client reads e-mail message from (i.e., this is the place
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        where your mailbox is stored in).  The authentication daemon
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        is used by the mail delivery agent to authenticate user's
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        credentials (e.g., the information that let you access an
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        specific mailbox). 
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    </para>
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    <para>
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        To install this software, run the following command:
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    </para>
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    <screen>yum install postfix cyrus-imapd cyrus-sasl</screen>
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    <para>
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        By default, the <application>sendmail</application>
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        program is used as mail transfer agent, not postfix. For the
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        sake of that point-to-point configuration we are implementing,
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        I decided to use postfix instead as default mail transfer
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        agent, not sendmail.  To effectively achieve this decition, it
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        is required to use the <command>alternatives</command>
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        command, as it shown below:
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    </para>
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    <screen>alternatives --config mta</screen>
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    <para>
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        This command will present you a menu to chose between
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        available mail transfer agents, so it is there where you
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        choose to use posfix as default option. Now that you've
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        changed postfix the default mail transfer agent, you can
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        saftly remove the sendmail package to avoid unused software
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        to remain inside the computer. To do this, you can run the
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        following command:
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    </para>
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    <screen>yum remove sendmail</screen>
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    <para>
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       In addition to mail server specific packages, we also provide
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       mailing list support. Mailing lists provide e-mail addresses
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       that users registered inside the ISP can write to. When you
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       sed an e-mail to a mailing list, your message is distributed to
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       all members of that list. In order for this to happen, people
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       registered inside ISP need to subscribe themselves into that
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       mailing list they want to receive messages from.  The
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       subscription of mailinglist will be available through a secured
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       web application in the following url:
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    </para>
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    <itemizedlist>
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    <listitem>
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    <para>
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        <ulink url="https://projects.centos.org/lists/" />
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    </para>
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    </listitem>
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    </itemizedlist>
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    <para>
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        To install the mailing list software, run the following
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        command:
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    </para>
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    <screen>yum install mailman</screen>
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    </sect3>
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    <sect3 id="configurations-ppp-packages-server-web">
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    <title>Web Server</title>
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    <para>
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        The web server provides the software required to support web
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        interfaces like those one previously mention to register new
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        users inside the ISP and subscribe mailing lists. The web
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        server provided in this configuration will accept requests
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        both unencrypted and encrypted.
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    </para>
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    <screen>yum install httpd mod_ssl crypto-utils</screen>
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    <para>
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        In addition to mailing lists support, the web server will
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        provide access to Subversion.  Subvesion provides a way to
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        manage files through version control. The main purpose of
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        providing Subversion support here is sharing the version of
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        &TCAR; I've been working on. To install Subversion software,
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        run the following command: </para>
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    <screen>yum install subversion mod_dav_svn</screen>
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    </sect3>
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    <sect3 id="configurations-ppp-packages-server-ldap">
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    <title>Directory Server</title>
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    <para>
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        The directory server provides the software required to unify
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        user information. This server is access by other server
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        whenever user information is required. You, as end user, can
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        also use this server from your workstation to retrive a list
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        of all users registered in the ISP. This list can be retrived
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        by the web interface the ISP provides, or any application your
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        workstation provide (e.g., most e-mail clients provide a way
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        to configure LDAP servers to build address book from it.).
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    </para>
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    <para>
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        To install the directory server sofware, run the following
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        command:
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    </para>
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    <screen>yum openldap-servers python-ldap</screen>
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    </sect3>
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    </sect2>
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    <sect2 id="configurations-ppp-packages-client">
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    <title>Client Installation</title>
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    <para>
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        ...
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    </para>
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    <variablelist>
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    <varlistentry>
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    <term><package>...</package></term>
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    <listitem>
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    <para>
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        ...
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    </para>
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    </listitem>
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    </varlistentry>
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    </variablelist>
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    </sect2>
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