Network Architecture and Protocol Homework 3

Title

Network Protocol Usage Proof of Concept

Introduction

As the network architecture and protocol expert, your group is hired into the hottest IT department of a Fortune 500 company. Your boss asked you to decide what protocol to use for authenticating users into the corporation network. With all the great knowledge you learned from the university, you suggested to use the LDAP protocol. Your boss now asks you to provide a "Proof of Concept" to show the IT department how LDAP works.

Setup

• Download a LDAP server and learn how to configure / user it. (Sun has a good one under: http://www.sun.com/software/products/directory_srvr/home_directory.xml).
• Create a sample data with at least 30 users using the LDIF format. (RFC at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2849.txt)

Proof of Concept (The assignment)

1. White paper. Write a 2-page document explaining why LDAP is the protocol of choice for authenticating corporate users. (Include a section on why other protocols are not selected).
2. Proof of concept programming. Write an application that uses LDAP protocol to access the LDAP server. In your application, shows how to create a user, query (authenticate) a user, and delete a user using the LDAP protocol. (JNDI is recommended http://java.sun.com/products/jndi/).

Notes: Answers has to be in MS-word format with necessary screen shot, etc. Please handin with CD and hard copy in its own envelope.