Comp424-WebServer-Login-Project

1. Preparing the web server You will prepare a web server on the latest version of Ubuntu (a Linux distribution) along with necessary security tools to protect it from popular attacks using the most popular firewall (IPTables) and intrusion detection system (Snort). Note that the web server is also a SSH server, so you are required to install OpenSSH, and allow SSH traffic to go through as well. You will install, configure, and implement your designed policies using these two security tools. You are required to install LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP stack) on Ubuntu with necessary configurations suitable for your design and implementation. You will write two shell scripts to automate the installation and configuration of your system for disaster recovery purposes with comments for every single command: installation.sh: It will include all the commands regarding installation of all the necessary services and tools. Also, all configuration scripts for LAMP. implementation.sh: It will include all the commands regarding implementing policies for your firewall, IDS, etc. You may use a stream editor such as “sed” to implement them using your automated scripts, if that requires editing specific files.

2. The webpage The company has a simple webpage paradigm: A login page, and upon successfully logging into the system, it will allow the user to download the company_confidential_file.txt. This page will also display the successfully logged-in user: "Hi, (First-Name Last-Name)", "You have logged in X times" and "Last login date: Y". You will implement the webpage using PHP, MySQL, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.

3. The login page An "https" webpage redirected from localhost would be a simple login page where the user can enter the username and password and a “Login” button. Also, available on that page are two links: (i) New User? Sign Up and (ii) Forgot Username or Password?. Keep in mind that you may need to create and embed your own certificate in Firefox, so that the browser can verify the public-key for encryption.

4. New user sign up Your new user sign up page must have at minimum the following features, yet you may add more features to increase the security of your authentication system.

   • Typical information about the user: First Name, Last Name, Birth date, E-mail.
   • User's password: Password and re-enter password along with real-time proactive password metric feedback (i.e., is this password weak, strong, etc.). You will decide what the required password selection rule should be.
   • Some type of challenge-response test to determine whether or not the user is human (e.g., CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA).
   • Activation of account via e-mail.
   • A set of security questions for password retrieval.

5. Forgot username and password You will decide what secure method should be used to retrieve the username and password.