Re: Preventing Single user mode booting

[Jim Zajkowski <jim@jimz.net>]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 09:28:38AM -0700, Chuck Yerkes wrote:

> But in a student lab, for example, that's not subtle.  I
> like the notion of removing floppies and CDs, perhaps
> with one or two machines that have them for shared use?

I've found that spending lots of energy "locking things down"
for classroom-like environments, either Windows or anything else,
is just futile.

It's far better to design a system to force every computer into
a load-set every night than to worry about users breaking in --
because they will.

Many universities actually publish the root password for the
local workstations, simply because it saves them the trouble
of dealing with people trying to break in.

Look into rdist/rsync and similar tools before you go hell-bent
securing the workstations for computer labs.

--Jim

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Jim Zajkowski
System Administrator
ITCS Contract Services