On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 10:49, Jake Maul wrote:
Harry McGregor wrote:
Um, one 'student' account is a very very bad idea. Per user
authentication is a must.
Oh, I dunno. A Knoppix type setup could work in that environment (not
Knoppix itself as a root shell is trivially available but a Knoppix
setup that does NOT allow access to machine resources). Clients similar
to a ThinkNic (hmm, they seem to be extinct). Mandrake is making one
where you can remove the CD and use a USB key for local storage (my dog
ate my USB key...). The key is to have the OS in read only media and no
permanent store on the machine. So what if the user gets root if there's
nothing they can do with it?