Re: School setup - very limited user accounts.

"Simon" <spambucket@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uhDhIQIUIHA.3400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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If the kids have physical access to the computer, they will find a way around your protections. You could configure the BIOS to not allow booting from CD, floppy, USB, or other non-hard drive devices but some kids can Google, too, and find out how to reset the BIOS if you haven't locked the cases. You might want to look into save-state programs so you can restore the system back to how YOU or the teachers want it configured, like using Microsoft's SteadyState or similar.

Thanks, I did not think of that.

The kids have full access to the computers, (USB, CD, etc).

So I guess SteadyState or the other software mentioned would be a very good option.
I kind of like the idea of running a batch update on Fridays so that the computers are 'cleaned' once a week and all I would have to worry about is the state of the servers.

Simon


For kids, I was thinking more along the lines that you would add a scheduled event to run 'shutdown' sometime during the wee hours of the morning. If the teacher forgot to power down the hosts (so they have to reboot) then the shutdown takes care of that. Then after the reboot, the host is returned to the base or clean state. The idea is that the host would get reset everyday so in the morning the host was back in the known state. I wouldn't let the kids have their way for a week.

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