[Westwales] Linux with XP

[Colin Sauze]

>stick lilo on the partition, boot from disk, and the IT students have their
>own private machines that no other bugger can get at,
>  
>
Be careful on that one, they may not be as private as you think! A lot 
of Linux distros have a local security weakness. If you can type stuff 
at the Lilo/grub menu you can boot to init level 1 which just gives the 
user a command prompt with full root access without prompting for any 
passwords. The obvious way round this one is to stop the user editing 
the arguments in lilo (I think grub can password protect the menus). 
Also make sure that you disable booting from CD/floppy/usb/network and 
put on a bios password.