[Westwales] Linux with XP

[Llywelyn Owen]

I've been avidly following this thread - it's been a great read. Now
that you have a solution,  I'm sure I'm not the only one who would
love to hear how your students are progressing with linux and their
feelings towards it. Have many of them used or ever heard of it out of
school? Any chance that you could drop us a posting every now and then
(or even a blog/journal) with anecdotes and a progress report?

Regards

Llywelyn Owen
Anglesey

On 25/04/06, Colin Sauze <colinsauze at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >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.
>
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Llywelyn Owen