Re: Reset root password

From: Rick Moen (rick_at_linuxmafia.com)
Date: 05/22/05 

Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 04:01:22 -0400

muxaul@lenta.ru wrote:
> Thanks God, even our windoops SAs are smarter than the
> author of the article you refer to. :-) As for putting a lock on the
> door, how do you imagine doing this with a students' computer
> class? :-)

With a students' computer class, I would expect there would be a teacher
or room-monitor who would be on the lookout for people doing indelicate
things to the class's machines.

I would also expect that there would be a standard boot floppy/CDR (or
PXE-boot procedure) for re-imaging any such machines from a central (and
protected) build host, when/if needed. That's what we did for the Linux
lab at San Francisco State University, for example. 

-- 
Cheers,
Rick Moen                      "vi is my shepherd; I shall not font."
rick@linuxmafia.com                               -- Psalm 0.1 beta

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