Re: Hacked Workstations

From: Dave (noone_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 02/25/05

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    Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 22:41:33 -0000

    "megascout29" <megascout29@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
    news:A5453D39-5A91-4868-B22C-BDD540806F12@microsoft.com...
    > I work at a school where students have been booting off Linux CDs and
    > deleting the SAM and booting off NT password reset floppies to delete the
    > admin password.
    >
    > For reasons beyond my control we have to give the students the ability to
    > boot off of floppies and CDs.
    >
    > My question is how can we stop this from happening?

    you have a couple options. the hardest one to get implimented is to
    discipline anyone caught bypassing security... kick a few of them out of
    school and maybe the others will get the idea. or you could live with the
    fact that its going to happen and make sure that you have a quick way to
    restore the proper image to a hacked machine. maybe even boot from a
    network instead of the local hard drive. if you go this way you also
    probably want to segregate the student machines so they don't have access to
    anything important. basically if you are in a situation where you can't
    control physical access to the machines you can't stop anyone from doing
    basically anything they want.

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