Re: Hacked Workstations

From: John John (audetweld_at_nbnet.nb.ca)
Date: 02/26/05 

Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 03:52:03 -0400

Hummm.... yes. But my idea is to open the whole darn workstations
anyway. Make them (the workstations... or the students!) dummy
terminals. So what if they have admin privileges. After a few days
they will know that the exercise is pointless, there will be nothing but
Windows on the workstation. SAM won't bother, AD on the server will
rule. Some sort of image or network push could restore the workstation
to the default state in a hurry. Or not... let the ones who break it
learn how to restore an image. They should quickly find out that
without the dummy terminals they can't do anything, tell them that their
pc's are broken for 24 hours and get then to read Shakespeare. The days
of broken terminals will over. Then they will set their sight on the
server... another gate to hack.

John

Herb Martin wrote:

> "John John" <audetweld@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote in message
> news:uDMh8d7GFHA.2752@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>
>>Use Server 2003 with AD and the Knoppix kiddies will be lost. There
>>will be no SAM to hack at the WORKSTATIONS in class. Does that make
>>sense? Or am I right off the rails?
>
>
> Well, there is a SAM on all Win2000+ DCs
> but it only holds the emergency admin account.
>
>
>

Relevant Pages

  • Re: [SLE] SuSE 9 systems builds & rebuilds
    ... > servers, router-firewalls, workstations, and diskless X terminals. ...
    (SuSE)
  • Re: ENOUGH
    ... run PC workstations as not-quite-dumb terminals, ... workstations at a bank; you get great benefit from the GUI, ... rolling out teller software to all those PCs is a ... most of the stations involved were dumb terminals. ...
    (rec.food.cooking)
  • Re: Hacked Workstations
    ... We do reimage the workstations whenever they get "hacked." ... "John John" wrote: ... > without the dummy terminals they can't do anything, ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.security)
  • Re: Exchange Access from Remote Office
    ... > They don't have workstations, they are running on Terminal Services ... > through Wyse Terminals. ... > a terminal server infrastructure? ... >> and have them work offline by default, ...
    (microsoft.public.exchange.connectivity)
  • Re: SBS 2003 Misconfigured?
    ... up one of the workstations via remote web connection, ... but why are you looking at the server rather than the workstation? ... (this will show you the DHCP lease info). ... The Netgear, or whatever you use as your gateway to get out to the Internet. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)