It seems to me that many of the issues (including locking down and authentication) have already been resolved on kronos, so I'd think that the configuration on kronos would be a good starting point. (Also, I'd think it would be nice for MTCS students to have a similar set of installed packages.) One thing we haven't done that ITS would probably want to do would be an automatic mounting of y drives; can't that be accomplished by writing an appropriate pam module?
T. H. Scott Thatcher wrote: >I actually talked to someone (I forget who now) from ITS fairly recently >(within the last semester) who asked _me_ about having linix computers in >labs. I'm sorry my memory is vague on this, but I got the impression that >they would be open to moving a few lab computers (possibly in the library) to >linux, if they were given the proper guidance on how to lock them down. I >remember responding that creating such a locked-down linux installation would >be a good project for some enterprising members of fsck. I know there are >some resources online talking about this kind of thing (I think KDE has a >kiosk mode that might be of some use). Any interested parties? If we did >have a concrete proposal to take to ITS, complete with a demonstration, it >might go somewhere. > >Scott > >On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 12:20:56PM -0500, iosif wrote: > > >>and if it's not on the image, one could always dump firefox and OO on their >>USB/thumb drive like some of us paranoids do. >> >>i >> >> >> >>----------------------------------------------------------------- >>To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>with Subject: unsubscribe >>----------------------------------------------------------------- >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
