Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP for exam setting at school - r ésumé

2010-11-19 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:37:28AM -0800, sm8ps-ltsp...@yahoo.com wrote: H: (Alkis/Frédéric) Fatclient+iptables+D: should handle the raised issues. if you wanted to go even further, you could set up the networking to use netmask 255.255.255.255, which means all the clients would refuse to talk

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP for exam setting at school - r ésumé

2010-11-18 Thread P. Scott DeVos
Be sure to disable the unix talk command. And how about walking around and keeping an eye on things. That's how teachers did it in my day. Scott On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 10:37 -0800, sm8ps-ltsp...@yahoo.com wrote: Thank you very much everybody for your valuable contributions! I have been

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP for exam setting at school - r ésumé

2010-11-18 Thread Frédéric Grelot
And how about walking around and keeping an eye on things. That's how teachers did it in my day. If you're lazy, you could just add a vnc module to your client's X servers, and spy on them at random from your desk... Of course if you don't want to be in trouble, I think you should tell them

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP for exam setting at school - r ésumé

2010-11-18 Thread Xavier Brochard
Le mercredi 17 novembre 2010 19:37:28, sm8ps-ltsp...@yahoo.com a écrit : As far as I can tell, fat client + iptables + restricting access to users' home seems to be the most promising and feasible solution to me. All laptops are fairly modern machines and certainly come with enough RAM. Fat

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP for exam setting at school

2010-11-17 Thread Jakob Unterwurzacher
Am 17.11.2010 08:46, schrieb Rolf-Werner Eilert: Am 17.11.2010 01:13, schrieb sm8ps-ltsp...@yahoo.com: Hello all! Hello Stefan, I would like to use LTSP specifically for exam settings in an introductory computer science class. The students have learned some basic system My goal is

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP for exam setting at school

2010-11-17 Thread Xavier Brochard
Le mercredi 17 novembre 2010 12:01:28, Jakob Unterwurzacher a écrit : Am 17.11.2010 08:46, schrieb Rolf-Werner Eilert: Am 17.11.2010 01:13, schrieb sm8ps-ltsp...@yahoo.com: I would like to use LTSP specifically for exam settings in an introductory computer science class. The students have

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP for exam setting at school

2010-11-17 Thread Jakob Unterwurzacher
Am 17.11.2010 12:53, schrieb Xavier Brochard: Le mercredi 17 novembre 2010 12:01:28, Jakob Unterwurzacher a écrit : Am 17.11.2010 08:46, schrieb Rolf-Werner Eilert: Am 17.11.2010 01:13, schrieb sm8ps-ltsp...@yahoo.com: I would like to use LTSP specifically for exam settings in an introductory

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP for exam setting at school

2010-11-17 Thread Xavier Brochard
Le mercredi 17 novembre 2010 13:10:56, Jakob Unterwurzacher a écrit : Am 17.11.2010 12:53, schrieb Xavier Brochard: Le mercredi 17 novembre 2010 12:01:28, Jakob Unterwurzacher a écrit : Am 17.11.2010 08:46, schrieb Rolf-Werner Eilert: What about the wall command? Probably chmod g-w

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP for exam setting at school

2010-11-17 Thread Jakob Unterwurzacher
Am 17.11.2010 13:47, schrieb Xavier Brochard: And what about the mail command?... Good catch! But /etc/init.d/postfix stop will take care of that (if there is a MTA AFAIK, Bsd mailx or Gnu Mailutils doens't need an MTA for local delivery. Hmm, where would they deliver the mail to?

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP for exam setting at school

2010-11-17 Thread Kenneth Lundström
I don´t what the exam includes but on some courses exams it could be a question, find a way to communicate with your friends and/or teachers computer. You leave a couple holes open and your students probably will find a couple more holes. Even if it´s not on the exam leaving some holes and

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP for exam setting at school

2010-11-17 Thread Frédéric Grelot
Does the solution Fatclient+iptable rule (authorize only client-server trafic) not handle all these problems? /var is client-specific (so no mail passing), iptable rules prevents any nc tricks, and chmoding 700 user home directories prevents file transfers... Furthermore, Fatclient is now quite

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP for exam setting at school

2010-11-17 Thread Xavier Brochard
Le mercredi 17 novembre 2010 15:20:47, Kenneth Lundström a écrit : Another way to teach them a lesson would be to leave a couple holes and when somebody finds the hole and uses it to tell a friend something you could change the message, maybe change the answer to something very stupid. ;-)

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP for exam setting at school - r ésumé

2010-11-17 Thread sm8ps-ltspml1
Thank you very much everybody for your valuable contributions! I have been following this list for over two years now and I have always been impressed by the wealth of expertise available. Let me present a résumé as far as I have understood the answers and then see how I should proceed best:

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP for exam setting at school - r ésumé

2010-11-17 Thread Xavier Brochard
Le mercredi 17 novembre 2010 19:37:28, sm8ps-ltsp...@yahoo.com a écrit : postfix?) and probably others. Best to lock down all terminal applications and set-up chroot jail for each user. Also lock-down desktop -- Though, I cannot do that because indeed the students need to access a shell. Using

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP for exam setting at school

2010-11-17 Thread Jam
On Wednesday 17 November 2010 22:30:46 ltsp-discuss- requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: My goal is to have the students work individually on one and the same (LTSP-)server without means of communication or file-sharing, just as if they were working on individual machines without any

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP for exam setting at school

2010-11-17 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:01:28PM +0100, Jakob Unterwurzacher wrote: What about the wall command? Probably chmod g-w /dev/pts/* will do it (in a loop !), haven't tested. There's also the write command. I think there are other similar ones, but I can't remember their names. You could offer

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP for exam setting at school

2010-11-16 Thread sm8ps-ltspml1
Hello all! I would like to use LTSP specifically for exam settings in an introductory computer science class. The students have learned some basic system administration and programming under Linux on their personal laptops. Now I would like to have them perform some basic tasks in a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP for exam setting at school

2010-11-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:13:30 -0800 (PST) sm8ps-ltsp...@yahoo.com wrote: First I would like to restrict internet access for these users. I was thinking of putting them into a group which should not have access to ... well what exactly? How about the simple solution: unplug the ethernet cable

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP for exam setting at school

2010-11-16 Thread Jam
On Wednesday 17 November 2010 08:31:03 ltsp-discuss- requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: I would like to use LTSP specifically for exam settings in an introductory computer science class. The students have learned some basic system administration and programming under Linux on their personal

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP for exam setting at school

2010-11-16 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Am 17.11.2010 01:13, schrieb sm8ps-ltsp...@yahoo.com: Hello all! Hello Stefan, I would like to use LTSP specifically for exam settings in an introductory computer science class. The students have learned some basic system My goal is to have the students work individually on one and the