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Re: [TCLUG:1334] Sibley LAN success



On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Tim Wilson wrote:

> I need to be able to lock those student accounts down really tight. I'd
> don't want them having shell access (XDM here I come) or anything. I
> don't even want them to be able to set bookmarks in Netscape. Any
> students who are helping me with the network or are interested in
> programming or something will get their own logins with more privileges,
> but I can't have people screwing up these machines.
> 
> Does anyone have any specific hints about locking these machines down.
> Other than the obvious ones I guess. I just figure that I won't think of
> everything. I need to do some reading to find out more about xdm and
> such. Anyway, any hints would be appreciated.

You could have a "rebuild" directory, that holds only the stuff you want
to have in /home/student.  When that person logs out, have the script go
though, delete whatever's in that home directory, and copy what's in the
"rebuild" directory into the /home/student dir, thus making it start over
with a clean slate.

Maybe there's a more elegant way of doing this, but this seems to be the
most obvious solution... this way the students can mess around all they
want, but when they log out, the directory is reset back to normal.

                                      - Dave

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