[plug] Customising Knoppix for students

[Onno Benschop]

On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 01:44, John Clayton wrote:
> Greetings pluggers. I am doing some research on customising knoppix for use 
> in a primary school environment. What I would like is a version of knoppix 
> or something similar that when booted up will give the user read access only 
> no matter what they do while knoppix is running. I am wanting a fool proof 
> and kid proof solution. I have had thoughts of using the NSA's Security 
> Enhanced Linux within a knoppix distribution to make sure that root cannot 
> do anything of any permanent nature to the computer it is being used on. Do 
> any of you have any thoughts about this? I am hoping that the NSA at least 
> would be able to survive the depredations of little kids "Mercury Rising" 
> not withstanding :o)

Why so complicated?

Just run Knoppix off the CD, a reboot fixes everything. It's
bullet-proof, and handles power-off very gracefully.

If you need to provide the student with space to store data, give them
access to a server.

Use the hard-disk as a scratch area.

You could actaully put the knoppix image onto the harddisk, still
compressed and read-only in its own partition, which would speed up the
boot process.

Did I misunderstand what you're asking for?

Onno Benschop 

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