[plug] Customising Knoppix for students

[John Clayton]

The situation is this: A MS Windows XP workstation that I want to run 
knoppix on. Booting XP requires a password to get access to the hatd disk so 
that students can edit files. Students are restricted to their own 
userspace. With knoppix there is read/write harddisk access that walks 
straight past the passwords. I want a knoppix that will not give write 
access to the harddisk no matter what.


>From: Onno Benschop <onno at itmaze.com.au>
>Reply-To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
>To: PLUG <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
>Subject: Re: [plug] Customising Knoppix for students
>Date: 06 Jul 2003 07:52:53 +0800

>
>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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