On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 10:55:48PM +0100, Thomas Quinot wrote: > For example, at this academic site, we have a few dozen Debian stations > that can be used by students freely during the day. As the labs are > under constant video monitoring, we consider that users will not tamper > with hardware (e.g. open a machine's case to short circuit the > BIOS battery). Moreover, students do need access to floppy drives > to take their own files home. For these reasons, the machines > in these labs have fully operative floppy disk drives. In our situation, > it is thus necessary to prevent users from /booting/ the machines from > the floppy disks What about the option of turning off booting from floppy in the BIOS and password protect the BIOS Setup (no Password on booting the machine, only a password if you wish to change the BIOS settings). Or are the machines old enough that the BIOS isn't capable enough? Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the "Plug" almost always works. --unknown source
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