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Re: LINBO and "self-healing" workstations



On 8 January 2011 17:40, Andreas B. Mundt <andi.mundt@web.de> wrote:

>
> However, I would have hoped that we can do better. Is it really on a
> regular basis that machines are attacked and spoiled in the evil
> school environment? How often does that happen? Where are the flaws
> that allow compromising the machines, is there anything known about?
>

In this school, where all student machines run skolelinux, I have
never had a machine cracked.  In my previous school (windows 98 - a
long time ago) some student installed a keylogger on the scanning
machine and obtained teacher logins! Then they 'fixed' their grades,
which is how they got caught!

However, I use clonezilla live to re-image non-booting netbooks at an
average rate of one per week I would say. I  find full workstation
installs to be worth the extra effort over diskless, so I also use
clonezilla to install and upgrade those.

cheers
nigel


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