Debian workstations in a school environment

[Philippe De Ryck <philippe.de.ryck@skynet.be>]

Hello,

I'm a network administrator in a highschool in Belgium. Right now all
our workstations run Windows. There is however a possibility for me to
convert some old machines that have quite some trouble running XP
smoothly to linux. The problem is however that I'm not that experienced
managing linux workstations.

I've been a linux user for quite some time now (about 3 years) and I
like debian (and ubuntu). There's however a big difference between my
computer and public computers at school. I want things as secure as
possible, and lockdown as tight as possible.

I was wondering if there are any documents (there must be!) available on
these issues. I know it is possible, I've seen machines that disallow
console login (only X was allowed) and a whole lot else. I can't seem to
get much useful out of google ...


Hope anyone can help me

Kind regards

Philippe De Ryck