"liveusb-creator" versus "livecd-iso-to-disk"?

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Mon Jan 13 22:27:33 UTC 2014


jdow:
>> If students are involved I'd be inclined to find a fairly ironclad
>> method of preventing access to the Windows disks. Otherwise, students
>> being students, they will start unauthorized prying around on the
>> attached Windows install and potentially corrupt it badly.

Joe Zeff:
> Indeed.  My suggestion would be to list that partition in /etc/fstab as 
> ro and limit sudo access to specific programs, not including any form of 
> mount.  And, password protect the CMOS or equivalent, to keep them from 
> booting from a USB key.

I'd be inclined to *not* mount the Windows partitions, and prevent auto
mounting, unless they actually required access to them.

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