Re: Keyloggers in computer labs

[Gary Flynn <flynngn () JMU EDU>]

Graham Toal wrote:

> Have you considered locking down the machine completely, and
> giving the students a fresh copy of a vmware image every
> time they log in?  Let them install a keylogger on the
> temporary image, won't do them any good.  Satisfies the
> academics requests for allowing students to install
> software.


Hmmm.  That sounds promising. I'm not that familiar with
VMWare. Will it work with the free VMWare player? Do you
know what kind of licensing issues there may be? Can we
buy just one copy of VMWare workstation, make lab images,
and distribute them to the labs using the player?


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Gary Flynn
Security Engineer
James Madison University
www.jmu.edu/computing/security