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Re: Public Machine Access

From: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:46:22 -0500

On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:20:04 EST, "Flagg, Martin D." said:

We are constantly fighting with out "lab" computers, we currently allow
them admin privileges then rebuild the machine upon every reboot.


"And how's that working for you?" -- Dr. Phil

How much would your workload go down if you didn't allow them admin privs?

(Also - do you *force* a reboot when a user logs out?  If not, the next user on
the machine is at the mercy of whatever malware the first guy managed to get
during a drive-by fruiting....)

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Public Machine Access Flagg, Martin D. (Jan 23)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Public Machine Access Mark Rogowski (Jan 23)
- Re: Public Machine Access Valdis Kletnieks (Jan 23)
- Re: Public Machine Access Valdis Kletnieks (Jan 23)
- Re: Public Machine Access Mark Rogowski (Jan 23)
- Re: Public Machine Access Valdis Kletnieks (Jan 23)
- Re: Public Machine Access Mark Rogowski (Jan 23)
- Re: Public Machine Access Theresa Semmens (Jan 23)
- Re: Public Machine Access Flagg, Martin D. (Jan 23)
- Re: Public Machine Access Joel Rosenblatt (Jan 23)
- Re: Public Machine Access Mark Rogowski (Jan 23)
- Re: Public Machine Access Cal Frye (Jan 23)
- Re: Public Machine Access Gary Flynn (Jan 23)

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