Re: Open access to student labs

[Ken Connelly <Ken.Connelly () UNI EDU>]

Outside of a few public-access machines in the library, labs here
require a login.  Most of that is done via AD.

- ken

Boaz Gelbord wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I would be interested in knowing how many institutions have student
> labs with open access versus forcing users to login.
>
> At the New School we have open labs in which students need to identify
> themselves at the front desk but can then just sit in front of a
> terminal and work without logging in (we also have some public terminals
> in the cafeteria and elsewhere where no ID is required). These machines
> are locked down so that students have no administrative privileges.
> Forcing users to login at the labs would be a technical challenge and
> create extra work for our helpdesk but would help us track down users
> who violate our policies or in case of an incident.
>
> If you would like to answer me off the list I can aggregate the answers
> and send out a summary.
>
> Thanks and happy holidays-
> Boaz.
>
> Boaz Gelbord
> Manager of Information Security
> The New School
> 55 West 13th Street NYC 10011
> www.newschool.edu

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- Ken
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Ken Connelly             Associate Director, Security and Systems
ITS Network Services                  University of Northern Iowa
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