Re: Open access to student labs

[Samuel Young <syoung () LASIERRA EDU>]

We require our students and visitors to logon to our network everywhere.
There are a few computers in the library that allow public access, but we
are about to close that loop as well.

Sam Young
CIO
La Sierra University.

-----Original Message-----
From: Boaz Gelbord [mailto:GelbordB () NEWSCHOOL EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 12:26 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] Open access to student labs

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