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Mac OS in a Lab

Posted by Cliff on from the keeping-your-users-in-check dept.

jmu1 wishes to get to the core of the following issue: "I run a medium sized lab of Mac OS 8.6/9.x machines. They all have (shudder) FoolProof as an attempt of keeping the systems usable. Unfortunatly, it is quite easy to bypass the software, or even to remove it using AppleScript, etc. What I want to know is, what is a usable solution for securing a lab of Macs?"

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  1. seal the doors by vipw · · Score: 1, Funny

    Seal the doors and any windows and then fill the room with concrete from a heating vent in the ceiling.

  2. Ah the Memories by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I remember in middle school writting an apple script which dumped fool proof off of all of the machines in any apple talk zone, and then copied Bolo to replace it. It drived my teacher insane. Sometimes she would turn her back and find the entire classroom playing multiple 16 player tourneys.

    I also remember fool proof didn't recognize ftp access to a system. I could access files quite easily through that.

    Oh don't even ask what I did with ResEdit.

    1. Re:Ah the Memories by MalleusEBHC · · Score: 3, Funny

      It drived my teacher insane.

      If that was your English teacher, I doubt that's the only thing that drove her crazy.

  3. I know a way... by ike6116 · · Score: 2, Funny

    AtEase anyone? :-D

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  4. Proof that the poster is Ralph Wiggum by Lovejoy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Look Lisa: I learnded!

    Me fail English? That's unpossible!

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