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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. Inhibit away... by lsommerer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I administer a high school mac lab with Foolproof, and I don't see anything wrong with locking them up fairly tight.

    They have access to all the tools they need for classes and research, but most other things are locked. And everything that could make life miserable for the next person to use that machine is locked. Storage is available for each student on the server.

    We occationally do games after school, and I unlock those programs at that time.

    I inherited the FoolProof solution, and can't say anything about it's overall security, but we haven't had any troubles with it. I do think it's important to recruite any students that are showing enough interest in doing things that make your life tougher (might as well just put them to work).

    It's also important for the students to know what type of things will get their computer access terminated.