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Aussie Uni Dumps Dual-Boot In Favor of Linux

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the greater-good dept.

kNIGits writes "News.com.au is reporting that the University of Wollongong have dumped their previously dual-boot installations in favour of booting Linux only. Among other reasons, staff enjoy the ease with which they can 'lock down' first year students, stopping them messing with the systems prior to learning anything about them."

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  1. Re:Hehehehe... by gmack · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Ahh yes Novell.. lots of posibillites to screw that up :)

    Apperently my teacher defined his backup admin account by not giving it permissions anywhere.

    I screwed that completly by accident when I added him with read only access to my home dir and then removed the global classrom account("room12"). I don't think he figgured out what I did until I told him what I did without actually admitting that did something with a side affect of disruting classes for the entire afternoon.

    I spend the entire year poking holes in his security. I'm sure he was glad when I left but the upside was that his system was actually secure.

    And he was one of the better ones.

    2 years later I found an apple printer while portscanning the school's ip block. It belonged to the mac lab teacher who also ran the school's dialup service and telnetted to it .. first thing it did was demand I set an admin password...

    I think school's problems are usually that they stick whatever teacher has free time and a passable knowlege as the admin.