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b3hi

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From: Germany

Registered: 2016-08-24

Posts: 1

script for changing passwords and tamper protecting internal harddrive

Hi everyone,
I'm a teacher at a completely Linux free school environment :-( who would nevertheless really like to introduce my students to alternative operating systems. Fortunately, our Win admins missed out on preventing booting from optical drives on our school computers.
I would therefore like to use DVDs with a live Linux for my purpose.

I'm looking for a way to prevent the students from tampering with the installed Windows while trying out Linux. So far, I manually change the passwords for root and liveuser and uninstall ntfs-3g in each live system in order to tamper protect the systems.

Does anyone see a better way to do it?

Could somebody please provide a script to run on each machine which would make it easier and a lot faster to set up the 16 computers?

Thank you very much!

Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

Posts: 6,282

Re: script for changing passwords and tamper protecting internal harddrive

Archiso is what you are looking for.

Not giving them root access is a good first step. Many desktop environments use their own, often FUSE and/or Udisks based mounting mechanisms.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Archiso
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udisks
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fi … le_systems