Article 16690 of alt.security: Path: jac.zko.dec.com!pa.dec.com!decwrl!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!simtel!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!mtearle From: mtearle@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Mark Tearle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.security.misc,alt.security Subject: Re: Security s/w for student labs? Date: 15 May 1995 16:08:01 GMT Organization: The University of Western Australia Lines: 34 Message-ID: <3p7u91$a0e@styx.uwa.edu.au> References: <3ops70$24e@aus.Stanford.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: tartarus.uwa.edu.au X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #63 (NOV) Xref: jac.zko.dec.com comp.sys.mac.misc:66673 comp.security.misc:16515 alt.security:16690 duncan@aus.Stanford.EDU (Duncan Howard) writes: >Any Mac lab admins care to share their knowledge about various >security schemes that exist to make lab Macs resistant to >tampering? >I would prefer to allow limited access to the finder but I need >to try to ensure the systems configuration is reasonably >static. >Ironclad security isn't the issue, just a clean effective resource >management strategy. >Many thanks in advance. Reply here and via email please! >-duncan Labmaster is what we use here at the University of Western Australia, it was developed inhouse and seems pretty effective ... have a look on ftp://redback.cs.uwa.edu.au/ or email macsupport@cs.uwa.edu.au for more info Also Assimilator (A Peter Lewis program), also available from the above site, which is a program which maintains configurations of machines (like RevRDist) is being run here. Yours Mark -- Mark Tearle - mtearle@tartarus.uwa.edu.au "A witty saying proves nothing." -- Voltaire