[KLUG Members] Drive Shield/Deep Freeze for Linux

[Miles Pschigoda]

mag00 wrote:
> At 04:46 PM 6/3/05 -0400, you wrote:
> 
>>>Does anybody know of a product like Drive Shield or deep Freeze for Linux?
>>
>>You explain what the heck these product do, and then we might be able to 
>>help.
> 
> 
> I'll answer the question of what Drive Shield and Deep Freeze are...
> My question is why one would WANT something like that for Linux?
> 
> DRIVE SHIELD
>     * Allow users full access to their systems
>     * With a simple reboot any changes to the system vanish
>     * Protection is invisible to end users
> 
> http://www.centuriontech.com/driveshield.htm
> 
> DEEP FREEZE
> Deep Freeze instantly protects and preserves original computer 
> configurations. Completely invulnerable to hacking, Deep Freeze 
> makes computing environments easier to manage and maintain. 
> Each restart eradicates all changes and resets the computer to 
> its original state, right down to the last byte.
> Protect a single, hundreds, or thousands of computers across a 
> distributed LAN, WAN or over the Internet.
> 
> http://www.faronics.com/html/deepfreeze.asp
> 
> Jeremy NOTE:
> The question assumes that M$ Window's problems are Linux problems.
> Maybe better stated that the question assumes that M$ Window's 
> vulnerabilities are Linux vulnerabilities.  File permissions in Linux take
> care of most of this.
> 
> Maybe you want to get REAL specific as to the implementation and
> what you are afraid of happening.  Users the problem or is there some
> other fear?  More specific questions get more specific answers.
> 

Yeah, I agree with the needing more specifics, but you could write a 
script to, when user logs out, over write the directory with a skeleton 
directory.  I don't know exactly where the script would go or how it 
should be evoked for security, but it's what I'd look into.

MilesP