[KLUG Members] Drive Shield/Deep Freeze for Linux

[Adam Tauno Williams]

 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.

I think translucent filesystems will work for you.  Mount the parition read-only
and then mount a RAM disk over it?

Or just use VMware which does snapshotting exactly like what you describe.

> 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.


Windows provides very robust file permissions (assuming you are using NTFS).  It
is *NOT* Bill's fault that most ding-bat users add themselves to the
Administrators group and then go merrily on their way.