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Hi,



Is there any school using 1 to 1 program Laptops with 2 Mac OS partitions on
it? A suggestion has come up from students to have two partions, one for
school 1 to 1 applications (with no admin privileges to students ) and the
other partition with Admin privileges to students. Is there a model in use
anywhere that we can follow? We want to keep the BIOS lock with some sort of
boot loader to switch between two partitions. Any suggestions?



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Seems like that would be a tough job to pull off. If they have admin privileges on one partition, they can get unfettered access to the other without a great deal of effort.



Brian


Why do students need admin rights? I have been running a 1:1 for 4 years now and have never ran into a situation where I need to give students admin rights.


Indeed, this smells like a security risk to me.



In answer to your bootloader question, the only one I know of for EFI is called rEFIt <http://refit.sourceforge.net/>.


rEFIt is very handy...we use it here on dual-boot systems. But it won't
work in conjunction with EFI passwords, unfortunately.



Brian


FYI, you can do dual booting to non admin users via self service....



http://tlarkin.com/tech/managed-dual-booting-casper



and



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_rlvsFbLGA&feature=channel_video_title


How do you account for the time server difference and windows thinking
it's counterfit?



I have a dualboot win7 on my Mac, and whenever I switch between the two
the time gets screwed up and Win7 complains it's counterfeit (unless I
re-activate)



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I am not sure, you are referring to a Kerberos ticket? You can set
the Windows client to a NTP server.


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