1 to 1 program with two Mac OS Partitions.

[Vishu]

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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Vishu
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[brlittle]

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

[tlarkin]

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.

[#4]

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/>.

[brlittle]

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

Brian

[tlarkin]

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

[ImAMacGuy]

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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[tlarkin]

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