Need suggestion on locking down student imacs
Hello, I just inherited a handful of computer labs. 8 imacs each spread out between 5 schools. 3 labs have internet access and 2 labs do not. Since I'm a complete noob when it comes to Mac OS Security what would someone recommend as my first step to locking down the computers. The students have tons of shortcuts on the desktop,downloaded mp3's, movies, myspace, facebook etc..It's a mess. Is there any 3rd party software that can manage desktops or can Mac OS do it all?
Thanks
Oh another Internet one I forgot...
http://www.netnanny.com/mac?pid=3&gclid=CLmq6-zMzpkCFRFMagoduSShtQ
Parental Controls in Leo...
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/parentalcontrols.html
For even more control you can do Get Infos from the finder on the files/folders and change permissions so they can't write, only read, or no access.
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Need suggestion regarding drop down...
hi ,
i have a dropdown list having some values.I wana compare the length of the values of dropdown list to null.
i tried this
for (var i=0 ; i<=DropDownList1.length;i++);
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I want to develop an application for student attendance, If the student is absent for that day the name of the student is selected from that class and the respective parent has to get a message to his/her mobile that their child is absent.
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Yusef -
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We need a lot more information - like exactly waht you are doing, what version of iPhoto you have and what happens
LN -
Keeping IMac's locked down in a computer lab
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All 3 of my labs are alarmed and supervised at all times so no I've never seen anyone try to take one that's been locked down. Had an LCD stolen once out of an office but it had not been secured. The cables can be cut but it's not as easy as it looks. In IT once in a while someone would need to relocate or surplus a computer that was locked down and no one had the key. I would go and cut the cable with bolt cutters but it usually took a few passes. If you see someone walking around with a set of bolt cutters in their hand then I would be suspicious.
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Well, try this (I was able to fix my with these steps):
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I hope this help.
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Hello Experts,
We recently had a problem on our production box and we found the need to lock down the environment with scc4.
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Under
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under
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1. None of the shutdown commands would work so I held the power button down and received a prompt that asked if I wished to force eject the drive, I selected
the force eject and then shut down.
2. Just recently I installed an eSATA _ Thunderbolt_ port multiplier compliant PCIe card (Seritek Q6G) into a thunderbolt external chassis (OWC Helios) (seritek Q6G).
This freeze data transfer also happened when I connected a Firmtek 5PM external tower to the iMac via thunderbolt cable.
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Maybe I need another driver?
Or maybe some update to my OS?
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I'm going to check in the Applications>Utilities>system log to see if any clues are evident_ thank you for the suggestion.
PS: Nothing of note was obvious as a root cause in the Activity Monitor though.
hmmm....I was told that the Helios and seritek card were compatable and that the Helios didn't require any drivers..it will be a drag if there isn't an easy fix for this since this new PCIe card from seritek is the first to offer port multiplier compatibility for eSATA to thunderbolt...since they are both new I'm hoping that an OS upgrade will be the fix (presently7.2)...we shall see. -
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(2) PPT and PPS files in email. If you do not have Microsoft Office and PowerPoint, you need to know this: iMac comes with a trial version of Keynote and a trial version of PowerPoint software. If you receive a PowerPoint slide show from a friend, and you click on it to view it in Mail, Keynote may open up, for the first month or so. But if you don't buy keynote, this will eventually stop working. If MS PowerPoint opens up, same trouble - it may work a month or so. On my machine, the trial version actually locked up the iMac at the "Splash Screen". And if you don't buy Keynote, MS PowerPoint or MS Office for Mac, then your last hope for seeing PPT and PPS files is "Quicklook" which doesn't step through slides one at a time, but presents them as a long document. Not so great. Our solution was (A) delete the trail versions, and (B) buy a family pack of iWork and then everyone gets Keynote. Too bad the PPT and PPS music doesn't work.
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Is it possible to lock down the _vti_bin and _layouts pages with a wildcard option.
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Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Regards
MircoHi Sachin,
Thank You very much for the feedback. The info to secure system pages from authenticated FBA users is very helpful and I will definitely implement it. With reference to your second post. This is actually the information I used to lock down my
sites from anonymous users. Applying this method I noticed that you needed to put an entry for every single site collection and sub site collection, e.g. if I ONLY had a site collection at
https://me.myserver.com then the following entries in the web.config would secure the _vti_bin and _layouts folder from anonymous users:
<location path="_layouts">
<system.web>
<authorization>
<deny users="?" />
</authorization>
</system.web>
</location>
and
<location path="_vti_bin">
<system.web>
<authorization>
<deny users="?" />
</authorization>
</system.web>
</location>
But lets say I added another site collection at
https://me.myserver.com/sites/mysitecollection I would have to add the following entries to the web.config file to secure it from anonymous users:
<location path="sites/mysitecollection/_layouts">
<system.web>
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<deny users="?" />
</authorization>
</system.web>
</location>
and
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<system.web>
<authorization>
<deny users="?" />
</authorization>
</system.web>
</location>
Now this method might be manageable if you are only gonna have 5 or 10 site or subsite collections. My client will have 30, 40, 50, who knows how many. This is why I am trying to find a more manageable way of locking these sites down.
You can imagine what my web.config will look like eventually and the admin involved in continuously adding these entries to the web.config file to keep it safe from anonymous users.
Regards
Mirco -
Security - Locking Down Oracle 9i
Anyone,
I have been asked by our auditors to lock down my Oracle environment by disabling the default accounts that are not needed.
What User Accounts can I disable (Lock) and not break my Oracle environment?
I am looking at the following:
DBSNMP
OUTLN
WMSYS
Will I break anything if I disable these accounts?
Thanks in advance,
MillerHi
DBSNMP User:
For database event monitoring, it is recommended you use the pre-existing DBSNMP user account.The DBSNMP user is automatically created with each new database and is already used for basic monitoring such as checking database availability. When setting up the EM Event owner’s preferences for Preferred Credentials, specify DBSNMP as database credentials for all monitored databases. This account will be used by the agent for monitoring and historical data collection as well as by the OMS/Console for database browsing. The DBSNMP user has already been granted some basic privileges. However, if it is to be used for all database event monitoring, you will also need to grant:
SELECT_CATALOG_ROLE role.
OUTLN User:
This user is used while using TKPROF utility
select user# from sys.user$ where name = 'OUTLN'
WMSYS: Don't know about this user.
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Hope this was useful.
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When I try to work in iPhoto it shuts down my iMac. I had a lot of problems with iPhoto in December and worked with an Apple Advisor then to rebuild my library and every thing was fine for a while... then the shut downs started happening. Randomly at first, now all the time. I have a 24" iMac with 4G ram, my library has 11K photos... running most current versions of both iPhoto and Lion. Have MobileMe but haven't switched to iCloud yet. Evidently I'm no longer covered under Applecare as the advisor informed me when I called. He suggested one option would be to lug my computer into a genius bar, not easily done and wondering how this would be a hardware issue... although I'm willing to do this to resolve this issue. Any advice/suggestions would be appreciated.
First launch iPhoto with the Option key held down and create a new, test library. Import some photos and check to see if the same problem persists. If it doesn't the the problem lies with your original library.
In that case make a temporary, backup copy (select the library and type Command+D) and apply the two fixes below in order as needed:
Fix #1
Launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down and rebuild the library.
Select the options identified in the screenshot.
Fix #2
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
Download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
Click on the Add Library button, navigate to your Home/Pictures folder and select your iPhoto Library folder.
Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the File ➙ Rebuild Library menu option
In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
Click on the Create button.
Note: This creates a new library based on the LIbraryData.xml file in the library and will recover Events, Albums, keywords, titles and comments but not books, calendars or slideshows. The original library will be left untouched for further attempts at fixing the problem or in case the rebuilt library is not satisfactory.
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Click to view full size
Then install iPhoto from the disk it came on originally and apply all applicable updaters.
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