Security and other issues

jay jay at ccpl.ci.corpus-christi.tx.us
Mon Aug 9 12:59:56 EDT 1999


Hello Everybody:

I think that i have a handle on this, but I'd appreciate some input
anyway:

We currently use Ikiosk, Fortress and Surfwatch on our public access
workstations.

We are moving from Windoze 95 to NT Workstation (thank GOD!), and I am
wondering if Ikiosk and Fortress will still be necessary. You see, we
are going to use some menu policy program like PAM or WINU to restrict
access to desktop and other items.

We want:

to restrict access to the hard drive; keep them from tampering with
Netscape preferences; etc.

With NT you can restrict access down to the file level. This would
obviously include the files and folders necessary to change Netscape,
right?  There will also be some applications that we will need to access
remotely. I am almost certain that Windows NT Workstation will be up to
the task for all of these things in conjuction with PAM or WinU.

So, does anyone have any experience using PAM or WinU with Windows NT
Workstation? The good, bad, and the ugly...please.

Regards,

JHF



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