Open Port Indicator?

[Laurent]

> In Fritz's case, it is common in training groups to enable a classroom
> using crash-and-burn all-access-allowed machines: You image the machines
> from disk, let the class have at 'em, then re-image them when the class
> is over. Yes, completely open access means the students can mess around,
> but there is little risk to this because a) the machines are being
> re-imaged after class, and b) whose time are they wasting by messing
> around? They have better things to do. 

    It joins the preceding discussion about education to security : I 
think that it is better to make students used to type passwords. You can 
for example create a CD image with a password; always the same. Once 
students know the pass, you are in exactly the same situation : they can 
mess the PC's and the PC's are re-imaged each time. But IMHO in this 
case, you educate to security too.
    If passwordless account are bad in "real" live, then there are bad 
in education live. That seems clear for me, no ?


Have a nice day
Laurent