Create technical issues on Ubuntu and fix

[J]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net> wrote:
> Maybe and maybe he just wants us to do his home work (I always was a cynical
> SOB).

Maybe...  sounds a lot like what I used to do to my Intro to Linux
students on their final exam though...I'd break each student's
computer in some way and say "You have access to the entire internet
on the computer next to you.  You can no talk to the other students.
The computer in front of you is broken in some way.  Now fix it and
come get me when you think you have."

Usually I'd throw out challenges that ranged from fairly straight
forward (bad password, or changed login shell to /bin/false or
something) to something more complex to fix like deleting the MBR or
removing /dev/null (that's always a fun one).  The assignments were
based on how well I thought the student grasped the ideas of Linux in
general and troubleshooting specifically.

So the better you did in my class, the harder that part of the exam was.

After that part, they had to do a full customized re-install using a
set of requirements that guaranteed they'd have to do things like
customer partitioning, custom package selection and some service and
user configuration, and basic admin stuff like user quotas and such
which I had a python script hat could check each step for accuracy.

Exam day was always fun :)