[ale] Why a sysadmin might fear a LiveCD [was: Re: venting about an old sysadmin - WAS: Using OS X as a thinclient]

[brian at polibyte.com (Brian Pitts)]

Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> If that's the case, then the sysadmins have already screwed up because 
> they made the machines such that a user can boot them to a CD.  They'd 
> better have taken the same precaution with floppy drives and USB ports 
> and I hope they keylocked their cases. 

Or if you have Mac or Linux systems, that they can't be brought up in 
single-user mode without a password. At an unnamed former employer, the 
desktop admins flipped when they discovered apple-s.

-Brian