osx lab (Score 1)

I would go with the student/admin account it is easy to administrate. first I would start with a clean OSX install. then I would install all the software you plan on using includeing an office suite (free or otherwise) next I would make 2 user accounts Admin and Student Now if you are going to hand control of the admin acount over to someone else i would also set a password for the root account incase you need to help administrate this box at a latter time. You can do this by login as admin macHD->applications->utilities->terminal then type "sudo su -" enter your admin password passwd root set root password Useing the admin account you can turn off access to other applications/etc for the student account. System preferences select "Acounts" from the System section select the Student account and then the limitaions tab This will allow you to control that accounts access to applications/etc on the box Once you have the Student account setup the way you want. Fire up terminal agian (see above for location) Now that this is done we want to save the Student account in a safe place so we can "clean it" upon reboot. This way every time the Student logs in they will be presented with a clean account and one wont have to worry about the last user... first (we need to be root to do the following) sudo su - enter admin account password now we make a directory to store the backup stuff mkdir /lib/Managment/student next we copy the account (in a manner that preserves mac specific files) ditto -rsrcFork /User/Student /lib/Managment/student Now that this is done we lastly need to setup the mac to replace the student account everytime someone logs in that way it is effecivly cleaned from the previous user. This keeps wasted space/etc down on the hard drive and provides some protection agianst a malicious user sitting down after a normal person leaves. we need to setup a "Login Hook" that resets the account good info on it is here: http://www.bombich.com/mactips/loginhooks.html but also here is what you do. write a small shell script like: #!/bin/tcsh -f #backing up old student user rm -rf /User/student /usr/bin/ditto -rsrcFork /lib/Managment/student /User/student exit 0 then set the loginhook sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow preference script_above