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I supervise the use of a 'community' desktop computer and I would like to allow the use of the desktop via an external drive to a specific individual.
How do I secure the internal hard drive so that no access is possible while using the external drive? Primarily I want to avoid accidental modification of the hard drive.
The desktop runs Vista. The external drive runs Ubuntu.
1either of these methods would prevent any access to the data on the drive, but neither will prevent access to the drive itself. meaning without further measures, overwriting the drive with, say, new partitions and filesystems is not prevented. – quack quixote – 2010-06-19T21:14:07.403
That is a very good point. I can't think of any technological solution which would prevent that though, other than setting a hard drive password (which some computers support), thus requiring that you put in the password in order to boot the computer regularly, which would be a pain. Given that the user needs physical access to the machine, and that physical access means they could destroy things if they really wanted, there isn't any perfect solution. If he's looking to avoid accidental modification, this would likely suffice. Malicious actions weren't of concern in the original post. – nhinkle – 2010-06-22T00:05:32.967