Much Thanks to all who have replied, both on & off list. Giving the students
root access & imaging their workstation drives is by far the most popular
answer, and is the way we will proceed. Now for one more question, any
suggestions for a good open source disk imaging package? I've identified
several possible choices, but have not had time to evaluate them yet:

CloneIt - http://www.ferzkopp.net/Software/CloneIt/index.html

G4U - http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/

Partition Image - http://www.partimage.org/

WebClone - http://sourceforge.net/projects/webclone/

Again, any comments/recommendations will be greatly appreciated. Please
answer off list, unless others express interest in this matter.

Coral

-----Original Message-----
From: Coral J. Cook [mailto:cjcooknosc.mil]
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 1:16 PM
To: pen-testsecurityfocus.com
Subject: Training Lab Question

This may be a bit off-topic, but I'd like some feedback on the following
issue:

I'm in the process of setting up a Pen Testing training lab. The lab
consists of a network of target hosts and a network of attack hosts (student
workstations). The student workstations running Slackware 8.x (current).

Here's my question? What is the best/safest way to allow the students to run
the tools (mostly nmap and various sniffers) that need root privileges for
full functionality? Should I just make those tools suid root or should I use
sudo? Are there any other alternatives? Thanks in advance.

Coral

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