On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 20:50 Nicholas H.Tollervey <ntoll@ntoll.org> wrote:

On 22/09/15 17:46, Dave Ames wrote:
> I would suspect that (rightly or wrongly) most school network
> technicians would be extremely wary of giving students access to a
> system shell of any kind.
>

Then most school network technicians are fools and should not have ANY
input in such decisions.

NOTE: I'm highly biased about this. ;-)

N.

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Absolutely no disagreement from me there. If they've configured everything correctly then access to the command line for students, should present absolutely no threat to the network. But!

The default state is "no command line", even though access to Python/Idle probably gives them at least the same level (if not more) of danger.

Dave