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Configuring the Team Firewall
One thing that needs to be done during the programming contest is restrict teams from accessing the network. We run DOMjudge on the internet however so we can’t just cut the team workstations off entirely. We also need some network access for teams to be able to print.
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Optimizing for USB Drives
We borrow hardware from various places on campus for our programming contest every year. For a few years we used to wipe the machines, install our contest environment, and then re-image them back to how they were when we were done. Aside from being destructive to the data on the machines it is quite time consuming.
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DOMjudge Automatic Login
Our contest runs on DOMjudge and uses php session based authentication. We have to do this because we run multi-site and can’t use anything like IP based logins or something like that. A pain point we’ve had in the past is that we can’t give out the credentials to the teams otherwise there would be potential for them to share their login with someone else.
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