Also, I wasn't talking about SQL permissions, you need to lock down the windows machine, limit administrative access, make sure that no one has permissions to the machine unless they need it
Not going to be possible as the machines are shared and serve multiple uses. If I could encourage a separate machine I would.
You're not doing some 'copy data files and attach to a local instance' trick are you?
Not to my foreknowledge but I may actually be trying to do a trick niavely as my intent to locate the mdf/ldf files at My Documents > My Data is to try to ensure the files get backed up. I was thinking if there was a problem they could easily be restored using an Attach.