On 10/28/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think the sage server should just have some specific number of limited > > permission sagexxx accounts, e.g., 1000 of them, and then as new users > > are created map them to one of those accounts. There will be a hard > > limit on the total number of users, of course. I'm basically > > envisioning a pre-made chroot and a pre-made vmware image, each which > > has those > > 1000 (or 10000) user accounts pre-created. > > That's no better than having a server pool.
Yes it is. > If a bot makes as many web accounts as you have So make it so bots can't make accounts. That's a very very standard thing to implement these days. > user accounts, then they can kill just about any > other worksheet process, with pretty high > probability -- same problem as having a pool; it > just raises the bar a little bit. You are totally wrong. A bot with 1000 user accounts has no greater chance to kill another worksheet process, etc. with high probability than a bot with 1 user account. I don't understand what you're thinking. -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
