On Jan 16, 2008 9:18 AM, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In the next release of Sage it won't be necessary to provide a > password at all on startup, so we don't need to set one. Having a
He's talking about the step the very first time one runs the notebook, where it prompts for a password (at the text prompt). Your fix I don't think addresses that. It's in notebook.setup(). Sage doesn't support what he wants yet. We can add something though as soon as somebody suggests a sensible design. > default "common" password would be a security risk (as is running > inotebook, potentially). On a multiuser system using inotebook is stupid. Any other user on the system can trivially login to your notebook server and delete or change any of your files, etc. I use inotebook all the time ON MY LAPTOP, but would never use it on a multiuser system. > Another question is about certificates--for which info is asked the > first time Sage is started up. This could be automated too. Yep. > > On Jan 16, 2008, at 5:59 AM, gri6507 wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > First, to set the context for this thread. I am wrapping up the > > packaging of SAGE in RPM form. One of the things that I am trying to > > do now is to create a simple menu entry (shortcut) so that users can > > easily and conveniently start sage's notebook. > > > > My goal is to have the menu entry be a basic shell script like > > > > #!/bin/sh > > /usr/bin/sage -inotebook & > > sleep 4 > > www-browser localhost:8000 > > > > However, it seems that to do so, regardless of whether the requested > > notebook is secure or not, the user is asked for a password (Admin > > password in the case of the inotebook). And since my shell script > > needs to be backgrounded, the user cannot input the Admin password > > (unless, they know how to foreground and background processes, which I > > can't assume they do). > > > > At the same time, it seems like starting inotebook only asks for the > > Admin password once and, once its set, it does not need to be set > > again. So, at least in theory, I should be able to set the Admin > > password during the RPM installation. Which brings me to my question. > > Is there a way to programatically input the Admin password from the > > command line (something like sage -c password=blahblah)? If not, then > > I have to jump through some hoops to be able to set the password > > initially. > > > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
