>>> How do we want the Sage LiveCD that you have in mind to work? >>> When you start it, does it just start a notebook server? I'm curious >>> what functionality you have in mind exactly that involves autostarting >>> the notebook. Thanks. >> >> :-), well actually the first version we did (longggggggggg time ago) was >> the idea of a livecd with not graphical environment and have the notebook >> start at boot time. The idea I think was that you can put it in a lab and >> have >> everybody access it from there. That was in Sage 1.4.1 (yeah I know :-) for >> Sage Days 2 or 3 not sure. > > If that's the idea you could start the notebook with this option: > > sage: notebook(accounts=True) > > Then each user can create their own account on the notebook. > > Before you ship the livecd, set the default admin password to something > completely random that you generate and throw away immediately. > I guess that would give you a secret back door to everybody's live cd's > if you don't throw it away (and doesn't if you do). > > It would be much better to having the default admin password generated > randomly on startup. This could be done by changing Sage slightly.
This might be a catastrophically stupid idea, but perhaps not: Does the admin currently have any special privileges? If yes, and the administrator needs these privileges, perhaps it would be useful to change the password on startup, and print it out. It would (I think) be inaccessible from the users, but still accessible to whoever has physical access to the box. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
