On Feb 12, 2008, at 1:44 AM, bill purvis wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Robert Bradshaw wrote: >> On Feb 10, 2008, at 6:15 PM, William Stein wrote: >>> On Feb 10, 2008 5:56 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> 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. >>> >>> Alternatively, the admin password gets set the first time anybody >>> every tries to connect >>> to the notebook server (like in wordpress, for example). >> >> This sounds like the most sane idea--if a password is not set then >> the user would have the option of creating one. In addition, the >> notebook now starts up logged in, so a password isn't even needed >> most of the time. >> >> - Robert >> > I'd much prefer it not doing this - I have to log out and log back in > as me, must be my Unix upbringing - never do things as root (admin) > unless > you really need to.
We could change the default login account to be someone other than admin. It feels different than unix admin for me because notebook admin = unix user who started the server. It is more to facilitate the average Sage user who treats Sage not as a web app but as a stand- alone application. - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
