On Jul 22, 2009, at 8:39 AM, Minh Nguyen wrote:
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Peter<morape...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Sage Developers!
>>
>>
>> We would like to set up a Sage Notebook server for the students,
>> in a
>> secure way. How can we do that?
>>
>> For example if on www.sagenb.org I write
>>
>> {{{
>> %sh
>> cat /home/sage/sagenb/sage_notebook/worksheets/any_user_name/0/
>> worksheet.txt
>> }}}
>>
>> then I can see the content of other users' first worksheets. I didn't
>> try it, but I'm sure I could do damage by deleting files or stoping
>> processes (whoami says that I'm user 'worksheet', I assume like
>> everbody else is).
>>
>> I think it would be fine if we could associate logins with linux
>> logins, so every user would run codes under his/her own account. This
>> would not allow users to delete other users' files.
>>
>> If every user starts his/her own Sage server with notebook(), then
>> it's a waste of memory, they get and error about using the same port
>> (they should choose a port at random), and they couldn't share
>> worksheets with each others, etc. I think that's not a solution.
>>
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> Try this from the Sage command line:
>
> sage: notebook(secure=True)
That's won't help at all for this. What you want to look into is
server pools. See the docstring for notebook().
- Robert
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