I tried the option server_pool. As I understand, sage can connect to
other machines to run worksheets on them (to use their resources). I
would like to run worksheets under different users depending on the
owner of the worksheet, and in home directories.
Peter
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Robert
Bradshaw<rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote:
>
> 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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