2009/9/4 Matt Rissler <discn...@gmail.com>: > > I managed to do a little of this by exporting the directory that the > notebook is running in via NFS to the other machines and maintaining > the same permissions and file structure for everything else. However, > this raised another issue in that not all my machines are of > comparable power. How complicated would it be to add something that > allows you to balance how many processes go to each server? I'm > thinking something along the lines of distcc's host list.
I've added this implementation suggestion here: http://wiki.sagemath.org/SageUsability > > Thanks, > Matt > > On Jul 22, 12:52 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 2009/7/22 Móra Péter <morape...@gmail.com>: >> >> >> >> > 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 >> >> What you want is not implemented. You will either have to implement >> it or wait until somebody else does. I likely will in the next 5 >> months if nobody else does. >> >> server_pool is somewhat close to what you want, since it will run each >> user as a different unix user on the *same* Linux box in a round robin >> fashion. Just make a bunch of unix accounts foo1, foo2, foo3, ... and >> set server pool to ['f...@localhost', 'f...@localhost', ...] >> >> William >> >> >> >> >> >> > 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 onwww.sagenb.orgI 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 >> >> -- >> William Stein >> Associate Professor of Mathematics >> University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
