On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Philippe Saade <psa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi > > I have the pleasure to work in an office close to that of Thierry and > we talked about the interest of using Kerberos as an authentication > mechanism at our University. > > Wouldn't it be nice for Sage to be "Kerberised" so people could very > easily use a Kerberos server or an Active Directory Server for the > authentication part ? > > (Of course, it does not give as much information as an LDAP server > (UID, GID, etc....) but is much more secure over the Internet, just > because it was designed so in the very first place...) > > What's your opinion on that point ? >
I can't think of any drawback to a good implementation of this... so implement it and post a patch! William > Best regards > Philippe Saadé > > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:13 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 3:14 AM, Tim Joseph Dumol <t...@timdumol.com> wrote: >>> Hey, >>> >>> Are you making the changing the right files? The new sagenb should be in >>> /opt/sage-bin/local/lib/python/site-packages/sagenb, although development on >>> sagenb should be done by downloading and extracting latest spkg at >>> http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wstein/patches/sagenb/ and editing the >>> src/ folder. Further updates are done through `sage -hg pull` at the src/ >>> folder. To install the changes, just run `sage -python setup.py install` at >>> `<pkg_root>/src` and restarting sage. >> >> +1 that's exactly right. >> >> Also, I think absolutely nothing related to authentication has been >> changed in the new notebook. So I bet your LDAP code will be easy to >> adapt to it. >> >> Is it posted a patch needed review somewhere, by the way? It might be >> nice just to include it in sagenb. >> >> William >> >>> > > > > -- 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
