The token is a security measure so no other (local) user can run arbitrary code in your notebook. It is printed during startup (see below). Usually, jupyter will launch its own browser so the token is used automatically...
$ sage -n ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ SageMath version 8.0.beta2, Release Date: 2017-04-12 │ │ Type "notebook()" for the browser-based notebook interface. │ │ Type "help()" for help. │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┃ Warning: this is a prerelease version, and it may be unstable. ┃ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ Please wait while the SageNB export server starts... [W 16:07:47.160 NotebookApp] server_extensions is deprecated, use nbserver_extensions [I 16:07:47.165 NotebookApp] Using MathJax: nbextensions/mathjax/MathJax.js [I 16:07:47.197 NotebookApp] Writing notebook server cookie secret to /run/user/1006/jupyter/notebook_cookie_secret [I 16:07:48.266 NotebookApp] Serving notebooks from local directory: /mnt/disk/home/release/Sage [I 16:07:48.266 NotebookApp] 0 active kernels [I 16:07:48.266 NotebookApp] The Jupyter Notebook is running at: http://localhost:8888/?token=4b2b23550be648f42c955b4dfe2f8ab6890553699fb8b386 [I 16:07:48.266 NotebookApp] Use Control-C to stop this server and shut down all kernels (twice to skip confirmation). [C 16:07:48.267 NotebookApp] Copy/paste this URL into your browser when you connect for the first time, to login with a token: http://localhost:8888/?token=4b2b23550be648f42c955b4dfe2f8ab6890553699fb8b386 On Tuesday, April 11, 2017 at 10:43:59 PM UTC+2, dimpase wrote: > > it does not work for me, or at least I must be doing something wrong. > I get to the page listing the notebooks to convert, and then, if I click > on a notebook, I get a weird page asking for a password or a token. > > Password or token: > Log in > > Token authentication is enabled. You need to open the notebook server with > its first-time login token in the URL, or enable a password in order to > gain access. The command: > > jupyter notebook list > > will show you the URLs of running servers with their tokens, which you can > copy and paste into your browser. For example: > > Currently running servers:http://localhost:8888/?token=c8de56fa... :: > /Users/you/notebooks > > Or you can paste just the token value into the password field on this page. > > Cookies are required for authenticated access to notebooks. > > > > What I see above doesn't look as a valid URL, and then WTF is the token I > can paste instead? > > I tried c8de56fa, it didn't work. I tried clicking on the URL, it brings > me back to the page to choose > > the notebooks... > > Arrgh... Give me my console any time... > > > > > > On Tuesday, April 11, 2017 at 3:04:42 PM UTC+1, kcrisman wrote: >> >> This is now default in the Sage 8.0 beta series, and we strongly welcome >> testers! For a limited time only I have posted a binary of the app bundle >> at >> >> >> http://www.math.gordon.edu/~kcrisman/sage-8.0.beta0-OSX_10.11.6-x86_64.app.dmg >> >> This should work on both Mac 10.11 and 10.12. For bandwidth reasons I >> would prefer if those with the ability simply upgrade and build from >> scratch, but testing this app is also necessary. >> >> PLEASE TRY THIS and report back if you are at all interested in making >> sure that Sage 8.0 doesn't come with nasty surprises for long-time sagenb >> users. Preliminary testing makes it seem as if we are okay, but it would >> be very helpful to have feedback about better/more informative messages for >> end users. >> >> Note if you haven't downloaded a new one for a while: because it will >> first have to patch some names to make sure all paths are correct, the >> first launch will take a LONG time. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
