On Monday 14 January 2008, William Stein wrote:
> On 1/13/08, bill.p <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...
> Just out of curiosity, for your purposes would it be OK for you to
> just make the accounts manually through the notebook interface?
> I.e., just do
> sage: notebook(accounts=True)
> then click the "Create a new account" button, make each account,
> and that's it. Or do you really have to automatically script making
> the new accounts? I ask, because I don't think anybody has really
> actually ever done the latter, and it's actually not something we
> have documented or really support doing. However, creating accounts
> through the notebook interface (i.e., via a web browser) is well
> supported.
>
> -- William
>
I wasn't aware of that method! I was thinking in terms of a system
administrator who wanted to keep control over who could login, though
in this case it's only accessible to me!
I think I've figured it out and managed to come up with a method of
getting it to work: I log in as admin, do the above command sequence
then follow up with:
nb.save('.....')
then log out.
Then: make a copy of nb.sobj because closing down the notebook will
rewrite it overwriting the changes I had made, close down the notebook,
then replace nb.sobj with the saved copy. I can then login as bill. :-)
I guess what needs to be done is to have some way to access the same copy
of nb.sobj that the login process is using. I don't understand enough
about how it all works to know if this is possible? I presume that when
the notebook() call is made, the file is read in and that data structure
gets updated when the 'Create a new user' button is clicked, then it
gets written back when the notebook closes down.
Is this something worthwhile pursuing? I'll have a dig around and see
what I can figure out....
Bill
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