On Jan 14, 2008 1:42 AM, bill purvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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.
If you just use the command line you'll be in much better shape. The problem
with doing any of the above via the notebook itself is that the notebook
should overwrite any changes you make, since it writes out nb.sobj every so
often (in particular, on exit).
> 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.
Don't start the notebook at all, and use the command line for everything.
Once you've modified and save nb.sobj, then use the notebook.
> 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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William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org
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