One more thing I just noticed. When I run notebook(...) to start up the notebook server, the last line displayed is
https://selmer.warwick.ac.uk:8000/?startup_token=634498ad5f3559f3b0121beeb6e0beb8: No such file or directory and this may be a clue to the problem. On 19 Aug, 15:10, John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> wrote: > Progress report. > > After succesfully logging into my own notebook as admin, I started to > set up a few user accounts. I followed the instructions in the > notebook? docstring: > > accounts -- (default: False) if True, any visitor to > the > website will be able to create a new > account. If > False, only the admin can create accounts > (currently, this can only be done by > running with > accounts=True for a few minutes, or on > the command > line with, e.g., > nb = load('./sage/sage_notebook/ > nb.sobj') > nb.set_accounts(True) > nb.add_user("username", "password", > "em...@place", "user") > nb.save() > > [Note that the path to sage_notebook/nb.sobj may be different than > given above.] > > Specifically I did > nb = load('nb.sobj') > nb.set_accounts(True) > nb.add_user("john", "xxxxxx", "john.crem...@gmail.com", "user") > nb.save() > > and then restarted the notebook(). Now I could not login as john, nor > as admin. Reloading the nb,sobj and doing nb.usernames() showed only > 'admin', so the extra username was not saved. And admin logins do not > work now either. (I just get a whilte screen with nothing in it at all > after pressing the "sign in" button, while the tab shows "Error | > Sage ...] > > Am I doing something stupid? > > John > For example, > On 18 Aug, 05:51, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > Ah, OK, thanks for clearing that up. > > > Bill. > > > On Aug 17, 7:04 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Bill Hart<goodwillh...@googlemail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > It's ubuntu and we can open the port as we have root access (assuming > > > > John is talking about the same machine - which I am pretty sure he > > > > is). > > > > > How secure is the notebook server these days. Is it still advised to > > > > set it up in a chroot jail (see my other post about problems I had > > > > doing that). > > > > That was *only* for a public notebook server. If you're using > > > secure=True and accounts=False, so only people with existing accounts > > > can us the notebook server, there is no reason to use a chroot. > > > > Moreover, the standard wisdom in security is that it is in fact never > > > ever in any case ever a good idea to use a chroot for security > > > purposes. Thus one should never do that for the Sage notebook. The > > > only acceptable thing for a public server is to use a virtual machine > > > (say virtualbox or vmware). > > > > William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
