On 7 June 2013 18:18, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Ursula Whitcher <whitc...@uwec.edu> wrote: >> Short version of my question: >> >> What is supposed to happen when different users simultaneously invoke ./sage >> -notebook for the same installation of Sage? >> >> Long version: >> >> I have a small research group this summer, consisting of myself and two >> undergraduate students. We don't need to engage in full-on development of >> Sage (yet?) but we would like to use some packages which aren't included in >> the standard build of Sage. Our campus is primarily a Windows campus, but I >> have scrounged accounts for us on a research cluster running CentOS. This >> is not my system, and in particular I'm pretty sure I can't turn it into a >> full-fledged notebook server. >> >> I installed Sage in my personal directory, and set the permissions so that >> the two other members of my research group can also run my copy of Sage. I >> ran ./sage -notebook , and created an admin account and a personal account >> on that version of the notebook. >> >> Meanwhile, one of my students logged in, also ran ./sage -notebook , and was >> prompted to create his own admin account. He did so, but although he was >> able to see the notebook, the admin password didn't work. He tried >> resetting the admin password, but still was not able to log in. I was able >> to load his version of the notebook and test my own admin password, which >> also didn't work. >> >> This all leads to two questions, at different levels of complexity: >> >> 1) Any idea what is going wrong with my student's admin password? What >> trouble-shooting steps should we try? >> >> 2) Is there a way to ensure that every invocation of ./sage -notebook yields >> the *same* notebook server, so that we could just create one admin account >> and three user accounts? > > No. > >> Or would that only work if I left my version of >> the notebook running? > > Yes. > >> (This seems as if it could create a security breach, >> but maybe I am fretting unnecessarily, or there are extra layers of security >> we could apply.) > > Yes, it would. > > By the way, I'm curious what features are missing from > https://cloud.sagemath.com that you might need for it to work for your > project? For example, what extra packages would you need, > documentation, etc.? Too many bugs (if so, which ones, so I can fix > them)? Is the network connection too slow? Not enough disk space? > Compute servers are too slow? > > Last night I rolled out a feature so multiple people can collaborate > on worksheets, files, terminals, etc. in the same project (=a Linux > account on a VM) simultaneously, which could be useful for > collaborative projects.
Is there some documentation for SMC? I created an account and a project but have no idea what to do in or with it! John > > Also, you can download and install your own copy of Sage into a > project on cloud.sagemath, and even switch to using that copy of Sage > for worksheets. > > William > >> >> UAW >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sage-support" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > > > -- > William Stein > Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.org > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-support" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
