On Friday, December 5, 2014 11:32:34 AM UTC-5, kcrisman wrote: > > When I run sage as admin, everything works fine. However, when my users >> try to run Sage, they get a warning that they are trying to execute Sage >> from a read-only filesystem. >> >> > This was implemented in http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/15732 because > Sage needs to write to some files in .sage, I believe. So it is really > raising a better error message than before, but I don't think Sage will > work if they do not have write permission *somewhere*. Someone can > elaborate if that is not quite correct. >
They do have access in their own home directory, under ~/.sage, but not in /Applications/Sage.app. > > >> My question is : >> >> It it safe to execute Sage.app if it's installed by the admin? If so, how >> do I suppress the warning? If not, what can I do? I can't really start >> installing a the whole Sage in each of my users personal space.... >> > > Another possibility is to use a snapshot image for each desktop or > something - that is what some admins I know do, though I confess I do not > know how that works. Maybe your situation is not a lab. > I'm not sure I understand what you are suggesting here. I do have a lab, so it might interest me. -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
