[sage-support] Re: Running Sage.app installed by another user

2014-12-08 Thread kcrisman
> > If they hit continue, does Sage work as expected? >> > > As far as I can tell, yes. The permissions of DOT_SAGE and the notebook > are initialized and the user is asked for a password. > Oh, so it works? Then yes, it is safe. That really was just to warn against the situation Ivan descri

[sage-support] Re: Running Sage.app installed by another user

2014-12-08 Thread Jérôme Tremblay
> If they hit continue, does Sage work as expected? > As far as I can tell, yes. The permissions of DOT_SAGE and the notebook are initialized and the user is asked for a password. > This was implemented in http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/15732 because >> Sage needs to write to some files in

[sage-support] Re: Running Sage.app installed by another user

2014-12-05 Thread kcrisman
>> 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 i

[sage-support] Re: Running Sage.app installed by another user

2014-12-05 Thread Ivan Andrus
On Dec 5, 2014, at 9:36 AM, Jérôme Tremblay wrote: 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.

[sage-support] Re: Running Sage.app installed by another user

2014-12-05 Thread Jérôme Tremblay
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.sage

[sage-support] Re: Running Sage.app installed by another user

2014-12-05 Thread kcrisman
> > 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 .s