On Jun 29, 9:00 am, Jason Grout <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/29/11 2:11 AM, Rolf wrote: > > > This is very strange. > > > There is something hidden in Seberino's worksheets that prevents them > > from being executed automatically. > > First I thought it is the comment added above the first cell. But his > > new example demonstrates that this is obvious not core of the problem. > > Both his example woksheets don't work on my system either, but if I > > transfer all that is visible to a new worksheets the code works > > perfectly. > > > Unfortunately, it is impossible to debug a worksheet or to read it > > 'manually' as a text file. > > > I wonder if it is possible to send viruses by worksheets? > > I'm sure this is possible. For example, it would be trivial to write a > worksheet that does 'rm -rf $HOME' inside an autoexecute cell. If that > worksheet was downloaded and opened on a user's local computer, it would > be very bad. >
But wouldn't that ordinarily require a sudo and password? I mean under permissions that 'most' people have. Now you have me wary of downloading worksheets... - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
