On May 12, 2:52 pm, Jason Grout <[email protected]> wrote:
> kilucas wrote:
> > Marik
>
> > Thanks for the reminder and I had indeed spotted these threads. I'm
> > guessing that I'd run the Sage server under VMWare primarily just to
> > get it to run on Windows and that I'd then get the security benefits
> > as side-effects.
>
> That's correct.
>
> > But these are all guesses which is why I'm very
> > interested to check what I should really be doing in a Windows
> > environment for multi-user access.
>
> Are you running multiple separate notebooks (e.g., one each for
> different sets of users) or are you running just one notebook?

I don't know yet - I'm not advanced enough yet to have thought of the
question - thanks for posing it. I want to play with Sage to
understand what questions arise and I know I can do this on the Sagenb
site or on a standalone, single user copy. But I'd ideally like to
install it as a multi-user facility so that I'm trying out my options
(and any limitations) in that environment.

>How much
> do you trust your users? (e.g., do you expect some to try to break into
> things and use the server to email spam or whatever?)

I don't expect this much because I'd expect to make access available
only to registered users. However, access would be over the Internet
rather than a private network.

One target audience is school (rather than college/university) pupils.
I'd expect them to get lots of things wrong but I think the likelihood
of deliberate damage is low (though not zero).

>
> The easiest way to set up a multi-user server is to just get the vmware
> version of Sage running, start sage, and then use the notebook()
> command.  At the sage prompt, type notebook? to read the help.

This sounda a bit like something I'd do when sitting at the server
rather than when sitting at a remote web browser. Or am I wrong? For
example, I access Sagenb via a browser and hence a URL, rather than
via VMWare (even though I get the impression that Sagenb is
underpinned by VMWare - can't recall where I read that)..

>In particular, you'll probably want to read about the "accounts",
> "address", and "secure" options.

Will do. Many thanks

>
> Jason

Thanks
Kevin
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