I now can connect to that sage server (running on ubuntu, by the way, and administered by Bill Hart and myself) but this is from another machine on the university network so I'll have to try form home too.
I started the server using exactly notebook (address="selmer.warwick.ac.uk", port=8000, secure=True) (we now have a proper name for the machine!) Now I need to see how to create other accounts. thanks for people's help! John On 17 Aug, 19:04, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Bill Hart<goodwillh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > It's ubuntu and we can open the port as we have root access (assuming > > John is talking about the same machine - which I am pretty sure he > > is). > > > How secure is the notebook server these days. Is it still advised to > > set it up in a chroot jail (see my other post about problems I had > > doing that). > > That was *only* for a public notebook server. If you're using > secure=True and accounts=False, so only people with existing accounts > can us the notebook server, there is no reason to use a chroot. > > Moreover, the standard wisdom in security is that it is in fact never > ever in any case ever a good idea to use a chroot for security > purposes. Thus one should never do that for the Sage notebook. The > only acceptable thing for a public server is to use a virtual machine > (say virtualbox or vmware). > > William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
