On Mar 28, 8:32 am, mark mcclure <[email protected]> wrote: > Having read the documentation on the > server_pool option, I see that it "specifies that worksheet processes > run as a separate user". I'm a bit unclear on exactly what that's > supposed to mean but it makes me wonder what might happen if a large > number of people log on?
OK, searching around a bit more in the newsgroups, I find that the server_pool option is required to really run the notebook securely. Evidently, an option of the form server_pool=['[email protected]'] specifies the user name that the worksheets run under. I *think* that otherwise, every user runs with the same permissions as the user who started notebook. In my case, I am not a privileged user on the system so that might not be a problem for the system, but it is still a problem for the Sage notebook. In order to use the server_pool option, you must create and account (or accounts) that requires no password, i.e. the command 'ssh [email protected]' should run with no password. I don't have the ability to do this so I'd have to ask our sys admin. I wonder if he would have any reason to balk at that? Mark -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
