[sage-devel] Re: Fun Things to do with a Sage Notebook

2007-10-28 Thread TrixB4Kidz
Just out of curiosity are you listing options like the above since you want somebody to implement them, or are you listing them because you want to implement one of them, and you want feedback before you choose the one that you want to implement? I'd be willing to implement this

[sage-devel] Re: Fun Things to do with a Sage Notebook

2007-10-28 Thread William Stein
On 10/28/07, TrixB4Kidz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of curiosity are you listing options like the above since you want somebody to implement them, or are you listing them because you want to implement one of them, and you want feedback before you choose the one that you want to

[sage-devel] Re: Fun Things to do with a Sage Notebook

2007-10-28 Thread boothby
I think the sage server should just have some specific number of limited permission sagexxx accounts, e.g., 1000 of them, and then as new users are created map them to one of those accounts. There will be a hard limit on the total number of users, of course. I'm basically envisioning a

[sage-devel] Re: Fun Things to do with a Sage Notebook

2007-10-28 Thread William Stein
On 10/28/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the sage server should just have some specific number of limited permission sagexxx accounts, e.g., 1000 of them, and then as new users are created map them to one of those accounts. There will be a hard limit on the total

[sage-devel] Re: Fun Things to do with a Sage Notebook

2007-10-28 Thread boothby
You are totally wrong. A bot with 1000 user accounts has no greater chance to kill another worksheet process, etc. with high probability than a bot with 1 user account. I don't understand what you're thinking. If there are 1000 user accounts, and a bot has 1000 web accounts, then either

[sage-devel] Re: Fun Things to do with a Sage Notebook

2007-10-28 Thread William Stein
On 10/28/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are totally wrong. A bot with 1000 user accounts has no greater chance to kill another worksheet process, etc. with high probability than a bot with 1 user account. I don't understand what you're thinking. If there are 1000

[sage-devel] Re: Fun Things to do with a Sage Notebook

2007-10-27 Thread mabshoff
On Oct 27, 8:13 pm, TrixB4Kidz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Brian, Here are a few fun things that anyone can do with a public Sage Notebook: 1. Use the Sage server as remote file storage. Take your pick between ftp, cvs, subversion, or even brew your own protocol. 2. Host your own

[sage-devel] Re: Fun Things to do with a Sage Notebook

2007-10-27 Thread William Stein
On 10/27/07, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 27, 8:13 pm, TrixB4Kidz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My point: there really is no reason to root a Sage box because it already provides for many other opportunities. While rooting the box may allow you to get around the ulimit or quotas,

[sage-devel] Re: Fun Things to do with a Sage Notebook

2007-10-27 Thread Jonathan Bober
On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 17:03 -0500, William Stein wrote: I think the public free Sage notebook should be configured so that the sageXX accounts cannot open sockets to the outside world. Period. If I knew how to configure this in 30 minutes, I would have done it already. I think that this

[sage-devel] Re: Fun Things to do with a Sage Notebook

2007-10-27 Thread TrixB4Kidz
I think the public free Sage notebook should be configured so that the sageXX accounts cannot open sockets to the outside world. Period. If I knew how to configure this in 30 minutes, I would have done it already. Once we nail down a reasonably secure public sage notebook configuration,