On 2013-06-30 14:42:24 +0200, Szymon Guz wrote:
> On 30 June 2013 14:31, Martijn van Oosterhout <klep...@svana.org> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 02:18:07PM +0200, Szymon Guz wrote:
> > > > python does not any any sort of reliable sandbox, so there is no
> > plpython,
> > > > only plpythonu - hence only one interpreter per backend is needed.
> > > >
> > > Is there any track of the discussion that there is no way to make the
> > > sandbox? I managed to create some kind of sandbox, a simple modification
> > > which totally disables importing modules, so I'm just wondering why it
> > > cannot be done.
> >
> > http://wiki.python.org/moin/SandboxedPython
> >
> > This is the thread I was thinking of:
> > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-February/086401.html
> >
> > If you read through it I think you will understand the difficulties.
> >
> thanks for links. I was thinking about something else. In fact we don't
> need full sandbox, I think it would be enough to have safe python, if it
> couldn't import any outside module. Wouldn't be enough?
>
> It seems like the sandbox modules want to limit many external operations,
> I'm thinking about not being able to import any module, even standard ones,
> wouldn't be enough?
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