On 7/24/07, Justin C. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Would calling the account "admin" instead of "root" be helpful? > > Basically an account with such privileges should probably exist, > > and it needs to be called something. > > I feel fairly strongly that there is sufficient history with the term > 'root' that we should avoid it. I felt really uncomfortable > continuing when asked to create a new password for the 'root' > account. That is a heavy-weight concept. > > 'Admin' or 'NBAdmin' or something on that order would be fine. I > certainly agree that such an account and the concept in general > should be there.
Sounds good. How about something like this the first time you start the notebook: Please wait while the SAGE Notebook server starts... ... This it the first time you have started the SAGE notebook. Please choose a username for the notebook administrator account: l33tg0d <--- user types this Setting password for the root user. Enter new password: xxx Retype new password: xxx Creating default users. User l33tg0d created with the password you specified. If you forget the administrator password type notebook(reset=True). ************************************************** * * * Open your web browser to http://localhost:8000 * * * ************************************************** 2007/07/24 22:00 -0700 [-] Log opened. 2007/07/24 22:00 -0700 [-] twistd 2.5.0 (/Users/was/s/local/bin/python 2.5.1) starting up --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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-forum URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
