Ah, OK, thanks for clearing that up. Bill.
On Aug 17, 7:04 pm, 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
