On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Byungchul Cha <cha3...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I am trying to set up a sage server for my students' use. Several
> previous posts I've seen seem to suggest:
>
> 1. Create an account, say "server", in the machine I'm running sage
> notebook. Create another (more more) accounts, say "worker", (or
> "worker1", "worker2", etc,.).
> 2. Set up ssh keys so that "server" can ssh in to "worker" without
> password.
> 3. Run an instance of notebook from the account "server", but let the
> "worker" account run the worksheet process by using the 'server_pool'
> option.
> 4. Don't forget to run the server securely by choosing the option
> 'secure=True'.
>
> I want to make sure that I get these steps right and these
> recommendations are still good.
>
> I am not so well versed in Linux, so, I will probably need help from
> my local IT people to carry out these steps, but, before I contact
> him, I wanted to make sure that the above steps are roughly what need
> to be done.
>
> I have sage installed in a virtual machine (open SUSE), and I don't
> plan to do anything else in that machine other than running sage for
> my students. Also, I will keep the account creation off
> ('accounts=False'), except for one day I take my students to our
> computer lab when they create their accounts. However, we opened
> several ports of the machine to the outside, so that people with
> accounts can log in to use their notebooks from off campus (mostly for
> me and a few off campus students).
>
> Please comment if these sound like a reasonable way to run sage for my
> situation. Thanks.Yes, it sounds completely right to me. Let us know if the above steps lead you to any trouble. And if they work, we should clearly add them as a summary to some documentation somewhere. William
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