I'd like to set up a sage notebook server at my campus. Since this is beyond my expertise, I asked the College IT specialists to handle it. Of course, they are very concerned about vulnerabilities, so they will only allow access from on campus.
We browsed some of the available information and most concerns Ubuntu not OS X. I received the following from Bill Morris, our IT guru. Could anyone answer his questions and validate his understanding of things? Also, please address the overarching issue, which I have seen discussed quite a bit in recent posts: security in setting up a server. Thank you! --------------------- I invested a couple of hours yesterday trying to unwind the "setting up a sage server" question. I think the issues are these: 1. Sage's notebook server is built in to sage ... it is likely the same sort of python based web server as is used in zope. 2. Coupling sage with apache is basically running apache with little more than a proxy to port 8000, the port sage's notebook server runs on. 3. The part of the "how-to" instructions that leave me coldest are the "here is where we create the accounts sage1 ... sageN" on the server and try our best to keep people from exploiting them. They even go as far as talking about filesystem ACLs ... which tells me we don't want to go anywhere near this. So, my question to you, as someone who hopefully understands the desired outcome better than I, is: Does a sage notebook server require interactive logins? I'm thinking, but am not quite sure, that the interactive logins are for students to run sage from a command line, and as long as one creates sufficient accounts in the notebook server itself (not accounts on the host where the notebook server is hosted) the notebook server can exist without interactive logins. Does this correspond with your understanding of sage and the notebook function? -- 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org
