Re: [sage-devel] Re: Notebooks from admin viewpoint

2016-01-11 Thread Jori Mäntysalo
On Sun, 10 Jan 2016, Nils Bruin wrote: I would argue the opposite, making local accounts is exactly what you usually do to let users run their own programs (i.e. execute arbitrary code).  I would agree with that. However, one would also expect that a notebook server that can manage accounts

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Notebooks from admin viewpoint

2016-01-10 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Sunday, 10 January 2016 10:21:34 UTC, Volker Braun wrote: > > On Sunday, January 10, 2016 at 8:59:01 AM UTC+1, Jori Mäntysalo wrote: >> >> So for multi-user server the admin must make local accounts. This is >> contrary to all normal systems. > > > I would argue the opposite, making local a

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Notebooks from admin viewpoint

2016-01-10 Thread Nils Bruin
On Sunday, January 10, 2016 at 2:21:34 AM UTC-8, Volker Braun wrote: > > I would argue the opposite, making local accounts is exactly what you > usually do to let users run their own programs (i.e. execute arbitrary > code). > I would agree with that. However, one would also expect that a note

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Notebooks from admin viewpoint

2016-01-10 Thread Volker Braun
On Sunday, January 10, 2016 at 8:59:01 AM UTC+1, Jori Mäntysalo wrote: > > So for multi-user server the admin must make local accounts. This is > contrary to all normal systems. I would argue the opposite, making local accounts is exactly what you usually do to let users run their own programs

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Notebooks from admin viewpoint

2016-01-09 Thread Jori Mäntysalo
On Sat, 9 Jan 2016, William Stein wrote: SMC has extensive support for this sort of thing with a graphical interface for configuration... You can control numerous Linux cgroups parameters, quota, etc. Good. This answers to my "hidden" question: Has someone thinked about those things. On Sa

[sage-devel] Re: Notebooks from admin viewpoint

2016-01-09 Thread Volker Braun
Which notebook? * SMC runs in the cloud, no admin needed (sorry ;-) * Jupyterhub uses normal unix users for permissions and resource limits * tmpnb uses docker, so containers provide security and resource limits On Saturday, January 9, 2016 at 8:31:34 AM UTC+1, Jori Mäntysalo wrote: > > I a