>   Greetings from Texas A&M. Hope you're doing well.

>    I'm trying to convince my local computer gurus to install Sage,
> but am having some trouble
> with some settings that I know very little about: one sysadmin
> complains that Sage has not
> implemented ldap. The other (who's e-mail I've appended below)
> complains that, for security
> reasons, he does not want to allow the notebook() interface to run.

>   In the interest of getting Sage running in our department (and for
> the sake of some summer
> students I'll be teaching) could you please tell me how to disable the
> notebook interface and just use
> the command line?

>   I look forward to hearing from you soon.

> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:23 AM, J. Maurice Rojas
> <jmauricero...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear William,

> >   Greetings from Texas A&M. Hope you're doing well.

> >    I'm trying to convince my local computer gurus to install Sage,
> > but am having some trouble
> > with some settings that I know very little about: one sysadmin
> > complains that Sage has not
> > implemented ldap. The other (who's e-mail I've appended below)
> > complains that, for security
> > reasons, he does not want to allow the notebook() interface to run.

> >   In the interest of getting Sage running in our department (and for
> > the sake of some summer
> > students I'll be teaching) could you please tell me how to disable the
> > notebook interface and just use
> > the command line?

> >   I look forward to hearing from you soon.

> In the file sage-5.0/devel/sagenb-main/sagenb/notebook/notebook_object.py
> change

>     def __call__(self, *args, **kwds):   # line 216
>         return self.notebook(*args, **kwds)

> to

>     def __call__(self, *args, **kwds):
>         raise RuntimeError("banned")
>         return self.notebook(*args, **kwds)

> LDAP support is implemented here:
> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/11501

> On Thursday, May 24, 2012 4:47:40 AM UTC+8, William Stein wrote:

>> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:23 AM, J. Maurice Rojas
>>  wrote:
>> > Dear William,

>> >   Greetings from Texas A&M. Hope you're doing well.

>> >    I'm trying to convince my local computer gurus to install Sage,
>> > but am having some trouble
>> > with some settings that I know very little about: one sysadmin
>> > complains that Sage has not
>> > implemented ldap. The other (who's e-mail I've appended below)
>> > complains that, for security
>> > reasons, he does not want to allow the notebook() interface to run.

>> >   In the interest of getting Sage running in our department (and for
>> > the sake of some summer
>> > students I'll be teaching) could you please tell me how to disable the
>> > notebook interface and just use
>> > the command line?

>> >   I look forward to hearing from you soon.

>> In the file sage-5.0/devel/sagenb-main/sagenb/notebook/notebook_object.py
>> change

>>     def __call__(self, *args, **kwds):   # line 216
>>         return self.notebook(*args, **kwds)

>> to

>>     def __call__(self, *args, **kwds):
>>         raise RuntimeError("banned")
>>         return self.notebook(*args, **kwds)