Hello, The idea is to grant access of remote users to R running on Linux. Users must have ability to run their R scripts but avoid corrupting the operating system. How one can restrict/limit access of remote users to certain R functions? For example, dealing with IO (file system), graphical tools, etc. Thank you. -- Kind regards, Antonio Rodriges
Antonio Rodriges wrote:> > > The idea is to grant access of remote users to R running on Linux. Users > must have ability to run their > R scripts but avoid corrupting the operating system. > >Check RStudio.org Dieter -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Running-R-in-a-sandbox-tp3714716p3715351.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Antonio Rodriges <antonio.rrz at gmail.com> wrote:> Hello, > > The idea is to grant access of remote users to R running on Linux. > Users must have ability to run their > R scripts but avoid corrupting the operating system.Ordinary users can't corrupt the operating system on Linux[1]. The worst they can do is run CPU- and memory-intensive tasks that can slow things down for everyone and conceivably bring the system to a halt, but there are ways of limiting CPU and memory usage per user session. What don't you want them to do? Barry [1] Security holes excepted. But those will be present in any sandbox solution.
On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 11:04 +0300, Antonio Rodriges wrote:> Hello, > > The idea is to grant access of remote users to R running on Linux. > Users must have ability to run their > R scripts but avoid corrupting the operating system. > > How one can restrict/limit access of remote users to certain R > functions? For example, dealing with IO (file system), graphical > tools, etc.We've been here before, IIRC. But I'm too lazy to check the archives - that's your job ;-) Try a search on http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/search.html for relevant terms and make sure you turn on the email lists and off the functions/vignettes.> Thank you.G -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Dr. Gavin Simpson [t] +44 (0)20 7679 0522 ECRC, UCL Geography, [f] +44 (0)20 7679 0565 Pearson Building, [e] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk Gower Street, London [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ UK. WC1E 6BT. [w] http://www.freshwaters.org.uk %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%