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Re: Installing Octave on a web server


From: David Bateman
Subject: Re: Installing Octave on a web server
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:43:37 +0200
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Thomas Weber wrote:
> Am Montag, den 07.07.2008, 14:52 +0200 schrieb Quentin Feyaerts:
>   
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I would like to install Octave on a web server that I rent to a
>> company. Basically, I want to develop a website which needs Octave to
>> be installed on a server to display some Octave's results to the
>> visitors.
>>     
>
> Do you expect visitors to provide any input? In that case, you *must*
> filter those inputs really *strict*. You don't want 
>       system("rm -rf /") 
> to be executed. 
>   
chroot and the user "nobody" are your friends...

Searching through Nabble I found the following possible bits of code
that might help/

http://wnet.isti.cnr.it/software/damatfrc/
http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Octave-Web-GUI-to9214520.html#a9214525

You might also want to look at NetMath that addresses the security
issues by preloading a library that overloads dangereous system calls.
Its at

http://rene.ma.utexas.edu/users/wfs/netmath/demo/demo.html
http://rene.ma.utexas.edu/users/wfs/netmath/netmath.html

and used to support Octave though that support seems to have been
removed recently.

D.

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