Re: octave on server

[LUK ShunTim]

address@hidden wrote:

> Actually the web interface is necessary, and I can't give ssh accounts.
> The inteded users are students of a university course, and I want them
> to view the result of some simulations, but they don't really have the
> need to know what program processes their datas. I think a web interface
> can be the easiest way for them to see these simulations, as it doesn't
> require them to learn any math program.
> My question was something like what you've said in b) point: I can't use
> commands like system(), exec(), shell_exec() on Php page, so I thought
> to use directly octave's libs.
> Paolo

Are you allowed to use some sort of wrapper (suexec, cgiwrap) to 
restrict the execution to some non-privileged user?

There is a web interface to the R statistics package available at 
http://www.math.montana.edu/Rweb/; but I think it runs with a uid same 
as the web server.

Regards,
ST




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