Subject: howto - running maxima as a server on *nix
From: Benjamin Vanheuverzwijn
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:34:13 -0400
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Leo Butler <l.butler at ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> < 2) configure the maxima service
> < add "maxima 12345/tcp # maxima" to /etc/services
> < create the file "/etc/xinetd.d/maxima" with the content:
> < service maxima
> < {
> < socket_type = stream
> < wait = no
> < user = root
> < server = /usr/bin/maxima
> < server_args = --quiet
> < }
>
> I'm not sure you want to run maxima as root. You've created a big
> security hole, since maxima can spawn a shell with root privileges.
>
Good point, i forgot to specify this.
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