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Re: building an online judge to evaluate Python programs

From John Gordon <gordon@panix.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: building an online judge to evaluate Python programs
Date 2013-09-20 20:08 +0000
Organization PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
Message-ID <l1i9vm$6l0$1@reader1.panix.com> (permalink)
References <mailman.195.1379698177.18130.python-list@python.org>

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In <mailman.195.1379698177.18130.python-list@python.org> Jabba Laci <jabba.laci@gmail.com> writes:

> There are several questions:
> * What is someone sends an infinite loop? There should be a time limit.

You could run the judge as a background process, and kill it after ten
seconds if it hasn't finished.

> * What is someone sends a malicious code? The script should be run in a
> sandbox.

You could run the judge from its own account that doesn't have access to
anything else.  For extra security, make the judge program itself owned by
a separate account (but readable/executable by the judge account.)

I suppose you'd have to disable mail access from the judge account too.
Not sure how to easily do that.

-- 
John Gordon                   A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs
gordon@panix.com              B is for Basil, assaulted by bears
                                -- Edward Gorey, "The Gashlycrumb Tinies"

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building an online judge to evaluate Python programs Jabba Laci <jabba.laci@gmail.com> - 2013-09-20 19:28 +0200
  Re: building an online judge to evaluate Python programs Aseem Bansal <asmbansal2@gmail.com> - 2013-09-20 10:57 -0700
    Re: building an online judge to evaluate Python programs Jabba Laci <jabba.laci@gmail.com> - 2013-09-20 20:30 +0200
      Re: building an online judge to evaluate Python programs John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2013-09-20 19:34 +0000
        Re: building an online judge to evaluate Python programs Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-09-22 12:53 -0400
  Re: building an online judge to evaluate Python programs John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2013-09-20 20:08 +0000
    Re: building an online judge to evaluate Python programs Jabba Laci <jabba.laci@gmail.com> - 2013-09-21 00:26 +0200
    Re: building an online judge to evaluate Python programs Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-09-20 18:46 -0400
    Re: building an online judge to evaluate Python programs Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-09-21 16:29 -0400
    Re: building an online judge to evaluate Python programs Jabba Laci <jabba.laci@gmail.com> - 2013-09-21 21:57 +0200

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