[Bf-committers] Do drivers have to be blocked as python scripts?

[Greg Zaal]

I think most of us can agree this is an annoying feature, but if it were to
be removed now, some nasty folks might take it as an invitation.

I don't like this feature as it is, but simply removing it isn't a
solution. We need to think of a smart way to always allow render farms to
run scripts and drivers by default.

Another silly idea: what if we leave this feature on, but only for paths
that include the word "download" in addition to the user-defined folders in
the preferences?
Or keep a history of trusted authors (computer name or ip) and check if the
author of a blend has been trusted before?

-Greg


On 23 May 2014 13:43, Tobias Kummer <supertoilet at gmx.net> wrote:

> Had the same problem here with the #frame driver in the Cycles seed
> value. Renderfarm just ignored it, and I only noticed it after
> rendering.
>
> On Fri May 23 12:26:46 2014, Paolo Acampora wrote:
> > This is an issue at our studio as well, I don't see any rationale in
> these
> > overly security concerns, it just prevents you to work.
> >
> >
> > 2014-05-23 12:06 GMT+02:00 Vilem Novak <pildanovak at post.cz>:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >> I realize how important is the security when .blend files are
> distributed,
> >> but I thought, is there a way to exclude drivers from the relatively new
> >> strict blocking mechanism?
> >>
> >> To me as animator, it caused allready many problems.
> >> Last is ruining several days of rendertime on a renderfarm which has
> >> scripts
> >> blocked(as is by default!). Actually, it happened to me allready several
> >> times- setting up renders, render nodes, and forgetting about some
> drivers
> >> and the new feature.
> >> I realized so far none of the crowd-render farms for blender don't
> support
> >> scripts on (sheepit, burp). That it of course a logical choice.
> >>
> >> So the idea is - can there be some check to determine if a driver is
> >> actually a python script? If it's using any commands, and not only
> >> numerical
> >> / logical operators? And then, could such simple drivers be enabled?
> >>
> >> It would really save my life very often. Now I have to write a script
> that
> >> bakes all drivers before sending file to render farm...
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Vilem
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