Haskell Compiler

[enjay]

Has anyone installed Haskell Compiler https://www.haskell.org/ghcup/ ? The HOD Computing has just asked for it (to be available for their lesson on Thursday, of course) and the only method of installing appears to be individually on each computer by running a PowerShell script which invokes the installer from the company's website. The script has to be run as a non-admin user, but (I hope) non-admins can't execute PowerShell.

 

Whare are your thoughts on installing software in this way? Are they are risks I'd be exposing us to (other than the usual risk of poor quality, unverified education software of course!)? Is there a way to package and deploy this instead so we don't have to do this manually again when we refresh the PCs?

 

Will the compiler even work once I've installed it, or will other standard security prevent it?

 

Sorry, lots of questions!!

[TechMonkey]

I'd say less than a week is no time to properly evaluate a program for security and compatibility. Especially something linked to programming.

 

Beyond that, I'd probably push it out using InTune, which will be happy with a Powershell command.

[dmj]

The script has to be run as a non-admin user, but (I hope) non-admins can't execute PowerShell.

 

 

if you're giving them access to Haskel, you may as well grant access to powershell.

[mavhc]

If your security is by obscurity, you've failed. Anyway, see https://www.edugeek.net/forums/how-do-you-do/240014-haskell-ide.html there's some work to make stuff multi user

 

Also it's not poor quality educational software.

 

The risk of installing from a powershell command is the same as downloading a random exe file

Edited November 19, 2024 by mavhc

[enjay]

I'd say less than a week is no time to properly evaluate a program for security and compatibility. Especially something linked to programming.

 

My thoughts too. I've already said that date might not be acheivable.

 

Beyond that, I'd probably push it out using InTune, which will be happy with a Powershell command.

 

Not using InTune here, everything is in SCCM still.

 

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Anyway, see https://www.edugeek.net/forums/how-do-you-do/240014-haskell-ide.html there's some work to make stuff multi user

 

Thanks. I'd searched but missed that thread.