Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 19:43:10 +0000 From: Jivko Koltchev <jivko@netcom.com> To: Sam Magee <webadmin@adsight.com> Cc: Blaine Minazzi <bminazzi@w3page.com>, "isp@freebsd.org" <isp@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: MicroSoft Front Page Extensions. Message-ID: <3284DECE.4620@netcom.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961109212412.24524A-100000@adsight.com>
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Sam Magee wrote: > > On Sat, 9 Nov 1996, Blaine Minazzi wrote: > > > Some time back I noticed someone mentioned Microsoft Front Page > > Extensions under FreeBSD. Could someone who is using this please > > give a sysnopsis of what is required to install this under FreeBSD > > 2.1.5 please? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > -- > > Sincerely, > > > > > > Blaine Minazzi > > > > Whoever is using the FP extensions, how do you deal with > FrontPage's requirement that you run your web server as "root"? > Doesn't that create a possible cgi nightmare for security? > > Sam Magee I am not sure they have such a requirement. One can have it working under any UID, however that user should have read/write access to all html files/directories. Letting your customers use FP could be a problem but in general it depends on your WWW server configuration. For instance if your server runs under one UID:GID for all users, using FP could be fun for some of them. (I needed to set up a new machine on which for customers willing to use FP) Jivko
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