From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Nov 9 19:44:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA09403 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 19:44:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from ijs.com (ijs.com [205.149.188.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA09385 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 19:44:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from ijs (ijs.vip.best.com [205.149.161.71]) by ijs.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id TAA01999; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 19:36:37 -0800 Message-ID: <3284DECE.4620@netcom.com> Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 19:43:10 +0000 From: Jivko Koltchev X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sam Magee CC: Blaine Minazzi , "isp@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: MicroSoft Front Page Extensions. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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