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Date:      Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:57:56 -0500 (EST)
From:      Jean-Michel Dault <jmdault@mandrakesoft.com>
To:        Martin Blapp <mb@reigoldswil.ch>
Cc:        ianj@calweb.com, jpr@vcnet.com, drewt@writeme.com, drew@mykitchentable.net, CV@Corbach.de, brady-filter@bluecrab.com, chripo+frontpage@edo.uni-dortmund.de, ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Testers needed (apache mod_frontpage improved 1.6) (DSO)
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10203131155320.32013-100000@empire.netrevolution.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020203182945.H776-100000@levais.imp.ch>

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I merged the FreeBSD and MandrakeSoft patches, and put the new project
under SourceForge.

You can get more info on http://mirfak.sourceforge.net

BTW, Mirfak is Reimplementing Frontpage Absolutely Kosher ;-)

Jean-Michel Dault
jmdault@mandrakesoft.com

On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Martin Blapp wrote:

> Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 18:47:51 +0100 (CET)
> From: Martin Blapp <mb@reigoldswil.ch>
> To: ianj@calweb.com, jpr@vcnet.com, drewt@writeme.com,
     drew@mykitchentable.net, CV@Corbach.de, brady-filter@bluecrab.com,
     jmdault@mandrakesoft.com, chripo+frontpage@edo.uni-dortmund.de
> Cc: ports@freebsd.org
> Subject: Testers needed (apache mod_frontpage improved 1.6) (DSO)
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> As you may have noted, the "Improved mod frontpage"
> project hasn't had much news in the last year.
> 
> I upgraded now this module, to have FP2002 support and to have a true DSO
> install. It can now be installed together with any binary apache 1.3.x.
> I also made the web administration a "opt in", tunable like FrontpageEnable
> as FrontpageAdminEnable, or FrontpageAdminDisable. The admin is disabled per
> default.
> 
> I also fixed some very old bugs, and tested it carefully. For the web admin
> there is a new wrapper, which is called by the apache user and is _not_
> SUID root. It just returns all static content like .gif, .html, .css and .js
> 
> I'd be happy if you could test the features and read the changes I made.
> 
> There are still some very ugly parts in the code, which I'd like to
> replace next week. -> Remove strcat() and add a lot more checks. But
> there are some main checks to be sure that nothing can be exploited.
> The new wrapper does run under the apache user only so we are safe for
> some way.
> 
> Thank you for testing ;-)
> 
> Distfile:
> ---------
> http://people.freebsd.org/~mbr/distfiles/mod_frontpage-1.6.tar.gz
> 
> FreeBSD Port:
> -------------
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~mbr/distfiles/mod_frontpage-port.tgz
> 
> The old module can be found on:
> 
> ftp://ftp.edo.uni-dortmund.de/pub/mod_frontpage
> 
> Martin
> 
> Martin Blapp, <mb@imp.ch> <mbr@FreeBSD.org>
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Jean-Michel Dault <jmdault@mandrakesoft.com>
Research & Development, Advanced Extranet Server 
Montreal (Canada)/Altadena (USA)/Paris (France)


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