From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jun 6 07:18:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA21801 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 07:18:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lab321.ru ([194.226.32.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA21712 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 07:15:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.l321.omsk.net.ru [127.0.0.1]) by lab321.ru (8.8.5-MVC-230497/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA25049; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 21:09:01 +0700 (OSD) Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 21:09:01 +0700 (OSD) From: Eugeny Kuzakov To: Jim Jagielski cc: Thomas Eisenbock , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Micro$oft FrontPage extensions? In-Reply-To: <199706061341.JAA00750@devsys.jaguNET.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Jim Jagielski wrote: > Thomas Eisenbock wrote: > > > > On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Steve Hovey wrote: > > > > > Ill get flamed for this but - I wont touch that with a 10 foot pole - you > > > open security holes. > > > > Of course you'll get flamed, 'cause you are wrong :) > > > > The only danger is, that you have to execute binaries from a third party > > vendor that may be able to execute other programs without your knowledge, > > but that's why we use Unix ;) > > For some, the use of binaries without source is enough of a risk to > avoid it though. Consider this, you're running FreeBSD and you have > FULL access to the source if you want it, same with Apache. Yet to > use FrontPage you have to plop a binary that you cannot check or > modify on your server... For some, that may not be acceptable. Nothing > wrong about that at all, just a matter of differing opinions. I agree with you, but you may setup Apache to not allow access to run MS FP Ext. binary extensions... Best wishes, Eugeny Kuzakov Laboratory 321 ( Omsk, Russia ) kev@lab321.ru