Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 21:09:01 +0700 (OSD) From: Eugeny Kuzakov <kev@lab321.ru> To: Jim Jagielski <jim@jaguNET.com> Cc: Thomas Eisenbock <et@space.net>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Micro$oft FrontPage extensions? Message-ID: <Pine.BSD.3.95.970606210750.24961A-100000@lab321.ru> In-Reply-To: <199706061341.JAA00750@devsys.jaguNET.com>
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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
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