Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 08:27:25 -0800 From: Jason Fesler <jfesler@calweb.com> To: Sam Magee <webadmin@adsight.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MS Front Page Extensions v2.0 Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970129082631.009d6ec0@pop.calweb.com>
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At 09:41 AM 1/29/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Don't you have to run apache as root in order to get the
>Frontpage extensions to work? This is what i read in the docs --
>if there's another option, please let us know.
No, you don't.
We support the MS Front Page Extensions for any customer that wants to host
the domain with us. The WPP kit allows for a SUID install of 12k binaries
that load the real program - however, with the ownership of the site's
owner, instead of as root. That way, they can't do any harm; they don't
have root; and they still have FrontPage. It actually works really slick
for this purpose. I'll be giving the MS test to our site this week, and
then applying for the Bill Gates Seal of Approval [kiss of death?] to be
put on their marketing page.
For www/~username users... we're still experimenting. I'm so far not found
of what I am finding for ~username handling, and resorting to making a
subweb off of a specific virtual host for each user that wants it (and
then cutting off telnet/ftp access to their WWW directory). The virtual
host hosting data for the individual users wanting frontpage style access,
forces the frontpage extensions to run as a user of "frntpage", and no user
is a part of the unix group that frntpage is in - hence, cutting out
external editing. If they decide they want to stop using frontpage, I'll
return ownership of their www directory back to them :-). Not elegant,
not the way I want to do it, but .. :(..
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