From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jan 29 08:28:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA08538 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 08:28:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.calweb.com (mail.calweb.com [208.131.56.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA08532 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 08:28:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from devnull (devnull.calweb.com [208.131.56.69]) by mail.calweb.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id IAA18603; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 08:28:07 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970129082631.009d6ec0@pop.calweb.com> Warning: Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE) will be returned to send in bulk X-Sender: jfesler@pop.calweb.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 08:27:25 -0800 To: Sam Magee From: Jason Fesler Subject: Re: MS Front Page Extensions v2.0 Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 .. :(.. -- Jason Fesler jfesler@calweb.com Internic: 'whois jf319' Admin, CalWeb Internet Services http://www.calweb.com Junk email returned, in bulk, back to sender; w/copies to all postmasters. You got junk mail problems? Use Eudora Pro, MSIE's mail, or 'man procmail'.