From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 20 2:51:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE7BB37B400 for ; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 02:51:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.webmailer.de (natwar.webmailer.de [192.67.198.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EAE643E3B for ; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 02:51:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from smazerski@yahoo.co.jp) Received: from ianb.local (pD9EB1A07.dip.t-dialin.net [217.235.26.7]) by post.webmailer.de (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA15526; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 11:51:22 +0200 (MEST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Steve Mazerski To: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com, FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Win2K Frontpage clients unable to connect to apache with Frontpage extensions Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 11:52:50 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] References: <1027155376.55073.134.camel@Demon.vickiandstacey.com> In-Reply-To: <1027155376.55073.134.camel@Demon.vickiandstacey.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200207201152.50093.smazerski@yahoo.co.jp> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday 20 July 2002 10:56, Stacey Roberts wrote: > Hello, > I've just setup my apache webserver with Frontpage server extensio= n > support, but I am unable to connect to apache from the Win2K clients on > the lan. > > Here's what appears in /var/log/messages: > > [Sat Jul 20 09:46:23 2002] [error] [client lan PC IP] web root owned by > privileged user: /usr/local/www/data/_vti_bin/shtml.exe > /usr/local/etc/apache $ I know nothing of the Frontpage extensions (but boy do I see lot of requests in my Apache logs for that kind of file ;-) ) but it looks like = a permissions problem. Speculation: the exectuable file is being run as a privileged user (root?= ),=20 which is rightly regarded as a security problem. What are the permissions on the file and the directory it's in? What user does Apache run as? S.Mazerski To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message