From owner-cvs-all Fri Mar 12 4:22:14 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from nagual.pp.ru (nagual.pp.ru [193.125.27.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B47014D38; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 04:22:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ache@nagual.pp.ru) Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.pp.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA38722; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 15:20:49 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from ache) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 15:20:48 +0300 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: paul@originative.co.uk Cc: marcs@znep.com, dg@root.com, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: BSD/OS compatibility (was: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf .. Message-ID: <19990312152048.A37814@nagual.pp.ru> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from paul@originative.co.uk on Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 12:05:07PM -0000 Organization: Biomechanoid Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 12:05:07PM -0000, paul@originative.co.uk wrote: > I think Frontpage extensions are the thing that could trip us up. There's at > least one prominenet UK ISP that offers Frontpage enabled Apache on FreeBSD. > This is actually the market that FreeBSD targets. > > Maybe Microsoft should be contacted to push for a FreeBSD binary. Absolutely NO. Frontpage Extensions provide several security holes which allows to overwrite any web file remotely or execute any program. This holes are flaws in this product design and some of them can't be closed. For remote WWW updating better use WebDAV, Microsoft support it too in their WebFolders. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://nagual.pp.ru/~ache/ MTH/SH/HE S-- W-- N+ PEC>+ D A a++ C G>+ QH+(++) 666+>++ Y To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message