Re: [SLUG] Apache, Samba, The User and Everything

From: Steve Szmidt (steve@szmidt.org)
Date: Fri Aug 20 2004 - 13:46:40 EDT


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On Friday 20 August 2004 01:07 pm, Eben King wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Steve Szmidt wrote:
> > On Friday 20 August 2004 09:18 am, Levi Bard wrote:
> > > I could never get Frontpage to publish using anything except (BROKEN!)
> > > frontpage server extensions.
> >
> > Last time I added Frontpage to Apache (a number of years ago) it toasted
> > security on that Linux box. The way I discovered it was that all of a
> > sudden one of the web developers login name owned the home directory
> > instead of root. Plus some other dir.
> >
> > The developer was not even very computer literate, he was just learning
> > Frontpage.
> >
> > That was the last time I installed Frontpage... It's possible it's better
> > now, though I don't see what motivation microsoft has to make it work
> > better.
>
> Well, they keep changing it (1) to make it harder for others to be able to
> read its file format(s); and (2) so they can say "New! Different!".
> "Different" is objective; "better" is subjective.

Yes, and when it comes to MS who knows what that actually means.
(Oh, another free stab at the evil empire! - Haha! I'm feeling friendly
today... : )

- --
Steve

"They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety."
                                Benjamin Franklin

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