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[Matt McLeod]

Yea, it is written in the Book of Cyril
that Simon Burr did write:
>In <slrn88sv7f...@enzo.netizen.com.au> use...@wibble.cx (Matt McLeod) writes:
>> you can put FrontPage extensions on the hosting server...)
>
>Ick Ick Ick. This is something we've had to do recently. Its not nice doing it either.
>We've got the extentsions (ie the CGI scripts which FrontPage calls to do its dirty
>work on the server) running chroot()ed and resource limited which is good.

I looked at that stuff once on request, and refused point-blank to
put it on my poor innocent server.

The boss took this pretty well. He already had an IIS box sitting
around (which was SEP), so directed FP lusers to that instead.

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[Matt McLeod]

Yea, it is written in the Book of Cyril
that Simon Burr did write:

>In <slrn88t2u8...@enzo.netizen.com.au> use...@wibble.cx (Matt McLeod) writes:
>>The boss took this pretty well. He already had an IIS box sitting
>>around (which was SEP), so directed FP lusers to that instead.
>

>Ah - in our situation we couldn't really do that. The problem is that the
>system FrontPage is working on is very much hands off - no human intervention
>can occur to install a customer except for things like data entry and
>possibly customer DNS updates. NT still very much sucks in the area of
>automated stuff of this type, no matter what M$ says. Our resident NT expert
>basically said "Don't do that, you'll be in for a world of pain" when I
>asked him about the automated creation of FP accounts on NT.

We were a rather smaller outfit (you're still with Pipex/UUnet/whatever?).
So site creation wasn't an automated process, on BSD or NT. If I'd
stayed there another month or so it probably would've become fairly
automated on BSD -- I'd done most of the other easier stuff (web
interface to Radius, that kind of thing), so that was next on the list.

But Ericsson "rescued" me, and now I get to play with Sun kit
instead, and the only web servers around are being used for testing
products in development. We're a Unix shop, so no FP anywhere to
be seen.

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