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Re: [TCLUG:9106] MS FrontPage woes



Quoting Eric Hillman (ehillman@cccu.com):
>   On the other hand, the apache_fp patch that MS provides *is* flaky, a
> security risk, and probably actively evil.  I heartily recommend that folks
> stay away from it.  Both FP 98 and 2000 work just as well (if not better)
> without it.  Besides, it's about 12 minor release numbers behind the current
> Apache binary anyways, and MS is showing no signs of updating any time soon.

What about mod_frontpage from Gregory A Lundberg? Is this any better?

I am just leery of running any suid binaries that are accessiable from the web
server.
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