What is Microsoft FrontPage?
FrontPage is a HTML editor and a set of extensions used to add automated publishing features to the web. Through FrontPage, you can automate uploading of pages to your server, and give your users access to various pre-configured scripts, called “bots”. Unfortunately, the current implementations of FrontPage require that you run your web server as root, which opens up all kinds of nasty security holes. In addition, there is no per use security scheme – anyone can upload to anyone else’s directory. This is, needless to say, potentially fatal to ISPs. I would add that FrontPage adds a level of overhead to your system that may significantly damage the efficiency of your hardware. On the whole, it’s recommended that you avoid FrontPage whenever possible. If you must use it for some reason, confine it to a special server you have set up exclusively for it. That will minimize the potential security problems. Note that AOLServer (formerly GNNserver) is said to have most of the glossier FrontPa
