Re: [cobalt-users] Front Page Passwords Not Required

[Will DeHaan <will@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff, do you have shell access to the openly accessible FP web?

Please find and post .htaccess files and their contents.  If they're
missing or corrupt we'll know the symptom <frown> and can better isolate
the cause <frown, again>. 


	-- Will

Jeff Lasman wrote:
> 
> One of our clients has found that whenever he publishes using FrontPage
> 2000 on a RaQ2, no matter what, he does not have to enter a password.
> 
> I've tried it, too.
> 
> I had FP98 on my system, but I upgraded it to FP2000 to test out the
> situation.
> 
> I created a brand new website on the RaQ using it's own IP#.
> 
> I loaded it into the browser, and got the default Cobalt RaQ page.
> 
> I did NOT create any users for the site.
> 
> Then, in FP2000, I chose a site I'd published elsewhere before, and
> tried publishing it to his RaQ2 using FP2000 and the site's IP#, since
> there's no DNS set up for this test site.  Front Page 2000 published the
> site to the RaQ2 without asking for a password.
> 
> When Front Page 2000 was done publishing the site, I viewed it in my
> browser, updating it so it would reload from the server.
> 
> The default Cobalt RaQ page had been replaced by the site I had created,
> indicating that yes, Front Page 2000 did NOT need a password to upload a
> site on his RaQ2.
> 
> Then I tried the same thing on MY RaQ2.  On my RaQ2, Front Page 2000 DID
> ask for a password.
> 
> Obviously, there's a problem, but I don't know where.
> 
> Here's the list of installed packages on my client's RaQ2 (the one that
> did NOT require a password:
> 
> > All-Kernel_mips Release 1.0
> > Cobalt OS Release 4.0
> > RaQ2-Security Release 2.0
> > RaQ2-Security Release 2.1
> > RaQ2-Security Release 2.2
> > RaQ2-Security Release 2.3
> > RaQ2-Security Release 2.7
> > RaQ2-Security Release 2.91
> > RaQ2-Security Release 2.92
> > RaQ2-Security Release 2.93
> > RaQ2-Security Release 2.94
> > RaQ2-Update-MFG Release 2.1
> > RaQ2-Update-OS Release 1.0
> > RaQ2-Update-OS Release 2.0
> 
> Here's a much shorter list of the installed packages on MY RaQ2 (the one
> that DOES require a password:
> 
> > Cobalt OS Release 4.0
> > Miva Empresa Release 3.62
> > Miva Merchant Bundle Package (RaQ2) Release 2.00
> > RaQ2-Update-OS Release 2.0
> > Red Hat Secure Web Server Release 3
> 
> So which is more likely correct?  What is causing this problem?
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?  Cobalt?  Anyone else?
> 
> Jeff
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