Re: [cobalt-users] Cobalt wishlist

[Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Once upon a time, root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> PLEASE make the blue arrow on the DNS display *different* for CNAMES, there's
> no way to tell them from A records easily....(even the 'ghosted' prompt is
> the same)

This is easy: A records have an IP address in the column to the right of
the arrow and CNAME records have a hostname in that column.

> You *are* aware that any site web can turn CGI and SSI back on at will
> when they are turned off in the GUI by default...? (bu simply adding handlers
> in .htaccess, unless you intentionally make it non readable to the user)

There is a security hole here too (I reported it over a month ago and
they said they are working on a fix, but they haven't released one yet).

Part of the problem is that the wonderful FrontPage extensions require
"AllowOverride All" in the web config file.

> Fix cgiwrap ;) or at least tell us what options it was compiled with so people
> who need to can recompile a compatable one with slight mods when needed, i
> really hate the fact that environment vars were disabled....

See the cgiwrap source RPM file for all the config options.  However, I
don't know if the source RPM for the updated version is out there (but
they have to provide it upon request, because cgiwrap is under the GPL).

Another general request is to put the source RPMs for all updated
packages on the FTP site.

> OK, this one is pushing it....;) add the ability to use 2 domain names 
> for the same vsite...it's not *that* hard to do is it? doing it by hand
> hoses the GUI (well,depending how you do it), the GUI 
> needs to be more 'aware' of this....:(

It isn't too hard to make this work for email, but it is very difficult
for web.
-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Information Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.