[cobalt-users] RE: RAQ4 - Frontpage and FTP permissions - Cobalt

["Nick Voth" <nvoth@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> Thus, when someone uploads with Frontpage, they are then unable to alter
>> these files in an FTP session because Frontpage has changed the
>> ownership of
>> FP files to 'nobody' I believe.   Example, if you attempt to delete a file
>> using FTP, but it has been uploaded with Frontpage, you get a 550 not
>> allowed message from the FTP program.  This is not normal.  This
>> should not
>> happen.  I have verified that this happens on all of our RaQ4s.
>> It seems to
>> be a bug.
>>
>> Has anyone else had this problem?  Is there a patch out yet?
>>
> I think there needs to be a patch to stop people from trying to use both FTP
> and FrontPage to upload files. If you want to delete a file with FTP don't
> publish the file with FrontPage. If you delete a file with FTP from a
> FrontPage web you will mess up the FrontPage web. Just open the site in
> FrontPage and delete it.
> --
> Dan Kriwitsky
> 

We have had numerous people totally destroy FrontPage functionality by
messing around in the site with FTP. We have been waiting for a solution
which will totally disable FTP on FP sites. The file ownership is only part
of the answer. People still manage to screw things up if they have any level
of FTP access into FP sites.

In my opinion, the new file ownership is a good thing. It just doesn't go
far enough yet.

-Nick Voth