Fw: [cobalt-users] Permissions - Admin vs Site Admin - FrontPage 2000

["Carrie Bartkowiak" <ravencarrie@xxxxxxxx>]

||>I have started to experience a problem which I think is related to
permissions.

||>3.  The FrontPage website is published using the SITE ADMIN
||>username/password.

Really? That's strange in itself. By default, the Cobalt's FP demands you
use
'webmaster' and a password, not the site admin's user/pass combo.

||>4.  I FTP and log into the base IP address (not the website IP address)
||>using the RAQ ADMIN username and password, <snip>
||>5.  I am denied permission "550 cgi-bin: Permission denied."

I bet it's the Admin 32-site limit. Do a search in the archives and you'll
see tons on this. (Lots recently from me!)
Basically, one group admin can only administer 32 sites at a time via FTP.

Two fantastic ways to get around this:
1. Go into your group file and remove 'admin' from all the sites that aren't
yours, and just use
the site administrator's user/pass to do anything via FTP for those sites if
you need to go
into them. (Alfredo gave me this hint, if I remember correctly.)

2. Set up different Admins, and give them each slightly less than 32 sites
to lord themselves over.
IE: Admin1 can access sites1-25. Admin2 can access sites 26-50.
Theoretically, you add the new Admin1 and Admin2 (or whatever you want to
call your
group leaders) in the GUI on the default site for the machine.
Then you go into your group file and selectively place the appropriate
Admin(1 or 2)
login in each site's line - replacing the default "Admin".
There are far more detailed instructions on this in the archives, written by
Donna, I think. I still
haven't gotten this to work properly on my RaQ4, but I'm sure it's because
I'm missing something small and trying to do 30 things at once.

Or, you can always do it the hard way... via telnet, as root, create your
cgi bin directory - copy scripts over to the directory and use vi or pico to
change the paths to be specific to that site, then chown everything to the
site owner... whadda pain! :)

Carrie Bartkowiak