Scripting News: 6/27/1998

Saturday, June 27, 1998

Important advisory for people running Frontier 5.1 and 5.0.2 betas on Windows.

The problem, illustrated in a simple script:

file.exists ("C:\\apache\\htdocs\\index.html ")
file.exists ("C:\\apache\\htdocs\\index.html.")
file.exists ("C:\\apache\\htdocs\\index.html. ")

All three statements are true.

Jason Levine explains the loophole and offers a little history. It's a serious hole.

Earlier today, Bob Denny, the developer of O'Reilly's server, acknowledged the hole and said it will be fixed in an upcoming release.

The second Frontier 5.1 HOWTO explains how to use the People suite to manage multi-user access to resources and services.

Last update: Friday, October 31, 2003 at 3:26 AM Eastern.

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