Connecting using user with blank password..

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Prasad

Hello,

I am using FrontPage 2000 to publish to the web site hosted on IIS 6.
The author of the web site has blank password. However, FrontPage
client doesn't allow me to connect using blank password. It repeated
puts up the dialog box titled "Name and Password required". If I set
some non-blank password for the author and connect using that it works
fine.

Is there any setting in FrontPage client/server extensions that I need
to be make to allow connecting with authors having blank password.

Please let me know.

Thanks.
-Prasad
 
You really don't want a "blank" password, unless you want everyone in the world to be able
to edit / hack your web site.


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Hello,

I am sorry, but, that's not an answer to my question. Please let me
know if FrontPage client allows it OR not.

I am not talking about any production site here. It is obvious, that,
its a big security hole to have a production site with blank passwords.

Thanks.
-Prasad
 
To the best of my knowledge FrontPage does not allow it.


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It is not the FP client application that is requesting the login, it is the server. Also is the
password truly blank?

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Hello,

Yes, there is no password for that user account. I also have FTP site
created for the same and FTP client allows me to login with no
password.

See the question is simple, if the underlying OS allows me to have
users with no passwords, why can't FrontPage allow so? It is perfectly
fine to disallow it by default. However, there has to be some way to
enable it by tweaking some FP setting.

Thanks.
-Prasad
 
The access is controlled by IIS and the type of authentication set in it
Try setting your permissions in the IIC MMC
- try a IIS newsgroup to see what (if any permissions) remove all authentication from the server

FTP allows anonymous (and authenticated)

PS
A test PC w/ IIS running is a server which can be accessed from the outside world if the PC is connected to the internet
- running IIS w/o a password is begging for a "friendly" hacker to come along

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| Hello,
|
| Yes, there is no password for that user account. I also have FTP site
| created for the same and FTP client allows me to login with no
| password.
|
| See the question is simple, if the underlying OS allows me to have
| users with no passwords, why can't FrontPage allow so? It is perfectly
| fine to disallow it by default. However, there has to be some way to
| enable it by tweaking some FP setting.
|
| Thanks.
| -Prasad
|
 
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