Administering an ISP Installation

Setting Security on an IIS 5.0 Server

Because FrontPage Server Extensions has no security of its own, you have to set up IIS 5.0 security to work with FrontPage. If IIS 5.0 isn’t configured correctly, someone without authorization could edit a FrontPage web without being challenged for a user name and password.

IIS 5.0 uses Windows NTFS permissions in order to enforce security. Because FrontPage borrows the security mechanism of the Web server it is extending, you have to configure IIS 5.0 security in conjunction with NTFS permissions. For information about how IIS 5.0 authenticates a user, see Security in this book.

See the following:

Resecuring a Site