Re: dvwssr.dll /service.lck

[sozni () USA NET (.sozni)]

This really has nothing to do with dvwssr.dll, but Marc made a comment about
the purpose of service.lck and I wanted to clear that up.

> For NT services you use the same authentication mechanisms as a regular NT
> login. There is a file, service.lck, that I believe controls access to the
> FP web. Whatever permissions set on that file are what carry over to logins.

Actually, service.lck does partially control access to the web, but does not
determine the acl's of the web.  Service.lck is really a lock file that keeps
two people from accessing a web's resources at the same time.  When no one is
authoring the web, service.lck will be a 0-byte file.  

As a side note, one can certainly adjust the permissions on that file so that
only certain users can write to it, thereby preventing others from creating
locks.  If FrontPage can't write to the lock file, it will not open the web. 
This could also happen accidentally when a client accessing a FrontPage web
loses its network connection and fails to free the locks.

However, permissions to the web are normally controlled through author.dll/exe
and admin.dll/exe.  Those files are actually the same executable but are
duplicated to allow unique permissions for authors and admins.  If a user
attempts to use either of those files and has the proper permissions, then the
FrontPage extensions will give permissions to the rest of the files on the
web.

.sozni

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