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In article <steve-1802980748220001@mcg-gra.demon.co.uk>,
steve@mcg-gra.demon.co.uk (Steve Babb) wrote:

Steve,

As far as the WWW server goes I suggest you have a look at 'Quid Pro 
Quo', check their web site at http://www.socialeng.org

QPQ comes in three flavours;

	Quid Pro Quo - basic server, completly free and available from their 
web site.
		
	Quid Pro Quo Plus - Which supports multi-homing, various cgi 
interfaces, client side Java, remote administration etc.

	Quid Pro Quo Secure - All the facilities of QPQ Plus and SSL (Secure 
Socket Layer) communication encryption.

Providing your requirements aren't too strick you could start off with 
the free version to build your initial site and then upgrade to the 
QPQ Plus or QPQ Secure when things start to hot up.

On the security front, take a look at the 'Crack a mac' internet 
challenge to break into a Macintosh web server and change the pages. 
Currently the challenge remains secure from electronic hacking, 
although someone did try to attack physical machine (and nearly 
suceded).

As a platform the Mac in reasonably immune to the majority of attacks 
across the internet due to there be no underlying CLI (command line 
interface) to break through to. If your network connection filters all 
protocols except TCP/IP (such as AppleTalk and IPX) you can reduce the 
danger of attack to only the Mac's that are running IP services (but 
do watch out for the latest copy of AppleShareIP Server, which as the 
name suggests can runs file sharing over IP networks).

If you are connecting your network to the wider world you should be 
aware of the possibility of attack on the infrastructure of your 
network (routers, gateways etc) which are not as secure as the Mac's.

Good luck with the networking,

-- Kate


Catherine Ferris                 kate@tycho.demon.co.uk
Director                         Tycho Consultants Limited

'This above all: to thine own self be true,
 And it must follow as the night the day
 Thou canst not then be false to any man.'   -- Hamlet