FrontPage offers a set of useful administrative tools for setting web permissions and limiting access to
Frontpage webs from specified computers. Frontpage security is based on the security mechanism used by the Web server and on the operating system on which the Web server is running. For each FrontPage web on your Web server, some type of permissions can be set like Browsing permission which gives a user, a group of users, or specific computers permission to view the FrontPage web after it has been published on the World Wide Web or Intranet. Authoring permission gives a user, a group of users, or specific computer permission to open the FrontPage web in the FrontPage Explorer and create and edit pages and files in the FrontPage Editor. An administrator of the root web can create new FrontPage webs and set permissions for other users and computers. In the FrontPage Explorer, we can assign unique permissions for any FrontPage web in the Settings tab of the Permissions dialog box. FrontPage web permissions are hierarchical. This means that a user with administrative permissions also has authoring and browsing permissions,a user with authoring permissions also has browsing permissions. When we set permissions for administering, authoring, or browsing a FrontPage web, the Web server requests a name and password for any task that requires permission. However, we may not see the prompt, because with some Web servers, FrontPage sends the name and password we are currently logged with. On some Web servers, we can also set permissions for computers, based on their IP addresses. We can set permissions for a group of computers using the asterisk character (*) to create an IP address mask. In this scenario, an user, an author, or an administrator must not only have sufficient permissions to access the FrontPage web, but must also be working on a computer that has the appropriate level of permissions. By default, all computers have permissions to browse to a FrontPage web. We should not use IP address restrictions on computer networks that do not support fixed IP addresses.
