I have just been digging through some site  usage reports  and found  that
some users  have been using FrontPage to view  sites. My concern is that
a site owner  may be using FrontPage to edit  his site. Is it possible
for users to unghost pages? I would think that sharepoint  permissions
would prevent  this, but haven't tested it yet.

just keep them from using frontpage  alltogether!

you can see how to accomplish this here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/831612/

as for unghosting, there is a web part called GhostHunter, ive never unghosted anything with it, but ive certainly used it to see if bad users  are doing things like you mention.

http://www.bluedoglimited.com/Downloads/pages/Web%20Part%20Toolkit.aspx

Without delving into a barrage of questions about your specific
permission setup, to test you can just login under a test account (that
has the same permissions as the users  in question) on a test site  and
try to edit  the site in FrontPage. Even doing something as little as
opening the site in FrontPage without saving it can do the site some
harm.

You can also shut down any possibility of this happening by adding
attributes to the Project tag in the ONET.XML file that prevents
specified actions or any action by FrontPage to the SharePoint site.

support.microsoft.com/default.aspx
www.microsoft.com/.../
fp03sps.mspx (search for the Disabled Features header)

That Microsoft article will do the trick.

It never really occurred to me that a user would try to edit  a site
in FrontPage. I'm glad that you could help me out.

would you believe that we paid some consultants 175$ an hour and then found  out that they were unghosting  our entire portal?

In the scheme for a site  (ONET.XML) there’s an attribute you can apply to prevent users  from opening the site in FrontPage.

So do Heather and Andy get a split of that now.

You can add me in on that Bil… wonder if Andy = AC or Andy = Andy Lubel

We’d be happy to charge you twice that to unghost your pages!

I would gladly unghost any portals and any haunted houses you have for $165/hr

AC = Andrew Connell in Heather speak.

HeatherSpeak? Crap. I’m still learning all the ins and outs with CAML and now I have to contend with another language already.