RE: [cobalt-users] My .htaccess files are hidden.

["Owen Lees" <owen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Hello Owen,

Hi Jonathan

>> Ftp and Normal viewing is prohibited from seeing .files as part of the
>> security setup on Linux/Unix systems.

>Just to be pedantic ;-) ...

Thats ok, I'm a simple hick from the back woods of Warwickshire (that be
England zor). I know my place!

>Neither FTP nor shell access is actually prohibited from viewing .files,
>they just need a qualifier to the 'ls' command to view them as they're
>normally hidden.

Quite so.. however most folks that ask questions like the above (which is
not an issue I might add) are extremely unlikely to be using the FTP clients
that you mention and are most likley to be using WSFTP or similar... no?
Which is why I put the answer in the way I did.

>If you use command line FTP, using 'ls -a' does list them,
>so you just need an FTP product that allows this, like the one I mentioned
>in an earlier post.

Now you are scaring me... "command line FTP" - is that in the Mac OS ?  :))

You see my point?

Thanks for the reply anyway, I learnt something today.. keep my mouth shut.

>Regards,
>Jonathan Michaelson