Subject: Re: netatalk: files that begin with a '.'
From: Olaf Hering (olh@suse.de)
Date: Tue Jun 06 2000 - 13:05:13 MDT
On Wed, May 31, christopher.murtagh@wcg.mcgill.ca wrote:
> I'm trying to find a work around to the following problem: when writing a
> file that begins with a period, AppleTalk or netatalk replaces the period
> with a colon and its hex equivalent (:2e). What I'm trying to do is to
> allow a FileMaker script to control user access via .htaccess (via
> Appletalk) and I'm not really kean to the idea of changing my .htaccess
> file names on the rest of the server to something that doesn't begin with
> a '.'. Any thoughts, workarounds would be much appreciated.
There is no real solution. netatalk hides everything that starts with a
dot. Just look into your $HOME folder.
You can maybe hack netatalk to accept everything with a dot. The
netatalk mailing list is the right place to ask such questions.
Gruss Olaf
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