| Most '.htaccess' files ARE provided by host developers so that users have some security control over their site (being able to choose who or what to block is one case in hand) WITH 'write' access. Most sysadmins with access to root privileges don’t actually use them and format the directives directly by a 'directory by directory' configuration in apache config file (usually httpd.conf). So the usual use of them is for any user WITHOUT root access to the server and config files, so it’s a little out of the ordinary that you don’t have write or read access. I wouldn’t recommend not having a basic '.htaccess' or having a dummy file, if you don’t have root access. "Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they are not all out to get you…"
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