Garance A Drosihn wrote: > Try a: ls -lo /usr/local/etc/op.access > and see if some of the chflags-style options have been turned on. hi glarance! long time. # ls -lo /usr/local/etc/op.access -r-------- 1 root wheel - 112 Jan 13 19:48 /usr/local/etc/op.access randy