Hey Group; openSuSE 11.3 M6 What in the world causes every directory and file to be permission ending in a dot. It has made this system darn near useless. No application is able to write to a file. No program can pull up a previous saved file. Sample -rw-r--r--. 1 donn users 274 2009-06-13 17:53 signature.comcast drwxr-xr-x. 2 donn users 4096 2009-10-16 11:35 .skel/ drwx------. 3 donn users 4096 2010-03-04 21:04 .Skype/ drwxr-xr-x 2 donn users 4096 2010-02-24 22:59 .solarwolf/ drwxr-xr-x. 22 donn users 4096 2010-03-11 11:42 SQL/ drwxr-xr-x. 3 donn users 4096 2009-06-13 17:53 student/ drwxr-xr-x. 3 donn users 4096 2010-01-02 19:58 .subversion/ drwx------. 4 donn users 4096 2009-11-21 00:06 .thumbnails/ ^ | Note dot Every directory, sub directory and file end in this Which security program has caused this problem? -- 73 de Donn Washburn 307 Savoy Street Email:" n5xwb@comcast.net " Sugar Land, TX 77478 LL# 1.281.242.3256 Ham Callsign N5XWB HAMs : " n5xwb@arrl.net " VoIP via Gizmo: bmw_87kbike / via Skype: n5xwbg BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador " http://counter.li.org " #279316 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org