I'm using the debian package of zope. This is a bit old, for unknown reasons - it seems to be version 2.0.0. Anyway, I want to have a role to manage users. I made a role, at the root of the hierarchy, to do this, called usermanager. I gave it the ability to manage users, view management screens, etc. I made a test user to try this out. When I look at the user folder using this user, I do not have the ability to manage users. ( manage_main) Just to test things out, I gave the usermanager role all the permissions, on the root, and in case acquisition wasn't working, on the user folder. This *still* didn't allow me to access the user folder and manage users. Eventually, I gave the test user a local role of manager. This finally worked. Is this known behaviour? Is it fixed in a later version of Zope? It is extremely non-intuitive, to say the least. Rob