Thank you to everyone that offered suggestions and tried to help me with this problem. A very special thank you goes to Anthony Tarlano who was kind enough to detail what he had to do to resolve this same problem in Mandrake. Though SuSE's directory structure is different from Mandrake's the information that Tony provided gave me the clues to solve this problem. THANK YOU TONY! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Now for the archives: Solution for initial log-in to Zope on SuSE 8.2 Linux Distro: SuSE 8.2 Zope Version: 2.6.1 Problem: Zope starts but does not see the 'access' file to verify superuser logon Solution: Logged into Linux as root, save the 'access' file in the /opt/zope/ directory. This file should contain "UserName:PassWord" minus the quotation marks. Log out and log back in to Linux as a user (Not root). Bring Zope up in your browser and enter the superuser information that you saved in the 'access' file, and hit enter. This should allow you into Zope. Now that you have successfully gotten into Zope add a new manager under the acl_user folder. Close out of Zope completely and then log back in under the new user you just created under acl_user. This should allow you into the Control_Panel and your ready to enjoy Zope. Note that you can not do anything accept add or modify a user when logged in as the superuser. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Again my thanks to everyone who helped me resolve this problem. Paul