Problem: I have files in the Filesystem, using the Filesystem Directory View from the standalone Skins Product (or SkinnedFolder, or 1.x Versions of FileSystemSite). The problem is that the security declarations in .metadata files for Scripts (or other stuff) gets completely ignored. Solution: Thanks to CMF 2.0, where they fixed it, its quite easy. In FSMetadata.py, change line 113 from return (acquire, roles) to return (int(acquire), roles) so that the area reads: acquire, roles = data.split(':') roles = r.strip() for r in roles.split(\',\') if r.strip() return (int(acquire), roles) def _getSectionDict(self, cfg, section, parser=None):