diff -r 54aa9a36c5bb code/nel/src/misc/path.cpp
--- a/code/nel/src/misc/path.cpp	Mon Jan 02 15:53:21 2012 +0100
+++ b/code/nel/src/misc/path.cpp	Thu Jan 26 20:26:10 2012 +0100
@@ -2495,7 +2495,7 @@
 	}
 #else
 	// if the file exists and there's no write access
-	if (access (filename.c_str(), F_OK) == 0)
+	if (access (filename.c_str(), F_OK) == 0 && access (filename.c_str(), W_OK) == -1)
 	{
 		// try to set the read/write access
 		if (chmod (filename.c_str(), S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR|S_IXUSR|S_IRGRP|S_IWGRP|S_IXGRP|S_IROTH|S_IWOTH|S_IXOTH) == -1)