diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 924446c9..47a035ef 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ Erwan Jahier <Erwan.Jahier@imag.fr>
 Laurent Dufréchou <laurent.dufrechou@gmail.com>
         * Windows support.
 
+Romain Garbage <romain.garbage@gmail.com>
+        * Fixes for FreeBSD.
+
 Philippe Fremy <phil@freehackers.org>
         * Fixes for Windows.
 
diff --git a/weboob/core/backendscfg.py b/weboob/core/backendscfg.py
index 4e585b12..c35f3fd2 100644
--- a/weboob/core/backendscfg.py
+++ b/weboob/core/backendscfg.py
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ from __future__ import with_statement
 import stat
 import os
 import sys
+import re
 from ConfigParser import RawConfigParser, DuplicateSectionError
 from logging import warning
 
@@ -40,7 +41,7 @@ class BackendsConfig(object):
         try:
             mode = os.stat(confpath).st_mode
         except OSError:
-            if sys.platform == 'win32':
+            if re.match('^(win32|freebsd[0-9]*)$', sys.platform):
                 fptr = open(confpath,'w')
                 fptr.close()
             else: