> ... how to rectify it is beyond my capabilities as a new OpenBSD user.
First of all, there is nothing to rectify. All was done to act like this and to serve a specific purpose. Much work and developers' efforts were poured into this, again with a specific great purpose ( hint: security related). As someone from development already said many times on this list, it is very irritating to see some user asking for help for or trying to circumvent those setups or even worse, seeing developers offering advice on how to disable those rules by common users. It is not forbidden to do that, but this must be left to people who know what they are doing, and for very very very very narrow field in which most users are not included. It is easier for you to store whatever you need access for it later in ~/Downloads and use the configuration it like it is shipped. Thank you.
