diff --git a/library/Icinga/Application/Config.php b/library/Icinga/Application/Config.php
index 0538f01d4..bfe2ddd60 100644
--- a/library/Icinga/Application/Config.php
+++ b/library/Icinga/Application/Config.php
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ use Icinga\Data\ConfigObject;
 use Icinga\Data\Selectable;
 use Icinga\Data\SimpleQuery;
 use Icinga\File\Ini\IniWriter;
+use Icinga\File\Ini\IniParser;
 use Icinga\Exception\NotReadableError;
 
 /**
@@ -313,9 +314,7 @@ class Config implements Countable, Iterator, Selectable
         if ($filepath === false) {
             $emptyConfig->setConfigFile($file);
         } elseif (is_readable($filepath)) {
-            $config = new static(new ConfigObject(parse_ini_file($filepath, true)));
-            $config->setConfigFile($filepath);
-            return $config;
+            return IniParser::parseIniFile($filepath);
         } elseif (@file_exists($filepath)) {
             throw new NotReadableError(t('Cannot read config file "%s". Permission denied'), $filepath);
         }
diff --git a/library/Icinga/File/Ini/Dom/Document.php b/library/Icinga/File/Ini/Dom/Document.php
index 69b628916..32f5b92c9 100644
--- a/library/Icinga/File/Ini/Dom/Document.php
+++ b/library/Icinga/File/Ini/Dom/Document.php
@@ -115,4 +115,18 @@ class Document
         }
         return $str;
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Convert $this to an array
+     *
+     * @return  array
+     */
+    public function toArray()
+    {
+        $a = array();
+        foreach ($this->sections as $section) {
+            $a[$section->getName()] = $section->toArray();
+        }
+        return $a;
+    }
 }
diff --git a/library/Icinga/File/Ini/Dom/Section.php b/library/Icinga/File/Ini/Dom/Section.php
index dbc9188cb..42dbac709 100644
--- a/library/Icinga/File/Ini/Dom/Section.php
+++ b/library/Icinga/File/Ini/Dom/Section.php
@@ -169,4 +169,18 @@ class Section
         $str = str_replace(';', '\\;', $str);
         return str_replace(PHP_EOL, ' ', $str);
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Convert $this to an array
+     *
+     * @return  array
+     */
+    public function toArray()
+    {
+        $a = array();
+        foreach ($this->directives as $directive) {
+            $a[$directive->getKey()] = $directive->getValue();
+        }
+        return $a;
+    }
 }
diff --git a/library/Icinga/File/Ini/IniParser.php b/library/Icinga/File/Ini/IniParser.php
index 43c96836d..72925cac1 100644
--- a/library/Icinga/File/Ini/IniParser.php
+++ b/library/Icinga/File/Ini/IniParser.php
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ use Icinga\File\Ini\Dom\Document;
 use Icinga\File\Ini\Dom\Directive;
 use Icinga\Application\Logger;
 use Icinga\Exception\ConfigurationError;
+use Icinga\Exception\NotReadableError;
+use Icinga\Application\Config;
 
 class IniParser
 {
@@ -239,4 +241,25 @@ class IniParser
         }
         return $doc;
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Read the ini file and parse it with ::parseIni()
+     *
+     * @param   string  $file       The ini file to read
+     *
+     * @return  Config
+     * @throws  NotReadableError    When the file cannot be read
+     */
+    public static function parseIniFile($file)
+    {
+        if (($path = realpath($file)) === false) {
+            throw new NotReadableError('Couldn\'t compute the absolute path of `%s\'', $file);
+        }
+
+        if (($content = file_get_contents($path)) === false) {
+            throw new NotReadableError('Couldn\'t read the file `%s\'', $path);
+        }
+
+        return Config::fromArray(self::parseIni($content)->toArray())->setConfigFile($file);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/library/Icinga/User/Preferences/Store/IniStore.php b/library/Icinga/User/Preferences/Store/IniStore.php
index 88fa7edec..e5dbe4286 100644
--- a/library/Icinga/User/Preferences/Store/IniStore.php
+++ b/library/Icinga/User/Preferences/Store/IniStore.php
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ use Icinga\Exception\NotReadableError;
 use Icinga\Exception\NotWritableError;
 use Icinga\User\Preferences;
 use Icinga\User\Preferences\PreferencesStore;
+use Icinga\File\Ini\IniParser;
 
 /**
  * Load and save user preferences from and to INI files
@@ -57,7 +58,7 @@ class IniStore extends PreferencesStore
                     $this->getUser()->getUsername()
                 );
             } else {
-                $this->preferences = parse_ini_file($this->preferencesFile, true);
+                $this->preferences = IniParser::parseIniFile($this->preferencesFile)->toArray();
             }
         }