[OpenAFS] Question about append-only directories and ownership of files

[Bob Cook]

On Monday, March 21, 2005, Todd Lewis wrote:

>> Not quite. The owner of a directory has implied administrator
>> rights in that directory.

On Tuesday March 22, 2005, Kim Kimball wrote:

>You're right of course about the directory ownership.

Although it's getting a bit far afield from the original topic, I'd just like
to point out that, although Todd is right about the behavior, Derrick
Brashear acknowledged at last year's Best Practices workshop that the
behavior is a bug.  The intent was that the owner of the top directory in a
volume have implicit admin rights in the volume, but not that the owner of
each directory have such rights in "their" directories.  (Derrick: Any guess
as to when this will be fixed?  It looks like people are getting used to it,
which I would claim is a not-good thing!)