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

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Bob Cook wrote:

> 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!)

IIRC it's been fixed in 1.3 for months.