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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: File Access - Does Owner Access Override Group Access?
Message-ID: <7929@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 19 May 88 11:28:47 GMT
References: <1268@kodak.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
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Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1268@kodak.UUCP> dennett@kodak.UUCP (Charlie Dennett) writes:
>Does this mean that owner level access overrides group and/or world access?

What it means is that the rules spelled out in the manual (e.g. p.7 of
INTRO(2) in AT&T 307-226 Issue 1) are followed.

>Even stranger - I next tried to remove the file with the rm command and
>it worked!  

Naturally, since your directory had write permission.

>The system I am using is a SUN 3/260 running version 4.2 release 3.5.  I do
>not know if this is unique to SUN or not.

No, all UNIX derivatives follow these rules.