On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 01:41:29PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
> > From: ak@suse.de [mailto:ak@suse.de]
> > Even root cannot delete immutable and append-only files again. So if every
> > user was allowed to do that he/she could create a lot of problems for root
> > (like creating undeletable files in /tmp)
> ---
>
> Root is already privileged to set/unset those bits on any file regardless
> of ownership. It does not follow that this would change if users could
> set those bits on their own files.
In the original implementation (pre 2.0) that wasn't the case when secure
level was > 0. securelevel was dropped later because it was broken.
The root restriction is a leftover.
-Andi
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