IMMUTABLE and APPEND-ONLY rationales

From: Linda Walsh (law@sgi.com)
Date: Sat Jun 24 2000 - 15:15:12 EST

I could see a reason to deny IMMUTABLE to a user -- root might want to
freeze a user file as 'evidence' of something, but that is a stretch.

Other than that, why was setting IMMUTABLE and APPEND-ONLY made to be a
privileged operation? I could see end users wanting to protect certain
files with those modes. Also, APPEND-ONLY seems a bit of a misnomer
as a file with APPEND-ONLY can still be readable as well.

Just wondering about the rationale for things being the way they are...?

tnx,
-linda 

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Linda A Walsh                    | Trust Technology, Core Linux, SGI
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