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Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE commented on HDFS-753:
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> ... Then execute a delete and the file will be deleted.

Are you using a superuser account?  The hdfs permission implementation allows 
superuser passing all security checks.

> HDFS allows delete of read only files and directories
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>                 Key: HDFS-753
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-753
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 0.20.1
>            Reporter: Dain Sundstrom
>            Assignee: Sanjay Radia
>
> Add a file or directory to HDFS, and chmod it to be read only.  Then execute 
> a delete and the file will be deleted.

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