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Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE commented on HDFS-2463: ---------------------------------------------- For HFDS superuser, all permission checks are by-passed. This is the HDFS implementation but nothing to do with webhdfs. > webhdfs able to write data to a file that was readonly > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HDFS-2463 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2463 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 0.20.205.0 > Reporter: Arpit Gupta > Assignee: Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE > -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira