The ZK documentation says: New in 3.2: Enables a ZooKeeper ensemble administrator to access the znode hierarchy as a "super" user. In particular no ACL checking occurs for a user authenticated as super.
However, in some testing today I created a digest user, logged in as this user, set the ACLs for "/" to Ids.READ_ACL_UNSAFE, and now even when I am logged in as the superuser, I cannot actually change this ACL or write nodes below it on the tree. So it does not actually seem to be the case that "super" skips ACL checks. Is this a bug or a feature? Thanks, Camille
