Sounds like it might be a bug, was this just for the root or for any znode? Please file a JIRA, thanks.
Patrick On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Fournier, Camille F. [Tech] < camille.fourn...@gs.com> wrote: > 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 > > >