File Access - Does Owner Access Override Group Access?

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1268 at kodak.UUCP> dennett at kodak.UUCP (Charlie Dennett) writes:
>Does this mean that owner level access overrides group and/or world access?

What it means is that the rules spelled out in the manual (e.g. p.7 of
INTRO(2) in AT&T 307-226 Issue 1) are followed.

>Even stranger - I next tried to remove the file with the rm command and
>it worked!  

Naturally, since your directory had write permission.

>The system I am using is a SUN 3/260 running version 4.2 release 3.5.  I do
>not know if this is unique to SUN or not.

No, all UNIX derivatives follow these rules.