Does owner ignore the file or folder permission restrict?

I create a file and remove the rwx permission to owner and group and anyone , but I still can modify the file , why?

Are you root? You mean the perms are now 000? (--- --- ---)? Why would you even do that?

You really have to provide more information. (Ex. If you are using AFS as your filesystem, there are seperate acl's for every created file based upon the DCE permissions.)

Keep in mind the perms are for owner, group, and other.

Yes, im root.
In windows, administrator is also restricted by the file permission unless he take the ownership, in Linux root can full control all files and ignore the file permission restrict?

Well it seems like it, I've never actually noticed before. I'm using Gentoo, and I'm guessing thats the default.

That's why its such a bad idea to do things in root without needing root permissions.

Oh well, just try not to do an accidental 'rm' on things.

Note. I did that once when a few filesnames started with ?? and I did rm -r ??*. It was a sad day....

Number one, NEVER log in as root, unless it's single user mode at the console.
Use 'su', or install 'sudo'.

Yes, root has access to all, regardless.

Thank you all