On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 09:45:25AM -0800, Abhijit Vijay wrote:
>
> -r-s--x--x 1 root root 656 Feb 26 12:28
> burnCD
>
> This has the same permissions as /usr/bin/passwd.
>
> burnCD is essentially a tcsh script.
>
> When I run it as root, it works fine.
> However, when I try to run it as a normal user, I get
> the message:
>
> /usr/bin/burnCD: Permission denied.
You get the permission denied from the tcsh interpreter which can't read
the script, because you have no read permission (for the script).
/usr/bin/passwd is an elf, so you need only x permission to run it.
Elias
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