But can I, as root, give permission to run a file as world executable in a
user's home directory? The reason I ask is I tried that and it -- the cgi
file -- wouldn't work, until I changed the owner to the user of the home
directory ... oh wait. I had changed the group, not the user. I see now.
You have to change both. If the file is the group "root," but the owner is
the user "mitch," it won't run because mitch isn't in the root group. So if
the file is in the group root, then the user would also have to be the root
group for the file to be executable? That makes sense. Duh! Is that right?
mitch
"Scott Thurmond"
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01/07/02 08:54 AM
Please respond to
newbie
You (root) can give permission to any file you want. Lets, for example,
say
root wants to give the ID brian ownership of the file /tmp/tempfile.txt.
chown id:group /file
chown brian:brian /tmp/tempfile.txt
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This brings up a question about permissions ...
So a script (or any executable, such as a perl script written for cgi)
cannot be run by anyone other than root, if it was created by root? I mean,
root can't give permission for a root-owned script to be world executable,
even if the administrator wanted to? While I can see how doing that would
be a very bad idea, in terms of security, I'm just asking in order to learn
more about linux file permissions.
I had written a perl cgi script, and it wouldn't run from the web page, as
it turns out because I had created it as root.
mitch
>
hi rich,
the script is an _executable_. just create an icon in your desktop and
point it to the script of your choice. make sure that you have the proper
permissions though as some scripts are for administration (root and its
equivalent) use only.
ciao!
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