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The Wednesday 2007-05-09 at 17:37 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > > It would be very odd for the shell not to be executable, but since
> > > root can still execute files without there x bit (am I remembering
> > > that right?),
> >
> > Er... I dont think so... you can always execute a script that is not
> > marked executable by doing "sh scriptname"; this is true for root and
> > normals users, and it can be the bash shell, or any other
> > interpreter.
>
> I remember what the exception was (and I confirmed it this time).
...
> -r--r--r-x 1 root root 490716 May 9 17:24 shell*
>
> According to the rules applied to ordinary users, this "shell" would not
> now be executable, but for root, any execute bit will do:
Very curious!
I'm saving this to my interesting mails folder ;-)
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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