-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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).
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-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 ;-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGQoX0tTMYHG2NR9URAhb0AKCHevmIlkZG/4rF5Y94PB/C74B/1ACfeSBk 1fkIrph5S0z03QiSzsjQ0pc= =bWB2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org