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Does a user need executable permissions to be able to run du (disk usage)? [duplicate]
I am observing the following behaviour, and want to know if it is expected. I am trying to run disk usage ( du ) as user2 on a directory test_directory which is owned by user1. If I change the ...
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What is the effect of the "s" permission bit on a file?
I have two files with the following permissions: -rwsr--r-- 1 root root 213 Oct 22 12:15 f1 -r--rwxr-- 1 Bob staff 113 Oct 22 12:18 f4 Can the user Bob execute f1 and why? What is the effect of the ...
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Give executable permissions to binary files on a USB
I have a desktop application that provides the user with a tarball (.tar.gz) that they can unpack to find the binary that can be run with executable permissions which starts the overall program. This ...
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Files get executable when copied
So I just bought a new Samsung T7 Portable SSD. I initially intended to format it to exFAT, for use with both Windows, MacOS and Linux, but upon inspection, the disk comes with a default file system ...
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Is "running a folder" possible in Linux?
Is there a philosophy behind running a folder as an executable in linux? user@node main % ls -lash ./bin total 0 0 drwxrwxrwx 2 user staff 64B May 23 21:04 . 0 drwxr-xr-x 6 user staff 192B ...
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Why would I give the execute permission for txt file (non-script) file
In this article we see x permission is added to myfile.txt: mode of `myfile.txt' changed to 0751 (rwxr-x--x) What is execute permission in the context of non-script file? When would I need ...
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Unable to exec programs, parent directory symbolic link, btrfs mdadm drive
I'm not sure what to try next to resolve this issue. ~ 🌝 cat /etc/fstab # /dev/sdg1 /mnt/d/ ntfs noatime,nodiratime,users,noauto,x-systemd.automount,autodefrag 0 0 /dev/md127 /mnt/d btrfs ...
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Allow user to run nonpermissive commands in shell script (KSH)
I have a ksh script I am developing for work. (I am on the newer side to shell-scripting) I have root access but the future-users of this script will not. Say the other user is named User1. Within the ...
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is there a reason to revoke write permission for executables in /usr/bin
I have encountered a package which installs its binaries with permission 555 instead of usual 755 in /usr/bin, i.e. prohibiting writing for everyone. I do not understand the reason for doing so... Can ...
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VNC / Ubuntu 18.04 / xfce4: can't launch executables with a GUI
I'm using VNC remote desktop to visually access a remote Ubuntu 18.04 machine with a xfce4 GUI. VNC works fine. SSH shell works fine. The 2 programs with a graphic UI I'd like to launch are nedit (a ...
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can't uncheck "allow executing file as a program" from txt files
I can't remember how i have made all .txt files on my external hard-drive with NTFS executable in Ubuntu, so that whenever i double-click any .txt file on that disk or open the right-click menu, it ...
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Why I can't open text files when execetue "x" permission is on?
for example I have test_file and I run sudo chmod 775 test_file so now while I'm the owner I can read,write and execute it but with graphical interface it doesn't work, I don't have any error messages ...
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Accidentally ran chmod +x /* - How bad did I just mess up?
I wanted to mark all of the files in the directory I was in as executable, and I ran chmod +x /* because I thought that was the command to mark all the files in the directory you were currently in as ...
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How to run external executables within firejail
My machine is home desktop(personal) running Debian Buster with i3 window manager. I recently installed firejail with apt install firejail* firetools and also downloaded the new Firefox 83 browser ...
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Fish: The file is not executable by this user
I made fish function in ~/.config/fish/functions/confgit.fish: function confgit /home/john/Projects/confgit $argv end But when I run this function it just says: fish: The file “/home/john/...
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