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Old 04-27-2009
a permission question

what permissions are needed in order to run an executable file if you ae not the ownner?
read, and excute? would it be chmod 717?
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Old 04-27-2009
Only execute permissions are needed to execute a file.
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Old 04-28-2009
x11 is needed to execute a file other than the owner

here X can be acording to owner and the 11 is for execute permission for group and other
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Old 04-28-2009
chmod 755 should do you fine....
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Old 04-28-2009
Hammer & Screwdriver

or
chmod go+x file_name
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Old 04-28-2009
On AIX and maybe Solaris, I'm sure you need 'r' and 'x' to execute a script. Having 'x' only will result in a "0403-016 Cannot find or open the file."
You can't execute the script if you can't read it so at minimum you have to have 'r' and 'x'...
 
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