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permission denied as root??
Name: Chris Date: June 1, 2002 at 21:18:14 Pacific
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I am reading "Learning the Bash Shell" from O'Reilly. I have run a few commands (from the root account) and I will occaisionally get a "permission denied" when i run different commands. It doesn't matter if I login as root, or I su - to root. Why am I getting permission denied on anything when I am logged in as root? I figured at root I should be able to access anything on the server. I am running Red Hat 7.2 kernel version 2.4.7-10, and Bash version 2.05-8
Well if root owns the file, and user only has read and write access (chmod 600), then you can't even execute it as root. User needs execute permission (even if user is root) to be able to execute the file.
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Response Number 3
Name: Barry J. Grundy Date: June 2, 2002 at 04:17:28 Pacific
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Can you give us an example? That would be easier than guessing the problem...
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Response Number 4
Name: NetPortal Date: June 2, 2002 at 07:35:07 Pacific
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Actually, if you does not setup an execute permission for the file, you will not be able to execute it even tough you are root. But as a root, you can setup any privileges you like for yourself and for any others… that is you powerful ;)
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