Subj : Re: chmod 2711 not excutable under linux
To   : comp.unix.solaris,comp.os.linux
From : Barry Margolin
Date : Mon Dec 20 2004 09:54 pm

In article <1103587465.056929.15590@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
 susana73@hotmail.com wrote:

> I have a script that is chmod 2711 (-rwx--s--x) so that it's excutable
> for group and user but NOT readable by them.  It works perfectly on
> Solaris 8 for years.  However, now I run the same file on Linux it does
> not work.  It returns with permission denied.  Can anyone please help?
> 
> % ./script.sh
> ./script.sh: Permission denied.
> It's just a simple shell script.  The OS is SuSE Linux 9.1.

Many flavors of Unix don't support setuid/setgid scripts.  Solaris is 
one of the exceptions that does.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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