Executable?

[David A. Bandel]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 14:40:40 -0700
Condon Thomas A KPWA <tcondon at kpt.nuwc.navy.mil> wrote:

[snip]

> 
> Anyway, it did get me thinking about the fact that the test directory
> is in its own partition, so I typed mount and found it to be mounted:
> /dev/hda8 on /nfcs type ext2 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
> 
> What?!?  No execution?  So I checked /etc/fstab and it is listed:
> /dev/hda8   /nfcs   auto     defaults,user     0 1
> 
> So where does this (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) come from?  All of my
> partitions are mounted "defaults" and the others have only (rw).
> 
> More importantly, how can I change it?  If I unmount it and remount
> using: mount /dev/hda8 /nfcs
> it is mounted (rw) and I can execute the script.

man mount
/user
user by default is noexec,nosuid, and nodev -- to override:
user,exec,suid
(the options exec,suid,dev must follow user, not precede it)


Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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