chmod a-x chmod Fix?
Scot L. Harris
webid at cfl.rr.com
Fri Jan 6 13:33:16 UTC 2006
On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 08:13, Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote:
> Should I submit a bug report asking for a new feature? I think chmod,
> if not other coreutils, should all be installed as 'immutable'.
>
> History -
> One of my students did a chmod a-x /bin/*
>
> After some thought I fixed this by mounting the /bin directory onto a
> VFat and moved the new 0755 file to linux.
>
> Is there a way to execute chmod when it is set 0644? Is there a way
> to change the file permissions when chmod is disabled?
>
> At any rate, I set all my students chmod files to immutable (chattr +i chmod)
>
> Thoughts? Comments?
Why did you give your students root access? If they have root access
they can get around the quick fix you describe above.
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