begin  quoting John H. Robinson, IV as of Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 04:01:02PM -0700:
> Stewart Stremler wrote:
> > 
> > I still have to chmod +x a program before I can run it, even if I'm root.
> 
> Not true.

Really?

> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/jhriv]% ls -l bash   
> -rw-r--r--    1 jhriv    other      585332 Apr 20 15:53 bash
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/jhriv]% ./bash
> zsh: permission denied: ./bash
> zsh: exit 1     ./bash
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/jhriv]% /lib/ld-linux.so.2 ./bash
> bash-2.05b$ 

Hm. But I don't need to be root to do that. So it's not like root grants
me that ability. So THAT isn't the answer to the question about IRC.

However -- I stand corrected. 

Can't seem to replicate this behavior on Solaris. I get core dumps.

So is this a 'feature'?

-Stewart "And how do I turn _OFF_ this feature?" Stremler

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