Re: How to remove pesky persistent +x bits that chmod -x won't remove

On May 19, 2016, at 7:01 PM, Warren Young wrote: > > For what it’s worth, setfacl -bk followed by a chmod -x sometimes always > fixes this. I’ve solved this by applying that fix to the affected directory trees in bulk: $ find foo bar baz -exec setfacl -kb {} \;

How to remove pesky persistent +x bits that chmod -x won't remove

I think I have an ACL inheritance problem. Here’s the scenario: $ ls -l Protocol.md ## Boo, bad permissions; shouldn’t be +x! -rwxr--r--+ 1 Warren Warren 4.3K May 19 18:41 Protocol.md* $ chmod -x Protocol.md $ ls -l Protocol.md ## Still +x! Did I stutter? -rwxr--r--+ 1 Warren