On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 10:37:02AM +0100, Danny Lathouwers wrote: > Dear community, > > I wanted to execute a shell script from /cdrom and it fails with the > following message: > bash: ./scriptname: Permission denied. > The script is executable and is run as root, so should work. > Copying the script to ~ works but i really need to run it from /cdrom. > Does this have anything to do with ro mounting of the cdrom (removing it from > fstab did not help as the write protection > is recognized and it is still mounted ro).
Ah, you're so close:) It has to do with the "noexec" option to mount. This option is propably in disguish. Most likely you'll see a "user" option in /etc/fstab for the cdrom device. This "nouser" option implies "noexec". Override this on the command line with the "-o exec" flag like in: # mount /cdrom -o exec I would advice against adding this "exec" option in the /etc/fstab file as this would seriously compromise security! As is it is only available to root, and needs an explicit action, and that's the way to go. -- groetjes, carel
