I am not sure how many files that this happens to, but it has happened to two that I have tried in the last few days, one .sh file and another program/executable. I am logged in as root - Linux Mint 21.2 When I try to allow executing as a program it unticks itself (as in this video) I also get ‘permission denied’ in terminal, as root and i have tried

chmod +x filename

and

sudo chmod -v +x filename.sh

sudo chown --verbose 1000 filename.sh

But still get denied… What am I doing wrong here or how can I fix this?

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipMEnglish
    12·
    4 days ago

    First off don’t log in as root

    What file system is the file under? What are the results of ls -l?

    • Babalugats@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Results of ls -l

      total 27040
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 27560272 Apr 13  2021 'Commandos 2 HD Remaster'
drwxr-xr-x 7 user user    32768 Apr 24  2021 'Commandos 2 HD Remaster_Data'
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user      200 Apr 24  2021  run.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user     2465 Mar  3  2021  uninstall.sh
  • a14o@feddit.orgEnglish
    8·
    4 days ago

    The partition containing the files may be mounted readonly. Check less /etc/mtab for an ro option on that entry.

    • Bobo The Great@startrek.websiteEnglish
      4·
      4 days ago

      Also, at least for ext4 filesystems, probably many others, there’s an option (noexec) that prevents any execution. Might be worth checking that

    • Babalugats@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      This is the result for sda3 /dev/sda3 /media/user/8ACB-8EB4 vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,showexec,utf8,flush,errors=remount-ro 0 0

  • ZWQbpkzl [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    Can’t explain why your file browser doesn’t work and I don’t suggest logging into your desktop as root. You should take steps to make that impossible, in fact.

    Now you said this doesn’t work

    sudo chmod -v +x filename.sh

    And that’s baffling. What is the exact error message and output of that command? Also is the file in question in a weird place or on a weird filesystem?

  • Maiq@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    4 days ago

    Not really sure whats going on here. Some info that might help might be.

    1. Is the script supposed to be run as root?

    If so try sudo chown root:root filename.sh. If it is not to be run as root try sudo chown $USER:$USER filename.sh

    1. What is the permissions does the file have? ls -lg?

    2. Does the file have a shebang #!/usr/bin/env bash?

    That’s all I got. If this doesn’t help someone will come along soon that will have better ideas.

    • Babalugats@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago
      sudo chown root:root run.sh
[sudo] password for user:          
chown: changing ownership of 'run.sh': Operation not permitted

      and the latter does nothing. Or seems not to anyway.