On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 10:20:34AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > I'll try again with a shorter message. > I'm having problems executing programs from a mounted USB drive. > I mount /dev/sda1 to /dev/usb and create some directories > over there. All paths have execute access all the way down > When I try to execute a program built on the USB drive, I get > "bash: /mnt/usb/jmccarty/hello: Permission denied". > Is this because it is a "removable medium"? I just checked, and > I get the same error from a floppy. Yes, very likely. The "user" flag to mount (look in /etc/fstab) implies the option "noexec". Add the option "exec" and it should work as you expected. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 76 degrees Fahrenheit.
