I'm having problems executing programs from a mounted USB drive.
$ grep /dev/sda1 /etc/fstab
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb auto noauto,user 0 0
$ ls -ld /dev
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 155648 Jun 28 15:36 /dev
$ ls -ld /dev/sda1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Feb 23 2004 /dev/sda1
$ ls -ld /mnt
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Jun 29 15:34 /mnt
$ ls -ld /mnt/usb
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jun 23 15:04 /mnt/usb
$ ls -ld /mnt/usb/jmccarty
drwx------ 14 jmccarty jmccarty 4096 Jun 28 08:44 /mnt/usb/jmccarty
$ ls -l /mnt/usb/jmccarty/hello
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jmccarty jmccarty 4731 Jun 23 15:03 /mnt/usb/jmccarty/hello
$ /mnt/usb/jmccarty/hello
bash: /mnt/usb/jmccarty/hello: Permission denied
$ uname -a
Linux Presario-1 2.6.10-1.771_FC2 #1 Mon Mar 28 00:50:14 EST 2005 i686
i686 i386 GNU/Linux
$ whoami
jmccarty
$ cp -p /mnt/usb/jmccarty/hello .
$ ls -ld .
drwxr-x--- 48 jmccarty jmccarty 4096 Jun 30 14:20 .
$ ls -l hello
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jmccarty jmccarty 4731 Jun 23 15:03 hello
$ ./hello
Hello
So why is permission denied? It's not just that it's removable
medium. So is the floppy, but I can execute from there.
Mike
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