On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 08:13, Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote: > Should I submit a bug report asking for a new feature? I think chmod, > if not other coreutils, should all be installed as 'immutable'. > > History - > One of my students did a chmod a-x /bin/* > > After some thought I fixed this by mounting the /bin directory onto a > VFat and moved the new 0755 file to linux. > > Is there a way to execute chmod when it is set 0644? Is there a way > to change the file permissions when chmod is disabled? > > At any rate, I set all my students chmod files to immutable (chattr +i chmod) > > Thoughts? Comments? Why did you give your students root access? If they have root access they can get around the quick fix you describe above.
