On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 08:13 -0500, Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote: > > 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? > Here is a way - there are bound to be a number of others. Use "cp -p" to copy an arbitrary file that already has the desired perms (ie. 755) to a scratch file. Use "cat" to overwrite the scratch file with the contents of the chmod executable. Replace /bin/chmod with the scratch file (using cp -p again). Eg. cp -p /usr/bin/autoconf /tmp/scratch cat /bin/chmod > /tmp/scratch cp -p /tmp/scratch /bin/chmod You could also write a quick bit of C code to call the chmod system call. See "man 2 chmod". Cheers, Ben
