How to execute a file with (---x--x--x) Permissions and I am not the owner?

[Alexander Skwar]

· Gregory Piñero <gregpinero at gmail.com>:

> It's a python file and I tried running these two commands and get the
> following errors:
> 
> $ python backup_all.py >> log.txt
> python: can't open file
> '/home/chiefinnovator/backups_all_web/backup_all.py': [Errno 13]
> Permission denied
> 
> $ backup_all.py >> log.txt
> python: can't open file
> '/home/chiefinnovator/backups_all_web/backup_all.py': [Errno 13]
> Permission denied
> 
> Since this file has passwords in it, I wanted to make it execute-only.
>  Is that not possible?

Yes, it is possible. But that's a python script and python is an
interpreted language. This means, that the interpreter needs read 
access to the file. It doesn't have this access.

I'd recommend to remove the password from the file and put it
in, say, ~/.backup_all.rc. ~/.backup_all.rc, I'd set to chmod 0400.

Alexander Skwar
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