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

[Gregory Piñero]

On 8/6/06, Michael T. Richter <ttmrichter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The problem is, I think, that the interpreter itself has to open and read
> in the files to execute them.  Executing a proper binary is done at the OS
> level itself in the binary loader, so it doesn't require a process to open a
> file, read it, etc.
>
> So these Python scripts?  Have to be readable.  If you don't want them
> readable, you should do something like compile them to bytecode and make
> those files readable (after stripping all doc strings, etc.) which still
> won't quite do what you want, but will be better than what you've got.
>

Ok that makes sense, thanks for the help, Michael, and Felipe.

-Greg
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