sudo guru needed

Joel Goguen jtgoguen at gmail.com
Mon Oct 2 19:10:45 UTC 2006


Marius might have the right idea, have you tried his suggestion?

# sudo mount -o remount,exec /media/cdrom0
# sudo sh /media/cdrom0/installUnix

On 10/2/06, Albert Wagner <albertwagner at cox.net> wrote:
> Joel Goguen wrote:
> > What's on line 42 of that script?  What do you get when you do 'ls -l
> > /media/cdrom0/vw7.4.1nc/bin/linux86/visual'
>
> visual is an executable with the exact same owner,group,permissions as
> installUnix:  root  root  -r-xr-xr-x
>
>
> >
> > I'm grasping at straws now, does it still do that if you do the following:
> >
> > # sudo -s -H
> > Password:
> > # sh /media/cdrom0/installUnix
> >
>
> Yes; except it doesn't ask for Password:
>
>
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