I am not sure how many files that this happens to, but it has happened to two that I have tried in the last few days, one .sh file and another program/executable. I am logged in as root - Linux Mint 21.2 When I try to allow executing as a program it unticks itself (as in this video) I also get ‘permission denied’ in terminal, as root and i have tried

chmod +x filename

and

sudo chmod -v +x filename.sh

sudo chown --verbose 1000 filename.sh

But still get denied… What am I doing wrong here or how can I fix this?

  • Maiq@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    5 days ago

    Not really sure whats going on here. Some info that might help might be.

    1. Is the script supposed to be run as root?

    If so try sudo chown root:root filename.sh. If it is not to be run as root try sudo chown $USER:$USER filename.sh

    1. What is the permissions does the file have? ls -lg?

    2. Does the file have a shebang #!/usr/bin/env bash?

    That’s all I got. If this doesn’t help someone will come along soon that will have better ideas.

    • Babalugats@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      1·
      4 days ago
      sudo chown root:root run.sh
[sudo] password for user:          
chown: changing ownership of 'run.sh': Operation not permitted

      and the latter does nothing. Or seems not to anyway.