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Bryant
Asked: 2017-05-01 15:43:45 +0800 CST

Cannot execute script outside of home directory

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I have a hard drive mounted as /data. I'm the owner of the mountpoint, and I own all the directories under it. I installed an IDE under /data. It contains a shell script you need to execute to setup the IDE. This file is also owned by me, and is user, group, world executable. (i.e. I don't need chmod +x ...). For some reason, it wont let me execute the script. I continually get permission denied errors. As soon as I move the file to my home directory, with no permissions changes, it lets me execute the script. Is there a setting somewhere that is preventing me from executing files outside of my home directory, even if I own them and they are set as executable?

In case it matters, I'm running 16.04.

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  1. Best Answer

    baAmong the options you can pass to mount or write in fstab there is an exec flag. Remounting your drive with that option should help.

    (If this is a bash script, you can probably also do /bin/bash /data/nameOfScript, but you'll run into the next problems soon, I guess.)

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