Execute permission for root?

[Peter J. Holzer]

On 1999-11-28 15:38:38 -0800, Andrew Morgan wrote:
> I believe if you take the POSIX.1e draft as a whole,

I don't have it at hand to check, but

> it becomes clear
> that the root user is no different from any other user. Thus,
> 
> no to this one:
> > -rwxr--r--   1 andy     users      143642 Nov 28 20:52 script1
> 
> yes if root is in the 'users' group and no otherwise:
> > -rw-r-xr--   1 andy     users      143642 Nov 28 20:52 script2
> 
> no to this one:
> > -rw-r--r--   1 andy     users      143642 Nov 28 20:52 noscript

If this is true, it deviates from the behaviour of current Unix systems.
On Linux (2.2.x), HP-UX (10.20) and Solaris (7), root can execute the
first two scripts (regardless of the group) but not the third one.

	hp

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