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Comment by Joker_vD

8 hours ago

Honestly, sometimes I just want to mark all files on a Linux system as executable and see what would even break and why. Seriously, why is there a whole bit for something that's essentially an 'read permission, but you can also directly execute it from the shell'?

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paulddraper  2 hours ago

It’s a security thing, in conjunction with sudoers, I think.

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