Users able to execute windows .exe though execute bit not set

[Marc Kaplan]

Just to add fuel to the fire... for me as well, Execute has no bearing on
execution of files via Samba. It does have the normal UNIX meaning on
directories though.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim McDonough [mailto:jmcd at us.ibm.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 9:57 AM
To: Richard Sharpe
Cc: samba-technical-bounces+jmcd=samba.org at lists.samba.org;
samba-technical at lists.samba.org; Nick Drouet
Subject: Re: Users able to execute windows .exe though execute bit not
set






>Hmmm, I did some testing a week or so ago, and found that removing the
>execute permission from ACLs on the file (esp inherited ones) prevents
>Win2K from executing the file, although it does open the file for read
>first.
Doesn't happen for me.  It lets me execute a file for which I only have
read access...

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