GNU bug report logs - #41554
chmod allows removing x bit on chmod without a force flag, which can be inconvenient to recover from

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Will Rosecrans <wrosecrans <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 01:54:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 41554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Will Rosecrans <wrosecrans <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 41554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#41554: chmod allows removing x bit on chmod without a force
 flag, which can be inconvenient to recover from
Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 10:13:12 +0200

On Mai 26 2020, Will Rosecrans wrote:

> "chmod a-x $(which chmod)" not a particularly likely thing for a user to
> try to do directly, but it is conceivable for some sort of script to
> attempt it by accident because of a bug, and it would make the system
> inconvenient to recover.

It will likely fail with EPERM.

Andreas.

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