Potential disaster for Rev/Linux pendrive apps

[Rishi Viner]

On Thursday 08 March 2007 04:43, Bob Warren wrote:
> As you can see, executable permission has now become independent of the
> user. If you try changing this option when the program is on the
> pendrive itself, it won't work. I tried copying the program to the
> Desktop and altering the executable permission there. It works. But if
> you copy the program back to the pendrive, the executable permission is
> removed.

It looks like they are trying to improve security for removable drives... 
shame they are crippling such important functionality! I can't imagine that 
they would do this without some way for the user to manually fix this for a 
program they specifically want to run. Make lots of noise on the ubuntu 
forums and see if you can get an answer. 

> I don't know how to alter the permissions of Rev progs on pendrives from
> the terminal. 

As root user on terminal you could try: 
chmod +x /media/KINGSTON/Revolution/revolution.x86
or
chmod 777 /media/KINGSTON/Revolution/revolution.x86

Good luck, 

Rishi.