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bash: ./executablefile: Permission denied

Asked by YungUser

I type in
root@ubuntu:/home/meghan/Desktop/prac8hw3# ./prac8hw3

And then I get
-bash: ./prac8hw3: Permission denied

How do I solve this?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

chmod +x ./prac8hw3; ./prac8hw3

Will run it. I don't suggest you work in your users $HOME as root, it may harm ownerships

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#2

chmod 700 ./prac8hw3
./prac8hw3

Please don't work always with root user, it is ok if you are installing...

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YungUser (megi-vrooyen) said : 		#3

Ok that helped,
will change the root,
Thank you :-)