Bash: permission denied - Script error

[Ryan M.]

I was just setting up a simple script to sync my project files with the ones I have stored at OSC (http://www.osc.edu/), where I run into this error:
Bash: permission denied This happens when I run my super-simple script of: (with the working part cut out)

#!/bin/bash
# setup a couple of variables
# call to scp using the variables abover

The part which cause's the error seems to be the simple interpreter line at the top. If I run bash manually through bash <name of my file>, it works fine. If I try to run it with just ./<name of my file>, I get the permission denied error. If I run it as root (IE, sudo ./<name of my file>), it works fine.

I did check /bin/bash just for giggles and it is executable by all. What could be causing this?

[Marc P.]

Have you made the script executable by all? If not, try

chmod 777 nameofscript.sh

[Matt Krass]

The command chmod is needed, but 777 is always a bad idea, that gives everyone in the system full access to do whatever they want to the file. Not good chmod +x will add execution to its existing privileges, much more desirable.

chmod +x <name_of_file>

For example, if you as root create a file that does something simple, which you shouldn't do anyway but a lot of people do, and make it chmod'ed 777, any user could edit the file, and run it with root privileges via sudo, very messy.

[Ryan M.]

Hm. Well, it works now. Why does it have to be world executable? (I did have it executable for me.)

Thanks!

[sciguy125]

Hm. Well, it works now. Why does it have to be world executable? (I did have it executable for me.)

What where the old permissions and what are the new ones?