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How to 'chmod' on an NTFS ( or FAT32 ) partition?
I'm using LastPass as my password manager, and I use Sesame for multifactor authentication. On Windows this was no problem, but I alternate between Windows and Linux computers, so I need to have Sesame available for both cases.
On my laptop I'm running Ubuntu 10.10, and I downloaded the 32bit LastPass Sesame (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS) and moved the files (an executable and a .bin) to my USB device. As instructed, I tried to run chmod +x sesame
on the executable (whose name is sesame).
I tried this from the terminal window, but when doing an ls -la
afterwards I noticed that the permissions on the file hadn't changed a bit. I tried doing the same adding sudo
at the start, but that didn't make any difference either (and I didn't get any kind of error message or anything). I also tried doing it the "graphical" way, by right-clicking on the executable in Nautilus > Properties > Permissions, and trying to check off the Allow executing file as program check box - the checked marked only disappeared again after a second.
If I moved the same executable to my hard drive, it worked very fine to make it executable (and execute it).
I'm not really experienced with Linux, so I suspect I'm missing something obvious. Might it have something to do with the USB being fat32 (but I thought files on a fat32 partition should be executable by default?), and if so - what are my options?
And just to have said it: it works very fine to run the Windows version of Sesame using Wine, but it's a bit of a hassle (at least if I need it somewhere Wine isn't already installed).