I'm trying to learn Linux essentials on WSL. I tried to change permission for a test file and it didn't work as I expected.
$ stat test.sh
File: test.sh
Size: 1616 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: eh/14d Inode: 93168217291239796 Links: 1
Access: (0777/-rwxrwxrwx) Uid: ( 1000/merajmasuk) Gid: ( 1000/merajmasuk)
Access: 2019-11-25 01:42:24.306619600 +0600
Modify: 2019-11-25 01:42:24.306619600 +0600
Change: 2019-11-25 12:44:11.615101900 +0600
Birth: -
$ chmod 444 test.sh
$ stat test.sh
File: test.sh
Size: 1616 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: eh/14d Inode: 93168217291239796 Links: 1
Access: (0555/-r-xr-xr-x) Uid: ( 1000/merajmasuk) Gid: ( 1000/merajmasuk)
Access: 2019-11-25 01:42:24.306619600 +0600
Modify: 2019-11-25 01:42:24.306619600 +0600
Change: 2019-11-25 12:49:02.544253700 +0600
Birth: -
As you can see, I tried to apply the permission 444, here 555 was applied. Another example,
$ stat test.sh
File: test.sh
Size: 1616 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: eh/14d Inode: 93168217291239796 Links: 1
Access: (0555/-r-xr-xr-x) Uid: ( 1000/merajmasuk) Gid: ( 1000/merajmasuk)
Access: 2019-11-25 01:42:24.306619600 +0600
Modify: 2019-11-25 01:42:24.306619600 +0600
Change: 2019-11-25 12:49:02.544253700 +0600
Birth: -
$ chmod 711 test.sh
$ stat test.sh
File: test.sh
Size: 1616 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: eh/14d Inode: 93168217291239796 Links: 1
Access: (0777/-rwxrwxrwx) Uid: ( 1000/merajmasuk) Gid: ( 1000/merajmasuk)
Access: 2019-11-25 01:42:24.306619600 +0600
Modify: 2019-11-25 01:42:24.306619600 +0600
Change: 2019-11-25 12:52:27.316596700 +0600
Birth: -
Which, again you can see, doesn't work correctly.
I looked at this question but it didn't help me. I found a similar post (as my machine uses NTFS partition and the file is inside /mnt
) on AskUbuntu but I found it too complex for me.
/home
or is it under/mnt
? Filesystems in WSL1 work a bit differently than in standalone Linux, so anything that mentions "ntfs-3g" does not apply./mnt
.chmod
unless I copy the file outside/mnt
?