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Re: Trusted Software Vendor


On Jun 14 22:45, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Vaclav Zeman!
> 
> >>>> Out of curiosity would downloading setup.exe using wget also work
> >>>>around the problem?
> >>>
> >>>Most likely. ÂI don't think wget cares about protecting Windows users
> >>>from their own stupidity. ÂIf you use wget, you should know what you're
> >>>doing.
> >>>
> >>>How about you just give it a try?
> >>
> >> Er, I don't have this problem. ÂI wasn't the one reporting it.
> > Downloading setup.exe with wget has another problem. The downloaded
> > file is missing the +x bit, IIRC.
> 
> It's irrelevant for setup.exe.

It's not.  Try to start any executable on a NTFS filesystem.  Remove
the executable bits from all entries in the ACL.  Try again.


Corinna

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