chmod a-x chmod Fix?

[Doncho N. Gunchev]

On Friday 06 January 2006 15:13, Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote:
> Should I submit a bug report asking for a new feature?  I think chmod,
> if not other coreutils, should all be installed as 'immutable'.
>
> History -
> One of my students did a chmod a-x /bin/*
>
> After some thought I fixed this by mounting the /bin directory onto a
> VFat and moved the new 0755 file to linux.
>
> Is there a way to execute chmod when it is set 0644?  Is there a way
> to change the file permissions when chmod is disabled?
>
> At any rate, I set all my students chmod files to immutable (chattr +i
> chmod)
>
> Thoughts?  Comments?

You can also use other tool as mc (Midnight Commander, it lives 
in /usr/bin)...