chmod a-x chmod Fix?

[Scot L. Harris]

On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 08:13, 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?

Why did you give your students root access?  If they have root access
they can get around the quick fix you describe above.