Permissions using live CD?

[lwrver]

I'm trying to execute a program stored on a thumb drive using the Kubuntu live CD. It always says "Permission required" and aborts the process. When I've done this from an installed system it always works and asks for su password. There has been no su password assigned using the live CD, so what can I do here to get this process to execute?

[AlphaLexman]

Re: Permissions using live CD?

If you're just clicking the mouse on a program that would normally need root privliges, try a sudo command for the same thing. It will force a option to enter a password I don't remember trying that from the live CD but some options might be:

[just hit the ENTER key -- no password]
password=root
password=password
password=passwd
password=user
password=kubuntu

Keep trying!

[lwrver]

Re: Permissions using live CD?

I figured it out. Since the files were copied to the drive under windows, I had to first mount the drive under linux, and then chmod +x the executables. After that it worked fine. In the past I've always copied the files under linux after I had given them executable permissions. Also I've never tried this using a live CD before.

Thanks!