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ubuntu cron permissions bash

Does anyone know how to I need help solving I'm working on a personal project and I'm trying to set up a cron job on my Ubuntu 22.04 machine that executes a script located in the `/opt/myscripts` directory. I have ensured the script has executable permissions set with `chmod +x /opt/myscripts/myscript.sh`, but when the cron job runs, I receive an behavior in the mail output stating `sh: /opt/myscripts/myscript.sh: Permission denied`. I’ve checked the ownership of the script with `ls -l /opt/myscripts/myscript.sh`, and it shows it’s owned by `root:root`. I am running the cron job under my user account, which is not `root`. Here's how my cron job is defined: ```bash * * * * * /opt/myscripts/myscript.sh ``` To troubleshoot, I tried changing the ownership of the script to my user account with `sudo chown myuser:myuser /opt/myscripts/myscript.sh`, but that still resulted in the same permission behavior. I also attempted to run the script manually as my user, which works perfectly without any issues. I've ensured that the cron daemon is running, and I verified that my user has permission to execute scripts in the `/opt` directory by checking permissions with `ls -ld /opt`. I also checked the syslog for any additional behavior messages using `grep cron /var/log/syslog`, but the only entries related to my job are the same permission denied messages. How can I resolve this scenario so that my cron job can successfully execute the script? For context: I'm using Bash on Windows. Has anyone else encountered this? For reference, this is a production application. Has anyone else encountered this? I'm coming from a different tech stack and learning Bash. Has anyone else encountered this? This issue appeared after updating to Bash latest. Am I approaching this the right way?