Access Control

[ashasnair]

Hi I have a query with regards to an accesss control:

There are two scripts A and B. When A executes it calls B.

The permission listing for A is as follows
-rwxr--r-- 1 root users 4364 Oct 2 2008 A.ksh

The permission listing for B is as follows
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users 4364 Oct 2 2008 B.ksh

My attempt is to prevent everyone from accessing B. Will the above permission restrict everyone since everyone does not have access to A and since A calls B and B cannot run by itself.

However it appears from above that everybody can execute B. If I have to remove "x" such than anyone does not have access to script B then can I do so without affecting script A?

[Lazydog]

Setup B to be the same as A.