[Bug 880965] Re: Automount options

[Martin Pitt]

While I'd prefer noexec myself, we tried this several times and got too
much pushback. Your home partition is hopefully not on a removable
device which isn't even in /etc/fstab (I wouldn't see how that works, as
we only automount to /media). So I'm afraid we'll leave the defaults as
they are.

Thanks!

** Package changed: udev (Ubuntu) => udisks (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: udisks (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Won't Fix

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Title:
  Automount options

Status in “udisks” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  The stance on default mount options have changed back from noexec
  (correct) to exec in bug #87627 for legacy compatibility reasons.

  noexec should be the default for writeable areas and then partitions
  with binary's set exec in fstab. Home partitions are often set noexec
  to receive downloadable content, the automounter now breaks that
  feature. This allows some argument of Linux being potentially
  susceptible to viruses.

  There have been other default requests like utf8, which have had to be
  fixed. These should be easily configurable by root perhaps as optional
  flags in fstab. Udev is far too modular to be appropriate for this.

  We should always maintain configurability atleast by root as we
  shouldn't expect to know all possible system setups.

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