[kubuntu-devel] Kubuntu dapper-flight-6+ feedback

[Christoph Wiesen]

Am Dienstag, 18. April 2006 22:42 schrieb Christoph Wiesen:
> > > --------------------------------------
> > > guidance fstab editor can't set "exec" option and others
> > > --------------------------------------
> > > This has already been sent to  simon at simonzone.com and fboudra at free.fr
> > >
> > > Basically, the "exec" setting didn't work for me. In the end I had to
> > > edit fstab manually.
> > >
> > > After I selected "Allow Executables" in the advanced options of my
> > > non-root ext3 partition Guidance put this in fstab:
> > > ? ?/dev/hda5 /media/temp-data ext3 ,atime,auto,rw,nodev,exec,suid,users
> > > 0 0 Unfortunately that's not quite correct - to make it work I have to
> > > change it to this:
> > > ? ?/dev/hda5 /media/temp-data ext3 ,atime,auto,rw,nodev,users,exec,suid
> > > 0 0
> > >
> > > The cause is this: "users" and "user" imply "noexec" (as well as
> > > "nosuid" and "nodev", so suid and dev are affected as well.). That
> > > means if you put "users" in the end it will imply the option "noexec"
> > > as well, so any "exec" thats placed *before* "users" has no effect.
> > > What exactl options "users" implies is in the manpage of mount as well.
> > > Solution: "users" should be put before the other mentioned options.
> >
> > A new guidance will be uploaded shortly after beta release, let me know
> > if that doesn't fix it.
>
> Subscribed to dapper-changes now, so I'll see when guidance has a new
> release. Hope I don't miss it.

This bug is fixed with the new guidance version now. "user"/"users" is put in 
front of the other options and I can execute files on sich partitions now.

Chris