Default vfat file permissions - why executable?

[John Dong]

Usecase described at https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-mount/+bug/78505/comments/10

As Colin said, it seems to be more of a cosmetic issue with Nautilus.


On Oct 6, 2009, at 3:21 PM, Jeff Hanson wrote:

> Whenever I plug in a USB FLASH drive on a system with Ubuntu 8.04
> (Hard Heron) - 9.10 (Karmic Koala) beta, all the files on it have
> execute permissions.  Why?  Standard security practice on *nix-related
> systems is to default to non-executable unless specifically needed
> otherwise.  I can't think of a use-case where defaulting to executable
> files makes sense on vfat.  If a user really needs to maintain execute
> permissions on a file transfer they can just tar it first.
>
> I am constantly reminded by this bizarre setting every time I
> double-click a text file on a vfat-formatted device from Nautilus and
> am asked if I want to run or display it.
>
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