Shall we support the autorun feature? -> Conclusion

[Sivan Green]

On 09:53, Thu 03 Feb 05, Martin Pitt wrote:
> It seems that we should not completely drop this feature, but it
> should default to "off" in any case.
> 
> I recently tried this out again, Gnome already shows a confirmation
> dialog before executing the autorun file. So for maximum upstream
> compatibility I will implement option 3.
> 
> I will modify pmount soon to have a new switch -e/--exec which mounts
> a device with the 'exec' flag. Also, I will modify
> gnome-volume-manager to pmount with -e if the autorun feature is
> enabled.
> 
> Does that sound reasonable?


I think it does very much, a nice compromise between those
who think it can be completely disabled and those who want
to have it as another usability option. Maybe add some sort
of pop up and disappear window to inform the user that
enabling this *might* (and most certainly won't) introduce
some security implications and have the autorun feature ask
no questions? I reckon asking "do you want to run this"
everytime someone puts in an autorun enabled media could be
annoying...?

Sivan