Shall we support the autorun feature?

[Martin Pitt]

Hi!

nocturn [2005-01-04  6:15 -0500]:
> I also favor disabling this.   Some users may like this, but I see it
> as a major security hole that a script gets executed without explicitly
> calling it.
> 
> If this is enabled by default, it will be easy to create malware that
> executes something like rm -rf $HOME....

To clarify this, this feature has never been enabled by default. You
have to explicitly enable it in the gnome-volume-manager configuration
dialog (System -> Settings -> Removeable media).

The problem right now is that nothing really changes if you enable it;
so _if_ we choose to not allowing to enable this feature, we should
remove the option from the configuration dialog.

Martin
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