Shall we support the autorun feature?

[Martin Pitt]

Hi!

Chris Jones [2005-01-04 12:57 -0000]:
> > so a combination of 1 and 2 would be nicer: no configuration option, but
> > with exec mounting)
> 
> Especially true given that noexec mounting is *extremely* trivial to
> circumvent, which (to my mind at least) makes it fairly useless.

It was never intended to make it impossible to execute stuff from
removable media. Just copy it to your home directory and execute it
from there, done.

The intention was to make this step explicit to avoid accidential
execution.

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