Shall we support the autorun feature?

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:18:22AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Martin Pitt 
> | It should be noted that our only use case so far - automatic Ubuntu CD
> | upgrades - does not need this feature. This was solved by a hal script
> | that checks whether an inserted CD is an Ubuntu one.
> | 
> | Any opinions about this?
> 
> So far, the whole discussion has been about handling CDs.  I'm more
> interested in handling USB thumbdrives and such, where one might keep
> GPG and SSH keys.  Running a shell script to add these to the running
> keyring when plugging it in and removing the keys when removing the
> thumbdrive.

It's not unusual [fx: Tom Jones] to plug in a foreign USB thumbdrive to
see what's on it or to share files between two laptops without network
connectivity, and I'd be extremely uncomfortable with knowing that
random scripts on the drive were going to be executed when I plugged
them in. I'd rather have the shell script in question live on a
permanently-mounted filesystem.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]