Scary .desktop behaviour

Sebastien Bacher seb128 at canonical.com
Wed Jan 5 07:10:06 CST 2005


Le mercredi 05 janvier 2005 à 13:43 +0100, a-aa a écrit :

> In hoary upgrade/install set all .desktop files +x.  You can have .deb 
> packages run some kind of config right.  Should be easy enough to run a 
> find /home/ -name 'Desktop/' or something to chmod u+x every *.desktop 
> file.  

Changing the user files in a package script is wrong, it won't fix the
issue with the new created files, etc ..

BTW I would like to get the advice of the security guys on this issue.
Martin, Matt ... any opinion on this ?


Cheers,

Sebastien Bacher





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