Shall we support the autorun feature?

[Orlando Fiol]

El mar, 04-01-2005 a las 11:36 +0100, Martin Pitt escribió:
> Hi folks!

> 1. Completely disable: pmount with noexec (as now), remove
>    the configuration option from gvm
> 2. enable: pmount with exec (should work automatically then)
> 3. enable with confirmation dialog: pmount with exec, change g-v-m to
>    confirm execution
> 
> I don't really like 3 because confirmation dialogs tend to get ignored
> and they do not tell you what exactly will be performed anyway. I
> doubt that many users would want to actually read the shell code (let
> alone analyze a binary) before executing it.

My vote is for option 3. The confirmation dialog should show the script
code, but even when this cann't be possible, when someone run that
script there is not any dialog, so the risk is the same. Show the script
code will be better to allow to user to choose if it will be executed or
not.

> Thanks,
> 
> Martin

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