Shall we support the autorun feature?

[Sivan Green]

On 11:36, Tue 04 Jan 05, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hi folks!
> 
> Bug #1956 deserves a public discussion, so let's do that here.
> 
> Gnome proper offers a so-called "autorun" feature for removable media.
> If enabled in gnome-volume-manager (disabled by default), g-v-m checks
> if a file "autorun" or "autorun.sh" is present and executable on newly
> mounted media. If so, the file is automatically executed.
> 
> However, since pmount mounts non-fstab drives with "noexec", this
> currently fails. So the question arises what we want to do with
> autorun in the future. I see the following options:
> 
> 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 would go for (1).

Sivan