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udisks package

  1. Bug #14335
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 14335

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Mike Trim (miketrim) wrote : Re: nautilus wants to execute all text files on a vfat flash drive

It would only affect files on external drives, not fixed partitions that are mounted via fstab. I wouldn't have thought that many normal users would want to be executing files from external drives -- and if someone did want to run a script on an external drive they could just use sh /media/disk/whatever, or manually override the mount options for that drive in its properties window.

Either way, the current behaviour -- whereby opening any text file (in Nautilus) that is on or was copied from a vfat/ntfs drive displays a confusing message -- is not very helpful to new/non-technical users.

Also, if the user has chosen to always run executable text files in the file management preferences, then they could potentially inadvertently execute a malicious script located on a portable flash drive for example.