** Changed in: nautilus
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/389465
Title:
Non-executable files with common executable extensions (.bin, .sh)
should be
** Changed in: nautilus
Status: Unknown = New
** Changed in: nautilus
Importance: Unknown = Wishlist
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Non-executable files with common executable extensions (.bin, .sh) should be
easier for users to run
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/389465
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Am setting this bug to Triaged since the work of Bug Control is done
here and it's now up for discussion. I lean slightly to marking this bug
as Invalid and mentioning Ubuntu Brainstorm since this is no minor
change, like Bryce Harrington already said when declining it for 'One
Hundred Paper
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #604639
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604639
** Also affects: nautilus via
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604639
Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
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Non-executable files with common executable extensions (.bin,
Users tend to just click on the ok button without reading the warning
dialogs and could easily run code downloaded which should not be run
this way that's not a bug but a feature than you have to change the
permissions to use something
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided =
I don't disagree that this is an issue in nautilus which should be
solved, but as Paul indicated there are serious security considerations
that must be taken into account; this invalidates the issue as a
papercut since it is not trivial to fix.
** Changed in: hundredpapercuts
Status:
Well, in fact I think it is trivial to fix, it is just a question on
whether we want users being able to install easily whatever they want or
not.
I think it'd be easy to just pop a dialog informing the user on this
matter and the possible security issues, and allowing him to decide
whether to
** Changed in: hundredpapercuts
Milestone: round-10 = None
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Non-executable files with common executable extensions (.bin, .sh) should be
easier for users to run
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/389465
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