From: ghee teo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Waldo Bastian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Unified autostart scripts directory
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:16:29 +0100
Waldo Bastian wrote:
On Tuesday 05 July 2005 13:40, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote:
* start/run things on other events then startup
- shutdown (obvious extension)
- mount of media (see gnome-volume-manager)
When I mentioned autostart at mounting of media, I was referring to the
execution of a [.autorun|autorun|autorun.sh] executable located on the
media.
See also http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105604
The gnome-volume-manager does of course much more than that, but I don't
think that's to be included in an autostart spec for now.
Do you really want to support autorun feature? It is such a security
nightmare.
Though it may seems nice, but the script could make to do anything,
including wiping out your harddisk, install a trojan horse even before you
realise it.
CDE on Solarirs used to support it and we had to take it out for this
simple reason.
-Ghee
Cheers,
Waldo
I also don't like the idea of having things being run without my
intervention (or at least my acceptance). That was why I left windows behind
(don't use it at all) and came to linux.
But as someone said in the kde bugzilla, it could be nice for it to ASK if
you want to run it. Of course that would mean the dm's implementation would
dictate the security level of it..
So, if we go for it, we should also spec the local configuration (on the
~/.config dir maybe), so that hopefully no one gets "tricked" by the dm's
default behaviour. Also, it should be off by default, and the dm shouldn't
touch it without user intervention.
Cheers,
Renato Caldas
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