Hi David,
David Collier-Brown wrote:
ghee teo wrote:
Do you really want to support autorun feature? It is such a
security nightmare.
CDE on Solarirs used to support it and we had to take it out for
this simple reason.
Unix still has profile files, though, which can be use to play
similar tricks: a colleague once dropped "logout" into a csh .login
file (:-))
Unless you actually mean **root** autorun: the only
program I know that has that is Samba, and it protects
the commands (root preexec and postexec) against unprivileged
people.
Look at what Ghee replied to:
Waldo Bastian wrote:
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.
So this was referring to autorun at mounting of media.
Desktop autostart indeed is like profile files. But for media autostart
the media creator determines what is run, not the user or his
administrator. The user can't even find out if anything will autorun
without actually mounting the media.
Ciao, Joerg
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