Waldo Bastian wrote:
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 14:16, ghee teo wrote:
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.
The user should be prompted whether to run the script/application/trojan. With
that in place I don't see how it is different, security wise, from clicking
on a setup.sh file. But feel free to convince me otherwise :-)
Hmm, I missed the bit about the prompt, the bit on CDE was removed
because it didn't prompt the user. :) Okay.
-Ghee
Cheers,
Waldo
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