Re: [Nautilus-list] Idea for Nautilus and GMC.

[Ben Ford <ben kalifornia com>]

Zak McGregor wrote:

> Now, for apps executed in such a way via Nautilus or GMC, perhaps it
> would be a good idea to have a sort of chrooted environment for those
> files to run in, and have the application revert the status of the file
> *back* to whatever it was prior to the execution of it via whichever
> interface was used to invoke it? That way, the clueless would only be
> able to execute it via the interface, which would run it in a clean
> environment and also protect the user from inadvertently running the
> executable via any other means. If the user wants to run the program
> through any other means, he would have to do the chmod +x himself,
> leaving the situation no worse off than without these ideas implemented
> in Nautilus...

Wouldn't work well that way.  What about the Ximian installer, or the 
RealPlayer installer?

You could do a sandbox like Java so it'd pop up a warning when a program 
tried to overstep boundaries, but I don't think it would be worth the 
coding effort.  User permissions are probably more that enough.  (unless 
luser is running as root, then he can discover why you don't do that!)

-b

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