Re: mounting FAT and NTFS without the executable permission.

[David Zeuthen <david fubar dk>]

On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 14:31 +0200, Sébastien Barthélemy wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is there a way to tel nautilus that whenever I plug a FAT/NTFS
> filesystem (or any other one without unix right management), it should
> stop mounting it with executions rights?

Not at this point. Is there a particular reason you'd want that?

> By the way, I think very few people are using hotpluggable FAT or NTFS
> with the intent to executes some program from there. Maybe removing
> the executable right would be a saner default?

Security-wise it wouldn't make any difference - users can just copy
files to $HOME or /tmp, chmod +x and then run the programs. Changing
this might break some odd-ball setups where people except to run Wine
apps or home-grows shell scripts carried around.

     David