Paul Crawford wrote:
One thing that bothers me is the way LINUX seems to default to execute-enabled on such drives (most likely USB sticks). OK, you might want to run stuff off a CD for installing, but given the ease of viruses in the world of Windows to propagate using either autorun or user gullibility it would be far better if any USB drives were mounted with the 'noexec' option. Any ideas of how to configure that?
I assume you are using some sort of automounting, or you would just do the mounting yourself, right? The gnome system uses its own gnome-volume-manager to configure automounting options, but I believe it does its work thru the hal mechanism (not sure about that). Anyway, you probably want to look into how to configure the hald system, which you can do using the command-line utilities packaged with hal. You probably already have hal installed, so just try typing hal-device at a command prompt and see what happens. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
