Re: Autorun not allowed for USB memory stick

On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 22:34:45 +0100, Poul Moller wrote:
Hi,

I was trying to setup an autorun script to load my private keys from
USB flash memory, but I'm simply not allowed.

I have narrowed it down to the "noexec" flag being set when mounted by
the Gnome Volume Manger (Gnome v2.16) but haven't been able to change
its default behavior.

Any hints are greatly appreciated.

What are you trying to achieve, exactly?

Removing the noexec flag when mounting USB sticks is most likely a "bad
idea" from a security perspective. I'm suspecting you want to do some
syncing of files when the USB stick is mounted. Maybe it's better to
look into some way of using a tool like rsync or unison on the base
system, rather than running an executable on the stick itself?

You might be able to do what you want by setting up a HAL policy, but
I've never tried modifying the mount parameters this way.

Personally I keep my GPG keys on a USB stick, but I'm doing that by
configuring GPG rather than automatically executing something on my
stick.

/M

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