Comment 3 for bug 1211118

Scratch what I said about pmount, usbmount, and ntfs-config. Pmount is a dependency of usbmount, and ntfs-config sort of solved an issue of mine, but was not reliable. In short, they end up being buggy solutions at best and do not address the main issue. For now, I've just completely ditched pantheon-files and switched to thunar (with thunar-volman.)

Could you cite more specifically the potential security issues with auto-mounting drives by default? From what you said, this seems like a conscious decision, which certainly puts pantheon-files on an island in terms of linux file managers (and even for modern computer operating systems in general), but not in a good way. If for whatever reason pantheon-files decides to go completely against the grain (and have basic volume management off be default) it really needs to be an option. Otherwise, in addition to things like https://bugs.launchpad.net/pantheon-files/+bug/1044978 , it becomes a not very useful file manager at all.