Automount options
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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udisks (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The stance on default mount options have changed back from noexec (correct) to exec in bug #87627 for legacy compatibility reasons.
noexec should be the default for writeable areas and then partitions with binary's set exec in fstab. Home partitions are often set noexec to receive downloadable content, the automounter now breaks that feature. This allows some argument of Linux being potentially susceptible to viruses.
There have been other default requests like utf8, which have had to be fixed. These should be easily configurable by root perhaps as optional flags in fstab. Udev is far too modular to be appropriate for this.
We should always maintain configurability atleast by root as we shouldn't expect to know all possible system setups.
While I'd prefer noexec myself, we tried this several times and got too much pushback. Your home partition is hopefully not on a removable device which isn't even in /etc/fstab (I wouldn't see how that works, as we only automount to /media). So I'm afraid we'll leave the defaults as they are.
Thanks!