Whenever I plug in a USB FLASH drive on a system with Ubuntu 8.04 (Hard Heron) - 9.10 (Karmic Koala) beta, all the files on it have execute permissions. Why? Standard security practice on *nix-related systems is to default to non-executable unless specifically needed otherwise. I can't think of a use-case where defaulting to executable files makes sense on vfat. If a user really needs to maintain execute permissions on a file transfer they can just tar it first.
I am constantly reminded by this bizarre setting every time I double-click a text file on a vfat-formatted device from Nautilus and am asked if I want to run or display it. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
