On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 15:21 -0400, Jeff Hanson wrote: > 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. > AFAIK you need the executable bit to be able to browse the folders.
Regards Chris
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