On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 21:38 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
The arguments are really going downhill here. I'm not overly
interested
in wading into this, but I'll just say that whenever we do something
automatically, somebody will get mad. In the past, auto-mounting (and
even just automatically sniffing) of media has been construed as a
security issue..
Anyway,
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gvfs/commit/?id=e30a67f3215d829e95ee7e358c67a...
Honestly, I'm not sure there's any difference at all between 'mount on
attach' and 'mount on any attempt to access' from a security POV. I
think the decision to change this was a good one, and I doubt it'll make
many people unhappy - and as several commenters have pointed out, it's
only in line with what every other OS we can think of does by default,
and what Fedora / GNOME has always done in the past.
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