Yes, that's what I thought too. One can easily get the stick infected and spread it all over. So it should be write protected, not execute protected -- there's a difference.
Another way to protect against malware is to store archives on USB and to extract anywhere before execution. That has an added bonus of leaving something behind for them to run later. Which brings the point why not do the same through the web--it feels safer and more convenient. The ability to run from USB means there will no longer be requirement to move files under root. So installation will be an easy drag-and-drop / double-click operation. On Jul 12, 2007, at 6:04 PM, dly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, This is an evil area for another reason. Most unix properly disallow this but MAC OSX does allow it. This is how some incredible malware is operating on my machine - access via USB outside operating system control. Apparently this is thought of as a feature and not a severe security flaw of Windows and MAC OSX. Donna [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 12-Jul-07, at 9:23 PM, Robert Bernecky wrote: Hi, Eric, This is an evil area, in the sense that documentation on it is hard (for me, anyway...) to find. Look here: /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules This directory has a number of other interesting files in it, such as: /etc/udev/rules.d/85-mount-fstab.rules I eventually stumbled into it after finding DVD burner permissions changing AFTER I had changed the /dev entry to let me burn stuff from my own account. Bob On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 16:41 -0400, Eric Iverson wrote: I have been playing with J602 systems installed on a usb stick (thanks to Bill Lam). It works nicely on Windows but I have some questions for linux/unix gurus. The usb stick is automatically mounted by my Suse linux system. It was trivial to copy the J602 system over but I can't run it as it is mounted as noexec. I can manually unmount and remount without the noexec (su required) but this is a nuisance. Is there a way (sudo command) to just change the noexec option after the device has been automatically mounted? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ____________________________________________________________________________________ TV dinner still cooling? Check out "Tonight's Picks" on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
