Unified autostart scripts directory

[ghee teo]

Waldo Bastian wrote:

>On Tuesday 05 July 2005 13:40, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote:
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>>* start/run things on other events then startup
>>  - shutdown  (obvious extension)
>>  - mount of media (see gnome-volume-manager)
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>When I mentioned autostart at mounting of media, I was referring to the 
>execution of a [.autorun|autorun|autorun.sh] executable located on the media.
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>See also http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105604
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>The gnome-volume-manager does of course much more than that, but I don't think 
>that's to be included in an autostart spec for now.
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>
    Do you really want to support  autorun feature? It is  such a 
security nightmare.
Though it may seems nice, but the script could make to do anything, 
including wiping out your harddisk, install a trojan horse even before 
you realise it.

   CDE on Solarirs used to support it and we had to take it out for this 
simple reason.

-Ghee

>Cheers,
>Waldo
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