Re: Debian Squeeze: Untrusted application launcher
Le Thu 3/06/2010, Ariel Laganá disait
> Hi everybody,
>
> I've recently upgraded to debian testing (squeeze) and I'm having
> some minor issues, that I hope someone can help me fix...
>
> The thing is due to a vulnerability in desktop shortcuts execution,
> gnome has introduced in their latest versions the Untrusted
> Application Launcher which is supposed to prevent execution of
> shortcuts in desktop unless they are given explicit execution
> permission. So every time one double clicks a shortcut, a pop
> message appears asking whether to mark it as trusted, launch it
> anyway or just cancel. This is supposed to disappear once you mark
> it as trusted or if you do a chmod ugo+x
> /home/user/Desktop/*.desktop but this is not working in my SO.
> Although I have all desktop shortcuts with exec permission and even
> clicking the 'Mark as Trusted' button doesn't make the popup
> disappear.
>
> I did some google research with no solution found, does anyone know
> a way to fix this or if this is a bug in squeeze that hasn't been
> fixed yet?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ariel
Did you check wether your home dir is mounted with the noexec option ?
--
Erwan
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