Question about noexec flag in HAL

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 15:07 -0400, Kris Moore wrote:
> Hopefully just a quick question. In the past I've had to compile HAL 
> with a patch to disable the noexec flag from being used when mounting 
> CD's. The lines in question are below:
> 
> tools/hal-storage-mount.c
> #ifdef __FreeBSD__
> #define MOUNT           "/sbin/mount"
> -#define MOUNT_OPTIONS   "noexec,nosuid"
> +#define MOUNT_OPTIONS   "nosuid"
> #define MOUNT_TYPE_OPT  "-t"
> 
> This has been rather of a pain, since I don't want to keep making a 
> custom patch to remove this flag. Is there some other easy way to remove 
> the noexec flag from being used in CD mounting? I've tried by putting 
> this in my /usr/local/etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi file:
> 
> <device>
>   <match key="volume.fstype" string="iso9660">
>      <merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.noexec" 
> type="bool">false</merge>
>   </match>
> </device>
> 
> However, it doesn't seem to make a difference :(
> 
> 
> Any other hints? Or am I stuck patching HAL itself?

I have removed noexec from the list of hardcoded options.  Any file
systems applications needing this will have to pass noexec to hal when
requesting the mount.

Joe

> 
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