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SubjectRe: The x Bit Problem
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On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Bob wrote:

> Windows doesn't just ignore it. When I move
> files from win to linux all the x bits are turned
> on so txt and bz2 and jpg files are marked
> executable. That's annoying and a security
> risk.

I'm jumping into this thread so this might have already been told but how
about umask=0111 mount option for dos (fat,vfat etc) filesystems? Also,
one may mount nodev, noexec and nosuid when appropriate. This, of course,
is not remedy, just a little painkiller.

bye
T.

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