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Offline manit123

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Re: showexec option in vfat mount
« Reply #15 on: September 16, 2012, 07:41:52 AM »

yeah , there is rebuildfstab script file in /usr/sbin.
how wIll it know to use 'noexec' option ?

Offline Rich

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Re: showexec option in vfat mount
« Reply #16 on: September 16, 2012, 09:27:20 AM »
Hi manit123
That script updates the entries in /etc/fstab. It is run when you first boot and anytime you plug/unplug a thumb
drive. You will need to go through it and find where it determines the file system type and modify it to include
the  noexec  option in the appropriate lines of  fstab.