[Bug 770174] Review Request: kde-partitionmanager - GUI for managing disk partitions

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--- Comment #12 from Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> 2012-01-01 15:13:53 EST ---
(In reply to comment #9)
> > No rpmlint is right to warn, it is not like you can do:
> > /usr/share/applications/kde4/kde-partitionmanager.desktop
> > And have it do something, like you can do ie:
> > /bin/ls
> > And have it do something, so the file should not be marked executable. If more
> > kde4 packages are doing this then I say BAD kde4 !  :)
> 
> No, rpmlint is wrong to warn.
> 
> For security reasons, KDE requires .desktop files to have the executable bit
> set in most cases. This prevents e-mails from shipping a .desktop file as an
> attachment which runs some nasty command, possibly even a self-replicating
> worm.

Ah, interesting I did not know that live and learn. I stand corrected then :)

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