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How do you automount without a desktop environment? (feddit.org)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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What's the easiest way to make external USB drives automount, without adding them to fstab? It should just work even if someone else hands me their flash drive.
I'm running sway on Arch if that matters.

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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (6 children)

WTF? I'm automounting my home directory from an external ssd usb for ages now. What is the disaster that could happen you're referring to?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    If that's the case, then you should answer the OP with how it's set up. OP is specifically asking how to do it with random drives other people hands them, not trusted drives always connected.

    What is the disaster that could happen you’re referring to?

    Auto mounting random USB sticks has never been wise. No telling what random malware they contain.

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  • [–] [S] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    What would be the difference if it doesn't automount it, and I instead need to mount it manually?
    I mean, it's a USB stick which I just plugged into my laptop and want to access.
    If I don't trust it, I'm not plugging it in.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What malware spreads automatically from just mounting the drive?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    So it's either using auto run to execute malicious code (not an issue in Linux), or it acts as a keyboard and sends malicious command - which would work regardless of the USB partition being mounted or not.

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