Potential disaster for Rev/Linux pendrive apps

[Bob Warren]

Rishi wrote:

 >Hmmm, has ubuntu changed the default permissions given to pendrives 
when they are mounted? Do you have executable rights on that file? (ls 
-la) If not, try changing the permissions on the file on the pendrive 
and try again. If this is the problem, you will have to dig deeper and 
change the defaults for mounting pendrives so that you do have 
executable rights.

Hope this helps, 

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Thanks Rishi.

Using a right mouse click on the program's icon to access the file 
properties, this is the situation in Dapper Drake (where Rev progs 
execute from the pendrive OK):

               Read   Write   Execute
Owner    Yes      Yes      Yes
Group     No       No       No
Others    No       No       No

In Feisty Fawn Herd5, this is the layout:

               Read    Write
Owner    Yes       Yes
Group     No        No
Others    No        No

Execute * Allow executing file as program [set to NO]

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As you can see, executable permission has now become independent of the 
user. If you try changing this option when the program is on the 
pendrive itself, it won't work. I tried copying the program to the 
Desktop and altering the executable permission there. It works. But if 
you copy the program back to the pendrive, the executable permission is 
removed.

I don't know how to alter the permissions of Rev progs on pendrives from 
the terminal. At this stage, I am not sure whether it would be better to 
try and find out, or to simply wait and see whether Ubuntu intend to do 
anything about it before releasing Feisty Fawn on April 19th. Their 
initial response to my bug report was almost immediate, but time is 
passing and they don't seem to have done anything beyond asking me to 
supply a Rev standalone for them to test.

Bob