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AFAIK (check the link), these .desktop files can execute even if you don't ask. And that is a security issue.

JMCF125
– JMCF125

2013-08-30 16:41:34 +00:00
Commented Aug 30, 2013 at 16:41
Yes, if you manage to put a desktop entry into the user's "auto start" folder, it will auto execute when their session starts. How would you do that? seems to me to be a chicken and egg kind of problem. The premise of the linked article is that you can send a user something which looks like a standard data file but executes code when you run it - this is incorrect because setting the "Name" attribute does not affect how the file looks to a file browser (the desktop is just a file browser view) - it will have a .desktop extension.

Guss
– Guss

2013-08-30 16:59:30 +00:00
Commented Aug 30, 2013 at 16:59
I guess you're right, it would be tough to get the user to click the “launcher”. I'll accept this answer.

JMCF125
– JMCF125

2014-02-09 19:30:05 +00:00
Commented Feb 9, 2014 at 19:30

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