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<p>Replacing a file's contents requires write permissions on the file. I have plenty of executable shell scripts that aren't an immediate security risk, though I suppose if someone gained write privileges over my home statistically speaking a shell script is (currently) the most likely choice to gut and replace with malicious code. If an attacker already has write permission over your home you have bigger problems than a forgotten set-executable file in it somewhere anyway. The patched state of that machine's software packages dictates how devastating that payload was to your administrator, meanwhile your home has probably been wiped.</p>
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<p>Conceptually, you are proposing that the rest of the world adapt to our software, rather than the other way around. That's simply not practical. Even if this were a good idea, the world will never adapt to us. We must adapt to the world. Our software does not exist in a perfect state of total control over the environment it inhabits; it exists to facilitate busy people with messy lives as they work to accomplish their tasks with a minimum of hassle. That goal is not enhanced by breaking KDE Plasma's search tool for them unless they give all of their files execute permissions.</p>
<p>Sorry, no go. We need to find a better way.</p></blockquote>
</div></div><br /><div><strong>REPOSITORY</strong><div><div>R293 Baloo</div></div></div><br /><div><strong>REVISION DETAIL</strong><div><a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D15718">https://phabricator.kde.org/D15718</a></div></div><br /><div><strong>To: </strong>smithjd, ngraham, Baloo<br /><strong>Cc: </strong>bruns, ngraham, kde-frameworks-devel, Baloo, ashaposhnikov, michaelh, astippich, spoorun, abrahams<br /></div>