automatically start external programs on mount/unmount
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#2 automatically start external programs on mount/unmount
being able to start an external program after successfully mounting/unmounting a truecrypt volume is surely one of the more interesting features.
Loading menus and other tools after mounting or closing a menu and ejecting an external drive could then be realized without much effort.
An additional idea would be to automatically set a windows environment variable which indicates the drive letter and identifies the volume file/partition
+1 nice idea!
This can be implemented in "Mount Options" and thus it will be saved for favorite volumes as the other options : once the favorite volume is mounter, the command will be executed.
We thought about this internally and it seems there is a potential security risk: an attack that use this feature to implement a program that will execute each time you open a volume and it can be difficult to detect as harmful since it will spawned using VeraCrypt itself. A user must always remember to check the "Mount Options" since the integrity of the configuration can't be guaranteed.
What do you think about this? Should a warning be displayed when post-mount command is about to be launched?
+1 still an appeciated feature
a prompt that displays the command to be executed is definately necessary
...waiting for this feature to be implemeted